Is there a choice for being in the struggle?
It would seem simple to say, “I can choose not be in the struggle” when you are so far in it.
It is all encompassing in the moments of suffering. It can feel like there is no way out. A continuous cycle that keeps pulling you in.
It becomes part of you. Add the compiled emotions that layer the perspectives within the experience. It evolves into a momentous journey of coping through resistance.
Focusing on the struggle and devoting all energy to it’s resistance. You become part it, and it becomes part of you.
You begin to identify as the struggle. It is not separate from you. You are the struggle.
It becomes consuming. Depleting available energy and resources.
Everyone faces struggle at some point. I wonder, how long does it have to last?
The unconscious awareness of choice
There is a common acceptance of living in victimhood from reinforced thoughts of believing in a diminished self worth. Anger and blame are the easiest and most obvious forms of asserting a sense of control for the situation.
The unconscious choice that is always available that isn’t commonly realized is the acknowledgement of responsibility.
When the deeper sources of personal accountability are acknowledged, a shift begins to occur in other perspectives that someone recognizes. The thoughts follow and the expansion of possibility and opportunity enter the lens of one’s reality.
The ego eases it’s grip from wanting to be in complete control to do what it does best, to help someone establish safety in their survival mode of operation.
Compassion is allowed to assist with the formulation of new interpretations of the experience. An invitation to be part of an aligned solution to move forward.
What is the investment into the struggle?
An awakening happens with the realization of how much time and energy is being invested in the struggle.
What starts off as a seed of trust, blossoms into an emergence of emotional fortitude inside yourself. A reborn faith in optimism.
“The world is not against me. I only perceived it that way.” A deeper question of clarity forms, “If I am supported, what is possible now? What am I capable of now?”
Changing of the seasons
The aliveness returns. It was a journey. A process filled with learning.
“What did I learn in that journey?”
“How would I approach another struggle differently in the future?”
The season of change is inside me. My perception was formed in my thoughts. I didn’t see my choices available to me at the time.
I may encounter a struggle again, but I now know it can change like the seasons. With the change of seasons, I can adapt. I will survive. I get to make choices that nourish me, that lift my spirits.
I am not my struggle. I am not the suffering.
I can acknowledge and honor the thoughts of my struggle, but my intention is _________.
I AM ______.
A life struggle is a perception that invites a choice to redefine who I choose to be in the thoughts it creates.