Do you want to live your life fearlessly, so that you can not only meet your earthly challenges with greater awareness, but even learn to appreciate them for the gifts they bring out in you?
I don’t say this lightly, having been through many difficult tests.
I had to “chew on” that uncomfortable, difficult life energy when all I wanted to do was spit it out, or run away from it… escape from “my troubles.”
Yet life seemingly had other plans for me. I needed to learn to take consistent action without being ego invested. I also needed to learn not to let these life situations rob me of my inner joy.
When a big life challenge comes along, it can easily eclipse each day, like a dark cloud blocking out the sun.
It’s helpful to understand that there is always your life situation (the surface level of your Being), and then there is you expressing ‘as life’ itself; you are a nexus of spiritual power that can undo all of the karmic knots that have kept you bound in various difficulties.
This, of course, is one of the hardest lessons to master because your mind will often be drawn back into the problems you have.
You must learn to cultivate enough presence, or spiritual light, so you can face your own shadows, and transmute them, as they arise. These shadows are the darker thoughts and emotions that typically bubble up when you face great challenges - usually they are the things that ‘threaten’ your sense of peace, and your sense of self. Denser thoughts and emotions are like opaque cloths wrapped around a light bulb; your inner light cannot shine through.
We certainly go through hell before we get to heaven. Difficult life challenges trigger us at various points along the timeline, and often bring up parts of ourselves we don't want to see or acknowledge.
Having compassion for yourself, the situation and the other person (who may well be trapped in a dark, earth bound identity) doesn’t mean you enable abusive behaviour. You can set healthy boundaries, say ‘no’, change your mind and so on. “Idiot compassion" is where you enable someone else’s unconsciousness and allow them to keep harming you in some way.
Compassion means self-love and self-respect are primary, not secondary.
The good news is that, eventually, all dark clouds pass. Life isn’t fixed. It is only our fixed reactions that keep us repeating a painful past.
Imagine the blue, expansive sky, with the sun shining brightly! This your true nature - something to deeply realise and act on.
Transurfing Reality: Dealing with loss and death
Transurfing basically means to transcend your current reality…, without falling into denial, or escapism.
Many tests are incredibly hard on this Earthly plane, particularly whenever we experience a great loss of some kind.
That could be a gradual or sudden deterioration of physical health, a loss of a job, money or wealth that causes us to feel constricted in our material choices, or the ending of a close relationship that is very painful to navigate; this could be a sudden break up or divorce, or we may experience the physical death of a loved one.
There is no ‘rewind’ button when these events happen.
Often we walk into these challenges without sufficient foresight. The experience can either debilitate us, or it can wake up, and put us back in touch with our inner spiritual warrior, that part of us that is full of courage to face the unknown.
I’ve personally found that it’s vital to have a grounded spiritual practice before any such loss happens.
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