One of the most frustrating things about personal growth is the fact that we seem to run into the same obstacles again and again. It can make us feel like instead of growing, we’re standing still – or even going backwards.
However, this frustration is based on a false belief – that growth is supposed to linear, a smooth continuous move in an upward direction. The Blueprint for Creation tells us a different story.
True growth isn’t linear. It’s more like a spiral. A spiral is always going up – but this upward progress is not straight. The spiral moves up in circles, actually moving back as a preparation for each new step in the climb.
Our growth works like this as well.
We can understand this better through understanding what’s known in Kabbalah as Lights and Vessels. In order for a light to actually shine, it must be contained in a vessel that fits it well, somewhat like the way an electric current needs the right sized light bulb in order to manifest as light.
In terms of your growth, the light is the potential that you want to experience or express. The vessels are specifically where and how it will be expressed. In a general way, growth means that more and more of the light of your potential is expressed within the vessel of your personality, and by extension, in the circumstances of your life.
The problem is, your potential is infinite and your personality is finite. That means that, by definition, the light is always too big for the vessel.
In order to hold more light, the vessel has to grow. And that’s where your challenges come in. Those very things that get in the way of what you want to experience, whether your external circumstances, your fears and doubts, your old habits or your failures of the past, are what enable that growth. Facing your challenges head-on, not with shame and frustration, but with dedication and anticipation, will cause you to stretch and expand, just like lifting heavy weights will inevitably make you strong.
However, stretching is uncomfortable – sometimes very much so. In fact, it’s precisely when the challenge is doing its job of opening you up that it feels most like you’re stuck. Instead of seeing it as an opportunity for powerful growth, it’s easy to feel confronted with everything about you and your life that simply isn’t working the way you think it should.
When this happens, there are two possible responses, a choice between two roads. The first, the low road, is to avoid the discomfort by giving up on the light, in whatever aspect of life it may be. Stop going to the gym, let that relationship fall apart, give up on your dream or goal. Your life will get steadily smaller as you continue down this road, but you will successfully avoid the discomfort and uncertainty of stretching. True, you will be far less present and conscious in your life, but that won’t make you very different from most of the people you know.
The second, the high road, means to embrace that discomfort, secure in the knowledge that you are NOT going backwards, but rather expanding your vessels to hold a far greater level of light. It means that instead of letting your dreams fade away, you attach yourself even more deeply to their light, tapping into a deeper level of desire, learning new ways of thinking and behaving that make your life bigger, brighter and more authentic than it was before.
If you take this road, you will have moments of discomfort, without a doubt. But you will also have a continuously expanding life; a life of great discovery, of power, purpose and joy.
The truth is that we have no idea how high we can go. Our potential, our light, has always been far greater than our vessels, our ability to perceive, and in these transformational times it gets greater each day. This means that our challenges, both personal and global, increase as the gap between the expanding light and the old, limited vessels grows. At the same time, the more light there is, and the more we understand about how to internalize that light, the bigger those vessels can be. The bottom line is, you’re always getter bigger or smaller with every choice you make – or fail to make. You’re never standing still.
So next time you feel like you’re stuck, next time you have the thought that you just don’t have what it takes to meet your challenges or fulfill your dreams, consider making a different choice. Consider letting the challenge move you up, open you up, stretch you, and fill you with an entirely new level of your own light. Consider taking the high road, the road to transformation, where all is new, nothing is certain, and wonders await those who have the courage and patience to let them in.
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