…will tell you that ‘manifesting’ your vision is easy.
…all you need to do is let go and align your energy.
And for years it made me feel like I must be doing something wrong.
Because regardless of how many vision boards I created, how long I sat in meditation, how many retreats I went on….
I still found myself falling short.
Surely it shouldn’t be this hard?
If I was a better person, a more spiritually awakened person, then I wouldn’t be struggling this much would I?
I would just be in the flow.
What I now realise is when you have a big vision – a big goal – hard work and massive effort is NOT something you bypass.
The struggle isn’t something we can avoid.
In fact it’s UTTERLY inevitable.
But because we’ve been programmed repeatedly to move away from discomfort – and that it’s somehow bad – when we feel it, we want to shut it down as quickly as possible.
We retreat.
Stop trying.
Squash our dreams.
But what if the spiritual gurus aren’t right?
What if we were to accept that struggle, pain, regret, hardship, and failure is ALL meant to be?
All part of the tapestry of being human?
What if we were to accept that it is, in fact, necessary?
Necessary for our fullest expression of life?
Because we can’t appreciate light without dark.
We can’t appreciate happiness without sadness.
We can’t appreciate ease and grace without struggle.
The person we become BECAUSE of being OUT of flow is where the golden nuggets lie.
We learn tenacity, resilience, grit, fortitude.
We learn that things do get better with time – and that we are stronger than we thought.
This to me is where true spirituality lies.
Not when we’re in flow, but when it’s hard.
When we think we can’t go on with our dreams, but somehow to dig deep and rise again – a new version of ourselves.
So let’s not avoid discomfort.
Let’s embrace it and know it has something to teach us.