Challenges Exist For GROWTH.

It's never too late to get back on track when you feel pulled astray.

It's never too late to forgive yourself for allowing the transient experience to play itself out.

It's never too late to let go, release, and come back to center.

The push and pull effect from ingrained habits and conditioned reactions from past experiences seem to resurface much too often, may have a significant meaning.

If one has already acknowledged these feelings when they arise, and have not successfully managed to dispel the situation, one too many times, then one may need to re-examine the root of the issue.

Sometimes it may seem as if we have it all figured out, but there are forces within the mind that we don't have total understanding or control of.  If we did, we would be completely nonreactive to stimuli.  Yes, being human means we feel, we have emotions, BUT there is a higher self.  A higher self that sees past the physical manifestation and understands with a clear understanding the transient, impersonal nature that is human experience.

If all things come to pass, why we do hold on?

Fear.

Delusion.

Instant satisfaction.

Pleasure.

Self-preservation.

We are fearful of annihilation and dwell in a state of delusion ... in order to constantly feel instant satisfaction ... grasping for pleasure, all for the sake of self-preservation.

If our reaction has been trained toward a certain stimuli, the repetitive nature of HABITS will be developed.  It becomes a false safety zone we have created, in case the same situation arises again.  If that is what we know, chances are, choosing to react differently is just like stepping into the unknown.

Once again, FEARFUL OF THE UNKNOWN, means stepping into uncharted territories.  You have no experience to fall back on, to guide you, which can cause much anxiety.

And here is the opportunity to CHALLENGE THE FEAR.  Here is an opportunity to call it out and stand up to it.  Here is an opportunity to say, "NO!"  Here is the opportunity to break through the condition that is holding you back.

If your goal is to learn, to grow, to love and forgive yourself ... then here is where you STAND UP FOR YOURSELF and you MOVE FORWARD.

Life is never about the outcome of your actions.  The outcome will reveal itself as it will.  "LIFE IS NOT ABOUT THE DESTINATION, BUT THE ARROW, THE JOURNEY,"  as told by my dear friend.

HERE IN THIS MOMENT, is where you need to TRUST IN YOURSELF, in the universe, that NO MATTER THE OUTCOME, YOU WILL STILL BE OK.  YOU WILL STILL BE ALIVE, WELL, AND GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN AND GROW.

Your existence is still here, but your ego will be slowly by slowly chipped off, revealing your true strength, character, and PEACE.

Why hold yourself hostage????

Why chose to be fearful and allow the joy of life to pass you by?

What are the things that hold you back?

Write them down and ponder on them.

What basis do these fears lie on?

Fast forward 10 yrs from now.  How would "the much more experienced" you feel looking back?  You would cringe, and say, "What was I thinking?!?!!?"

Strengthen your foundation, but know that CHALLENGES EXIST FOR GROWTH.  How else would we grow if we are never challenged?