Butterfly Effect

Natasha Poly, ph:Txema Yeste

Butterflies are deep symbols of freedom, metamorphosis, and the life cycle.  They are the perfect little, graceful, winged metaphors  When we acknowledge ourselves fully, strengths and weakness, foibles and  accomplishments, we feel free to be ourselves, to be authentically who we are.  Inner peace springs from that like wind off the wings of those butterflies fulfilling the life cycle they were meant for.  In Feng Shui they represent joy and love.  Surround yourself with some!  Their beauty knows no bounds.  Even in death, their beauty remains intact.

Fran Hickman, the Chess Club

Valentino

They also represent creativity and transformation.  The butterfly effect's meaning is that small changes in one state (of mind) have large differences in another state.  For example, caterpillars begin life tiny and helpless, eating for survival and molting along the way.  Shedding their skin as growth occurs, like humans on their path to self actualization.  Finding renewal, spiritual growth, a lightness, a joy, a new found sense of freedom are all equated with this process.  In the chrysalis stage, everything appears normal, but great change is occurring within ~ a metamorphosis is at hand.

Lalique

Oscar Glottman

Vincent Wolf

Jean Louis Denoit ph:Derry Moore

Alex MacArthur

William T. Georgis, Damien Hirst

Growth is inevitable, transformation occurs.  For a caterpillar to become a butterfly it must change. We must change too as we move through life, maneuvering all the ups and downs we face throughout our different stages.  The good news is, we as humans, get to decide what that looks like.  Will we be more like moths or monarchs while we are working towards understanding ourselves better, finding our purpose, our peace and putting it out into the world, ready to spread our wings..... and fly.....

A Metamorphasis

met·a·mor·pho·sis

noun, plural metamorphoses 

1.

Biology. a profound change in form from onestage to the next in the life history of anorganism, as from the caterpillar to the pupa andfrom the pupa to the adult butterfly.

2.

a complete change of form, structure, orsubstance, as transformation by magic orwitchcraft.

3.

any complete change in appearance, character,circumstances, etc.

4.

a form resulting from any such change.

Going through the life coach training is a metamorphosis of sorts.  I am not the same person I was before this training.  Not unlike any personal transformation or dramatic event we all face in life, a reinvention of ourselves, death, divorce, loss of job, empty nest, etc, etc., you need to melt down and begin again.

When a caterpillar moves through a life cycle, it molts.  As we grow, we shed our skin, figuratively speaking.  We mature and outgrow situations, people, or lifestyles that no longer serve us.  We are constantly moving towards becoming the person we were meant to be.  It takes hard work!

In the chrysalis stage ~ we crystallize or give form to this new identity.  As we move through this stage we change and grow, putting new systems into place that support our new path psychologically and/or physically.  A new hair style, new friendship, moving, or just rearranging furniture, COACHING to help us get clear  ~ anything that helps us "own" our new identity.

At the end of that road, after all the hard work has been done, when you look in the mirror and know with all your heart you have reached a place of contentment, acceptance, and knowledge,you have evolved into the person you were truly meant to be.  There is nothing more beautiful!

photo Andrew Soule

Cherish that moment, for it will change yet again