How times of crisis help us find our true path
posted by Deva Karuno
This seems difficult to understand now. The world is in chaos. Nothing is like before. How could we move towards our dreams?
Clarity of the soul
Chaotic and difficult times can often bring a kind of soul clarity. That was true long before the year 2020. That was true when you were diagnosed with a serious illness and found out who your real allies were. This happened when someone close to you died and you found out who really understood you and who said inappropriate things, because you felt personally uncomfortable.
If we're lucky, difficult times bring us to our knees. They force us to look at who we really are, as opposed to who we try to be. They ask us to look at the life that we really want to live, as opposed to the life that is expected of us.
We also have the chance to wake up from our sleepwalking. They usually bring "sober nights of the soul", where we have to question everything we think, that we believe. We have to look silently at each line of thought and ask, “Where did this come from? ”, To see if it really aligns with our soul, with who we are.
There is a clarity here that is not brought to us in easy and comfortable times. It is as if the power of our survival mechanisms is aligned with the way we really want to live. The world is getting clearer every day.
The crisis brings change
We begin to become aware that, at some level, we are just wasting time. We are “investing time”, doing things we don’t love, why? For how long? How about today? I am alive today. What if I die tomorrow? Is that what I really wanted to spend in my life doing?
The crisis is that moment when we can really look in the mirror and be real with ourselves. I am alive now. What I want to do?
Perhaps we will leave the job we hate for a long time. Perhaps we will abandon the relationship in which we felt we were stuck for the rest of our lives. Perhaps we will begin to speak our truth. Maybe we stop worrying about what others think and we just like to do whatever comes to us.
And yes, change will happen and there will be a ripple effect in all parts of our lives.
But these ripples will bring us closer to our dreams, in a way that we may have given up, believing deep down that they were not possible.
Hence the blessing of the crisis, which forces us to leave our comfort zones and make choices according to our souls.
The path of your passionate soul
There are some structures in society that are truly for our protection and security, but most are not. They are simply rules to make us act like robots. They put us in roles and expectations. They create “egos” that we must present to the public. They create rules and regulations in our brains that then create the prison we live in every day.
The Tantra ancients knew that we were much more than that. They knew it was special to be born on this planet. They knew that we were beings of infinite energy, capable of manifesting everything we wanted. They knew we were capable of incredible happiness and freedom, but we had to be pulled out of the internal prisons we were in.
We need to make choices that align with our inner voice. We reconnect with our inner child and do things that make our hearts sing. We believe that new job opportunities, relationships and adventures will emerge.
We use these times of crisis to really improve who we are and see our lives unfold in ways that we could not have imagined.
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Namaste