World Wide Perspective: When we've gone through it
When we have gone to and through a lesson in life and come back out the other side, as in a death of a loved one, a divorce, another kind of a loss or even a loss of self-image, self-identification or an attachment of self-worth or self-esteem, we have the chance to find new ground and a new stand in life. We can walk on, taking that past experience with us, in terms of new growth and expansion, a certain sense of progress and greater development. However, what can also happen if we don't stay conscious and aware is that same pattern, set of habits, old programming or past conditioning can or might surface and put us right back into that age old idea of our self we thought we had left behind. So, the operative phrase to choose and use is, if we have gone through something, BE THROUGH WITH IT!! Take a hula hoop, the child's toy, for example. Say you played with one all your life. You are now growing up so you hardly use your old hula hoop now. ...