“Why the hell am I going through this right now”
“Life Sucks”
Imagine this life as boot camp — A place to learn valuable lessons. Forget about textbooks and theory, you’re going to get the raw unadulterated as-real-as-it-gets version of spiritual growth until your final breath.
Your journey in this life is not about fame or roses thrown at your feet — Whether you see life as a spiritual journey, a personal challenge, or something else entirely, it’s a place to grow through what you face. This is a training ground where you will have boots on the ground, arms in the air, and tears and sweat dripping down. You’ll lose loved ones, possibly your possessions and even your health,
but you will always have a choice: will you lose your faith?
How many times have you tried to escape where you’re at or what you’re feeling? That gnawing, painful, raw feeling that seems to echo through your bones.
Did you ever consider, “What lesson am I trying to learn”?
In keeping with the mindset:
You are EXACTLY where you need to be right now
Stop Resisting and Start Receiving
In the trenches, no one wants to hear spiritual fluff, but that’s the exact time you have to ground yourself and understand that every interaction on this earth, every person you meet, every cloud that passes over you is no accident. There is an ingenious orchestration that is so far beyond what your mind can comprehend.
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” — Dr. Wayne Dyer
Rather than wallow in your own sadness that the promotion didn’t come through, or that a relationship ended, remember that you are EXACTLY where you need to be right now. The time you spend resisting is the time you could be spending curating, cultivating, understanding, accepting, growing, and feeling.
Put the left brain and ego aside — its purpose is to navigate the physical world — but it likes to think otherwise.
Think of it this way: if we keep repeating the same mistakes, life will keep repeating the same lessons — and that’s no accident. Once we truly learn the lesson, a new one takes its place. This cycle continues for as long as we’re in the physical body.
The Left Brain Can’t Lead You to God
Dr Jill Bolte Taylor stated that, over time, the left brain subjugated the right brain to more of a subconscious role. More-so, Dr Taylor, a famous neuroanatomist who experienced a stroke in her left brain reveals that:
The left hemisphere is responsible for linear thinking, language, analysis, categorization, and most notably, the ego and sense of identity. It’s where your inner critic lives, and it’s obsessed with past/future, comparison, and control.
The right hemisphere is more about present-moment awareness, connection, intuition, spiritual experience, creativity, and empathy. It’s the part that perceives wholeness and unity.
In her later work, Dr. Taylor discusses how — over time — the left hemisphere became dominant in modern human society, to the point of suppressing or marginalizing the more holistic, present-moment, emotionally resonant nature of the right brain. This wasn’t a biological feat, but more a cultural and evolutionary drift toward prioritizing certain cognitive functions that aided in survival, productivity, and civilization-building.
Turn Pain into a Lesson and Portal
A recent moment with a close friend hurt deeply. But when I stepped back, I realized: it needed to happen. Beneath the discomfort was a deeper unfolding — for both of us. Pain often wears the disguise of heartbreak and anxiety — it’s not the enemy, it’s the doorway to something new. Suffering isn’t a stigma — It’s a signal.
As I shared in a previous article How Suffering Can Actually Be Your Doorway To Wisdom and Peace, we often mistake suffering as a punishment rather than a lesson and means for growth.
Life is how we frame the experience, not how others or we judge it.
It’s all about Intent
Finally, your soul grows from intent and not from outcome.
The thoughts and decisions you make create a frequency your soul resonates with — one that lingers long after the moment has passed, leaving behind an energetic footprint, or what some may call karma.
When we make a thought, no matter what the action is masqueraded in, the energy of that thought will play out and affect your entire spirit body and pave a road and path moving forward.
We are Not Accidents
We are here to learn lessons and our time on this earth is no accident.
Every challenge on this earth is meant to teach us a lesson — There is something in you that only this earth can reveal
So WHY are YOU Here?
The next time you ask yourself why you’re going through something, think of this:
- What lesson am I learning from this?
- What did/didn’t I do that created this situation
- Reframe it as a place of love and not punishment
- Understand that your human existence happened for a reason — because there is something only you can bring to light in this world.
Our creator wants us to grow not only in our love of others, but in our love of ourselves. Understanding that will help us to be keenly aware of the “why” and help us to get back on our path.
Take a moment — breathe.
What might life be trying to show you through this moment, not despite it?
In love, clarity, and contemplation,
Paul — Divine Light Path
