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InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration
June 20, 2024
The focus for today is:
There is a good chance that the challenges and crises I face
will wake me up and transform me.
Today's inspiration was written by Steve Taylor:
In the midst of intense suffering, an amazing transformation can occur. It sometimes happens to soldiers on a battlefield, to the inmates of prison camps who are on the verge of starvation, to people who have been through periods of severe addiction, depression, bereavement, and so on.
I call this phenomenon “transformation through turmoil” (or TTT, for short). The awakenings are extraordinary in two ways: first, because they occur in such unexpected circumstances, and second, because they have such an incredible effect. People feel completely reborn, as if they are completely different people.
More than anything else, transformation through turmoil reveals the massive potential and deep resilience within human beings, which we are usually unaware of until we face challenges and crises. Although we are often afraid that crises will break us down, there is a good chance that they will wake us up.
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Today's inspiration was adapted from the InnerSelf.com article:
A New Reality: After Trauma Comes Transformation
Written by Steve TaylorSteve Taylor.
Read the complete article here.
This is Marie T. Russell, co-publisher of InnerSelf.com, wishing you a day of transformation (today and every day)
Comment from Marie: Everything comes to us for a reason, and challenges and crises especially have a purpose. They are there to rock our world, to get us out of our comfort zone and our repetitious "on-automatic" behavior. Challenges and crises are blessings in disguise. You may not recognize it at first, but eventually the gift will be revealed.
Our focus for today: There is a good chance that the challenges and crises I face will wake me up and transform me.
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RELATED BOOK: Extraordinary Awakenings
Extraordinary Awakenings: When Trauma Leads to Transformation
by Steve Taylor
Why do some people who experience the worst that life has to offer respond not by breaking down but by shifting up, into a higher-functioning, awakened state, like phoenixes rising from the ashes? And perhaps more importantly, how can we emulate their transformations?
In Extraordinary Awakenings, readers will find not only riveting stories of transformation that show the amazing resilience of the human spirit, but also hope and guidance to call on during their own struggles, together with inspiration and profound food for thought.
Click here for more info and/or to order this paperback book and/or download the Kindle edition.
About the Author
Steve Taylor, PhD, is the author of Extraordinary Awakenings and many other bestselling books. He’s senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University and the chair of the Transpersonal Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society. Steve’s articles and essays have been published in over 100 academic journals, magazines, and newspapers and he blogs for Scientific American and Psychology Today.
Visit him online at www.StevenMTaylor.com.
