What to Do When Challenges Arise

By Niurka

Sometimes when someone has been practicing self-development and spiritual principles for a long time, it can come as a shock when great challenges arise. You are not alone in this experience!

It’s taken your whole life up until now to get to where you are now – you’ve learned habits and established beliefs, some of which serve you and some which you’re now ready to move beyond. And because you have been experiencing great challenge, take it as a signal that you are working through some “stuff” that has likely been with you a very long time, up until now. This means that you’re on the right path and the light at the end of the tunnel is in sight!

It’s like cleaning out a closet or a garage that hasn’t been touched in months or years – the stuff has piled up, and it’s time to give it a good scrub. What happens? You might fling everything into messy heap in the center of the room as you’re organizing, and often it appears to get worse before it gets better. And soon, as you work to put everything in its right place, keeping what is of value and discarding what you no longer have use for – you begin to create order from chaos.

When you make a commitment to your personal evolution, and as you clean out your inner space, it’s common to have “stuff” come up and appear to create chaos. The key is to recognize that this, too, is part of the transformational process. Rather than reacting – by running away from the “stuff”, trying to suppress it, sedate it, or hide it – acknowledge it. You have the power to transform it.

In the past you may have reacting instinctively as this “stuff” came up – with anger, fear, sadness, guilt, etc. Now when the challenge arises, you can recognize the familiar old pattern; you have choice in how to respond. Even if you choose to react in the old way – the awareness is a crucial step to releasing and transforming the old pattern.

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Sometimes when life presents challenges despite your best conscious efforts to the contrary, it might mean that your Highest Self has a grander plan. Though you couldn’t possibly conceive of consciously choosing to attract certain situations, these challenges create opportunities that can actually serve as initiations into a higher level of awareness, a deeper experience of truth, a more authentic relationship with the world around you.

Search for the gift in this experience. What else could this mean? What’s the treasure? What positive life lesson are you gaining from this experience? What empowering attribute is being called forth from you now?

Have you ever had a time in the past when something happened that at the time appeared to be the worst thing in the world? And looking back now, you say, “I would never be who I am today, and I would never be where I am today, were it not for that one thing.”

Breakthroughs are often preceded by “breakdowns.” So don’t be hard on yourself. Continue practicing the disciplines and rituals that sustain you – mantra, meditation, empowering questions, affirmations, exercise, self-appreciation – whatever works for you. And if you have a momentary lapse, just pick yourself right back up and start again.

There are two primary approaches to creating successful and powerful results: one is to commit with total conviction to your goal and the other is to surrender completely.
Often, we grow up with the belief that to be successful we must create a clear goal, commit to it, and take massive action toward it. This is an active, masculine approach to getting results. It works a lot of the time. But if we commit to this approach and find ourselves thwarted, it may mean that a better option awaits us.

Sometimes, the Universe has something bigger and better for us – grander than we could even imagine with our present awareness. In these moments, the most powerful choice is just… to surrender completely.

The Universe fills a receptive vessel. Just look at nature for evidence of this everywhere. This is the feminine principle – it’s open, expansive, and allowing of the Universal flow.

As you surrender and open yourself up, the Universe will bring you the people, places, and things that will support you. Maintain a sincere and open heart. The opportunities will present themselves.

Love yourself through this transitional time. You’ll look back in awe at the quantum leaps in development you’ve made.

Remember…

One person’s awakening elevates the consciousness of the planet – You are the one!


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