I had a profound realization today. Here it is; Every time things seem to get difficult and I feel as if I am in a rut mentally, I realized the reason I got there and was remaining there was because I had forgotten everything I have come to know as a spiritual truth. Like I was taken over and wasn't seeing and using all the knowledge and insight gained by my spiritual seeking.

Stay with me for a minute because the only reason I am posting this is because I know this can help many of the spiritual seekers on this message board.

I was in the shower where I do my best pondering and it hit me. Something was pulling me out of conscious awareness. It could be anything, an event, an upcoming situation, a comment that was made to you earlier, anything that pulls you out of the present moment.

I find that when these things occur, they are very cyclical in nature. I will have a week or 2 of amazing clarity, great motivation to meditate and do follow my intuition. Then due to some even it will kind of drop off and I will enter a lull. After the lull or rut, I would come out feeling more energized and ready to experience life than ever before. Now I know both ups and downs are necessary for spiritual evolution but I realized this; did I want my life to be a constant up and down? Am I going to continue to resist things and abandon all I have come to know as truth?

Then I came to this; you keep yourself in the lulls as long as you want to. I told myself in the shower when I felt the lull coming on, NOT THIS TIME. I wasn't going to abandon the things that would help me the most. I was not going to resist the oncoming situation. I would face it with presence and not forget all the things that have got me this far. This time it worked. I stopped the oncoming rut and right then and there I was filled with energy and presence and I feel as if I had broken the cycle.

Heres my question though....do we need these ruts to come out on the other side with new realizations? Will life become stagnant?

I use to feel in a rut or depressed for a while and eventually i've trained myself to come out of it quicker and each time it comes i'm out of it even faster again. each time i remind myself that It is a moment and it is allowed, and that another moment with true happiness will come again, i also ask myself 'does it raelly matter' as in what is bugging me and these phrases seem to help me clink, breath and move on.

I feel that ruts are a necessary tool for conscious development. They make us remember what being conscious is. Think about it this way; if you forever remained in the moment would you even know you were there?

I agree with namaste, but ultimately the goal is whatever you make it. In terms of self-preservation and peace then yes the goal is to learn from the ruts as you have and stop them from occurring, then that is when you acknowledge your position as a creator, a dreamer and enhance your abilities to explore lifes other aspects.