The Only Way Is Through

Yesterday I was sitting at a restaurant with a colleague and across from me was this little bundle of love aged 6 months. She had the most extraordinary face and smile. She kept catching my attention with her smile and smiled at me so much and so broadly that her mother and her friend looked around to see who she was smiling at. ME!

TéO why was she smiling at me so much? I was so distracted from my own conversation- I couldn’t help but keep staring and smiling at her too!

That little girl was validating how you are feeling and what you are doing which is completely aligned with your Soul’s purpose. She was simply a reflection of the pure joy and happiness your Soul is experiencing at being fully recognized and alive. That smile that cannot be contained; the love and light that emanates from her eyes are simply a reflection of you and how you feel and are showing up in this lifetime.

Excited. Giddy. On Purpose and Absolutely Delighted to be alive!

So who we are is reflected back to us in the people around us. They’re mirrors for us to see what it is within us that coming up for changing.

I’ve learned early on that life happens for us and not to us. We receive the pain, trauma, disease, illness, heartache, loss of a loved one, not because God is cruel, but because this is the life we signed up to live so that we might have the experiences we need to have to transcend to the next level. If we don’t learn the lesson it will repeat (this i can attest too! I’m thick headed sometimes, but learning fast to recognize the lesson for what it is!)

Pain flows through us a lot faster if we let it flow instead of getting it stuck inside us. The only way is through.

Published by Niki Chopra Richardson

Love writing about food and travel (www.thegalavantinggastronome.com) and my conversations with God (https://gitanjali.yoga). Born and raised in India. Sailor's daughter. Travel is in my DNA. Married to a scientist, who is a chemist professionally and in every other culinary way. Food, coffee, cocktails, BBQ, smoked meats, rubs, sauces...he experiments with it all - with way more wins than misses. We love the outdoors. Hiking, kayaking and camping make us happy. We are equal opportunity foodies. We love hole in the wall little mom and pop places, and fancy multi-coursed Michelin star meals as well. And, we love talking about what we love about the food, drink, coffee and anything else we get to try.

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