Dearest Readers,<\/p>\n
Don’t you love it when you’re given the opportunity to see something old in a whole new way? It’s as though a crack appears in the space around you and a pair of hands reaches through and pries open your surroundings. The next thing you know you’re standing in a new place where everything looks the same.<\/p>\n
You’ve arrived in a new realm of understanding.<\/p>\n
Last night I spent the evening with a woman who is currently struggling with some pretty heavy issues. She’d reached her breaking point and the dam had burst. She was crying and I was bearing witness to her grief. She told me this emotional pressure had been building for a while but she hadn’t really been aware of it.<\/p>\n
Having experienced numerous situations such as this I said, “It’s good to have a mini-nervous-breakdown every so often.”<\/p>\n
“No,” she said. “It’s not a breakdown. It’s a break through<\/em>.”<\/p>\n This is where that crack appeared in the space around me and I was suddenly transformed. For years now I’ve been calling these times when I’ve had to lose it “mini-nervous-breakdowns.” And yet every single episode has brought me relief and some kind personal growth.<\/p>\n I’ve been giving myself the short shrift!<\/p>\n Admittedly, the “breakdown” moniker was somewhat facetious, a little joke to ease the seriousness of the situation, but it also framed the grief in a rather negative way. Why not see the glass half full?<\/p>\n The dictionary on this computer defines “breakthrough” in this way: “A significant\u00a0and dramatic overcoming of a perceived obstacle, allowing\u00a0the completion of a process.”<\/p>\n I love this! The obstacle is perceived,<\/em> which means “to become aware of” and the process is allowed to be completed by the breakthrough itself. How great is that?<\/p>\n Having looked at something in one way for so long this new perception feels monumental. And yet it’s also kind of “duh”. Like, of course<\/em>.<\/p>\n Amazing what one little word can do, isn’t it? From down to through. That’s a pretty good Direction to follow.<\/p>\n Inspiring Message of the Day:<\/strong><\/em> What emotional process am I currently negotiating these days? What obstacle is in my way? I will ask for the ability to perceive the obstacle so that I may experience a breakthrough, allowing for the completion of this particular stage in my Journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dearest Readers, Don’t you love it when you’re given the opportunity to see something old in a whole new way? It’s as though a crack appears in the space around you and a pair of hands reaches through and pries open your surroundings. The next thing you know you’re standing in a new place where…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[507,506,508,325,817,509,510,464],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-breakdown","tag-breakthrough","tag-in-the-process","tag-inspiring-message-of-the-day","tag-motivation","tag-obstacles","tag-rabbit-hole","tag-shift-in-perception"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}