Life's Lessons - Part 2

There was a tremendous response to the Life's Lessons revealed in my previous post. Thank you to those who shared comments and insights with me. I'm excited to share my final 10 Life Lessons with you.

Life’s Reflections - Part 2

1. Relationships invite us to do the inner work in order to see that change reflected back
   We can waste so much of our life blaming others or avoiding relationships, when in fact relationships can lead to profound healing of our childhood wounds. All relationships, including family, love and work, present a mirror reflecting back what we need to understand internally. If we're trying too hard to please, playing it small, easily triggered or perhaps holding back due to a fear of abandonment, everything will come up to be seen and worked through. The ideal place to do this work is within the relationship itself with a supportive partner.

2. Safe vulnerability leads to a deeper connection with others
   Being able to open up about our past or present struggles, whether in long-form with a loved one or short-form with a new acquaintance builds human connection. If we tend to put up a wall to avoid vulnerability, we keep ourselves separate. Others can actually feel that energetic 'pushing away'. Once I understood this I was able to form new deeply soulful friendships.

3. The Universe will always bless with abundance those who work to raise the vibration of others.
   However you choose to do this, paid or unpaid e.g. through healing, group meditations, making something, music, events, volunteering, space-holding, intimate conversation, laughter or a smile, you will always be held and rewarded by the abundant Universe.

4. People who trigger us in daily life will keep showing up
   They'll show up in different guises until we look inwards to understand why we are triggered and work on that.

5. Having a daily spiritual practice feeds our soul and builds energetic resilience.
   If we don't do our daily work (meditation, gratitude, self-love etc) we are at the mercy of the energy soup out there. Some days are good but most days are not so good. With a daily spiritual practice, we raise our vibrational set point and the balance of life is tipped in our favour.

6. Everything we repeatedly say to ourselves about ourselves is taken as a command by our subconscious mind.
   It gets to work and creates a reality that fulfils those commands. 

7. Creation happens from the inside out, not outside in
   What we experience as our reality comes from our inner beliefs and assumptions about the world, not the other way around. If we want to see a different version of creation, we need to change our beliefs and assumptions.

8. Ask sooner rather than later
   Before we hit a wall with our problems having tried everything we can think of to make things right, give it up to Source.

9. 'Negative' emotions hold the key to our healing
   Our negative emotions contain information that, when brought to our awareness, advances our healing. Being able to compassionately sit with the emotion as it rises to the surface will allow the message to come through as the emotion comes up and leaves the body. Typically, we block the journey of a strong emotion by making it wrong and so it remains in our body ready to come up again and again until we learn how to receive and honour it.

10. Write the new story 
    If you have something important coming up that you're worried about, try shifting the energy through Scripting. To script, write a thank you letter to the Universe as if it were already so. It can be a paragraph or a few pages. Your focus on what you want with pure positive energy, will allow it to manifest.
     

If you found resonance with any of the final 10 of my 20 Life Lessons let me know or if you had the chance to include one more of your own what would it be?

With love and light

Gwen x