How Do I React When Something Devastating Happens In My Life?

How do I react when something devastating happens in my life? The best answer I can give today is, the best I can at the moment. None of us really knows how of going to react to anything until it happens. That is why I urge people who are looking for life coaches to look for someone who has lived through it brilliantly and ask them to champion you as you walk through it. So many times in life we will ask people who have never lived the experience or anything like it what they would do? I shared with a friend the other day that a gymnast, a swimmer, or a baseball team without a coach is far more likely to find frustration and a slower path to fulfillment than someone who has a coach calling them into greatness. I find that the greatest coaches I have had in life are the ones who actually understand the journey.

Day 49: Natural Disaster, for a great deal of my life I would look at trying times as some form of punishment or karmic retribution. Today I find myself focusing my energy and my creative power in a way that serves me best. All of these things I have learned by observing, how nature focuses it energy into restoration after a natural disaster, how new plant life emerges from falling and decaying trees.

With all of the things that are happening in the world today it is so easy to get focused on the violence, hatred, and bigotry. Yet I am reminded by nature every day that it is not possible to transform a situation with the same energy that has created it. Many times I am asked where do I stand in all of this? My answer is simple I stand in love. It is hard to explain why a forest fire happened, or why a tornado lands in my back yard. When I decide to stay focused on the why what I know to be true today is that I am holding my consciousness in the past and I am stilling living in the storm.

When I can find the courage from within to move on, to release, and let go of the why and move instead into my creative power. Out of that creative power, I can create a new world just like nature. Just like in today's reading from Seasons of Change I can choose to not take it personally and began again. How many times has starting over been exactly the thing I needed in order to restore my life and create a new beginning? Yet the entire time to find myself resisting, angry, and resentful for having to start over again. I'm not saying by any means that anger and frustration was not justified yet when we lookat nature and how it naturally heals itself it puts all of the energy into the creating the new. Nature understands that to continue putting its energy into anger and frustration only creates more of the same.

So many times in my life when a relationship has ended, a job has ended or, our health changes we want to move instantly into why? What I realized today is that energy keeps me stuck in the condition that has created the pain. Instead of using that energy to create more frustration I know that when I'm ready I can transform any situation and create a new world. These experiences are some of the most transformation lessons I have ever learned in my life and yet I still find myself today in resistance when something shows up. There was a great quote that I heard today that simply says love what shows up. I think this is the perfect mantra for today I am willing to love what shows up.

Life is an adventure whether I want to realize that or not. How many times in life do we pay great money to go to amusement parks, horror movies, and watch reality tv to experience adventure and yet when it happens in our lives we are resistant. We as a society have our focus on trauma, pain, and hatred thinking that is going to create a society filled with love. It is impossible to create love from fear and hate. Today spend some time looking at how you have handled the disasters in the past and how you choose to channel that energy going forward.

I love you

Ravi Allen