What do do when challenges come? Read this
By Roop Lakhani - 16:09:00
Why do challenges shake us? Why do we become helpless or hopeless?
When a challenge comes, it does not only disturb the situation — it disturbs our inner foundation.
Challenges expose three things:
1. Our hidden fears
2. Our unmet emotional needs
3. Our dependency on external stability
When these get shaken, the mind loses confidence and the heart loses strength.
That’s when helplessness and hopelessness appear.
Why do we become helpless?
Because the mind believes:
“I don’t know what to do. I don’t have control.”
This creates anxiety and freeze response.
Why do we become hopeless?
Because the heart believes:
“Nothing will change. I don’t have the power.”
This creates emotional exhaustion and loss of faith.
But the truth is:
Challenges do not come to break you; they come to wake you.
They come to show: • where you’re holding fear
• where your boundaries are weak
• where old wounds are unhealed
• where your identity is too attached to the outside world
• where your inner strength needs upgrading
A challenge is actually a doorway for transformation.
What should one do when challenges come?
1. Pause and breathe
When the mind is in panic, do not make decisions.
Stabilise your breath — your breath stabilises your energy.
2. Ground your energy
Sit, place feet on the floor, hold your heart or navel.
It brings you back to the body and out of the emotional storm.
3. Observe the fear, don’t fight it
Ask yourself:
“What exactly am I scared of right now?”
Naming the fear reduces its power.
4. Focus on one small step
Hopelessness comes from thinking you need to solve everything at once.
Shift to: “What is the next 5% I can do right now?”
5. Reach for higher energy
Mantra, prayer, meditation, chanting — not to escape, but to stabilise.
Higher vibration dissolves lower vibration.
6. Allow support
You don’t have to be strong alone.
A sage, guide, or wise friend helps you see what you cannot see.
7. Trust the process
Every challenge is a temporary storm.
Storms clear old energies, outdated patterns, and stagnant emotions.
8. Ask the deeper question
“What is this challenge trying to teach me about myself?”
This transforms pain into wisdom.
9. Strengthen your inner anchor
Say to yourself:
“I may not know how, but I will get through this.”
This opens the door for clarity to enter.
Final truth:
You become helpless when you forget your inner power.
You become hopeless when you forget that life is always moving you toward growth.
People seek God’s grace or a sage’s guidance during challenges because human consciousness becomes most vulnerable when life shakes us. In difficult times, the mind loses clarity, emotions become heavy, and our inner strength feels scattered. At such moments, people naturally turn toward a higher intelligence or a wiser presence for support.
The deeper reasons are:
1. Pain opens the heart.
When everything is smooth, people rely on their ego. But when life becomes difficult, the heart opens and seeks something beyond the limited self.
2. Challenges make us realise we are not fully in control.
This humility drives people toward God or a spiritual master who can show a higher path.
3. People need emotional safety.
A sage or God’s grace provides a feeling of being held, understood, and protected—a relief from inner chaos.
4. Higher energy shifts lower energy.
When someone is in fear, confusion, or grief, their vibration drops.
Being in the presence of divine energy or a sage raises their frequency and brings relief.
5. People need direction and meaning.
Challenges shake beliefs, identity, purpose.
A spiritual guide helps them see the lesson, not just the pain.
6. The subconscious trusts a higher authority.
When the mind is overwhelmed, we cannot think clearly.
Guidance from a higher source calms the mind and helps decisions become easier.
7. They want hope when logic fails.
When practical solutions don’t come easily, divine grace becomes the anchor of hope.
8. Seeking grace is a way of surrender.
Surrender does not mean weakness; it means releasing resistance so solutions can flow.
9. Sages and God represent stability.
When life feels shaky, we look toward something steady, timeless, and strong.
10. They want healing at a deeper level.
A sage doesn’t only give advice; they help shift the person’s energy, karmic patterns, and subconscious blocks.
Why do mantras?
During challenges, people seek God or a sage because the soul longs for strength, meaning, clarity, and higher energy that the conscious mind cannot provide at that moment.
Many sages ask us to do mantras not because the mantra itself magically solves every problem instantly, but because mantra changes the inner environment from which solutions arise.
When people are in pain, confusion, or fear, the mind goes into a loop of overthinking, negative assumptions, and lower-vibrational thoughts. These thoughts create more energetic density, emotional heaviness, and mental instability. And when solutions take time—as they naturally do—the mind becomes restless.
Mantra becomes the bridge between the problem and the solution.
Why?
• Mantra interrupts the negative thought loop.
Repeating sacred sound acts like a gentle stopper to the runaway mind.
• It raises your vibrational field.
Lower emotions like fear, doubt, or worry cannot coexist with the frequency of a sacred mantra.
• It shifts you from fear to faith.
Instead of thinking “Why is this happening?”, mantra places you in a state of inner trust.
• It stabilises your energy body.
A scattered aura weakens you; a mantra-charged aura strengthens clarity and resilience.
• It keeps your mind engaged in something constructive while life works in the background.
Like you beautifully said: when solutions need time, mantra protects you from creating additional negative karma, thoughts, or vibrations.
• It activates your subconscious healing.
Mantra is a sound vibration; vibrations reach deeper layers where ordinary thinking cannot go.
• It calms the nervous system.
A calm system receives guidance more clearly. An anxious system creates confusion.
So the real purpose of mantra is not “escape,” but alignment.
Not “blind faith,” but inner stability.
In simple essence:
Mantra keeps your energy elevated, your mind centred, and your heart open while the universe arranges the right solutions in divine timing.
Here is a clear, deep, simple explanation one can use
Why do we do affirmations?
Affirmations are not just positive sentences.
They are energetic commands to the mind, emotions, and subconscious.
People repeat negative thoughts every day:
“I can’t… I’m not good enough… Nothing works for me…”
These become mental grooves and emotional habits.
Affirmations work because they reprogram these grooves.
Here’s why affirmations matter:
1. They interrupt negative self-talk
When your mind is spiralling, affirmations act like a switch — breaking the old pattern.
2. They plant new beliefs in the subconscious
The subconscious doesn’t argue.
Whatever you repeat, it slowly accepts as truth.
3. They shift your emotional frequency
Words carry vibration.
Saying “I am safe” creates a different field than “I am scared.”
4. They bring clarity to what you want
Most people focus on fears.
Affirmations redirect your attention toward your intention.
5. They build inner strength
Every time you say a powerful affirmation, you strengthen an inner muscle.
6. They create new neural pathways
Repeated affirmations literally rewire the brain toward confidence, peace, and resilience.
7. They raise your energy and aura
Your vibration responds instantly to repeated high-frequency words.
8. They prepare you to receive your goals
Before life gives you what you want, you must become the person aligned with it.
Affirmations help that inner becoming.
9. They bring the mind back to the present
Most fear lives in the future.
Affirmations anchor you in your inner truth now.
10. They align you with higher consciousness
Any statement that begins with “I am” is a declaration of your divine identity.
In simple terms:
Affirmations are a tool to stop negative energy, create supportive beliefs, and activate your inner power so your outer life can shift.
Here are different life challenges and matching affirmations — written in your soulful, healing, high-vibrational style.
1. Challenge: Fear of the Unknown
Affirmation:
I release the need to know everything. I trust the divine intelligence guiding my path.
2. Challenge: Self-Doubt
Affirmation:
I choose to believe in my abilities. My inner wisdom always leads me forward.
3. Challenge: Feeling Overwhelmed
Affirmation:
Step by step, I move with ease. I am supported, guided, and capable.
4. Challenge: Financial Stress
Affirmation:
Money flows to me with ease. I am open to receiving abundance in expected and unexpected ways.
5. Challenge: Low Self-Worth
Affirmation:
I am enough as I am. I deserve love, respect, and good things.
6. Challenge: People-Pleasing
Affirmation:
My needs matter. I honour my truth with confidence and grace.
7. Challenge: Relationship Confusion
Affirmation:
Clarity flows through me. I attract relationships that honour my heart.
8. Challenge: Health Anxiety
Affirmation:
My body knows how to heal. I choose peace, balance, and inner harmony.
9. Challenge: Emotional Pain from the Past
Affirmation:
I release what no longer serves my heart. I create space for renewal and softness.
10. Challenge: Feeling Stuck in Life
Affirmation:
I am moving forward, even in stillness. My path is opening in perfect timing.
11. Challenge: Loneliness or Empty Feeling
Affirmation:
I am deeply connected to myself, to life, and to the universe. I am held and supported.
12. Challenge: Anger or Resentment
Affirmation:
I release stored tension from my heart. I choose inner peace over old hurt.
13. Challenge: Comparison with Others
Affirmation:
My journey is unique. I celebrate my growth and honour my pace.
14. Challenge: Loss of Hope
Affirmation:
Light returns to me. Every day brings new possibilities and gentle miracles.
15. Challenge: Overthinking
Affirmation:
I choose thoughts that support me. I allow calmness to guide my mind.
16. Challenge: Trust Issues
Affirmation:
I am learning to trust myself first. From this trust, life becomes safer and clearer.
17. Challenge: Fear of Failure
Affirmation:
Every experience teaches me. I grow, I learn, and I rise with strength.
18. Challenge: Feeling Misunderstood
Affirmation:
My voice matters. I express myself with clarity and grounded confidence.
19. Challenge: Emotional Instability
Affirmation:
My emotions move through me with grace. I return to balance with ease.
20. Challenge: Spiritual Disconnection
Affirmation:
I reconnect with my inner light. Divine guidance is always available to me.
Here are a few soulful, elegant quotes .
1. “Challenges don’t block your path; they deepen your strength so you can walk it with more clarity and grace.”
2. “When life shakes you, it is not breaking you—it is reminding you of the power you forgot you had.”
3. “Storms come to clear your energy, not to destroy your spirit. Stay steady, stay hopeful.”
4. “Every challenge carries a hidden light. When your mind quiets, the light reveals itself.”
5. “Staying positive is not ignoring the struggle; it is choosing to hold your inner light while walking through it.”
To your inner strength and power
Roop Lakhani
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