“Tapping into the potential of your spirit is what enables us to manifest miracles.” ~ Deepak Chopra
Tapping the resiliency of the human spirit makes it possible to not only endure hardship, suffering, or difficulty, but also to use the challenging situation for spiritual growth. It allows us to transcend and transform the most devastating circumstances in our lives. Spiritual resilience is seeing the silver lining in all of life’s challenges no matter how painful they may be. It is the lift of our spirit that gives us the ability to see our lives from a broader, more expanded point of view. This lets us rise above whatever is happening in our lives with clarity, constancy, and compassion.
Spirit is our natural state of being even if as adults we no longer experience its essence in our everyday lives. As young children, we clearly trusted this ability to transcend our physical circumstances, never doubting our innate power to handle or lift out of any situation. Even if we didn’t understand how spirit lifted us, we knew this truth through our open hearts, regardless of our circumstances. Open and optimistic, we had not yet acquired the adult mindsets and beliefs that would erode a sense of absolute trust that we could rise above any difficult situation.
When we tap into our spiritual resilience, it’s important that we accept any situation no matter how uncomfortable, difficult, or painful as an opportunity for personal transformation. We can trust that with every big setback comes with it even bigger transformation. For instance, as I was preparing for a radio interview, my host had asked me to share my personal journey and any traumatic events that had shaped my life. Reflecting on her question, I noted all difficult and painful situations or issues that I had experienced. After checking every box on a list of life’s most stressful events, I realized how resilient the human spirit could be. It wasn’t easy losing my mother early in life to drug use, experiencing physical neglect and sexual abuse, or being in the wake of my stepmother’s mental illness. Why was my experience different from others who had been crippled or left devastated by such events? I realized it was my spiritual resiliency. Like a periscope, I had lifted up and out of the human process and recognized my human experiences as stepping stones to my personal transformation. Each one showed me how to trust myself and my connection to a divine source and to know that I would be OK no matter what it looked like at the time.
Spirit has always been my closest companion. I remember the day that I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Until this point, I usually bounced quickly incorporating the information I had gleaned from such challenges as divorce, single parenting, and trying to locate my long lost mother. As a woman, healer, mother, and partner, the vulnerability of breast cancer had rocked my world more than anything I had ever experienced before. Like the resuscitation paddles that jump starts our heart back to life, this vulnerability jolted my heart bringing me out of the comfy cozy world I had created. It had turned me upside down and inside out; yet, I knew that here was the spiritual journey, the path of transformation being set out in front of me.
Through tapping the resiliency of spirit, we see that we are the miracle of creation. We trust that we can manifest beyond whatever has been before, override what is predictable or let go of what’s expected. We can create anew. As I realized through this experience, it is not only possible but probable that I could raise my energy level to the vibration of love where miracles occur. First, it took being accountable for my thoughts, emotions, and choices. Making this shift from reaction to responsibility was exhausting physically, emotionally, and spiritually. It took focused awareness to capture the negative thoughts, feelings, and patterns that I engaged in every day and then shift them to positive, loving, and healing ones. Most importantly, this initiated an energetic transformation which then catalyzed all the physical resources I needed for the healing of my mind and body.
We tend to shy away from applying the word miracle toward ourselves. However, this only diminishes the inner power that we source through us. Recognizing that I was the miracle of creation and had the power within me to manifest other miracles unleashed the force of light and love on an illness that was trying to set up residence in my body. I had to leap-frog any limits to my healing, such as preconceived thoughts or other people’s belief systems. I directed my energy through my heart and surrounded every cell in my body with it. Like the light streams in the movie, Ghost Busters, I channeled this powerful energy with the intention to dissolve any energy blocks. Standing in my own light, I moved beyond any predetermined cause and effect result and into a new sense of power and creation.
Almost ten years after having been diagnosed with breast cancer, I am reminded daily that we can make discerning choices that invite a series of miracles. Such choices that invite miracles are those that dramatically alter our life’s perspective, open us to transformation, and manifest something beyond what we ever thought possible. They are initiated by our intention and cocreated with our source. These choices take us outside our bodies, beyond thought, belief, and any physical conditions or limitations. Sometimes they make some of our closest family and friends panic, even question our sanity. Yet, we have to listen to our own hearts, even if it means displeasing people we love or powerful authority figures. When we have the confidence to trust our power and make these choices, we transform our thoughts, bodies, and ultimately invite in miracles. Live resiliently as though everything is a miracle.
