Wednesday, June 26, 2013

The Trajectory of a Lesson

Sometimes learning a lesson isn't easy, and you have to learn it a number of times before you can get a real hold on it. It can be frustrating when it seems like the same one keeps getting recycled, but the thing about the process of learning is that you're embarking on a quest to train yourself in something that you either do not know how to do yet because you've never attempted it before, or at the very minimum have yet to master. Even the lessons that have been mastered need to be maintained in a way that they don't fade away.


If you've chosen to be alert and present to receiving your lessons without trying to engage in full-on battles with them when they present themselves, then you may be able to appreciate, how over time they begin to show just how they are helping you grow. While you may still be inclined to react in the same way as you would have previously, you're liable to catch on much quicker, and be aware of your actions, rendering you capable of changing the trajectory of the situation this time round so it doesn't repeat itself.

Each of us has a different perception of the experiences that we encounter in our lives. Even the ones that are shared with another person, or people, are rich in the variety of meaning they hold to each individual. Our reactions to these perceptions of our own experience can often be discomforting to observe, especially in terms of our truths that it can expose. It can be uneasy to face what lies beneath because that space is so full of things we've tried to avoid about ourselves.  

Ultimately though, it is these reactions, which by observing, we can glean an idea of our habit patterns. By tracing these reactions we encounter a core feeling that it has generated from. Thoughts are rarely independent of an accompanying feeling, and blocking the self off from feeling means repeated thought patterns regurgitating, often forming structures to support their own positions. Stripping the feeling bare of the stories we've heaped on to it, we discover more about our deepest sense of self. Doing this helps us take our thoughts from a place of being purely reactory to a position of helping us excavate as well as grow and expand. 

When we get triggered, our reactions rarely come from the immediacy of the situation we are in- rather, it brings up the entirety of sum of feelings that we have stored from incidents in the past when we weren't able to process or release them. Being aware of these triggers and unraveling them to their root makes us realize what our core wounds are, and how to apply the lessons we've learnt to them, in order to heal. 

In order to implement our lessons and to break any cycle we feel stuck in we have to be willing to release our attachments to people, situations, things and our own beliefs. Attachments keep us stuck in one place, unwilling to move and static. They block us from feeling truly fulfilled and content because of the fear of loss that they inherently hold within them.  By letting go of that which we fearfully hold to our chest, we allow the universal flow to enter our life. At this point, if it's meant to stay it does, otherwise there is space for something new and beautiful to come in and flourish in that space. 

History stops repeating itself when we encounter our lessons with grace and allow our wounds to teach us how to grow, instead of trying to cover up the scars, pretending their acquisition was painless. Synchronicity provides us with a multitude of opportunities to peruse and experience, but if we're too caught up in trying to hang on to that which contained meaning for us in the past, we miss out on what the present holds and the gentle flutter of what it ushers in.

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