BREAKING THE SHELL

The act of swaddling—or being swaddled—may at times feel comforting, until you have gained your own internal freedom, your wings so to speak. Then, the same bindings that once brought comfort can at once feel confining. The comfort of being held may begin to feel like captivity.

Like a baby chick, you may find yourself longing to break free from the very shell that allowed your growth, safety, and care—a shell that now becomes something to escape. You may experience this same shift in relationships: what once felt comforting can, in an instant, feel restrictive. You too may break free from your shell and begin to experience life in a whole new way—free in your movement as well as your experiences, both within yourself and outwardly.

Like the chick, the full range of your bodily and energetic functions may not come fully online until they are activated by the new intake into your system, and by the environmental influences of the more direct external world. Like a newborn, your body and system will begin opening and using internal resources that were dormant—awakened simply by exposure to the new. These resources come online once called forth by the very act of being.

The shell of protection or the weight of the blankets is not bad and need not be scolded when discarded. Instead, bless them for the role they played and the comfort they provided. There is no need to gather the pieces of the shell or the torn bindings to carry into the next realm—bless them, release them, and allow them to transform into their own newness.

You are safe in your new skin. Enjoy life and the adventures on your horizon. Shake off any residual of the old shell, look forward, and step boldly into your new Now.