Introduction to you
Sometimes you find yourself wondering how you are going to get through the tough times. You look at all the things ahead of you and you just don’t see an end to it all. And then you look beside you and you see that there are amazing people who are encouraging, supporting and giving you all that you need and you just know that you will get through.
Tough times are meant to teach you your lessons, and they do. You look back on them and remember how hard you thought it was in the moment. And realise that you are on the other side and you have another experience at your back, and amazing people by your side.
It’s not to say that there won’t be challenging times throughout your life, and they may feel like they are going on forever. You are always in a state of flux. A state that is fluid and never stagnant, although at times you feel that the stagnancy is there, and you will never move from this spot. Being tested is a part of the growth phase that you must go through as an individual in this life journey. Without these tests of endurance, you can’t grow.
You must also be aware not to trivialise other people’s experiences. Each person has a trial that they are enduring at any point in time. They are highlighted by your own internal belief systems and the hidden traumas that are behind you – both from your own life and those that are passed to you through your genetics and hereditary lines. You bear the scars of those who have come before you. You bear the scars of their unhealed traumas. And those traumas sit within your capacity to be able to cope with and handle your own trauma and dramas as they arise.
We are each individual with a story behind us and an unwritten story before us. You have the choice to sit in the story as it unfolds, or to help with the unravelling of the story line. Ultimately you are the writer of that story. Do you stay with what you know, comfortably or uncomfortably traipsing the same path, doing the same things, handling your stuff the same way? Or do you look at healing the process. Do you actively engage in your life and see what you desire from it. What you would like to make it. Do you take the reins and decide what and where and who and when. Change the trajectory of the issues in those tough times so that you are stronger and fitter and more aligned with what it is that you want from your life.
Do the healing. Sit with yourself and see what it is deep to your soul that you wish to see in your life right now. What is it that makes you want to live the best life you can? Who do you want on that journey with you? How can you attain what it is that you see in your future? How can you fulfil your dreams? The answer is to do the work. Shift the old belief systems. Shift the pain out of the old traumas and embrace the gift of learning that was given in the moment. Some traumas will be large and will need lots of work. Others will be trivial. Find the support base that you need to sift through these places that have you stuck where you are. Stay on the journey, even if it feels that it is heavy and hard and nothing is working. Because once you work through the darkness, there is light. So much light. Light that will fill your soul, your life, your relationships, your goals and your dreams. Things that you thought were not possible will become possible. You will see the shift that you needed to see.
