The nature that we are responds to parallel cycles, similar, redundant, sometimes “disconnected” from our reality, but nevertheless very present. Seeing and recognizing the signs of life is an important compass in our daily lives. I don’t know if you’ve noticed it, but sometimes a word read, an animal passing by, a message in our head or few words exchanged with a stranger or a friend is particularly touching us.
We don’t really know why or how it happens, but these signs are very present in our lives. Raising awareness and seeing them is often of great help. This is also why I have dedicated myself to the professional coach job for many years like my friend Mickaël. Coaching also means being able to guide your client within signs. To be able to lay the foundations for the next movements, the next evolution paths that we need. I learned from Mickaël that life cycles are punctuated by dates.
The date of our birth and our annual anniversaries, the moon cycles, the calendar cycles of a new year… July 31 is a key date with Mickael. This is the date on which we arrived six years ago in Santiago de Compostela with our donkey Pompon after a 1,500 kilometers walk started two months earlier. It’s a magnetic connection to the north of the Arctic Circle that changed part of my life seven years ago. It’s each year a special energy that connects me to my friend and partner. An anchorage, a cycle that punctuates my growth and my evolution. This year, it is a great month of personal achievement, that propels me into a new life, with many responsibilities and transformations.
The life cycles answer to the spiral of who we are, complete beings who know each other as cycles go by and meet their completeness. The births and rebirths we experience. The cycles of a day, an hour, a decade or our life here. The cycles of our relationships, the meetings that we create and that regenerate under the prism of «chance» or under the tone of everyday life. I like the idea that everything is offered to us for a time with its open doors and choices. I also like what life offers us, to choose with our free will, with our creative power. A train that passes and will not necessarily come back tomorrow. And I also like this idea, that in the spiral of life, everything is offered to us again one day or another, or reproposed in another form or the same in a common energy. The learnings we make and the experiences we will live will dictate our paths of evolution. There are also these initiations, which are offered to us and reproposed as an airlock through which to pass and from which we cannot extract ourselves.
Cycles belong to circles, to the dynamics of spirals and under the prism of unity. Life gives us the experiences we need in order to find fulfilment. Life also offers us many resources to be able to face the trials that push us to develop who we are. July 31st is one for me.
This date reminds me of the transformative power in life, which sometimes seems impossible and passes under a new light to make it real. It is the recognition of a strong friendship, a resource beyond time and space, a strong link.
What about yourself? Do you think life breathes in a spiral of evolution? Are there cycles in your life that come back? Acquaintances, friendships, loves that are like permanent, redundant?
I’d like to propose this exercise.
Take a time for you in a refreshing place with a piece of paper. Do you see cycles of time, people, places that are refreshing to you? that challenge you? That come back regularly?
Is there a particular date that means something to you, or a place where you like to be and reconnect?
Through these questions do you see a meaning that relates to you, to your life? Is there an “initiation” or a decision resulting from it?
Maybe these questions seem too vague or nebulous for you. I like to live this inspiration of letting myself be crossed by questions and letting come what comes. If you wish, you can read these questions several times and answer them now or later. You can also let the questions go. The answers will come in the form of signs: an ad that makes sense to you, a bird’s flight that shows you a direction, a discussion that reveals a key element to you
Life is everywhere and it responds to a dynamic: what you are and what you need. I hope this text has brought you meaning, a resource or a pleasant moment.
Enjoy the way…
Have a nice day!
Vincent Vinckier
Coach and Author
NB: Beyond our friendship, the common passion for personal development tools and the same and beautiful job as coach, Vincent Vinckier is also the author of the magnificent book “à son écoute”, available on Amazon. Contact information available on Actus Via website,“our team” section.