Expansion and Contraction 101
Posted on February 18, 2014 by Daniel Brown, One of Thousands of Life Coaches on Noomii.
Feeling great and empowered one day, depressed and miserable the next? This is a normal energetic cycle. Understand makes it easier to bear.
Chances are, you’ve experienced the following.
A string of days occurs where you feel on top of the world. Your mind is clear and everything seems easy. At work, you are at the peak of your game, coming up with fresh ideas by the minute that astound your co-workers with their brilliance. At home, your mood is bright, cheerful and expansive. You interact easily with friends and family and everyone thinks you’re the Second Coming of the Dalai Lama or Oprah. Overall, you feel loved, wise, strong and competent.
And then you wake up one morning and it’s all gone. You’re grouchy and irritable, lost and depressed. Nothing seems right and everything you do falls flat. Overall, you feel like crap.
No, don’t worry, you aren’t bi-polar. You are experiencing the energetic cycle of expansion and contraction.
The good news is that this cycle is normal, obeying esoteric laws as immutable as physics. For every high, there’s a low. What goes up must go down. Yin and Yang. The Circle of Life. Nothing is lost by this process. The insights and positive revelations you gained during the expansion are still within you. They are never lost unless, of course, you choose to discard them.
Contraction is not much fun to be in but as part of the cycle, it has a finite quality. The best way to handle it is acceptance. Just allow yourself to feel those blah feelings, don’t personalize them and keep an open mind to the subtle gifts that you might discover. There are many and overall, they are just as important as those found on the upswing. Opening yourself to Expansion and Contraction allows yourself to feel and better understand the flow or love and life.
