Growth

Can you grow through what you go through? Sometimes asking yourself the hard questions is where growth starts. The only person you should be measuring growth with is yourself. Can you grow out of the old narratives that you’ve been hearing your whole life? Are those stories still real now? Or can you rewrite the story? Can you leave behind all the judgements and mistakes or lessons from the past? You can only be better than you were yesterday and knowing when to let go and do the work to heal the stagnant parts that hold us back is key when it comes to growth. Growth is a mindset. Maybe it's not a tangible thing you can hold in your hand but more of an idea. An idea that you are more than your past, your childhood or any trauma you’ve endured. You are a magical, strong being with the ability to choose the path you move on. A lot of times we take the story given to us as a child and we stay there. We repeat the things our parents did or learned habits continue without question. Svadhyaya or self study means to dive a little bit deeper. Observing ourselves and the way we do things, our habits, or what makes us tick. So many times when you are a child you develop the same habits that are modeled for you and when you become an adult you start to question these habits or the way you see things. Diving deeper and digging up the not so pretty things in our lives gives us the ability to heal and grow from them. Not letting these things define us but rather moving past the dread and heaviness of the trauma and into a state of acceptance of all that was and all that will be moving forward. Changing the question from “Why is this happening to me?” to “What is this trying to teach me?” can change game completely.

Change your thoughts, change your mind, change your life!!