CHALLENGES ARE OPPORTUNITIES!
Do you ever feel completely frustrated, unsettled or even scared about life? Do you feel you lack control over the direction your life is headed? Always remember your response to challenges will determine your experience. Choose to be pro-active instead of reactive as often as possible. Challenges can literally bring us to our knees if we allow them to, but challenges can also open new avenues of thought, emotion, and opportunity. Challenges clarify what we want and don’t want. The contrast generates new clarity of our desires. The layers of our souls are peeled open with each challenge, giving us the chance to grow, expand, and express the beauty of our eternal spirit in new and fascinating ways. Challenges are beautiful portals leading to discovery and personal growth.
Some challenges, especially repeated challenges, offer deeper soul lessons. They appear with greater frequency and severity until we notice their underlying purpose. When we accept challenges as opportunities for growth and healing, they lose intensity and loosen their grip on us. With this new awareness, we can make empowered choices to shift our perception and finally overcome the most repetitive of these challenges. From our soul’s perspective challenges are simply covered jewels. One of our most important lessons is to flow through challenging experiences instead of fighting them every step of the way! Don’t waste energy fearing a challenge because that creates a barrier against expansion. Remember that battling something only amplifies it in your experience. None of us can avoid challenges, and all of us have our own soul lessons to master.
How do we master these soul lessons,
so they don’t repeat as the same “problem” or challenge in a new guise?
By changing our responses to each challenging person or experience.
Every challenge is a divinely designed opportunity to break a limiting cycle of thought, behavior, reaction, or communication. Don’t over-analyze the situation. See it happening from a broader perspective to alleviate unnecessary struggle, tension, chaos and pain. We will always face challenges, but we choose the severity and the depth of the struggle as we move through the experience. The goal is to choose consciously, and not by default. Awareness is key. Every moment we experience struggle or strife is another opportunity to increase the brilliance of our divine light. Struggle allows our souls to evolve. We choose the lens through which we view every relationship, person, event or experience, and the lens determines the result!
Yes, life can be surprising, exciting and even daunting at times. It is a wild ride here on planet Earth, but it isn’t meant to be a spectator sport! Observing life “as is” only locks it in place without the option for progression. Focus on what’s possible instead of what “is.” Expansion occurs deliberately, through your attention to what you wish to create and experience.
