Have you ever noticed that friend or family member who for 10, 20, or even 30 years has been dealing with the same issues that keep happening in their life? Perhaps it’s a friend who always ends up with a partner who has the same bad habits as all his or her previous partners? Perhaps it’s the same old story about how they got into the same bad situation (for the 10th time)?
Maybe you find yourself caught in certain loops but you can’t figure out why it keeps happening to you over and over again… and you can’t help but wonder “Why me” or “Not again!”
For most of us, whenever something negative happens, our first instinct is to brush it off as just a random incident, or we’ll place blame on something else for why it happened.
The second time we see it happen, we may still do the same. The third time, we might think it’s simply a coincidence…
Other times the cycle might continue 4, 5, 6, or more times before we start to become aware of what’s beneath the recurring pattern that keeps bringing us back to the same situation over and over again. And then sometimes, if we are paying attention, we begin to become aware that there might be something going on that’s attracting these situations.
While some might think of these recurring negative experiences as being a victim of circumstance, punishment, or even a curse, the reality is that these recurring circumstances we no longer desire keep popping up over and over because we keep creating them.
It’s a reflection of our beliefs, our thoughts, and our emotions that lead to actions that result in the same outcomes over and over.
