Do We Need Suffering to Evolve?

Easing Your Life Path with Crystals

Recently I was pondering all the challenges I’ve experienced over the past few years, and how much they’ve forced to me grow and evolve as a result.

Currently I’m going through another shift, and I thought:

“It’s too bad I couldn’t go through this while there was greater peace and prosperity in the land. But I guess if things had always gone smoothly, I wouldn’t have grown.”

But then I heard a voice inside me say, “…but is that true?”

And I had a realization: Having to go through challenges or hardships to evolve is a belief many of us hold, but that doesn’t necessarily make it true.

Why does it have to be hard?

Why is suffering required?

Why is it “no pain, no gain”?

Is it because that makes us worthy of it? If so, then that means there’s an inherent belief that we’re not worthy – that the hard work makes us worthy. And yet, we are taught by spiritual teachers and light beings that we are already inherently worthy.

So, where’s the disconnect?

I grew up in a household where if you didn’t work hard for it, you didn’t earn it, and therefore were not deserving of it. If you feel into the frequency of that belief, how does it feel to you?

It feels oppressive to me, and draining.

It is entirely possible that if things had gone smoothly over the span of my career that I would have evolved into the place I am in now, and that my work still would have continued to deepen into the spirit medicine of crystals.

No challenges or hardships necessary.

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“What I am learning is that this disconnect is reinforced by resistance.”

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What I am learning is that this disconnect is reinforced by resistance: We resist listening to our truth, our intuition, and our soul desires. We ignore the positive signs or support we get from Spirit, and so we come out of synchronistic flow with the Universe.

We force ourselves to swim upstream, rather than going with the flow.

I am beginning to appreciate more and more how essential it is for me to be in the listening: Listening to my soul, my truth, and the spirits who are divinely appointed to guide me.

The quieter I become inside, and the more I listen to what arises within, the more I feel aligned with my true path and the positive synchronicities of the Universe.

I am now committed to creating space for this silence daily. And you can too, if this has struck a chord.

I know life is very stressful right now, but I’m here to gently remind you that you do not need to be a monk on a mountaintop to do this. There are clever ways in which you can find this time to drop within, go quiet, and listen. 

Suggestions for Finding Time to Get Quiet and Go Within:

• On your daily walk or commute

• While washing dishes

• In the bath or shower

• When you first wake or before you go to sleep

• A few minutes in your car in the parking lot (or traffic jam, sigh…)

• Before or after you eat

Coming out of the resistance and listening to your guidance is a practice. Doing this work with one of the following crystals can help you ease into it and hear more clearly.

Crystals for Coming out of Resistance and Listening to your Guidance:

Black tourmaline — cuts out the noise, helps you centre)

Sodalite — the “into-me-see” crystal, helps with inner insight)

Blue fluorite — focuses the mind on your practice or intention

Indigo gabbro (aka. mystic merlinite) — gathers you into yourself and opens you to Universal guidance

Rhodonite — helps ground you in your heart’s truth

Citrine (natural or smoky) — awakens you to your inner knowing

The more you make a practice of holding a resonant crystal, sinking into your inner quiet, and deeply listening, the more you’ll start to notice a shift.

Remember that our realities are first created inward and then pattern outward. The more you make an internal shift in consciousness, the more your life and world will inevitably change.

xoxo

PS. I have quests (short crystal courses) in my online Istaria Crystallis® Mystery School that can help you cultivate inner quiet and open you to your higher guidance.