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This picture was taken by my daughter Nicole at the recycle facility in Sacramento California.

We try so hard to be present in the things we experience in our life, so that if there is a lesson to be learned we “get it”.  Sometimes it seems we don’t quite fully get what events and situations mean to us or do to us.  We vacillate between being consciously aware and being so absorbed in what is happening that we don’t have time to realize that we are experiencing lessons we should have learned from another event or experience we had before-thus we are in the process of recycling.  We have friends who come in and out of our life that we thought the friendship had ended and yet we let them come back into our lives once again.  We say we are never going to do something that was not in our best interest and yet and still somehow, we find ourselves doing the same thing to ourselves, perhaps not in the exact same way but in some strange sense it felt like “dejavu”. If we keep doing the same thing and allow ourselves to recycle the same events or circumstances, we will get the same results. Are we supporting a “Bad habit”?  Are we “Fearful” of losing the comfort of discomfort?  Are we “Devaluing our own Worth” to make other people feel important and more valuable?

The point is that we will continue to recycle aspects of our life until we become conscious of what we are doing to ourselves.  We need to see if there are patterns in our life that are preventing us from moving forward and becoming the fullness of what our life can evolve to.  We need to see if we are intentionally recycling because we don’t want to step out on faith and admit we need to learn what we need and don’t need in our life.  We need to admit when something is not working in our life and be brave enough to “get it”, “let it go”, and take flight from succumbing to the entrapment of “recycling”.  Our lives are bigger and more vibrant than rehashing old stuff, pining over unresolved traumas, engaging with people that don’t love and respect us, and living and working in spaces that negatively impact our health and welfare. When you think about it what does recycling mean to our earthly environment? Well then, we need to be careful we aren’t victims of recycling trash into our spiritual lives.  We deserve better than that! The first order of business is to acknowledge what we are doing that is stifling our growth and life.