Time To Grow

"People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve."

-Jennifer Aniston

I was recently reminded of something that came up for me a couple years ago in a conversation with a friend who was experiencing a challenging issue in his life. He had come to me for spiritual guidance and this idea was a result. He felt like everything around him was falling apart. I said to him,

“When the experiences in your life begin to unravel it is because your greatness can no longer be contained by the limitations you've put in place. God cannot be contained, so something new must be born.”

Holy smokes. That landed with him. And I am glad it did.

There is a natural flow of life that sometimes means we must be willing to let go of that which no longer works. We can do this gracefully, or we can fight it. How we react becomes the experience. At the time, knowing that an unraveling in life was a press for perfect evolution through me was a hard pill to swallow. Finding the place and way to embody this idea has made my experience of life much more grace filled.

I don’t fight with evolutionary unfoldment any more. If I find myself in the fight — I ask myself, “What self-imposed limitation am I fighting like hell to hold on to… and is it really in my best interest?” The majority of the time I conclude that holding on to the limitation is most definitely NOT in my best interest.

Yet, letting go can be hard. We spent time to create the limitation, we feel it as a part of us. We’ve come to define ourselves based on the limitations we’ve created. So letting a limitation go is letting go of a personal defining factor. When we move through this we go through a grieving process.

Allow evolution, and take care of yourself through it. It may mean that you need to grieve.

Know that there are people like me who are here to support you when you need it.

You are not alone.