How to Transform Darkness In Your Life Into Light
The Art of Soul Alchemy
“Resilience” (n): the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.
“Soul Alchemy”: Taking the darkness in your life and shining the light of awareness on it to transform it.
Why do we keep making the same mistakes over and over again?
*We don’t recognize the signs, clues, and symbols life presents us to help avoid and get past their problems.
*We look at tests and challenges from a LOGICAL perspective, rather than a SPIRITUAL perspective.
How can we learn from life’s challenges, tests, and hardships?
The Law of Change: History repeats itself until we learn the lessons that we need to change our path.
Sometimes in life we can find ourselves repeating the same mistakes over and over again, causing us to feel defeated. By focusing on learning from experience and prevention you can become more resilient to keep on moving.
Looking at problems, tests, and challenges from the spiritual perspective can help you understand how they arise, as well as how to overcome them.
Ways to bounce back from life’s tests….
1. Write down what you learned
Questions to Ask yourself…
How did I respond?
What did I learn about myself, others, and life?
What actions do I need to take to pass this test next time?
What type of person do I need to become in order to pass this test?
What’s character traits do I need to practice to overcome this lesson?
2. Expect the unexpected
Expect life to test you, and give you lessons to learn from. By practicing mindfulness and awareness you can anticipate what’s to come. Universal tests and lessons are designed to strengthen your character and light within, they are a blessing in disguise.
Law of Cause and Effect — Nothing happens by chance or outside the Universal Laws. Every Action (including thought) has a reaction or consequence.
“We reap what we sow.
3. Connect to your higher self
Problem: most people have their lower selves making decisions for them that are self-sabotaging.
A strong connection to your higher self can give you guidance with how to respond to situations. Your higher self knows the proper path, and which decisions you need to make in the moment. It’s simply a matter of recognizing the warning signs. Your higher self has the spiritual strength and willpower to overcome any hardship. Your higher self gives you guidance, strength, and faith. Establish, build, and maintain a connection to your inner voice.
What triggers your undesired behaviors, emotions, and habits?
4. Observe how others overcome struggles
How have others solved the same issue you’re experiencing, what strategies have they used?
“There’s no new problem that someone hasn’t already had and written about it in a book.” — Will Smith
5. Find symbolism
Break down the test(s) in order to find the symbolism.
Use the 5W’s to analyze the context and lesson to be learned.
1. WHO was affected?
2. WHAT happened? What is the issue?
3. WHEN did ______ happen? When does this issue occur?
4. WHERE did ___________occur? What was the location of the event?
5. WHY did this happen? (Is there a repeated pattern?)
What does _____________ symbolize?
6. Detach from the situation
Become the objective observer of your life. Imagine you were watching a movie where you were the character.
How would that character get themselves out of that situation?
What resources could that character use to help their situation?
7. Express how you feel
Some ideas for expression…
Talking it out
Writing
Playing music
Creating
Coloring
8. Identify your emotions
Write down the specific emotions you felt.
What emotion did you feel in that moment, or currently?
What emotional state(s) do you need to be in order to overcome the situation?
I need to be in a ________(emotion) state to overcome ____________(test).
9. Visualize the preferred behavior
Visualize the way the situation would’ve worked out if everything had gone well.
Ideally, I would’ve done _________________
If __________happened, it would’ve made me feel ____________
If I had done ___________ then it would’ve done __________for the situation.
In the future I can do ______________to prevent the situation.
10. Identify pain points
At what point did the situation go wrong?
How did the experience make you feel?
When did you feel the undesired emotions?
11. Focus on personal growth
Law of Growth:
*It is we who must change and not the people, places or things around us if we want to grow spiritually.
*When we change who and what we are within our hearts, our lives follow suit and change too.
* Find books, podcasts, videos, counselors, trusted people, etc. to help you.
What character traits do you need to improve to overcome the test?
In order to overcome _____________(test), I need to improve my _________(character trait/skills)
12. Concentrate on what you want to happen
Focus on what you DO WANT in life, using your mental muscles.
Law of Polarity: Everything is on a continuum and has and opposite. We can suppress and transform undesirable thoughts by concentrating on the opposite pole. It is the law of mental vibrations.
13. Practice affirmations
Create your own custom affirmations for the person you want to become, and the life you want live. Hang affirmations up around your living space so you can see them often. Repeat them aloud and write them down daily.
14. Practice empathy to gain understanding
“Empathy” (n): the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Place yourself inside your own (*see #7 Detachment) and/or another person’s perspective. Try to understand why you or they responded the way they did.
What are possible reason(s) why __________reacted the way they did?
Were you or the other person going through a tough time?
What emotions were you/they feeling?
15. Make a change
The Law of Perpetual Transmutation of Energy — All persons have within them the power to change the conditions of their lives. Higher vibrations consume and transform lower ones; each of us can change the energies in our lives.
16. Build your spiritual energy
Get your spiritual weight up.
17. Brainstorm solutions to the problem
18. Practice positive thinking
Law of Attraction — Demonstrates how we create the things, events and people that come into our lives. Our thoughts, feelings, words, and actions produce energies which, in turn attract like energies. Negative energies attract negative energies and positive energies attract positive energies.
19. Be humble
The Law of Humility: one must accept something in order to change it.
20. Take ownership of your decisions
Remember: The challenges you face in life only have as much power as YOU give them. You have the power to interpret and change the events of your life in ways that support and and benefit you.
The Law of Relativity: Everything exists only by comparison. Nothing has meaning except the meaning we give it. How you perceive challenges in your life is up to you.
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