What do you do when you experience challenges in your life? I typically shut down. I get depressed. I isolate myself. I don’t want to talk to people. I use to lock myself inside my apartment and put a do not disturb note on the door. I rarely talk to other people about what’s going on with me.
My rationale for not talking to others is either they are not in a position to assist me or I believe that nobody wants to listen to my problems because they have their own. I will tell you that from doing it this way for many years it really doesn’t work. However, I delude myself into believing that it does.
It doesn’t work for a number of reasons. First, when you don’t talk to others you get all caught up in your story and start to believe that your story is really true. Second, simply getting the thing you are challenged with out there brings a new light to your situation. Third, you are vibrating at a lower level which tends to attract other low levels of energies. Fourth, you miss out on the opportunity of someone seeing your challenging situation from a new angle.
What if instead of shutting down like I normally do that I decided to open up in a manner that I’ve never done before? What if I decided in advance that whenever I had a challenge in my life that it was propelling to a higher plane? What if I purposely looked for challenges because I knew that on the other side there was growth for me? What if I became uneasy when I didn’t witness any new challenges because It was a sign that I was stagnant in my life?
You see there are always more empowering ways to view your life’s situations. I’m recognizing that while shutting down may be convenient it’s not productive.
That’s my spin on it.
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One of the reasons I used to shut people off was because I felt embarrassed. I also feared being judged. However, once I started to allow others in, I realized there was nothing to be embarrassed about. Not only that, I found people who were more than willing to listen, minus the judgment.
J-licious