Inner Vision: She'll Be Comin' Round The Mountain

Now that we’ve opened our eyes to the everyday situations that stir our spiritual roots, it’s up to us to maintain our connection to that Higher Self. It’s not that the connection fades, nor does our awareness, but it does get diverted if we let it. If we’d let ourselves believe and trust in our own power—that would be an easy thing. But, alas, we remain human on this plane, and humans aren’t too in tune with easy. Easy money, yes. Ease with ourselves, no.

You’ve turned on a waterfall of knowledge that is as peaceful as it is powerful. It may not be gushing at full-speed yet, but once the flow has begun there’s virtually no stopping it. You’ve entered a place of knowing that is absolutely natural but it may feel foreign, and you may feel like a stranger to the you that was once before. Just when you think you get there, you’ll discover that the destination is the journey. Just when you’ve given up on all this “metaphysical crap,” something in your life takes a grand turn and you’re back on the train.

This Ourobourous effect—a funky, fancy name for a circular dynamic that is both beginning and end—is the nature of our learning process. We are constantly creating and recreating ourselves as we see more clearly with our inner vision, and it is in this ability to adapt our perceptions to what is the true reality that we find the stability of inner peace. Huh?

Look at it like this—if you can handle just a little more imagery: The journey of self-discovery is like climbing a mountain. It can be daunting, difficult terrain to climb if you attempt it with an attitude of getting to the top as quickly as possible. No thought to whether that’s the best way to get there, just sheer determination to get through it, to complete the task, to say you’ve mastered it. (Hah!) The dangers of attempting a 90-degree slope are self-evident, but that rarely stops anyone until they hit the valley floor a couple of times.

If you stop and look for a moment before you try defying gravity, you’ll see a circular pattern to the slope. You’ll see a better way to navigate it. You’ll notice each time you come around to what seems to be the same point that it’s actually a bit different than it was before—and that leads you to a new and exciting place.

You’ll also notice that each time you attempt it, you reach a higher point than you did last time.

This is how life lessons work. We are presented with situations that are key to our specific learning, our specific journey. At first we may not recognize them, and we may not handle them so well. If we don’t successfully navigate those situations, fear not—they come right back ’round again and again, until we figure them out. They may not always look exactly the same, but you’ll recognize them because they feel the same.

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When was the last time you said to yourself, or heard someone else say: “Why does this always happen to me?” Now you have the answer to that question.

This is often thought to be a negative thing, but it need not be. No one wants to repeat the third grade, but if it means the difference between learning to read and write and being illiterate for the rest of your life, which would you choose? Another easy answer, yes?

That’s the point: You have the choice. We all do. We can either choose to look at each situation in a new light to see why we’re attracting it, why it’s being presented; or we can just slough it off as bad luck or blame it on someone else—and then continue to wind up back where we started. Don’t worry, though. Even if it looks like we’re right back where we started, we’re still starting from a new place. That means we’ll have the opportunity to get it right the next time.

Of course, “getting it right” means being able to see it comin’. And the only way to see it comin’ is by getting right. Don’t you just love cosmic jokes?

Looking forward,

Lisa V.