how we heal

completion is the counterpart to creation: we want to see the energy we set in  motion in our lives come full circle. we want to see our children grow up, we want to understand why some of our relationships failed, we want to see our businesses flourish, we want to see our creativity come into physical manifestation. and we want to see the seeds of our lives produce a harvest, even if we reap that harvest long after we first planted seeds.

wherever there is an incompletion in our lives, there are strings attached, though these attachments may be unconscious. we remain tied through the invisible strings of our creative energy to all that we have set into motion, like hundreds of umbilical cords attached to our energy system.

this is, perhaps, the dynamic that is responsible for causing us to recreate certain situations in our lives until we learn the lesson and can finally break the pattern by applying conscious choice. consciously, or unconsciously, we are bound to what we create. even if what we create is painful, the desire to see our creations through to completion is stronger than our capacity to walk away from them.

once we become aware that we are repeating the same struggles, we can position ourselves to appreciate different choices produce different results.

- caroline myss, the creation of health [emphasis mine]