Renewal
by Joseph Dispenza
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
- Richard Bach
After hearing that scientists of his day had calculated the exact speed of light to be 186,000 miles per second and change, the great playwright and wit George Bernard Shaw shot off a letter to the Times of London snorting, "It's an obvious lie!"
I felt the same way when I read recently that biologists have determined that over a seven-year period all the many billions of cells in our body are replaced by many billions of new cells. Every seven years, they say, we grow a totally new body - all-new flesh and blood and bones, manifested out of a body template that we are holding somewhere in a kind of personal spiritual warehouse.
News of this great cellular replacement made me want to write to the New York Times with that same terse Shavian response.
But a big on-going biological program of renewal does make some sense; if we are moving through time and space, it figures that we are continually changing. Truth is, we are transforming ourselves from moment to moment, replacing the old for the new - not only physically, but also emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
We have always suspected that we have the power to create ourselves in exactly the way we want - as a person of character, with physical grace and strength, mental agility, emotional stability, and spiritual awareness. But people and circumstances outside us exerted their own influences on our dazzling vision. These factors mitigated our image of ourselves as the hero of our life. Motivated by self-preservation, probably, we allowed the people and places and things that surrounded us to define us. And they defined us almost invariably as much less than we originally hoped ourselves to be, much less than we actually are. Doctors called this heredity; psychologists called it conditioning; sociologists called it "environment."
We can leave all that behind now. You actually have the opportunity right now to re-imagine yourself as your Best Self, and to picture it is going more than half the way of attaining it.
Once we understand that nothing can restrict our power to create ourselves as our Best Self, the present and the future looks truly limitless. A mysterious transformative energy sweeps through us, and we become the magicians over every aspect of our lives. We tingle with the knowledge that nothing is holding us back - not circumstances of birth, not the limiting beliefs of people around us, not where and how we were reared. Now, right now, we have the magic power to be the highest form of ourselves.
To do this, we need only take a short step. I like to think of it as "showing up" so the transformative energy of the Universe can enter me and flow through me. I sit quietly and say to myself, "I am here. I am showing up. I am ready, willing, and - most of all - able to become my Best Self." Then I stay centered and empty, and wait for some response…some indication that, since I have taken the first step, all the rest will now unfold effortlessly. Sometimes it comes in the form of a deep breath, or a suddenly feeling of contentment. Once it came to me as the image of a rose bud. Not a fully blooming rose, but a bud - the pure potential of the rose, which is how I was seeing myself: a rose in the making, showing up for the process of my blossoming.
I encourage you to take some time every day to show up for the transformative energy that is coursing through you right now. Feel it. Know that you are already your Best Self, just as the rose bud is already the unfolded rose in all its glory.
Your first decisive step toward personal transformation will be rewarded a hundred times over. Now is the time.
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