Growth, Resilience and Embracing Your Journey

The image coming forward this week is from the Magnetize Your Light Coloring Book and the title is, You Are So Strong.

This week the idea, well there are several ideas, and the ideas are that one somehow once we get good at some thing we can change it or it no longer is a problem. For instance, when are you gonna stop doubting yourself. Maybe there's a time in life that you get so good at some thing that you stop doubting, or maybe you get so good at some thing and you do something for so long that it's no longer hard for you, or that as life continues at some point it gets easier. But that's not the case, it's an allusion I believe we tell ourselves. Because this world, this lifetime, is all about growth, at least in my perspective. When I change my perspective to that, that this life is not something to be conquered, but to be experienced, it shifts my ability to try and hold onto something, or to control something, or change something that can't be changed. 

Because the truth is, life is painful. I believe the origin of all religions and philosophies are rooted in this and they all try and find means in which to make it less painful and to help us along the journey. But the pain is information, the joy is information, and how we choose to let use it, how we choose to use that information, directly correlates to how we live our lives. 

So with the idea of doubt, you never stop having doubt, but once you get used to the feeling of doubt and look at it through the lens of what information is this giving me you can see doubt can be a guard rail for you it can be your body's response as a trigger to try and protect you when you feel vulnerable, but it's not the thing, it's not you, and it's not a destination. It's something that passes through your experience here on life your journey here on this Earth. 

Pain and suffering, yes, sometimes they can seem unfair when they are presented to us in a harsh manner and it's hard to see through it. It's hard to not be blinded by the emotion of pain and suffering to see through the other side and use the lens of pain as information. Information to find out where and how we can grow there is no time in life for me stop having pain stop having difficulty stop having doubt. If we're lucky and if we work hard at it, we can shift our perspective, our lens, our focus on what those things are offering us when they come through.

Today's image of a female body with a flame behind her and protected by different layers is just that. I've said before and totally believe this, that fear is - fear is another one, you are never gonna stop being afraid. Even the best actors are still have a little stage fright. You get more comfortable, but the fear is just excitement through a different lens. The body getting excited about having a new experience. The fear is when we don't know what the outcome is and we get scared. But it's all the same feeling. I truly believe fear is fuel if we allow it to be. If we allow the fear to control us it becomes a block or like strains holding us back. But if used properly it can really project us forward. 

I remember my yoga teacher saying at one point "there is not good, there is no bad, there just is" So when you take all these life experiences that happen to us and we quantify them as good or bad, they come with certain emotional and personal identities. Like shame or regret, like feeling sorry for yourself whatever it may be. And we start to associate ourselves with those labels and they can effect our psyche, our brains, our emotions. If we look at the events that happen to us in our lives as neither good nor bad, they just are, and what they are are sources of information to help our souls grow. They are tools for our soul to evolve in it's journey in this lifetime. Then somehow you can kind of shift to hopefully a little bit of gratitude. That the events in our lives become opportunities for evolvement versus road blocks for shame or whatever emotion keeps you feeling stuck and not growing. 

It's hard as I sit her spouting all this. I get excited because I see the truth in things and it resonates with me and I experience, it and I hear it, and I feel it, and then I wanna share it, because I think oh man if this helped me it could help someone else, but by no means when I receive this "truth" or information that I share here, am I like a champion at it. I mean I'm trippin over myself every day. Scrapped and bruised everything. And in a way doing this and offering up whatever revelations I unravel to you, it helps me pick myself back up, dust myself back off, and limp on forward. 

We can all feel sorry for ourselves very easily. We can all criticize ourselves very easily. What's hard is being kind to ourselves. What's hard is to get up. What's hard is to limp forward. What's hard is to be vulnerable and share your pain, your suffering, your experience, your journey in hopes that there's a nugget of wisdom in there that someone else can use on their journey. What's hard is to not worry about the outside world and outside opinions. What's hard is to listen to yourself, stay true to yourself, keep moving forward and keep laughing. It seems like that would be the easy one, but sometimes that can be the hard one. Laughing playing being curious all those things keep you out of your head. They take you out of judgement, out of fear and into its nemesis: exploration, curiosity, fun.

You are so strong

Let whatever is coming to you pass through you. Let it shift and change you s it will, as it wants to, as you allow it. Allow it to let you grow and just move on. Or at least try. Cause that's all you can do is try. 

You are so strong