What do you do when life takes you to the edge?

Have you been feeling like your life is taking you along the edge of a cliff? Like your next step could have you plunging into an abyss?

Journey’s Edge: Expansion into the Unknown

Whether your journey is about growing a business, learning new skills, or cracking the code of greater self-discovery, it all has to do with expansion. Expansion happens at the edges of your known world. It brings you into a new landscape with unfamiliar markers.

You may not even be thinking about expansion. You're just trying to navigate the edge of this new terrain.

Maybe you’re in this place because of an external push from an outside situation. A job change. A move. You don’t know how things will “work out”.

But you never really know that, do you? When this happens to me (and it happens often), I see it as the Universe stepping in to give me a push when I’m holding back and what I really need is to step forward.

Hiding Out

Hiding out may be your first impulse, too. However, know this.?Hiding out will not bring you comfort in this new environment.?You probably feel uncomfortable, maybe even scared right now. But?it’s important not to get paralyzed. Or, conversely, not to leap right into action, or dive into planning—doing anything so you don’t feel what you are feeling.

You might know that you need some quiet time. Yet do you allow yourself to be truly quiet? Or do you lose yourself in watching TV or reading a book?

What’s important is to work with the expansion. This isn’t the first time you’ve grown into something new. Create space to remember that you’ve been here before. Then remember that it has worked out before.

You may bump up against old concepts of yourself or of how life is supposed to be. After all, these new experiences are stretching your boundaries. That's why I am talking about expansion.

If you are approaching this in your usual way, perhaps a shift is in order. I encourage you to feel the freedom to explore, to modify and to experiment.

Getting Grounded

Start by feeling the ground under your feet and the support that offers. That’s what being grounded means—that you have a connection to the earth and that it will hold you up.

You might notice that the quality of your thoughts is different, or you have ideas that surprise you.?Hang out with the new pictures. Welcome these different thoughts. Allow your pictures to be fluid, so that you can discover what lies beyond your edge. After all, it’s who you are, today, not yesterday.

When you grow you are always going beyond what you already know, which by its nature takes you beyond your comfort zone. At some point you will adjust to the changes. This is where you will feel moved into action. Nothing can unfold unless action is taken. Every action has right timing, though. Let yourself tune into this, so you feel like the Universe is working with you.

Let me know. What is the?next step you see on your journey?

This article was originally published on The Baca Institute website.