In your face...

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Every once in while there are things that get ‘in your face’.
Things that I may have known about for months or even years ~ yet suddenly, without an obvious reason  they are right there, ‘in my face’. No getting around it anymore.
It needs to be resolved; and it needs to be done now.

For something to get ‘in your face’, it usually has been in your life for a while ~ and one way or another you haven’t spend time dealing with it. Perhaps because it is a problem that doesn’t seem to have an apparent solution. Or it is something that is so entwined with other people and different situations in your life, that it has become hard to see what it is really about. But often it is something you feel you can live with... It’s not that bad; and after all one has to prioritize. It’ll get better eventually. I’ll see someone about it next week, right now I have other things to do...

Our reasons to push it away are plentiful. Being involved in our day to day lives we may not even realize how urgent the matter is to us. If not on a physical, every day life type of manner ~ than certainly on an inner level. An emotional or energy level.
It has to get a lot worse for us to become truly aware of its importance to our lives, to our wellbeing.
It has to get ‘in your face’.

And for us humans, being physical beings living in a material world ~ this may well involve a very physical ‘attention getter’. Like a (minor) accident. Or an ache that may materialize without a reason for it to be there.
One thing seems to be clear; the longer we postpone looking at whatever it is we need to look at, chances are it will push itself to the foreground of our lives more and more. Until suddenly it becomes our top priority. We have to take time out of our busy schedules to deal with it.

Inconvenient as it may seem, this is how things are brought to our attention by the universe. Especially when they are in our way, hindering us to take our next step on our personal path of growth.
Therefore, from a spiritual perspective, there seem to be (at least) two ways to go about working with it. On one hand, when something has become totally physical it may require the help of a healthcare professional. On the other hand, pondering the question what the underlying lesson is and starting to work with it may help to quickly resolve the physical ‘attention getter’.

And pretty soon it is something you deal with, rather than something that is ‘in your face’.
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