Life-Transforming Events in the Ups and Downs of Life

Without a doubt, it isn’t pleasant to go through hard times—like struggles with finances, illnesses, breakups, death, various losses and more. But it can absolutely shift your ground of being, and you will never be the same. Many human beings in some cultures and circumstances all over the globe are subject to lifetimes of protracted suffering. That’s not what I’m talking about here. I’m talking about people on a path of inner growth and transformation who undergo the deep ups and downs of life. These events and experiences, both physical and emotional, can create absolute and profound breakthroughs.

I fully believe that it’s crucial to allow yourself to experience what you really feel and what’s going on inside of you before you transform it. It’s the art of paying attention to places inside of you in which you’re hiding your power under old limitations, emotions, patterns, and ways of understanding your life. When you pay full attention, you’re then able to release and transform everything and become free.

Seven Life-Altering Breakthroughs

You are being asked by the universe to reinvent yourself, and you’re given that opportunity. Years ago I needed to live in a tent for a while. It started out as an adventure, but that didn’t last. I was used to a house with a bed and a rug—so when it started to rain and became very uncomfortable, it became an experience of deep stress. At a fair, a wandering minstrel came up to me and whispered two lines to me: “Since my house burned down/ Now I have a better view of the rising moon.” This clicked deeply in me, and from this point on, I opened up to a greater understanding, and I began to morph into a different person—more open, courageous, and unattached to things being exactly as I wanted them to be.

You are being asked by the universe to find a sanctuary inside yourself—the abode of your Higher Self. There is a place you can go to when you want to or need to that is untouched by anything in the world. You can get there through meditation or other routes. It’s a state of pure awareness, something you’re born with, that is a place of unconditional peace within your soul. Here’s something I wrote about that many years ago:

In the middle of the right and the wrong,
There is a stillness in my being.
There is a place where my ego is not bruised,
Where my heart is not hurt, where I am neither victim nor victimizer. This is the still point where all voices stop,
Where I am just peace.
When the world is loud or unfeeling, if I am disappointed,
The still place within me stands as a pillar of quiet light,
Of divine silence and protection and peace.

You’re given the chance to burn off your karma, to undergo something that is difficult so that you can dissolve all obstacles and impediments to a higher way of being. In an odd way, it’s like burning off calories—but much deeper. It’s like allowing old impediments you’ve been carrying for eons to dissolve like melting ice cubes on a hot sidewalk in the sun.

You can develop qualities in yourself that are greater and stronger than you’ve ever known. At the end of relationships and old attachments, for example, you can become more independent, free from clinging, and more discerning. For me, when relationships ended, something powerful came forth from within me. I developed new qualities, like a certain empowerment, that took me to a new level of life.

You can shift your thought forms and cognitions. You can go from “poor me,” for example, to “I am transforming my life now, and I am the power of healing.” Instead of feeling totally oppressed by what you consider a fate of doom, you can cognize that the universe is operating with a hidden kind of compassion that is taking you to a more enlightened life.

You can expand your understanding about the way the universe operates. You can see that there’s a kind of constant rebirth taking place. Things get taken away, and yet the new is coming in. You adopt a larger vision to see not just the microcosm, but a larger picture, and you understand that you are being sculpted into your greatest self.

You’re learning the art of releasing and letting go. You’re learning to shed your old skin, to renounce something that is outworn and no longer needed for this new phase of your life. As you release attachment, you enter an expanded level of your being.

There’s an art to seeing and understanding through the vehicle of your innate wisdom, to constantly know how to release, let go, reframe, transform, and come into an expanded reality. You will then be propelled into states of enlightenment and love. Everything is made of higher consciousness, and when you understand that and go beyond the ordinary difficulties of things, you lead an uplifted life.

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