Crossroads of life

All of us go through challenging times in our life – times where we feel burned out and depleted; times we face the grief of unbearable loss through death, divorce, or illness; times we just feel dead ourselves as we move by rote - empty of connection, clarity, direction or self love.

Our times of greatest life challenge and confusion put us smack dab in the middle of a crossroad. And there we stand: looking to the left; looking to the right; looking back from where we have come; and looking ahead at the life stretching out before us if we continue down that same path from which we have just come and that has led to this crossroad.

Crossroads are not an easy place to stand (or to sit …or to lie face down in the dirt, for that matter!). We know we must move in some direction, yet feel utterly confused, fearful, and wrapped in circular mind games as to which is the “right direction” to take!

Making “the right choice” and “taking the right path” becomes a mind-tyrant keeping us stuck in the middle, tormented by our own inner battle of

Head       vs    heart;

Ego         vs    soul;

Freedom vs    responsibility;

Love       vs.    justice;

Right      vs     wrong. …And who the hell knows which is which anyway! – and on and on and on...

A crossroad is a place that demands some direction be taken if you are to continue to thrive. That, or give up and stay stuck right where you are. And even staying stuck where you are is a place of sorts – just a very self-torturing, life-denying place. Staying stuck is not truly sustainable forever, although many of us stay stuck for months and years and even decades – especially around the areas of our deepest wounds, insecurities, self doubts, and fears. Even the longest stuck has a healing breakthrough waiting to be seeing, if only we knew how to find it.

These stuck places that mirror our deepest life wounds, our secret innermost fears, and our greatest personal insecurities, have (within them) a reflection to our self-love, inner healing, and awakened spiritual path!

Believe it or not, these self-doubting and confusing stuck places in our life that we call crossroads are exactly the places that present a doorway to the perceptual breakthrough that is necessary for true healing, self-realization, and spiritual awakening.

It is at the crossroads of life that we are offered life’s greatest gift-the pathway to our soul’s own genius and authentic nature.