Who would you be if that never happened to you?
We all have our version of that.
Parent’s divorce.
Loss of a loved one.
Broken heart.
Failed business.
Sudden injury.
…or some traumatic, unforeseen, pivotal event that changed you so much that you can’t help but wonder who you’d be or where you’d be if it had never occurred.
But it did, and everything since then has tiny traces of the event woven into it – fractals of fear, insecurity, doubt, guilt, isolation, or sadness left behind. Yet none are more devastating than the potential trapped beneath the weight of the coping mechanisms that formed as a result.
Unbeknownst to us, our suffering-laden memories send our power into hiding as the ego repeats the same stories, reinforcing the same limiting beliefs, and resulting in cyclic suffering.
Yet, if we're lucky, during a brief moment of meditation or presence, when the fear and fog lift, we see it: that magnetic, energized, unstoppable person we could be—should be—if only that terrible, awful, unfair thing never happened.
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