What from your life has given you your greatest life’s message?
What answers did you acquire in your own
problem-solving to prompt more curiosity within your own life?
Is there something your parents said to you growing up that
seemed cliché that you did not understand?
Perhaps you were told something and blew it off as ‘random-in-passing’
comments that didn’t have any significance at the time, what comments have you repeatedly
ignored?
What can you remember that has repeated as an event in your life?
How much awareness do you have to understand exactly what
that is and what it provides in terms of a life’s message today?
Okay, so I am asking you many questions, but I will be
providing a very insightful answer to all of the above in terms of having you
reflect upon your own life.
How? Answer these questions and then look at your answers.
Your answers will prompt more questions and those questions that you ask of
yourself will provide even more answers than you bargained for.
For those of you who have avidly followed my story, you know
that my mother’s twenty-six year battle with Alzheimer’s disease has brought up
many questions. My entire life’s journey has been answering questions to her
disease in terms of mind-body healing and mastering the art of understanding
the compartmentalization of how the brain works specifically with the rest of
one’s ‘being’ as much as ‘doing.’
But let's take neuroscience completely out of this, and get it back to the human relations aspect of everyday questions and answers.
But let's take neuroscience completely out of this, and get it back to the human relations aspect of everyday questions and answers.
It all answered questions to my purpose, my quest and above
all, the ability to heal others through her sacrifice, because it put me in the
position to do what I do.
While I had answered the biggest question she would ask, “Who
are you?” in every context through introspection, spirituality,
cerebrally/psychologically, emotionally, physically, culturally, generationally,
geographically, behavioral and past lives I have lived in various time periods, and multilevel depths soulfully twenty-two layers beyond the
ethers of empath lightworker connection, I would be foolish to believe that was
the only question that needed to be answered through said excavation. That isn’t
enough work to do, granted it’s a lot, but when left to ask upon believing I
was done, the Universe laughs and says, ‘Oh, you’re just beginning. But wait,
there’s more….’
I state this for those of you actively working on your
continuous ‘work in progress’ pathway of being and becoming, for your own
individual footwork. It doesn't matter if you are a fellow therapist, coach or metaphysical healer or a gardener, plumber or construction worker, many of you may
have halted your own progress believing that you are ‘done.’ Let me shed some obvious light, you are never done. All of us humans do something with a beginning, middle and end completion manifestation process to what we do with our jobs/careers in order to give us an end-zone, but in life there is no end-zone, there is always more work to do. This continuous process of discovery is an
endless and infinite loop and that is what makes life beautiful.
Many of my clients believe they are ‘done’ with their work
when they graduate after reaching certain summits. While that may be true for said goal, the
real work begins when they understand they’ve only just begun to open up a
floodgate/gateway to what else they can discover in learning about their
pathway. The work never ends if you continue to have a thirst for life and
learning. But that is up to you.
So I encourage you to think about your life, your teachers,
your parents, your friends, your family, your neighbors, your co-workers and
even random strangers who challenge you daily providing answers to questions
you did not know to ask. I also want you
to ask the questions of yourself from said encounters as to what it means in
terms of what continuous work you need to do.
For example, ‘why did you not find a particular item at the
grocery store?’ and why did the Universe force you to go to three other places
to find it? It may seem like a random
benign thing or a life inconvenience, but I will tell you that it is NOT an accident
– you were being asked to SEE something, and in turn it was revealing to you
exactly what you needed to hear/see or experience at the time. Maybe it was to reinforce your own
determination or tenacity to see something through, that you are not doing in
other areas of your life. Maybe you were
supposed to change your environment deliberately to notice something else you wouldn’t
have noticed otherwise. You get the
picture.
Your everyday experiences are something you may blow off as
just life. But it is not – it is life lessons beyond the lesson, it is the
comprehension you have for your every move, step, action, word, emotion,
encounter and consequence. Every single
thing has a purpose, and not just in your life but in another person's, too.
In a few past blogs I’ve talked about traffic delays, car or
computer problems and how these things are not random either. They are designed to either slow you down or
get you to learn something you did not learn before or even be significant in a
time delay in order for you to take that phone call or be somewhere else that
you wouldn’t been otherwise without said event happening in your life.
Think about if one random inconvenience did not happen, how
would that have changed the course of where you are now? Maybe you wouldn’t have had the pathway you
have now.
People believe a tough road is a bad thing. But if you’ve emerged from it, you gained
ten-fold something you wouldn’t have, had you never walked through the
experience. Every challenge, which presents
itself big or even what appears to be petty/small and frustrating like a
splinter has a purpose. A ten second
pause in your life or ten hours or months, is ultimately for YOUR PURPOSE. Sometimes life has to catch up to you to
thrive.
Sometimes you need to stop in your own tracks to appreciate where you’ve
been to thrive. Other times, you are
being asked by the Universe to look beyond the obvious to see something you’ve
been too busy to see or blind to see or cluttered to see because you haven’t cleared
your own pathway.
When we get to the place of understanding that all events
are blessings, even in disguise, we grow that much more, learning something
new, prompting new answers and of course new questions. Though it may seem
cyclical, it really isn’t cyclical at all… it’s an upward spiral to your own escalation
of connecting to your own higher consciousness to be enlightened in a way that
would not have ever occurred before, but now has.
It is in these moments we can be grateful and rest
peacefully in the answers or get ignited by new questions and find balance in
being in both areas and say THANK YOU.
Namaste.
