The challenges in your life and heart may make you feel as though you're "going crazy." Your soul is beginning to shake things up, question your reality, and guide you to a higher level of consciousness.
To facilitate this transformation, however, your ego-based life first must be dismantled. A new life can then be rebuilt on a firmer, more secure foundation - a foundation in Spirit.
At first you will feel like you are losing your mind and the life you once knew. It's okay though . . . it's all good! You're not going crazy . . . you're just waking up!
There are two methods, or paths, by which a soul chooses to "wake up." We either create a crisis that brings us to our knees, or we simply decide that it makes sense to move on to a new way of living.
At some point, your life falls apart, crashes, stagnates or becomes unfulfilling. This is an unavoidable process. ("you can run, but you can't hide").
The soul transformation process consists of five primary stages (going from "dark night of the soul" to the "light at the end of the tunnel"):
1) dismantling
2) emptiness
3) disorientation
4) re-building, and
5) a new life.
It's letting your "old" self die so that your "new" self can be born.
It's as though your psyche is a chalice, or cup, that needs to be emptied of old toxic materials so it can be re-filled with the fresh waters of life, or new opportunities to live life with more love, peace and purpose.
You get to choose the hard way - or the easy way (listening to your soul's guidance).
A new life that resonates with your highest good is "a future without a trace of sorrow, and with joy that constantly increases."
- Michael Mirdad (adapted)