Does your suffering prevent you from enjoying the good things in your life? If so, it’s time for you to go inward into your own personal retreat. If we slip into our woundedness, we need to explore it, process through it, and move back into the joy of our life. We don’t won’t to wallow in the hurt. If we don’t process through it, it will be impossible to move through it to the good stuff.
After the resolution of the trigger, you can begin to move into a place of gratitude and joy. If you try to skip the processing, the trigger will return with a vengeance and put a damper on your joy. And that’s an understatement! The trigger will do more than put a damper on your joy, it will downright destroy it!
When we don’t learn how to bring resolution through our triggers, they escalate because when we are working with the universe to evolve, the goal is to evolve. If we sweep the issues under the rug, the rug will eventually trip us up, make us break an arm or two, and spoil our fun.
Now, personally, processing and moving through triggers is where I find my fun. Seriously, doing this work is where I get my juice. I don’t see working with the universe and growing as torture. I do know a few people that just don’t want to process and bring resolution; they think they can ignore the process and just live in the joy. I don’t see this happening. Most people who are not doing their personal work are stuck in a lot of drama somewhere in their life.
Where are you stuck?
Retreat and Mentoring can help you see where you are stuck in your life and shift out of the drama that being stuck causes. I think living in drama is torturous. I would rather go inside, look around, and bring some resolve and growth to the situation and stay as far away from the story (drama) as possible.
If you’re in the story and it is creating drama, it is hard to be in the joy of life. Being in the story/drama might look like you talking to a co-worker about your boss, you talking to your friend about how your partner behaved, or how your children are driving you crazy. Talking about the story is not processing. It is drama!
