Transition

Feeling stuck and like nothing is happening is not always a bad thing. Sometimes there is a reason for it. With the progression of time, unseen and sometimes immeasurable shifts can occur that then allow for the feeling of stuck to become unstuck....and if we had rushed to force things to shift we would have only compounded the immovability of the situation.

Sometimes just before a woman is ready to birth she will say to me 'I feel as if nothing is happening'...'I feel stuck'....'nothing is changing'. She may have an over bearing urge to push but it's a mental urge more than a physical one. She will growl at the peek of a contraction and then breathe and groan it away but want to push it away. She will move as if to try and climb out of herself because no where feels right and the spaces between are no longer restful in her mind or body because she feels like she should be getting somewhere... but she can't force the move to get there.

In these moments it can be a strength to give up. In these moments the power lies in letting go of having to be anywhere or achieve anything. In these moments the grace can be in surrendering to the spaces between and allowing exactly what is to be. In the giving up magic can happen. A softening and an opening can occur and with the gift and inevitable passing of time a shift usually happens. The feeling of hopelessness and frustration can be transformed with no effort into a deep primal instinct from where the unstoppable force of the emergence of new life and indescribable love takes place.