5 Reasons Why Hitting Rock Bottom Is The Best Thing That Can Ever Happen To You
Hitting rock bottom is the best thing that can ever happen to you.
Upon first glance, this statement makes zero sense, but hear me out. Sometimes you need to hit your emotional threshold and lose everything in order to realize that you are ready to change your life.
If you don’t try to rise up after hitting rock bottom, then it is likely that you will remain there forever. Trust me when I say that this is nowhere that you want to be.
In the words of Michelle Parsons, “Hitting rock bottom doesn’t mean that you have to stay there.” Are you ready to learn 5 reasons why rock bottom is the foundation upon which you can rebuild your life?
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When you hit rock bottom, you know.
You can feel it in your entire body. At least that’s how it presented for me when my life crumbled before my eyes. It started with a life-threatening car accident that left me in the hospital with a broken back. At that moment, my entire life changed. The doctors told me that I may never be able to walk again and that the best thing that I could do was adjust to my new reality.
I felt broken, but there was something inside of me that kept saying, “Don’t give up.” That’s exactly what I didn’t do. Rock bottom was the place from which I found my wings again, but I had to create that reality.
Life presented me with the challenge, which I saw as an opportunity to take my life to another level. This is supported by research from the University of Notre Dame found that bottoming out can be a catalyst for personal transformation.
Let’s face it… life doesn’t always care about our plans. Situations can get out of control. In life, you will be faced with dark times that test your resilience. The great news is that you do not have to stay at the bottom. Just as fast as you fall, you can slowly start the climb back to awesomeness. Do whatever it takes to succeed.
Challenges are nothing more than lessons to be learned. When you know how to use them to your advantage, you win no matter what. I’ve always believed that there is only one way out of fear and sadness, and that is going through it. This mindset has served me well.
Here are 5 reasons why hitting rock bottom is the best thing that can ever happen to you.
1. You Reinvent Yourself
Rock bottom provides you with an opportunity to reinvent yourself and reassess everything in your life: your job, your family, your goals, and/or your dreams. Are there changes you need to make? Are there things you kept putting off that hinder you from reaching your potential?
A rock-bottom situation gives you a clean slate, allowing you a new lot on life. You are forced to let go of the past go, start fresh and become a newer, more badass version of your current self.
When I’ve been at my lowest moments in life, I’ve been forced to go inward and engage in a careful process of introspection about who I am and what’s important to me. Almost losing my ability to walk was a game changer for me.
By getting through those difficult times, I felt like I had been given a second chance on life. In many ways, it was the best thing that ever happened to me because it brought me into the world of yoga, which ended up saving my life. Everything happens for a reason. Believe it.
2. You Become More Compassionate Towards Others
During distressing times, it’s easy to become selfish and insensitive to the needs of others. Focusing on yourself and your problems becomes a top priority. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t take care of yourself, but it’s important to take a look at the bigger picture.
Pain is pain, no matter how you look at it. All of us are going through something, big and small. There is one thing that I know for sure… there will always be someone else that has it worse off than you.
When you hit rock bottom, you feel everything, and in doing so, you become more in tune to the feelings of others. makes us more empathic towards others. You begin to understand what it’s like for people who are struggling with pain, fear, and shame.
By putting yourself in others’ shoes, you will naturally be inclined to support others, knowing that we all in this together. If you can help someone find light amidst the dark times, you will feel fulfilled beyond belief.
3. You Become More Resilient
Once you’ve risen from the ashes, you will look forward to the future with a stronger resolve to make it better. At the heart of resilience is a belief in oneself—yet also a belief in something larger than oneself. Resilient people are brave, wise, and fearless. That is what you are.
Overcoming obstacles and challenges will only boost your confidence and strengthen your willpower, proving that there is nothing that you can’t handle. It doesn’t matter how hard you fall. All that matters is that you get back up again, wipe away your tears and keep pushing forward.
In the words of George S. Patton, “The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”
4. You Step Outside Your Comfort Zone
Sometimes you need to shake things up and hit rock bottom in order to transform your life. At first, everything may seem foreign to you, and that’s OK. This means that you are slowly exiting your comfort zone and entering into a big, new world. Stretching yourself provides opportunities for massive growth. This is where the real magic lies.
What have you always wanted to do that you’ve been too scared to try? Start that online business. Lose that weight. Book that flight. Learn something new, improve your skills, take on a new hobby, meet new people, explore a new place. By exposing yourself to different ways of thinking, you will learn things about yourself that you never knew before.
Now is the time to get out of your comfort zone and stretch yourself. Will it be scary? Yes. Will it be worth it? Yes. Be open to anything and everything.
5. You Become Grateful For The Dark Times
Think back to some of the worst times in your life. The worst has happened, and yet you are still standing. Not only did you survive, but you thrived through it.
Once you have conquered the unthinkable, you become more grateful for the simple things in life. You are able to see life’s lessons as gifts that only serve to empower you. The decision to not quit proves that you are capable of anything. What are you grateful for?
Every dark cloud has a silver lining. It’s up to you to find it.
Sometimes you’ve got to lose everything in order to find yourself again. Life will shit on your parade. That’s a fact. It’s up to you how you will respond. No matter how bad things get, don’t ever give up on yourself. When you are at the bottom, you can’t go any further down. The only way is up.
In the words of Justin Kanayurak, “Once you hit rock bottom, that’s where you perfectly stand; That’s your chance of restarting, but restarting the right way.” Are you ready to start climbing?
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