The Purpose of Obstacles
Obstacles that occur along our life path might not be the best part of our journey, but they are necessary and purposeful for our spiritual growth and expansion on a soul level. If you resonate with being a cycle breaker, you’ve likely encountered more than your fair share of obstacles in life. It might seem like your entire life has been a series of difficult circumstances you’ve had to endure and overcome. This is because your mission in this lifetime is greater than any of your other lifetimes. We’ve all had lifetimes where things come easily to us, or we’re born into a situation where the path of least resistance presents itself readily. If you’re a cycle breaker this time around, that’s not the point of your current lifetime. As cycle breakers, we still get to enjoy life and have things work out for us, but we must wait until we’ve achieved an inner state of balance on our healing journey.
Your higher self and your spirit guides are prioritizing your healing over your comfort, and they are very strategic when it comes to preparing you for every test you must face in order to break these cycles for good. If your guides kept you comfortable every step of the way, you would never have cause or motivation to achieve this feat. Breaking out of inherited patterns would be an impossible task if the universe made your life any easier. Comfort zones are the biggest distractions we’re faced with because they give us the illusion of safety and control. Once you can give yourself that sense of safety regardless of your external experience, you realize that you never had control and thus you never really needed it. True security comes from within, and it becomes strongest when you accept uncertainty and its role in the human experience.
The fear of uncertainty is the driving force behind many of our decisions in life, and we must find a way to move past this obstacle in order to live in alignment with our higher guidance and path. The advice that I receive for clients from spirit guides on a daily basis is often focused on taking the leap even when you can’t see the bottom. Our guides want us to surrender control and trust them completely because they can see our path and life from a higher vantage point. They can see everything that seems uncertain to us, and they know our capacity for growth. They will push us to the brink in order to facilitate the work that must be done, and they know that we’re capable of rising to the occasion. When we plead with them over our circumstances and fear that they will remain the same, they tell us to trust and keep going because they can see the next breakthrough up ahead.
Our guides require us to complete our healing work because they know we can do it even when we still have doubts about our abilities. They know the goals we set out to accomplish in this lifetime, and they won’t let us give up before we cross the finish line. Unfortunately, life as a cycle breaker looks like one finish line after the next until our work is complete. As we work to break karmic cycles, we often uncover the next layer of work to be done. The beautiful part of this process is that we no longer have to repeat the old cycles that kept us stuck. After we break any given cycle, we’re free from that pattern moving forward. Once you master one aspect of this work, it then becomes a tool that helps you overcome your next obstacle.
Your progress will compound as you dive deeper into this work, and you’ll continue to grow stronger and more powerful over time. This is how we allow true change to occur in our lives. Change requires a catalyst because if things were calm and steady constantly, we would have no incentive to grow. Obstacles occur to give us a chance to use our skills and strengths to become the greatest possible version of ourselves. This isn’t to say that you’re not good enough. We are all intrinsically valuable no matter what our life purpose might be in any given lifetime or the amount of work we’ve put into ourselves. The cycle breaking journey is about fine-tuning yourself to achieve miraculous feats that would be otherwise impossible.
You chose this path because your higher self was determined to break free of these emotional patterns once and for all. Your life has been like running a gauntlet that was built for you based on your fears and doubts, and you have the extraordinary gift of being able to persevere regardless of the terrible things that have happened to you. That’s how you really win in life. You heal your trauma, and you get to enjoy another day in this beautiful messy world without carrying the pain of your ancestors with every step. You deserve the chapter that comes directly after a seemingly endless struggle, and you arrive there by not giving up along the way. Keep going, it will be worth it in the end.