A challenge is an opportunity

Sometimes life is challenging, very challenging and I hear many people ask "I do all the right things, I think positively and I visualize and I meditate. Why then do I still have to be challenged?"

It is very easy to talk the talk, have all the right books on the book shelf, however it is not as easy to walk the talk. This takes discipline and it also takes understanding. Life is about cycles and nature is demonstrating to you all the time the truths about your own life and your journey.

Just as a wave rises and falls, so too does your life. It is very easy to feel empowered when you are riding the crest of the wave. It is exhilarating! Yet that is not the place that you grow the most. This is the place that you celebrate after growing. Challenges ask you how much faith do you have, what do you really believe in and how much is integrated? Do you truly believe that goodness comes from the Universe even when you cannot see it at the time? Do you really believe that everything happens for a reason and that reason is leading you towards your desired outcome? Do you really believe that everything you need is always there for you and to be open to it when you have bills piling up?

These moments are the test of what you really align yourself with. They demonstrate to you what is really going on in your subconscious and in that, they are pointing you in the direction you most need to go.

It is also important to remember that just as you are about to receive you are also being asked to offer something up. Let go. Most people ask for more money or a better house and yet are not prepared to let go of the job they are in for fear of loss.

Perhaps you are at a point of stress and doubt because you are in truth about to burst forth in to new life. In child birth there is pressure moving you along the birth canal until final release comes. You are born in to the world. You do not change, yet your environment changes around you. Perhaps all you need to do is relax in to the process?

Sun comes up and sun goes down. Tide comes in and out. A wave rises and falls and the year is made up of four seasons. If you learn and understand the cycles you can relax knowing that all is as it should be. After all, you are being asked to become more of who you have believed yourself to be, and the way you know you have become more is to face and overcome the challenges you believe are before you.

When in doubt, ask?

Affirm your outcome. Visualize your outcome. Action your outcome and know that at the moment of challenge, you are being asked to let go and fly with faith.

Fear belongs with the past. Faith carries you to your future.

When you ride the crest of the wave, enjoy it knowing that it will finish and there will be the moment before the next wave lifts you up. If you are aware of how the cycle works, you cannot be disappointed. Be excited in the anticipation of the next uplifting.

Face your challenges and soon you will discover they are merely your opportunities.