Welcome to the simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style.

I'm your host, Shannon Ables.

And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a

cafe ole, thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. The So it was Sunday morning, yesterday morning, and I found myself at my weekly yoga class and our yoga instructor started talking about something

that is not necessarily something I haven't heard before, but she reframed this concept that I'm going to talk about today in a way that was refreshing

or changed the perspective on how I viewed it. She started

talking about how life, our lives, are, are, have spirals. In other words words different things come back around there is not just

a one direction our life's go in but rather they're more circular and this is not necessarily a bad thing is what she was inferring.

In fact, it gives us an opportunity to prove that we have learned the lesson. And the way that I've heard that whole concept of we are

given lessons until we learn them, the way I've heard that in the past often offered the statement as a negative connotation like oh no darn it you

didn't learn the lesson we're gonna show it to you again or darn it and so

there was this idea that you didn't do well.

You didn't do well, you didn't do what you're supposed to,

you're gonna have to do it again.

And so maybe it's just how we frame it that helps us look at this little differently but I think

this is actually something to be thankful for. Think about it this way when we're

given a test and we don't know what the answers are. It's frightening. It's scary, it's frustrating, and

we don't feel successful at the end. But then think about it this way on the opposite

end of the spectrum.

What if we have taken that test before?

Or what if we have studied and we know all the answers and we see that test

and we can relax? we can calmly go forward and not make those mistakes that we may

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