A Mountain Made Me Feel my Ex’s Affair
“Life is happening to you, not for you”... have you heard this before? Me too. But sometimes it’s hard to believe it until you come across an ‘OMG’ moment. Let me give you an example…
10 years ago, I went on a hike to Machu Picchu, one of the 7 Wonders of the World.
It’s touted by many as one of the world’s spiritual epicenters, but for me, it was *seemingly* anything but.
Instead of swirling votexies and magical fairies, I just got super super sick.
I just didn’t get what the whole ‘hubub’ was about.
Recently, I was talking to a woman who did the trek last year with a shaman as a guide. She could NOT stop raving about the transformation and healing she felt.
She then went on to share that there was a woman who was on her trek that ended up getting super sick the whole way up the mountain and at the top peak, admitted that she was having an affair.
The shaman guide explained to the group that the mountain was working with the woman who got sick. Making her process what was happening in her life, to help her get to a place of freedom.
My body went into full shivers. No, I was not having an affair when I hiked the Wonder. BUT my long term boyfriend at the time, who I hiked with, WAS…I just didn’t know it yet.
The woman continued to tell me that during the initial opening blessing to the Machu Picchu mountain, their group lit a fire (just like my group had done all those years ago) as an offering to the mountain.
Her guide/Shaman told the group to AVOID the moving smoke at all costs because its purpose is to burn up and let go of whatever you need to…but if it touches you, you can take on someone else’s stuff.
But if we stand in its crossfire, we absorb it instead.
Do you see how clear these lessons are…if we look hard enough?
Don’t get caught up in smoke that wants to be let go
The work isn’t always for YOU
Not every lesson, truth, or experience reveals itself at the most opportune moment
Now you may think this is crazy but in my world, this is magic.
Magic is meta…and so are life lessons!
During any and all situations, I now strive to take a moment to look back and trust that there is some meaning to it.
While I was hurling my ex’s infidelity off the side of a mountain, I wasn’t thinking that this was a spiritual experience.
When I get cut off on the street by someone driving, I don’t think, “Wow, this is a spiritual experience…
But the truth is, it may just be the exact magical, spiritual, growth-invoking experience we need at that moment in time!.
What if that car is actually just saving you from an accident 5 seconds ahead? What if a mountain is really teaching you not to hold on so tightly to lies and deceit? What if, what if, what if?
Wouldn't the world be more magical if that were the case?
So here’s an exercise I invite you to try:
Where have you had some past experiences where you were made very ill?
What happened in your life around that time - give or take ~2-3 years?
What stories can you make up about why that was?
How can you find meaning in the shitty stuff? (It’s there if you look hard enough.)
The more we do this, the more we trust in everything on our journey and all of our intuition.
And that’s the whole name of the game. The game of life, NAME.
See where your blessings and lessons are coming from, even when they’re hard to recognize.