Allowing the Grit to Shine Us Up

 

Being empowered doesn’t mean life is always perfect and you live a challenge free life. Often it is the challenges that inspire us to be empowered, that give us the opportunity to show our own self what we are made of. We get to practice empowerment when things seem chaotic… we learn that we can choose a state of inner peace regardless of the turmoil around us.

First of all, please know allowing ourselves to experience suffering, to grieve, to feel fully our pain and love ourselves through our pain with compassion is important. What we don’t want to do when contrast and hardships come our way is to either stuff, suppress, shut it down or wallow, engage in it for a long time and adopt repetitive pain loops and a chronic victim consciousness.

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Either suppressing or dramatizing our victimhood can trap us in a low vibration and can become a way of being, our status que. Being stuck in a pain loop that continues to trigger our wounds allows us the opportunity to once and for all transcend and heal and grow into higher and higher ways of being. We need to feel fully what arises and be compassionate with ourselves, and then do our best to spiral out of our pain, let it go and transform our pain into a purpose.

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When we use the grit of life’s challenges to shine us up, we show our own self what rock stars we are. We show ourselves how powerful we are. When we are stretched out of our comfort zone is when we have the opportunity to grow, evolve, and expand ourselves. When we look back at how we overcame challenges and didn’t give up… how we dug deep within ourselves and found powers and strengths we had no idea were inside of us, we become inspired by our own self, our own life.

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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. We begin to learn quickly and humbly from all of life, everyone, and all experiences. We use the grit to learn, to sharpen our edges and become wiser, kinder, more conscious, and loving people. When we can turn our pain into purpose rather than sink into victim mode, we are able to use our challenges to propel us into greatness and help others in ways we hadn’t known were possible.

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When we are living a life of purpose, we are empowered and living empowering lives.