Time for transparency – I am super afraid of bats and we have now had three bats in our house over the last year at different times, including one swooping around our kitchen two nights ago.
We were all sitting outside paying cards, having a nice quiet family evening before my kids were to leave for camp for two weeks, when my daughter screamed “mom there is a bat flying around inside the house!”
Now, as I said above, this is a time for transparency, and I am deathly afraid of bats.
There was a time when I ducked behind a wall as a bat swooped around the school I taught at, cowering in fear with my hands above my head as I worried that the darn thing was going to get stuck in my hair.
Then there was the time when I was reading the first book in the Twilight series all about Vampires when one bat decided to sneak into our bedroom just as I was falling asleep; I was sure it was going to suck the life right out of me. It decided to fly in perfect arcs right above my bed where I attempted to fall asleep as I hid under my covers and screamed at my husband to “get the bat out of our room!!” He then ran around with a big fishing net trying to catch it, while the bat’s partner in crime lurked outside on the screen door watching in terror as her mate was being chased down by the big round thing that threatened its life. I am sure that the bat was equally as afraid; if not more of me and my giant husband with the big round net trying to kill it.
Needless to say, for some strange reason I have had my fair share of run ins with these tiny furry night creatures, and they have always created fear, and a feeling of dread as they have appeared in my house or around me in my life.
Perhaps there is a new way I should be examining this interaction with the “Big Black Bats” that keep returning and showing up at just the right time in my life over a period of the last couple of years.
As I posted about my most recent visit from The Big Black Bat on social media, one of my dear friends reached out to me and sent me a tip on a different way of looking at things. This was ironic considering I often teach to people about perception and viewing the world through a new lense.
She told me to look up bat totems and the meaning behind them insinuating that perhaps there was a reason these furry creatures kept returning to me in what I felt was to haunt my dreams.
What I found was an article that explained that the bat can be viewed as an omen for change in your life; a symbol of a death of a part of you that is no longer serving you in your higher calling. It also marks a period of growth and a time to shed ego and generate new insights and introspection through doing the inner work to define your path.
This hit me right in the heart, as I have taken this summer as a time of change, of releasing the old ways of thinking that have not been serving me in my business, my purpose and my focus. I have been giving myself the time to grow, reflect and transform without the rush or pressure of having to see massive success and move in a certain direction in my business. Let me tell you, this hasn’t been easy for me as a type A, motivated and competitive person!
It has been a hard and somewhat painful transition to grow through, but one I am grateful to experience. I have such gratitude for those who have helped to guide me through this process including my mentor and my close family and friends who have all helped me to see that something we continually do repeatedly as a habit isn’t necessarily serving us.
We all have fears that stop us dead in our tracks; fears that immobilize us from moving forward and taking the risk to FLY. When we allow those fears to get the better of us and to absorb our potential so we are unfulfilled, that is the worst state to be in, as then we are not living life as we should – out loud and on purpose!
Fear can be defined as “False Evidence Appearing Real” or in other words, a state of being where we are creating story in our heads in order to keep us safe and comfortable which keeps us stagnant, stuck and lacking in lustre and the juiciness of life.
For me, having experienced the visitation from the Big Black Bat once again, I now see that he is sending me a message – to awaken to the possibility and the new ways of examining my life, my message and the movement I am creating in order to truly be able to help and empower as many people as I can while I am on this earth.
This may seem like a whole lot of “hocus pocus” to you, but I challenge you to take a look at your own fears and to examine how they may be holding you back from tapping into all of the potential you hold inside to shine and impact the world around you.
When we are open to new ways of looking at things and to see signs in the universe for what they truly can mean – that is when true transformation can occur.
I am willing to accept that the Bat is my totem and I am meant to not look at this small creature as a symbol of fear – but rather on of transformation, growth and challenge to become the best version of me.
Take a look at the world around YOU. What scares YOU, what objects or items create fear in your heart? Perhaps that is the symbol for the change you too can see on your path to transformation and purpose!
I am on a mission and I am creating a movement to help YOU transform, join me and let’s see where we can journey together.
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