July as Phase Seven: Perspective
Perspective is the angle from which you look at something. Look back at your July. Look for a shift toward others, maybe an inclusion that became deeper. As you lose yourself in it, your internal perspective is now toward others.
July 1
On July 1 my family found out that a sister has cancer. Suddenly, my perspective shifted toward her experience, sharing the shock of the news. I am not an emotionally sensitive person but this news affected me deeply.
Suddenly, I became one with her. And yet, being in her place, I remained myself: calm. detached. I would like to share with her that her central position in life can be with God, the Creator. This is what the Phases mean to me. It's the quiet in the eye of the storm. However, she is more inclined to respond privately…
The impact of something as serious as the cancer news, is not brand new to my sister's organism. Her organism has been processing new impacts all her life. - Your organism has been processing new impacts all your life. Change affects each of us specially, causing the process of growth and maturity to be personal.
The second half of the year
Phases 7-12 move away from your personal process toward a breakthrough in June's Phase 6. The second half roots you in a place that has meaning to others. This process results in greater personal authority, from your inside to the world around you. All the phases represent stages of your personal development, day by day, year by year.
With just a step back, you can see how life reinforces maturity, usually through unexpected change. Unexpected change impacts you because it is different from the pattern of your conscious will and the plans you work on, intentionally. Your intuition responds, on track with your heart's mind as an unconscious response to the impact.
Getting news about a life-threatening condition like cancer, my sister arrived at such a point in her life. The emotions are overwhelming. Perspective is irrevocably changed. Knowing that you will die is sudden and unavoidable.
But whatever your reaction is, from your natural intuition, it suits you. To express yourself unconsciously by intuition is honest and it is okay. Your heart's mind is not changed; rather, it processes every change in the same way, moving you ever closer to ultimate good.
The process is the same in non-life-threatening situations. The good begins its work upon impact at the first phase, and the mind, emotions, and the body automatically adjust in unconscious unison. The twelve phases phenomenon is a transformation of the body into the spirit, and it knows the way while your focus is outward, circumstantial.
Daily trauma end in transformation of heart, soul, mind, and body. The phases manufacture growth, which is a good addition relative to your internal life.
What moves you?
There are certain times when your mind arrives at a conclusion. Without direct attention, a thing can roll around in your mind, pressing a “should” on you. But for some reason, you don’t act on what may seem obvious.
And then in its own time, the conclusion becomes clear and you act on it. Your body moves with determination because the unknowns have been filled in somehow. What were the unknowns? How did they create the hesitation? In taking action, these questions evaporate. You don’t have to know that process to be sure. When you’re sure, your body responds.
Quite a mystery, isn’t it? In those occasions, you are unaware of making a choice but you can notice what you did, after the fact. By becoming more aware of your unconscious movements, you can become sensitive to the energy that keeps you alive, getting things done that are important to you. You unconsciously follow your heart's mind, skipping conscious thought.
Years of body awareness has made me sensitive to the kind of automatic power that moves through my body. Here's an example from July as I prepared to move to a new home. I had scouted for places I could afford, and what came my way was far smaller than I expected - but in reviewing my life cycle, my new home seemed to fit perfectly in the course of my development as a person.
There was quite drastic reduction of space in the new place. There was no question that most of what filled the house I was in would have to go. Even though I expected a change, the shape of the change surprised me. But once my questions were answered, I was motivated very strongly to get rid of all major pieces of furniture.
In two weeks, I had sold all but one piece of furniture. And then I ran out of steam. It was probably adrenaline that coursed through my body to get it done. And then it stopped. I had done all I could do and my body made the decision to stop.
What followed was the steady path the initial power set for me. I yielded mind and body to the choice of that energy. As the plan unfolded, large objects became smaller and my emotions rose as I had to let go of the special things I had saved.
Phase Seven in July
For me, July lay in the shadow of my sister's cancer diagnosis. My comfortable existence ended as everything went out the door. The value of every thing was reduced by the necessity of minimal living space. Meaning became efficient in quick considerations. My heart's sensations told me what to keep - and what I kept had greater meaning than when I simply had extra space.
Day by day, I would think of the Phases from my sister's point of view:
the impact on July 1
realizing what it really means
thinking of her solitary position in the situation
a surge from her life force, insisting on recognition
yielding to the fact of this addition to her life
The first 12 days marked a change in her intuition. My days also marked a change in my intuition. July as Phase Seven changed our individual perspectives. Different reasons; same process.
My absence around my sister, as she and the family processed what cancer means, was automatically explained because she and everyone else knew I was occupied with moving. She similarly went through her stored things, with help, making value judgments of all that was there. She agreed that our experiences were similar, recognizing the difference in gravity.
The cycles of Time and Life bump into each individual differently. Every bump against our neat plans, or comfort, is life's opportunity to insert a new good, hidden in all that we endure - or enjoy. There can be no growth without adversity. There can be acceptance for that reliable reason, that in the end, we will understand more about life.
For you…
If you suffered during July, know that it is designed to raise the value of meaning hidden in the distraction. It is also temporary. August, as Phase Eight, begins a transition toward the direction you are given. It's always toward a better, truer experience of good.