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Finding meaning in suffering.

We all suffer in this life, to greater or lesser degrees. What if instead of allowing that suffering to weigh us down, we can transmute it for a higher purpose?

What if we can view the pain and trauma we’ve struggled with through a different lens?

What if we can allow these negative experiences in our past, not to hold us back any longer, but rather see them as times that strengthened us.

Now past experiences can truly be horrible and hard to even acknowledge or process for many, but the truth is, if you’re reading this you’ve survived the past.

All the suffering we’ve been through and we’re still here. So we now have a choice, what do we do with this moment we’re currently in?

No matter how much we dwell on the past, we still can’t change it. But we can work to process it. We can change how we decide to perceive it.

If we had perfect lives, how could we appreciate anything? If our life had been easy how could we have become strong? Strength grows through resistance.

An overly easy and painless life is not a blessing, it can actually be a curse. The soul doesn’t get opportunities for growth and expansion, when we face pain, we see what we’re made of and understand that we are capable and resilient.

A good example of this phenomenon is the kids who grow up in very wealthy families. Often many of them feel purposeless and fall into addiction, always consuming and never satisfied. The soul is searching for meaning.

When we’re struggling it will be something to look back on when we’re in a better state, we will be grateful that we got through those times and made it through to the other side.

We can let the suffering we’ve been through help us to gain perspective in the good times, and we’ll feel deeply grateful to be in the light after facing the dark.

It’s not easy, but maybe it’s not meant to be. I still struggle with certain things daily. But it’s a process and as long as we keep going, we will make it through.

Do you believe it’s possible, to shift to the perspective of having gratitude for what our suffering has taught us about ourselves?