Is my healing therapy working? Am I making spiritual progress?

Amanda Hainline uses a spiral metaphor to explain healing progress: problems recur but spread farther apart as you grow, and intensity can feel worse even though you have better tools. Keep a journal to track how far you've actually come.
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Hey, guys, it's Amanda here. And I wanted to talk to you today about something a lot of you asked me about. A lot of my clients ask me about. I've been getting some notes from you about listening to the light languages and knowing when you make progress. Some people say, well, how do I know if it's working? How do I know if it's helping me at all? And so I'm here today to kind of explain what I've seen over the years with my clients as far as progress and how that looks when you are evaluating how far you've come from where you've been. Okay, so we take the word progress, first of all. And I'm going to draw this spiral like this, okay? So this spiral is your life. This is your life right here. That is your life, okay? So we take our life and we take the experiences that we have in our life, and we take an experience that's difficult for us, perhaps dealing with difficulties in a relationship, for instance, okay? And we say that it occurs at all these different points. It occurs here, then it occurs here, and it occurs here. This is the timeline, the spiral. It's there. Maybe it's here. Maybe you have two right there. You've got all these different points. Something to notice about the spiral is that it's small down here, okay? So you may have several experiences. You keep hitting the wall, and you keep hitting the wall. Same situation over and over again, different flavors of the same situation. Maybe it's with the same person, maybe it's with different people, but you keep having this. And you get stuck down here, okay? You start doing work, okay? We draw a line up like this. And as you start doing work, the experiences that you're having as the spiral gets wider are further and further apart on that spectrum. And another thing to notice whenever you're evaluating the progress that you've made is to look at this situation here and think about the intensity of it. Think about what happened. Think about how frustrating it was, your level of your emotional state, all those different things. Think about that here. Maybe this was six months ago. Maybe it was a year ago, two years ago. It could be anything like that. And as you start working on yourself, maybe you have another experience. You haven't had one in a while, and you have one here, and it's more intense and it's harder, and it's more frustrating, and you have to go through more to deal with it. And you go, gosh, I thought this was getting better. I've been working on myself. What's going on. Here's what's going on. If you had had this experience that's here, after you've worked on yourself all this time, if you had had this experience here, how would you have dealt with that? How would you have dealt emotionally, physically, psychologically with what happened to you here? If it had happened to you here, you're not in nearly as good a place here as you are here. And these experiences are getting further and further apart as you go up the ladder. You may have something happen every two weeks, and then maybe it's four weeks, and then maybe it's two months, and maybe it's six months and maybe once a year, you're having those kinds of issues. So even if the intensity increases in these situations, you have more tools to deal with it. Here you have the ability and capacity to deal with a broader range of circumstances after you've worked on yourself. And by the time you get up here, you're a pro, okay? No matter what is thrown your way, you're going to be able to handle it. So that's kind of how I view progress on the scale of life when you're working on yourself. So another way that you can really gauge this is if you have a journal. That's one thing I always encourage everybody to do. Let me write that down for you. Journal. And some of you might say, I would like to write. Well, if you don't like to write, that's okay. You can do audio files, you can do videos. If you want to do a blog for yourself, just turn it on and cry for five minutes if you want to. But six months down the road, you're going to look back at that and go, wow, I've come a long way. Because we forget. We forget where we were when we have another stumbling block. We feel like we've fallen backwards, but actually we've taken so many steps forwards, we don't even realize it. So I'd highly encourage you to journal and think about these experiences. When you have these a little bit later on down the road, think about the intensity, think about how you've handled it, and that will help you figure out and see how far you've come. So that's all for today. Thanks for watching.










