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Have you ever felt discouraged because an issue you thought you dealt with resurfaced? You said to yourself, 'Again??!'
It is possible that you aren’t just 'GOING in circles' but instead 'GROWING in circles'.
Going in circles is when we are stuck in a pattern. There is movement but no processing and therefore no progression.
Growing in circles is when we encounter a feeling, an emotion, a thought, a circumstance again in our life but this time we have more insight, more awareness, more ability to catch it faster and process it. Yes, this is GROWTH!
Let’s equate it to a spiral staircase. So often we think of growth and success in terms of a linear upward staircase. BUT it's much better to look at growth with the imagery of a spiral staircase. There is movement with processing that takes you higher or deeper, even though you may be revisiting a similar thought, feeling or situation it is from a higher or deeper level.
Evaluate a situation ... are you just going in circles and stuck with same ole same ole? OR are you actually GROWING IN CIRCLES? Going up that spiral staircase to new levels? Or down the spiral staircase to new depths?
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