LOVE YOURSELF! INSPIRATION
Facing Challenges with Grace
What do you do in the face of a challenge? Do you run the other way? Do you attack it head on expecting to never have another issue come up again? Are you able to discover a solution that suits your soul?
Soul friends, challenges are here to stay while we are on earth enrolled in this human exchange program. Challenges promote change. They keep us moving, unlocked in any ideas, perspectives, and dogmatic structures and push us to shift to the next level. For example, when you are unhappy, you feel "not free" and what do you do? You try to find ways to make yourself happy, to be free - you will make a lifestyle change in an effort to feel at peace. But then you find happiness, peace, you feel free and you are still not satisfied - rather your "ego mind" isn't ready to settle in to that space. Challenges start to arise as quickly as you found your happiness. So what do you do? You will then start daydreaming, fantasizing about the next best thing that will make you happy.
Challenges stimulate growth they are truly gifts to your soul. When you are able to take action, solve problems, find different solutions and ways of being instead of being stuck in your uncomfortable you become empowered. You become the leader of your life instead of a follower or a victim. Challenges are a sign that you are alive and being able to see past the problems to the solutions is a sign of your inner strength. The more you push through a problem to find answers and different ways of seeing things the more you sculpt who you are and your soul. The problem isn't that you have problems. The problem is that you feel you aren't supposed to have them. You resist them, which is like resisting against your own breath.
Personally, I was laid off from a job during a time when I was moving to another state, going through a divorce and becoming a single parent. Wow what a challenge!! I won't lie to you - I felt depressed, angry and lost. I was not a happy person during that time. However, I knew in my heart that the Divine and the universe didn't give me anything that I could not handle. It wasn't easy but I mustered up all the strength I had and pulled in all my resources (friends, family, etc.) to find different ways of seeing my situation. I have completely changed my life and am so much happier and freer because of it. And because I was able to get through that challenge in my life I feel so much stronger in my soul. I know I can get through anything! And if I can get through anything so can you! All that is required of you is to stretch your sight, your inner vision of how you see yourself and your world. You have the power to be, do and have anything in the world all you have to do is believe it and it is yours!!!
You are so deeply and unconditionally loved by the Divine and me, so love yourself just as much!
Love Yourself! Weekly Assignment
1) Take an inventory of your life to date - make a list of the things that make you happy vs. unhappy. These things can be thoughts, people, situations or things.
2) Add another column to your list of what you could do to change what doesn't serve you - they don't have to be drastic changes they can be very small
3) Add another column - detail the ways you have solved things in the past within that category - YES you have made shifts (small or big) in your life in the past you just need to remember them. Also note how this shift propelled your life in a positive way.
4) In the final column note how the NEW change will impact your life
5) Next make the decision to do something different, to be happy, to be free because your happiness and freedom is 100% your responsibility to achieve.
You are so loved, so love yourself just as much!