It’s been a few months since I stopped a 2.5 year run of intermittent fasting. But the practice of doing it has changed my relationship with hunger.
It’s been over a decade since I had a bad experience with a relationship. But the impact that experience had on me and my own emotional intelligence remains to this day.
I could go on.
If you’re experiencing a challenging set of circumstances today, it is helpful to keep this perspective. Often, we focus all our energy on changing the situation and forget that the best thing that can happen is to let the situation change us.
Challenging circumstances aren’t fun. They result in us walking around with that knot in our stomach. And they stretch our mind – often in ways we wouldn’t want to be stretched.
But they pass. They always pass.
And when they do, the best gift you’ll take away is that your mind, body, and spirit will be better for it.
Every challenging experience makes us stronger.
And a mind once stretched never goes back to its original dimensions.
