Confront What’s Rising Up Within You
The saying rings true time and time again, that when the student is ready the teacher will appear. Once the teacher appears in your life then you are presented with a choice to confront what is rising up within you or to run from it. If we are conscious of what is coming up and are willing to confront it then usually we will heal another layer within us and elevate to a more expanded version of who we are. Alternatively, if we choose to run from it then we are almost always guaranteed to be faced with it rising up again and we allow ourselves to cycle through the same inner-dysfunction. The truth is that we do not control when the teacher will appear in our lives nor are we ever going to feel completely ready to confront what it is presenting to us. The teacher can come in an array of forms from an encounter with a stranger who has a divine message to reconnecting with an old friend who introduced us to friendship hurt to a lesson repeating itself because you have yet to learn what it is trying to teach you.
Transparently, over the past summer to now the beginning of fall, I have been presented with a few teachers that appeared to accelerate my growth. I made a conscious decision to learn the lessons, practice new responses and behaviors, choose a different path that was best for me, and finally release what I had been called to let go of. Was it a cake walk? Absolutely not! In essence this was another cycle of a metaphoric death and practicing radical acceptance. At the present moment, I am faced with a new teacher that is rising up some remaining remnants of healing from inner-wounds that need to be confronted head on and that run deep. The voice of resistance to the new teacher is battling my conscious decision to confront what is rising up within me because it is going to usher in a major breakthrough. I know I have the strength to fully face it, but a big part of me wants to whisper to the teacher - “not right now.” Spoiler alert, I am giving myself no choice but to walk toward it and allow it to do the work within me. Hence, why I am inviting you on the journey to also confront what is rising up within you to be free of what has been lying dormant and holding you back.
Joy Gem: “One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.” - Abraham Maslow
