Weekly Insights: Around Again or Transformation To End?...

The wheels of life continue going 'round and 'round, and our challenges continue to remind us of their lessons until we learn from them and move on. Each of us is a history book filled with experiences that were joyful, painful, sorrowful, celebratory, focused, chaotic, or other. Every single one of those experiences is collectively part of the book of life that eventually becomes the complete life story. If we get stuck on one chapter, then we don't allow ourselves to unfold, grow, and evolve into who we will eventually become. At every phase of life, we are a unique version of ourselves. Getting stuck mourning or having regrets about one part of our life journey is a way to rob ourselves from the present and future. As we grow, we don't look at life the same way. Staying in the past closes us off from the ability to respond to life as our most evolved self.

Trauma at an early age of our lives can cause a delay in emotional growth. This is why it is so important to take action toward moving on, forgiving, and letting go of the past. It is so easy to tell someone to "get over it", but it takes work to let go. Time may heal wounds, but the scars are the daily reminder of what happened. Forgiveness on a regular basis can be a tool to both let go and learn from the lesson. Also, taking the time to honor oneself by releasing the story and writing, talking, or listening to others tell their stories can be extremely healing. Self-Love, self-care, and self-healing starts with allowing the time to eat right, exercise, meditate, and get creative. Then there is an opportunity to rewrite the past as a deep lesson and platform for growth, change, and alchemical transformation from the inside out. The challenging yet empowering work that we do to move past our past is a PHD in life that can be used to help others. Most times, the most painful moments of our lives end up being stepping stones toward the future. Some people choose careers, relationships, lifestyles, or ways of living based on their growth from their past. The pain becomes transformed into a superpower and a tool to help many other people move through something similar.

The alternative to growing from our past and moving forward is to focus on that pain and never let go. The greatest way to be stagnant, angry, and resentful is to live every day regretting the past. Addictions, self-destructive behaviors, and negative thinking comes out of this mentality. There is no sense of gratitude, but a feeling of victimhood and sorrow. Life doesn't just happen to us, we attract the lessons and the stories that unfold in our lives because the soul is seeking growth and expansion. The birth day we incarnate to the Earth on is our blueprint for energies to enter and leave our realities. These themes are what we have chosen on a deeper soul level, and to allow one of the many lessons to take over our entire life is to stop ourselves from evolving through the journey of this sacred life. We owe it to the soul that lives within us to learn, grow, let go, and move forward no matter what life has to offer us. It is an easy concept to understand, yet it can be extremely challenging to do. As long as we are able to take a higher vision and are willing to work on the areas that get to us in a challenging way, then we have the ability to use our pains as our powers.

Life will always repeat what we choose to ignore. It may come through a different situation, through different people, or at different settings, but the lesson will be the same - time and time again - until we are willing to learn. How do you move through the wheel of life? When the same themes come up over and over again, do you notice what they are saying? With Loving compassion and a willingness to stay present, we can overcome any and all challenges that this life has to offer.