Recurring Challenges

Life has a way of presenting us with "themes" that can, and do, manifest in countless different ways. But regardless of how things change, these themes tend to follow us -- and influence us -- over large spans of our life; for some people, most of their life.

Now, one way to look at these themes -- and, really, the most common way -- is to simply dislike them and proclaim them as "yet another example of [enter bad/unwanted thing] happening." And, despite these proclamations, these things keep happening (they're themes after all...)

However, another -- much more insightful and useful -- way to look at these themes, is to view them as challenges that need to be addressed. So instead of dreading them, avoiding them, or trying to repress them, they're simply greeted as challenges: as messengers that need to teach you something about yourself; as growth that you need to experience.

The next time "that old situation" happens -- you know, the one that keeps happening over and over in some form or another -- instead of turning away from it, face it. You don't have to DO anything in the outer sense. This is 100% internal. See the theme for what it is -- it's a gift. Open it.

And then watch how you move beyond.