UNCERTAINTY

control over what happens next. The good and frustration, triggering something present and asking to be resolved. What do skills and release the patterns of the past.

The balance between certainty and uncertainty is essential before attaining the next four, higher Basic Human Needs. Do we have significance? Do others need us? Do we matter? How are we unique, and W e all have a basic need for certainty in our lives. It provides us with comfort and the ability “How much more can we take?” Who or what are we directing that question to? Who or what is answering? Are we listening? (Our Second Basic Human Need) by Joan Summers Uncertainty castaldostudio/DepositPhotos.com confidence are actualized here. Significance is the third Basic Human Need. The fourth is Connection. We need to feel we belong and can love and be loved. The ways we connect are evolving daily. Fifth is our own personal growth, which brings us back to learning new skills and releasing old patterns. In order to make improvements we must know our truth. Are we ready for that journey? Last and certainly not least is the sixth Basic Human Need. It is the contribution we make in our world, what we are to avoid pain and gain pleasure. Certainty Our uncertainty is making us squirm. If we passionate about and fulfilling our authenis connected to our need to be safe and can hold still and be very present with this tic purpose, our legacy. supported. It is the foundation of a calm uncomfortable, even painful experience, In a time of great uncertainty, we can state and a peaceful existence. Certainty is the epiphany will come. Our subconscious still choose our path and feel supported on our first Basic Human Need. knows exactly what we need to do next. it. With grace, courage and compassion we Uncertainty is the second of our Basic Human Needs. It provides us with variety. Life would be very boring without it. There wouldn’t be a surprise birthday party or a chance, first time romantic meeting; no ultrasound to know if it’s a girl or a boy; We have all heard about being present. It is a healing experience. It allows us to live in the here and now instead of worrying about the past or future. We get to return to a calm brain state. Some of us live in a perpetual hyper-vigilant brain state that can can move forward. Most of us are unaware of our own power and ability to release fear. We are being offered an opportunity to move out of the darkness and bring light to the world. no unexpected job offer or running into a long-lost friend. Each of us has a threshold for the amount of uncertainty we are comfortable with. Our history, temperament and current support systems are key in understanding the level of uncertainty that is emotionally and physically healthy for us. We all need to feel that we have some quickly switch to panic, producing a fight, flight or freeze reaction. This reaction is experienced as anxiety and PTSD. Presence allows something that has been pushed down, in the act of self-preservation, to surface. Presence will also give answers to the why and the how of healing it. Once this has been experienced, a sense of certainty returns. Joan Summers, owner of Step Into Joy Healing Arts, is a Gestalt Life Coach and Intuitive Reiki Master specializing in the Equine Gestalt Coaching Method. For more information, call 267-272-9343, email Joan@StepIntoJoyHealingArts.com or visit StepIntoJoyHealingArts.com. See ad, below. news is that we do. Coronavirus and physical distancing You Are Not Broken! have created shared feelings of isolation You have the power to heal and You don’t have to do it alone. within each of us. It could be a deep secret, a regret or a buried trauma. Whatever we Step Into Joy Healing Arts LLC have been avoiding for a long time is now A journey of self-discovery and healing we fear the most? It is time to dig in and Gestalt Life Coaching release the fear and the belief systems that no longer serve us. We have an opportunity Equine Gestalt Coaching to make extraordinary changes, learn new Intuitive Reiki what do we value? Our self-esteem and

The uncertainty of not knowing what (267) 272-9343 Joan Summers happens next is part of our current experience. For most people the “not knowing” is where they are stuck, in limbo and asking, joan@stepintojoyhealingarts.com www.StepIntoJoyHealingArts.com Trauma Professional Gestalt Life Coach & Reiki Master