Cindy Strom gives advice for regaining balance and finding freedom within.
I once heard someone say, “We don’t have to trip over anything, but we could trip over everything.” This statement holds a great deal of wisdom. In particular, what we may trip over is unique to us at the time that we may trip but something that any of us may trip over at some point. Moreover, something I may trip over tomorrow may not trip me up today, but changes in circumstance, mood, or any number of variables can bring about a stumbling block. And, my stumbling blocks may not be your stumbling blocks.
Personal Stumbling Blocks
Because any potential stumbling block is a convergence of many variables, and those variables are not fixed, it suggests that they can be viewed as arbitrary. Once we understand they are arbitrary, something else opens up. And, that is, what meaning and power we ascribe to those events when we do stumble. The feelings that arise from any event causing us to lose our balance are equally as personal and unique to each of us. And, while those feelings may seem as though they have great power, we also understand that they are the effect of our own personal variables in play at the moment.
