The end of the year for me is filled with magic and wonder and so full of hope, love, and grace. It marks an end of a cycle captivating one to reflect on the past happenings and experiences. When you really begin to look back at the year it is amazing the unfolding of purpose within even the most stressful of events, offering meaning, lessons and ultimately growth.
When I look back and reflect upon my year I am immediately drawn to notice my reactions to emotional triggers. This year brought several instances, some I purposefully chose to endure and some I did not. Old situations arose that in years past would have caused me debilitating stress and anxiety. I still can feel it, but now it has become something different. The overwhelming, sometimes irrational feelings are still there, but much less intense as previous experiences. Now when I feel triggered it causes me to focus and pay attention to the causes, to dig deeper and to further work on my own healing. It also reminds me to look back and see how much I have grown and healed myself.
At no point will I ever be ‘healed’. My progress and growth are the driving force and the point of my purposeful work, as well as the purpose of our lifetimes. We will never receive the answers to the big questions we seek about ourselves or of life… that is only found within oneself. Our own answers will be very different from one another because even though we are linked by common threads of events, circumstances and beliefs, we all have layers of individualized soul lessons to unravel and learn.
Take some time as we end the old year to reflect upon all of your experiences. True growth and learning does not happen without connecting and understanding the bigger picture of the meaning behind it all. When I look back, even during my toughest circumstances, I see the Universe giving me an opportunity to evolve. When I choose to heal I expand to see the cause and effective energy that transcends to everyone within my energetic reach stimulating collective consciousness.
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