The Super Moon

This week we had a super moon. It was the biggest full moon of 2013 and many people captured amazing images of it. The first and third images were submitted to National Geographic but that spiffy black and white one in the middle was taken by my friend, Charlene Beil. (She is a very talented artist. I have more of her work up in my dining room... that wasn't done on an IPhone ;))





The super moon this week has me thinking about the energy for change. In my master's program on management, we talked constantly about how resistant people are to change. Psychology, self- help and fitness realms all produce massive amounts of literature about this phenomenon but today I'm wondering if I haven't accepted the idea that change is hard for so long that I have lost sight of my power to simply choose how I want to show up in any given moment.

The moon itself was not different when we observed it as a super moon. It appeared brighter to us but its actual physical makeup was the same. If I follow that idea through, then I too, do not need to be Any different before I can SHINE (ie show up as the best possible version of myself). I don't have to wait, to beat myself up for a pre-determined amount of time, or hope and pray that things magically become different. The power to change, isn't about remaking something terrible into an altogether different thing. It is about recognizing that I already possess everything I need to be great/different than I'm acting in any given moment. I simply have to choose to let go of a self image that tells me that I am not already great.

I don't think the moon has a self-esteem problem. I'm simply extrapolating a little because I believe that the chief problem in our society is that everyone, even really successful people (by any set of standards), is living under a false assumption that they aren't amazing. We are amazing beings running around consistently choosing to act as less than such out of fear and habit. We ALL have our stuff we aren't proud of, wish we had handled differently, etc but how would your/my/our world change if we operated from a space of thinking that those outcomes were the result of you Not being YOU instead of thinking that you are a mess that must be cleaned up?