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How to Deal with the “Old” Stuff That Continues to Rise to the Surface
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.” Pema Chodron
I like to call the complex of our personal beliefs, soul-level mindsets, patterns of behavior, emotional anchors on past experiences, and anything else we’re looking to let go of “stuff.”
We’re all on this journey of growing our awareness of, and releasing, this stuff. That’s why we do all the things we do for ourselves that support our personal growth. We might think that’s what we’re on this planet for, to address this stuff.
I was recently bouncing pretty hard on some of the stuff that has continued to re-appear in my life over the years. You know, the stuff that I thought I was done with. The stuff that I had worked on, sweated over, cried about, and ultimately thought I had left behind.
It was incredibly frustrating. It was like all of me was yelling, “This again? I’ve already worked on this! I want to be done with it!”
Sound familiar?
I realized I needed to get a handle not so much on what was coming up, but on my reaction to the idea that certain stuff was coming up AGAIN.
In considering this, I’ve realized that many of us have a habit of comparing and contrasting – to other people, to what we read about or see in the media, or to how we were in the past. This is part of the Western mindset, this constant sort of competition and assessment based on what is going on around us.
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Source: http://www.riseearth.com/2014/02/how-to-deal-with-old-stuff-that.html
