We Often (Repeatedly) Experience Tremendous Darkness Before Finding The Light

Here’s a pattern I’ve noticed: Some of my greatest awakenings, realizations, and experiences in this life have been preceded by dramatic lows beforehand, emotionally, mentally, and otherwise. It’s almost like a lot of gunk comes up, is brought into awareness and experienced vividly, and once it is finally flushed out through giving up fighting against it anymore (acceptance and surrender), I am refilled with a tremendous degree of love and light.

There’s an old saying, “It’s always darkest before the dawn.”

Once we begin seeing this pattern unfold, we can begin to let go of our resistance to and pushing away of the painful and uncomfortable aspects of the process and begin trusting the process itself. There’s a method to the madness. It may be harder to trust and let go when you’re right in the midst of the depths, sure, but it is very much possible.

Gratitude

One thing that I’ve been receiving lately is the knowledge that gratitude helps reduce the extreme swings of the pendulum. (Thank you!!!) As has been shared with me, “gratitude is the glue” that holds things together when it feels like it’s all falling apart.

As I write this, I’m getting the sense that this is a different type of “holding together.” It’s not a sense of control and resistance to the crumbling of the old energies as a way of trying to limit one’s pain and stay in one’s comfort zone, but more of a way to help you move through the process and allow change to happen without so much of the previous struggle that has been associated with it.

Gratitude Gratitude Gratitude. We hear about it all the time and blessed is the day we finally listen.