Spiritual Meanings Of Everything Breaking:
It is about surrender
“Be still, and know that I am God.” – Psalm 46:10
When what surrounds me begins to break, that is when the world feels as if it’s pushing for me to surrender.
Surrender does not imply defeat. It is about detaching myself from the constant need to manage everything.
The key step to this trust for me.
But in these times, surrender is not passive. However, it is hard to let go and trust that, more than anything in my life anymore, there must be something better. It is a decision to realize that whatever is breaking no longer serves my highest good.
It is about inner turmoil
“As within, so without.” – Hermetic Principle
The state of my inner world is often reflected on the outside.
To me, if I break a bunch of stuff, that is my sign to sit the f**k down and see what’s really happening inside.
I’m thinking about what things I am thinking about and what residue experiences may be showing themselves in my physical environment.
Throughout time, I have learned that my outer life experiences are a direct reflection of the inner workings within me.
If life feels chaotic is because I am so stressed and anxious.
It is about stagnant energy
“Let go of the past, so that God can open the door to your future.” – Proverbs 3:5-6
In some ways, things break to release stagnant energy.
When my vibe is old, stuck vibrates, it feels like the universe reaches in to help clean.
As difficult or annoying as it can be to part with things that I love, the shedding of layers is an important step in allowing fresh energy into my experience.
That purging goes beyond physical things.
It can be anything from scenarios to people or even beliefs that no longer match who I am growing into.
It is a shift of energy as I change spiritually and, so too must anything else around me.
What used to work for me started working against me, and breaking things is the universe promoting learning how to release these old energies.
It is like a detox for my life, out with the old and in some fresh, vibrant energies.
It is about faith
“We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair.” – 2 Corinthians 4:8
When things keep breaking, I know that these are the times I must cling to my spiritual path with enthusiasm and follow this plan into faith, though, at moments, unattainable.
It is easy in the simple days to have faith, but it matters most when everything else feels like chaos.
I often say that the universe has a sense of humor, and throughout my life, it seems to have taken great pleasure in testing me — on breaking things apart and watching what I build from there.
They are tests that make me recommit myself to my spirituality in ways I would have never thought of doing.
It is an invitation to rebuild
“For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.” – Hebrews 3:4
I genuinely just treat it as a sign to rebuild when the shit hits the fan.
This goes beyond just replacing what was missing in my life.
This is evolving into something better catered to who I am now.
The destruction of old patterns creates space for the new, which supports me in grounding my current spiritual practices into a life that is built more upon them.
To rebuild requires vision and intention.
A time to question my values and figure out what is actually important and build my life around that instead.
Whether that is physically rebuilding a space or metaphorically rebuilding and relationship/career, this process contains a spiritual significance.
The process of rebuilding is grueling, but it can also be quite rewarding.
It is about spiritual awakening
“Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” – Ephesians 5:14
When things are breaking in my life, it can be an expansion of awareness, a discovery that the physical universe I live in may be harmoniously connected to all other universes.
It means knowing there exist extra worlds beyond our material world and where some pleasure can remain.
And this is a very jarring shift in consciousness.
For me, this means that as I continue to go through the process of growth in my life, many things throughout it begin falling apart because the old structures can no longer contain or hold up with what is now moving through.
In the process of my spiritual awakening, I start to experience life through a new lens.
Things that used to seem so important may not hold the same value, and in turn, those things begin to fall off.
It is also the destruction of what was so that it may manifest as shattered possessions or ended relationships, and death in far more ways than just the end of a body.
It is about impermanence
“Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.” –Thich Nhat Hanh
Nothing in this earthly realm is permanent. Everything changes, decays and eventually dissolves.
Impermanence is an elemental fact of life, though one to which I am still at times loathe.
It is not until some stuff breaks that I am literally faced with this reality.
Everything is temporary, and my real happiness comes not from the external but within me.
It is about re-evaluation
“Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves.” – 2 Corinthians 13:5
As soon as things in my immediate surroundings start to crumble, it is a reality check.
It makes me rethink whether it be my direction or what I am after, and it’s more than personal at this point.
Like the universe is telling me to hold up, look within and fix what needs fixing before moving forward.
During a breakdown, I question my life choices.
Re-evaluation forces me to establish certain limits for myself and even alter some of the paths that can be targeted.
This is some introspective, deep work to peel off what no longer serves me and stick instead with that which matters.
Things break as a sermon, an urging from the spiritual to the self for change that comes so far with less actual breaking of things around me.
It is about past wounds
“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” – Psalm 147:3
So when everything breaks, I take it as the most beautiful.
It is a life-giving opportunity to heal long-festering trauma.
Frequently, what falls apart in my world is based on stalemate emotions/triggers/traumas from the past.
It’s almost like the universe plans these meltdowns to force me to look at them.
But sometimes, when things break, memories and emotions from the past I believed were long buried come rushing back.
They contain the opportunity for great healing, as painful and difficult as they can be.
They offer me a chance at addressing the past, feeling what I might have kept tamped down in my heart and creating space to just let it go because holding onto hurt is something that has lived with me far too long.
Some kinds of healing are not a pretty thing.
That also means reopening all those old scars that I wish could be locked up for good. However, with the breaking and then healing of this connection, I am finally learning how to release myself from my past.
I walk on with clearer eyes, ready to take back my life and greet the world as it comes.
It is about universal cycles
“To everything there is a season …” – Ecclesiastes 3:1
The universe works on cycles — birth, growth, decay and rebirth.
So whenever the cease-fire I have with my life is broken, it’s just another indication that both individuals are in tune with these larger universal cycles.
It signals to me that I am moving into a new season of this predictable and logical cycle.
That idea of concept brings me comfort when in a world full of chaos.
Knowing failures were a natural part of life cycles refocused my perception to see them as not so much catastrophic but mandatory portions in the evolution process.
With all intent and purpose, alignment with these cycles in my experience manifests as change acceptance over resistance.
It is about knowing that everything in life has its moment and place, even the breaking times — filled with dissolution and loss.
It is about hidden truths
“…nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light.” – Luke 8:17
If the world around me is all going wrong, it turns out that opens up some real leverage for uncovering the truth.
Sometimes, the things in my life can build walls to a reality within myself, wanting the light of day.
Breaking can be cathartic.
It shatters the illusions and reveals what is real underneath.
It calls me to be real, to walk my talk.
And it requires no less of you! And when the illusions are peeled back, beneath sits my truest form—me without all those stories I have been making up.
It is about the creative potential
“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.” – Edwin Land
What I have found is that when everything appears to be going wrong, it means the deepest, dormant part of my creativity is awakening.
Chaos breeds creativity.
As the old structures fall apart, they leave a vacuum: a space for new ideas, innovations and creations to flow in.
This breaking is the rich soil for new life and form.
At each of these stages, when everything is breaking around me, I can pull out new innovative ideas where none were there before.
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