How Life’s Daily Challenges Can Actually Be Gifts in Disguise
âSmile at your patterns.â ~Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Partway through Eckhart Tolleâs Conscious Manifestation course, I furiously jotted down his teachings about challenges and obstacles to remind myself that theyâre not only a normal part of the human experience but necessary for spiritual growth. âYes!!!!â I wrote in agreement.
When faced with difficulty, the human tendency is to react and resist, and when we do this, we add suffering to an already difficult situation. This tendency is reflexive within me, and my mindfulness practice has enabled me to either observe the cascading habit pattern as it unfolds, which disentangles me from its