From Breakdown to Breakthrough: Turn Struggles into Strength

 From the stage, I scanned the sea of incredible women before me, not a soul seated. Every one of them was a warrior in her own right. I invited them to look around the room to visually experience the magnitude of the strength and resilience that was stand­ing in the room. “Give yourself a round of applause ladies because you are still standing,” I said. In that moment, you could feel their energy shift from feeling ashamed of their trials to feeling empow­ered by their triumphs.

Just like these ladies, you have withstood the various storms of life and are still standing. Whether it be losing a loved one, struggling with addictions, toxic and abusive relationships, bankruptcy, severe health issues, or anything else, you have weathered the storm.

Your friends and family have, too. No one is exempt from stormy seasons. Yet every storm has something valuable to teach us — from strengthening our character, to learning what to avoid, to discover­ing helpful habits that support our fullest potential.

The Stormy Seasons of Your Life:

As you reflect on some of the stormy seasons of your life and the experiences you’ve weathered, and yet are still standing, what comes up for you? How have these storms strengthened your character? What qualities now shine as a result? What have you learned from them and how does that lesson serve you now? Lastly, how do you show up positively to support yourself and others differently?

You are stronger than you may be giving yourself credit for. If you shift the meaning you’ve given to the storms in your life so they represent how they have helped you, rather than how they have hurt you, those storms will em­power you.

Meaning-Making Machines:

Humans by nature are meaning-making machines. Something happens — good or bad — and boom, we assign meaning to it. Without knowing it, we are preprogrammed to see patterns and connections and to create explanations where there are gaps. This helps us make sense of life and our place within it.

There are various reasons we seek meaning in events. Assigning meaning helps regulate our emotions. It defines our role in a situation and impacts our self-concept, either providing reassur­ance and self-confidence or self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy.

When we identify as the hero in our storyline, we are resource­ful. Problem-solving, goal-pursuit, and adaptiveness become our strengths. Yet if we are the villain or victim in our story, then we fall into behaviors such as avoidance, rumination, and self-loathing.

This is why it’s so important to take ownership of your perceptions, challenge yourself, and find the gift in what you have been through. After all, you are the CEO of your life, and you get to dictate what the quality of your life looks and feels like.

The Frequency of Emotions:

Emotions have frequency just like radio waves. The higher the fre­quency, the more radiant you are. The lower the frequency, the deeper you fall in your zone of UN-potential. To simplify, emotions fall into one of two buckets — radiant emotions or zone of UN-potential emotions.

Feeling radiant emotions more often and regularly will make life more fulfilling. The more your emotions hang out in the zone of UN-potential, the greater the sense of dis­connection and frustration you will feel.

Here is a quick look at the two buckets of emotions and what each contains. The zone of UN-potential emotions ends with the lowest-frequency ones.

RADIANT EMOTIONS:

• Love
• Freedom
• Empowerment
• Joy
• Passion
• Faith / positive expectations
• Appreciation
• Enthusiasm/excitement
• Eagerness
• Happiness
• Courage
• Hopefulness
• Playfulness
• Resilience
• Contentment

ZONE OF UN-POTENTIAL EMOTIONS:

• Restlessness/boredom
• Frustration
• Anxiety/worry
• Doubt
• Discouragement
• Insecurity
• Indecision
• Blame
• Anger
• Grief
• Disconnection/depression
• Unworthiness
• Shame
• Guilt
• Fear

Are Your Emotions Serving You or Sabotaging You?:

The meaning we ascribe to events impacts our emotional charge, which affects everything we do. Our emotions can either serve us or sabotage us.

For example, if we constantly ruminate on a past experience, and more than half the time we are feeling low-frequency emotions in the zone of UN-potential, our low-level emotions could sabotage our future.

On the other hand, if we are chasing super big dreamy goals and we constantly envision an awesome future, we begin to embody radiant emotions. When we spend more than half our time in radiant emotions, especially the high-frequency ones, our emotions serve us. We unleash our potential and our life starts to unfold in the most beautiful and unexpected ways.

I have seen countless leaders, high performers, and lofty dreamers re­ceive the most remarkable outcomes and reach outlandish goals as a result of changing their meaning. When you embrace know­ing that your emotions impact your thoughts and energy, and that collectively these three elements — emotions, thoughts, and en­ergy — are responsible for shaping the quality of your life, you’ll feel empowered to change your life in the most magnificent ways.

Changing Your Meaning:

Meaning has the power to break us down and to build us up. If you find yourself in the lower subset of emotions, know that you can use this as an opportunity to power up your choices. You get to choose what experiences mean to you and what they say about you.

Changing the meaning you give to something can be a powerful way to shift your perspective and improve your overall life. Once you change your meaning to a more positive one, you will experience more higher-frequency emotions. When this happens consistently, life as well as the Universe supports you in the direc­tion of your potential. 

Practical Ways to Change Your Meaning:

Here are some practical ways to change your meaning:

• Practice reframing: When faced with a challenging situa­tion or negative thought, consciously reframe it in a more positive or empowering light.

  For example, instead of seeing failure as a setback, view it as an opportunity to learn and grow.

• Challenge negative beliefs: Identify any negative beliefs or assumptions you hold about yourself or the world around you and challenge them with evidence to the contrary. This can help you adopt a more balanced and realistic perspective.

• For example, if you think you aren’t smart enough, think of times when you used your smarts to achieve something or to help someone else.

• Seek alternative interpretations: When faced with a situation that you perceive negatively, consider alternative interpretations or explanations that may be more positive or neutral. This can help avoid jumping to conclusions and assuming the worst.

  For example, let’s say that your best friend didn’t call you back when they said they would, and you assumed you must have done something wrong. Instead, assume positive intent and be confident that your friendship is of value to both of you.

• Surround yourself with positivity: Surround yourself with positive influences, whether supportive friends and fam­ily, uplifting media, or inspiring books and podcasts. This can help reinforce positive beliefs and attitudes, making it easier to change the meaning you give to things.

• Seek professional help: If you’re struggling to change your meaning on your own, consider seeking support from a therapist or counselor. They can provide guidance and techniques tailored to your specific needs and challenges.

• Grab Your Gemstones: The meanings you assign to your experiences have a profound influence on the quality of your life. By consciously shifting and shaping this mean­ing, you have the power to transform past and present events into sources of empowerment and growth. Understanding the fre­quency of emotions and the role they play in shaping your reality is crucial, as higher-frequency emotions lead to a more fulfilled and happy life.

• Power Thought: I can turn my oh-no moments into ahas!

As you consider the role your emotions, thoughts, and en­ergy play in the quality of your life, you can choose at any time to change the meaning and change your life. 

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