Learning in spirals.

What happens to you is what happens for you. Meaning, that opportunities will come back into your life as another chance to take your path in a new direction or to continue on the same tangent. These chances to grow further into your full self can be a blessing in disguise, as most events that encourage growth, are not always easily identifiable in the moment.

These opportunities are usually uncomfortable because the lesson we’re learning is not fully understood until we change something about that path. For example, a woman I know struggles to voice her opinions and speak up for herself when in an unpleasant conversation. She pushes her words down deep inside of her where her body manifests that suppression in a feeling she describes as a “knot” in her throat. She has felt this in personal relationships from family to romance, and even with colleagues. This woman is a gentle person, who speaks kindly of the world and sees the beauty in all things. However, when it comes to using her voice, she is lost and cycles into suppressing her energy.

Her samskara (mental habit), is to keep her voice silent when her body is urging her to speak out (the knot in her throat). This spiral only leaves her feeling incomplete from that opportunity to voice her thoughts. So, the universe continues to deliver these chances for her to speak up by bringing in people, relationships, and moments where her voice is needed.

I’ve had multiple one-on-ones with this woman to review these repeating lessons and discuss what happens to her energy in those moments. The body is a tool that we can use to understand what affects us and how it affects us. When she’s in a discussion where she is required to defend or speak up for herself, she shuts down and feels a knot in her throat. That is her body’s way of saying, “Hey! Hey, you! Please say what you need to say, or else this current of energy that your mind is creating, stays stuck in our throat.”. I won’t dive too far into the chakras in this blog post, but that opens the conversation to how our body stores energy and it manifests in “louder” language.

After several talks about this, her light began to brighten. With time and effort, she began to speak up! The best part is that she didn’t realize she was spinning her life into a new spiral. One of elevated energy, having passed a “test” in life and moving forward with the rewards of that experience.

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What happens to you, is what happens for you, my friends.