Have you ever learned something new and exciting? Something that really changed the way you experienced your life? Maybe you worked through something big within yourself or overcame some emotional challenge. And then life kind of got bigger. And you just wanted to share that with someone.
That's the sort of thing people experience as they grow. When they expand the boundaries of their comfort zones and begin experiencing more in life, they want to share this new learning with the people around them. They think everyone should know what they just learned because it's so life-changing.
Very soon they are creating a whole new way of interacting with all the people in their lives. They expect others to move beyond their limits, too. They want everyone to step up to a new level of being because that's what it takes to be around them.
It's like they are doing a new dance with the people around them. The interactions, exchanges and expectations are all different. It's as if they draw all the energy around them in and get it involved in the growth and expansion. And some of the energy around them wants to participate readily. However, some is more resistant.
People experiencing this growth see that some of the people in their lives are willing to stretch, step up, and grow, while others do not want things to change. This growth creates some turmoil because people begin to see how they have kept their lives a certain way through rules. Many of their emotions and feelings have been controlled by these rules and now they are questioning the rules. Now they are changing the rules and
asking others to change the rules.
This can be difficult because when people in your life think that a certain behaviour makes you happy (or that you would put up with certain actions) and all of a sudden you start asking for new behaviours and stop tolerating others, it shakes up the relationship. It messes with their world.
This is the sort of thing that happens in Level 2B. You learned to experience a wider range of emotion in Level 2A. In Level 2B you ask why you limited yourself to that old, smaller range. You look at the circumstances that made you set the limitations. You look at the rules you set up to maintain that range and question them. You break them. You make new rules.
In your life, this means the people around you need to change with you -- or move out. It means a whole new dance of life. It means that there is a big shift in energy. It takes something big to shake up the stuff that has been holding the structure of your life together. It's like a tidal wave comes through and destroys everything you know and you need to rebuild from scratch.
That's what happens in your body in Level 2B. Two spinal gateways that have really stretched their comfort zones in level 2A, start to move in a back and forth movement.
One moves one way and the other moves the other way in response. The result is an oscillatory type of movement that wants to draw more energy into participation.
The movement that began in level 2A starts to ripple through the spine and find energy that can feed this oscillation. This rippling is called the somato-psychic (body mind) wave, which I will describe in more detail in the next article. This wave moves through the spine and destabilizes all the tension that anchors the different rules about your feelings in your spine. It then carries all this energy to the gateways that are dancing and organizing a new level of awareness about yourself. This is the dance that happens as your awareness and your life begins to expand.
As the waves stir up your body and the gateways reorganize things, you begin to see a similar sort of process in your life and relationships (stirring up with reorganization). This usually feels a bit difficult but necessary. It's called growth! So learn a few new dance steps and watch a whole new world of rhythms and dances that open up to you!
