How do you climb a mountain? Step by step.

How do you climb a mountain? Step by step.  Life is a spiral of understanding.  For much of the time we seem to be facing a blank wall of ‘nothing changes’, making no progress, unable to see a way ahead.  Then after another step or two we are facing out into the space of freedom, a vista of raw possibility and expansion. 

As we progress we recognise the stone wall for what it is, a brief interlude, our fears returning to haunt us, our lack of confidence trying to stare us down. And as we climb the stairs, and gaze outwards, every view of the landscape becomes more familiar, more attainable, more ‘a well-trodden path’; than ‘over our heads’.  We gain a different perspective.  We look back on where we’ve been and how far we have come.  We see that each time we complete a 360 degree circuit we are climbing and have gained self-knowledge, new wisdom, tolerance and compassion. 

We don’t look up to see how far we have yet to go as that would make us unbalanced.  But looking back at the distance we’ve come, we rejoice and acknowledge that we have travelled the very path we were born to tread.

Fears, loss of confidence, self-blame: flower remedies such as Mimulus, Larch, Chestnut Bud and Pine can help with these, giving us the impetus to climb yet another step on our journey to self-discovery, an upward trajectory to a world of infinite potential.

 

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