Are You Breaking Down or Breaking Through? Perspective Is Key

The human experience is a challenging one.  We are navigating through much more than we are able to see.  At times, life takes us to our knees.  Our perception can tell us we are facing a breakdown, but perspectives can be flipped.  Our outlook will directly impact our experience.  I encourage you to view the feeling of breaking down as an opportunity to break through. 

Breakdowns occur when life gets too heavy, when challenges arise that cause breaks in our reality, where questions abound, and our thoughts become chaotic.  Some of us even experience the feelings of insanity.  It is important to understand how growth works in times like these.  This understanding can change how we view our circumstance and how we navigate through them. 

Think of how muscles grow.  When they are pushed past their abilities they are literally ripped.  The ripping is what allows the muscle to then repair and in that repair the muscles grow.  There is physical pain in muscle development. “No pain, no gain” is what we say.  It is the same with soul development.  Life rips at our souls and in that ripping there is an opportunity for growth.  This is where choice comes into play.  We must choose growth or we remain stagnant, stuck, complacent and depression easily sets in.  If we do not approach these moments of “low” with intentions to grow within them we are choosing to allow them to drown us.  We have the ability to make a different choice. 

One of my favorite quotes of all times is, “our outlook directly impacts our experience.”  It is an important statement because it reminds us that we have choice in our experience.  We stand at a crossroad with every thought we choose to entertain.  We can intentionally become self-aware of what thoughts we choose to have.  In all circumstances we choose to lean into the negative or positive.  Good and bad exists at the same time.  Everything has its equal and opposite force.  Choice is our free will’s ability to create what kind of experience we are going to have.  A breakdown can break us down, for sure.  However, that is a choice.  We have the ability to take what feels like a breakdown and make it a breakthrough!  We do this by understanding struggles that break us are really breaking up what does not serve us so we can see the light shining through to what could benefit us.  We can ask, “what is this struggle teaching me?  What can I learn through this to become a better human?”

What we resist will persist.  Resisting struggles will cause struggles to persist.  Embracing struggle, now that is a superpower!  Embracing struggles as teachers guides us into spiritual and emotional evolution.  They can build our personal strength and that will grant us an abundance of wisdom.  Words are powerful and we must choose our words wisely.  When we say things like, “I am broken” or “I am going through a breakdown” we experience just that.  We can flip the script by saying “that which is not serving me is being broken down so that I can be rebuilt stronger and better.”

Our outlook directly impacts our experience.  We must allow our moments of “breaking down” to be moments of purging and rebuilding.  We must strive to become self-aware of the crossroads of choice between leaning into the negative or the positive and lean into all that is positive.  Reminding ourselves that everything has its equal and opposite force and seek to find the silver lining that is ALWAYS there for those who have eyes to see. 

Sometimes, a lot of times, things are easier said than done.  If this is something you would really like to cultivate in your life and you are having a difficult time implementing it, I would love to work one on one with you in a life coaching capacity.  Life coaches can be expensive, and I have needed this assistance at times I was unable to afford it.  This is why my life coaching program is offered at a very low cost and reasonable rate.  My objective with Joyful Energy Healing is not to get rich, it is to help others find all I have been able to that calmed my chaos and brought healing into my life.  It would be an honor to help you find the same. 

Many blessings,

Joy Howell

928-951-6295

joyfulenergyhealing@yahoo.com