I spoke to someone recently who put life back into perspective for me. I realised that when life decides to throw hurdles at us, we tend to wallow in the mishaps and forget how strong we actually are; we forget that we actually do have the tools to move forward.
No matter how much personal development I’ve done or how many spiritual awakenings I’ve had over the years, I realised that there is no “end” to this wave of life.
It’s not a mountain that we climb, where we get to the top and that’s “it”. Eventually, there’s always going to another mountain that we’re required to climb.
Over the past few years I’ve faced a number of different challenges time and time again; but every time I overcame something, it strengthened my resilience.
Looking back sometimes, I reflect on the lessons learned and I’m proud of how I’ve handled it; and at other times, I’ll see, hear or read something that forces me to re-live the pain. Although it’s important to realise that there may be times where that happens, it clicked to me last night that sometimes, we also choose to live in the pain.
As soon as I was reminded of this, I had to shift my perspective and remind myself that the ‘darkness’ I went through has been a gift.
Especially after we’ve experiences circumstances, situations, places or people who have caused us any pain, we may feel the need to ‘protect’ ourselves – and by ourselves, I’m referring to our spirit.
I felt the need to share in this post and remind you in my own spiritual way; the same way that person reminded me in their own way – that our spirit doesn’t need to be protected because it was built to endure.
A few years ago (before the more recent events) I was at a point in my life where I had overcame several challenges and I was in a place of complete personal empowerment. No matter what happened, I told myself “I got this”.
In life, we all tend to make choices that don’t serve us because we’re hurting or we’re simply just sick of dealing with it and being the bigger person. I get it, it tends to get exhausting; but I’m lucky to have had this person say what they did to snap me back to reality because it reminded me it all came down to a choice.
There are so many people who choose to be stuck in the pain of the past and for a brief while, I realised I wasn’t allowing myself to move forward. It’s almost like the mental prison I referred to in a previous post; except now it was me that was choosing to continue serving this mental/ emotional ‘prison sentence’ for someone else’s crime.
Reflecting on our mindset and perspectives are so important, because when these mental traps appear, it tends to be so subtle; sometimes, we don’t even realise we’re doing it.
I’ve had to remind myself a lot, but I’ve decided to make a choice for myself to be unconquerable from these battles – the same choice I made years ago, and to keep betting on myself.
I hope that if you’re reading this – regardless of whatever darkness life is throwing your way – I hope you remember it’s all a choice, and that you decide bet on yourself too.
C x
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