I remember there was a point in my spiritual development when it seemed like I was being challenged to my core. TO MY CORE! I felt that the challenges were coming in all directions – fast and furious.
My mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
My spiritual community profoundly let me down.
My best friend took advantage of me and cheated me.
My sweetheart … oh, don’t even get me started on that one.
I had financial challenges – debts I couldn’t seem to get out from under.
There was more, but that’s enough – it was an ego lollapalooza of betrayals, upsets and freak outs.
It felt like the challenges were on all levels and in all areas of my life – except that I had my health. Thank GOD for that!
I had the sense that I was being “tested.” I was being tested not in the way that a unkind teacher would prepare a grueling test in order to put you through the wringer, but rather – and this is SO IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND:
I was being tested in the sense of being offered an opportunity to rise above all past precedent and break through to a new level of awareness, understanding, strength and willingness.
I didn’t know it at the time, but I was going through the Development of Trust that’s outlined in Chapter 4 of the A Course in Miracles Manual for Teachers. This is one of the reasons why I encourage folks in Masterful Living to read it every day for a week, and then once a week thereafter.
That time of challenge was far from easy. It helped that I could feel that it was a test of my mettle. It was THE opportunity for me to focus on developing the clarity that I so deeply desired. It was so very challenging because I was being challenged to give up my attachment to who I thought I should be and who I thought I was.
It was the required course for me to purify my heart and relinquish the habits of playing small.
We all get ours. At least one. Depending on how we handle it we are either catapulted into a higher level of personal strength and wisdom, or we’re knocked down, to cultivate humility and trust.
That time was both difficult and exhausting – and it certainly wasn’t the first time I was going through this kind of challenge. It was also exactly what I needed to step more into my true identity as a spiritual being capable of great love and compassion.
I reached a tipping point and I’ve not had any backsliding. Instead, it continues to unfold and expand, which is wonderful.
Honestly, I don’t see one spiritual student who truly wishes to awaken from the painful dream of separation who doesn’t go through some VERY INTENSE challenges – challenging them to their core. Sometimes, that’s what the time of healing looks and feels like.
It’s when the storm is raging so intensely, and we’re really up against it, that we can break through the most intense attachments to the mental patterns of the past.
It’s actually a tremendous gift from the Higher Self to help us remember who and what we really are.
It forces us to surrender the ego attachments, and that’s what brings the healing, if we’re willing.
If we’re not willing, well, it just becomes more intense and for a longer period.
My grandmother used to say, “you can get used to hanging if you hang long enough.” And sometimes we do, but only because we don’t believe it’s possible for us to actually heal and change.
If we’re willing to give up the attachments to the past, we can have a whole new future.
We all know that our willingness is the key to our transformation. Spiritual practice is EVERYTHING in our awakening. Willingness to be loving and to choose that loving connection over everything else IS a spiritual practice. It’s OUR spiritual practice.
We can leverage our willingness to choose love and cultivate a belief that we can leave the past behind and release the future also. This gives us the experience of being present to the now, which is the only place our transformation can happen.
When we feel we’re being tested, we can be grateful the tipping point is at hand. Gratitude lifts us and shifts us. It’s strengthens us. Let’s go for it and let resistance be the reminder that we ARE doing it, we’re not playing small anymore and we’re not stuck anymore!
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Information isn’t healing.
Spiritual practice is healing.
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I am grateful for this path we’re on and our ability to take the next healing step upon it!
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