The obstacle is my launchpad?
What?
That sounds a little counterintuitive at first.
But I want to invite you to sit with that question and ponder it a bit.
It's good food for thought.
We all have desires.
We all have things we'd like to experience,
Achieve,
Have in this world.
But we almost always tend to encounter something that stands between us and that desire.
For many people,
We never get around that obstacle.
We feel like maybe a victim of the obstacle.
Or we just scratch our heads and throw up our hands in frustration and disgust and give up.
But really what I'd like to share with you today is quite often that seeming obstacle isn't really there to limit us.
It's there to help us get ready for the desire that we have.
It's there to be a wise teacher and definitely even a launchpad towards our desires.
And sometimes it's there to show us,
Oh,
This thing you think you desire isn't really what you want.
There's something better you're meant to have.
I'd love to share some example with you from my work as a coach.
One common one that I think a lot of us have seen before or can relate to is the desire for a romantic partner.
A lot of times if someone really would like a romantic partner,
They find challenge,
Difficulty,
Frustration in finding a suitable,
Viable match.
For some,
That obstacle might be,
Oh,
I put myself out there,
I'm on dating apps and no one pays any attention to me.
For others,
It might be,
Oh,
I keep dating the same kind of toxic person over and over and over again.
Let's take those one at a time.
The one who habitually dates the toxic person,
The obstacle might seem like,
I just attract toxic people.
But really,
It's more that the repetitive toxic people are there to teach some wisdom,
Something that needs to change within the one who keeps dating the toxic people.
It might be a codependency pattern,
It might be a people-pleasing pattern,
Something that needs to be resolved.
For the one who's not seeming to get any attention,
It might be just a need to learn to love and value and honor just how amazing the self is.
All the gifts,
The goodness.
It might really be about simply undervaluing oneself.
I want to help you start this journey,
This process of changing your relationship with what seems like an obstacle in your life,
So that you can start to see it as a wise teacher,
A doorway,
Even a launch pad towards what you truly desire.
For this meditation,
I invite you to sit somewhere comfortably,
Preferably sitting upright,
Reaching the crown of your head up towards the sky,
Rooting your tailbone down towards the earth,
Keeping the spine nice and long.
I invite you to join me in a reset breath.
The next time you inhale,
Breathe into the belly,
Shrug the shoulders up towards the ears,
And a big sigh out the mouth as you release the shoulder blades down the back,
And a little bit closer together behind your heart,
Opening the heart,
The chest,
The ribcage.
Let's do that one more time.
A deep breath in to the belly,
Shrugging the shoulders up towards the ears,
And an exhale,
Releasing the shoulder blades down the back.
If your eyes are not closed already,
I invite you to close your eyes.
And for this short meditation,
I am going to invite your ego to go take a break somewhere else for a bit.
I'm going to invite your logic to go take a short little nap.
For the duration of this meditation,
It is the very wise higher self that is speaking to your conscious awareness.
We all have many desires,
Sometimes simultaneously many desires,
That we'd like to experience or have or achieve.
For this meditation,
I am going to ask that your higher self bring to your awareness one desire that you've yet to attain.
And then once you have that desire in mind,
I'm going to ask that your higher self help you to see the obstacle,
The thing that seems to be in the way between where you are now and having that desire fulfilled.
Take a moment to sit with that and feel what that is.
And rather than feeling eternal frustration or throwing up our hands in resignation,
I invite you to,
With the guidance of your higher self,
Start to feel some of the wisdom,
The guidance,
The messages that are coming through this obstacle teacher.
Just take a moment to sit with and feel what's something that this obstacle teacher is here to point out,
To highlight,
To show you that needs healing,
Shifting mindset change.
Take a moment to feel that.
And then one last question for your higher self and from this obstacle teacher.
What is a practical way you can apply some of this knowledge,
Something you can do from this knowledge,
This understanding that comes through this obstacle teacher so that it starts to shift and change?
When you are ready,
I invite you to open your eyes.
This meditation isn't necessarily a silver bullet that's just going to clear the challenge out of the way.
But what it is rather is an opportunity to shift your mindset from seeing the obstacle as this insurmountable frustration,
Instead to see it as a wise teacher that's pointing you to something that you do have power over.
You have the power to work on healing within.
You have the power to change your mindset.
You have the power to make lifestyle and health changes.
I also want to invite you to take some time to write about any of the insights that came up and to definitely spend some more time in reflection and meditation on this very topic.
Because the more you dive into this,
The more it's no longer an obstacle,
But a launch pad towards what you truly desire.
Thank you for joining me and I look forward to seeing you in another meditation soon.
