The dark night of the soul is what they call that period that you experience one or more times during your life. A deep pain that has unexpectedly come into your life, a pain that shakes you and brings out your deepest wounds. It doesn't matter what caused it, it has arrived because it is a time of internalization, learning and therefore, expansion.
This process is uncomfortable, confusing and even suffocating, but once you go through that path, you are inevitably not the same, you will be more complete because you will have known yourself better, you will have recognized those parts that you did not know were inside you.
What to do in the face of this revolution in your being? The key, in my point of view, is to travel, feel and embrace that path that is so personal and essential for our exterior to improve. However, we are afraid to feel, why? Without a doubt we are in a time where emotional anesthesia seems to be the best option, we are in times of immediacy, of following the simplest, what does not hurt. We avoid uncomfortable conversations so as not to have a bad time. We live thinking that time heals everything and we leave all the work to time; time, dear readers, will only make the bag heavier and the skin will burn from holding on so much.
So… I invite you to walk that path, letting go, flowing and being thankful for the little things in life. Remember that the goal here is to achieve a greater understanding of ourselves. I like to see this period as a temporary season of the year.
I share with you the following phrase written by Carl Gustav Jung:
“There is no awakening of consciousness without pain. People are capable of anything – no matter how absurd it may seem – to avoid facing their own soul. No one becomes enlightened by fantasizing about the light, but only by making their darkness conscious.”
Tania Espinoza
Foundress
