Find out why things happen in your life through a personal retreat. 
It is easy for us to become overwhelmed with the complexity and challenges of our life. When things are not going our way and seem to be reeling out of control, we may become anxious, angry, or shut down. Looking at just the situation and not looking at why the situation is being presented to us for our higher learning, could cause a disruption in our being.
Is it possible to stay in alignment, to stay calm and be at peace through challenging situations? I believe we can if we shift our awareness to why this might be happening for our growth and not get caught up in the drama of the situation.
I was talking with a client the other day and she was feeling very overwhelmed with her son being caught up in his drama as well as her situation of her parents having to go into a nursing home. She was totally having a meltdown and bothered by the fact that her son couldn’t step out of his drama and behave differently, while she was having to deal with her parents.
I explained to her that the way she was reacting to her situation was similar to the way her son was acting around his situation, they both were full of drama. Her son had said that he didn’t feel like she was available to him because of her having to deal with her parents. We talked about that putting her parents into a nursing home was just part of life.
The reason she was getting triggered about this situation was because her ego was in story about how she was going to be all alone. If she could see that the situation with both her parents and her son was an opportunity to realize that life is full of ups and downs, she would not have to be up and down in her emotions to deal with it. For a fact, when she is emotionally up and down it’s harder to deal with the issues at hand. The opportunity that she had was to learn that her ego was talking to her again about her aloneness and for her not to listen to that voice so that she could show up for her son and her parents in a more present way.
If we keep our eyes open to the learning that life has to offer, we will respond to the situations in a much more present and calm way. The universe wants to co-create with us for our higher learning therefore will put situations in our path to help us grow. When we put our attention on the situation instead of the learning, we miss huge opportunities for growth.
