Change Is On The Way

Back in December, I confidently indicated that “I’m back” - meaning that after two major surgeries, I was on the road to recovery and that I was seeing clients again. It turns out that sadly, my confidence was misplaced. I’m now about to complete my fourth and final surgery, by which time, I can confidently say that I’ve been thoroughly rebuilt, physically, emotionally and energetically.

Anyone who has ever been in hospital for more than a day will tell you that a hospital stay can be life changing. On the obvious level, I now have a collection of new scars. I said on one occasion to my physiotherapist that never had I ever felt so completely unattractive as I did at that point. To her infinite credit and my enduring gratitude, she replied “Love your scars. They record the story of how you got here”. And she’s right! The more they heal, the more they fade to how they will look for the rest of my life, the more they remind me of everything I have been through to get here. And in a bizarre fashion, I’m learning to love them as a reminder of what I have survived to earn my place in my new world.

And it is a new world, for me, and soon to be, for all of us. One of the problems of mediumship is that often, while we have no difficulty contacting Spirit on behalf of our clients, the one person on whose behalf we cannot journey there, is ourself. The result is that it’s often the case that I sit for other mediums, as do they for me. The key thing I’ve noticed recently sitting for my colleagues is that all of us feel an amazingly strong sense of change building - almost like a battery charging, getting ready to power us ahead into what will be quite different landscape from the we leave behind.

There’s no sense of danger in this. But there is a sense of disruption. Old ways of being, the desperate need of some to return us to the ways of living that we followed before COVID rewrote the world, simply don’t hold anymore. And anyone trying to force us back into those ways of being is in for a shock.

There’s a major shift on the way, and some of us have had to go through pretty amazing transformations in order to be ready for it. In my case, including the final trip to the OR next week, four major surgeries to deal with underlying health issues that last year, when all this kicked off for me, I wasn’t even aware I had!

For others, the change has been and will be a letting go of those elements of our lives that no longer serve us; the job that we are serving, rather than that is serving us, the friendship that is well past its sell-by date, the apartment we no longer fit in anymore.

The trick in all this is to recognise the signs when something has come to an end; when it no longer provides for us as it once did. Having done so, we must let go of it, gently releasing our past.

Someone said to me years ago “If you don’t let go of the past, there’s no room for a future”. Allowing the past to go, gently acknowledging to ourselves and others that we have changed, is the beginning of allowing in the future we need and desire. Don’t be afraid of letting go. If it’s still right for us, it won’t go anywhere. And if it’s no longer serving us, then let it go so we can move on to a better time.

So here’s to better times - that really are just around the corner.

May we all greet them with an open heart and a sense of anticipation.

With deepest love to all my readers,

Alexander Dalgleish-Weaver