When Stability Crumbles: What Karmic Cycles Teach Us About Change
As I reflect on this major life change, I can’t help but be proud of myself for how I’m addressing the karmic cycles that are shaping my spiritual growth. It’s been forcing my boyfriend and I to find stability within uncertainty - never an easy or natural feat. As I am adjusting to my boyfriend’s life changing news, I am seeing the trajectory change actively and progressively every single day. It’s the kind of news that I would rather keep to myself for right now but I’m excited to get into the wisdom gained from it so far.
Whenever there is something that throws a wrench in my plans, I always form a guiding question that helps me to immerse myself in the transformation. It helps me to stay grounded and focused on what I’m here to learn from the experience in front of me. This time, the common question I keep falling back on is: what does it mean to feel stable and secure in the midst of change?
I trust that by the time I’ve overcome this life change, I will have deeper insights into what it means to feel stable during uncertainty and continue embracing my soul evolution.
What Happens When a Karmic Cycle Ends? Lessons in Change and Spiritual Growth
As I’ve been going through this life change, I’ve been reflecting on how the shifts we experience mirror karmic growth and the lessons we’re here to learn.
I’ve come to see that when life pulls us away from what we thought we wanted, it’s often making space for what we truly need. Even if it feels like life is crumbling before your very eyes. Here are some more specific insights that I’ve learned so far that have helped me to accept what I cannot control:
If your job doesn’t really provide a sincere sense of vitality and enthusiasm, then it doesn’t encourage you to step up into a leadership position.. By undergoing a job loss or a re-route in your professional career, you can rise up and contribute in a new and meaningful way
Perhaps your outlook is limited and attached to a false sense of security; and maybe the attachment limits you to stay in the confines of what is offered or made available for you. This would reflect as a narrow view of what is truly possible and leaves no opportunity to imagine something better. You are then bounded by something that does not meet your personal values BUT when you lose something that once felt stable… this change can open your eyes and can show you what you actually want but never realized.
Who you were when you began a job or a relationship or sought a specific environment, revealed new information about who you are and what you want from life or for yourself. In the beginning, we may only have one goal in mind but along the way we never formed a solid foundation for the goal to be sustainable and life-enriching. So then we are given the opportunity to rebuild and redirect our foundational focus so that we can implement all of our life lessons.
However…. even if I gathered these “earth shattering” insights, it would not stop the pain, discomfort and uncertainty that life oftentimes brings. I could simply find a way to trust that this change is healthy for my soul evolution. I can also easily recognize that this life change is crafting and sculpting my union with Justin moving forward - as well as bringing new light into my personal healing. I can conclude here that there is so much goodness and a wealth of knowledge that I am receiving.
Yet… this does not stop my anxiety from flying off the roof.
How Karmic Cycles Challenge Stability and Lead to Transformation
As I was continuingly trying to accept and normalize my experience, I began to redefine what karmic cycle means for me… I defined it as a singular or series of events that shake up and reveal what’s lacking in our foundation of who we are and what we want or need. I see it as the set of evolutionary experiences that will impact us (and our human identity) the most so that we can do and be better in a more holistic and compassionate way.
It leads me to thinking that we are meant to gain insight through a mass destruction of events, if only to show us the love we require AND the challenges we have in acquiring what we truly deserve. And maybe this life change is so drastic that we cannot even know what is best for us anymore… everything we thought we knew, everything we once identified with, is gone. And in the midst of despair, all we care about is the way to retrieve relief from the heart-ache and pain.
It would challenge us to show up in ways that have never happened before so that we can really re-imagine or re-think the direction of our lives and what we can bring forward. In some cases, like me, we won’t even know how to articulate our thoughts or feelings. We won’t know how to be present with the distress of change. And the goal is to somehow arrive in a place of neutrality without numbing or distracting ourselves in an unhealthy format.
It’s providing ourselves with grace and understanding that we will overcome and reclaim what’s right for us in layers. It’s knowing that you are not alone and that if others have overcome and creatively found a way to make it through… there is hope, even if you refuse to subscribe to this way of thinking… after all, just because they are on the other side of the battle doesn’t always make it “easier.”
To dig into this further… the way grief shows up in catastrophic ways is quite universal:
A job/financial loss (even if it opens up opportunities for a new vision, our sense of security in mind/body/spirit is threatened)
A divorce (even if it’s a good thing to re-establish a stronger relationship elsewhere, we are still letting go of our mistakes and learning to trust in our new choices in who we are and what is best)
A loss of a loved one (even if it opens up a spiritual awakening or seeking meaning in new ways, we are learning to detach from a role and responsibility assigned by that person; we are also understanding the love or pain that we experienced from/with them that is now feeling absent in our lives moving forward.)
This by no means is an exhaustive list. What I really want to point out as I conclude this post is that these life upheavels all focus on stability and where we can develop more resiliency during distress. Seeing how distress can be groundbreaking and act as a catalyst of long-lasting transformation. It can be an initiation to transform and mutate so that we can examine our survival skills and find our way to a more neutral position.
I love journaling and breaking down insights. It always keeps me very busy in my spare time. I tend to see it as a very innate and instinctive part of myself. My only hope is that this article brings something into your inner world, too.
If you are going through some deep, complicated or confusing things in life, and it’s hard to process, please feel free to reach out. Nothing is ever “too deep” or “too much” to process together. I am currently offering a free 5-day experience that is aimed to help you process any life change or circumstance.
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Until next time…
Take care of yourself, be good to yourself, and I’ll see you on my next blog :)
