Hidden Blessings: Midlife Crisis as a Spiritual Awakening

Could you be going through a midlife crisis?

Are you in your 40s-50s or early 60s? Have you been brought up short by changes in your life? Has an important relationship ended, have you gotten laid off from your job, or have you – or someone close to you – gotten sick? Is this a midlife crisis?

Or have the signs of aging, a decline in ambition and a nagging feeling that you are just going through the motions making you wonder what life is all about?

When we confront life obstacles like these in our 20s, 30s, or early 40s, we do whatever we need to do to get back in the race and back up to our prior speed of life.

But in our late 40s and after, when we hit these same obstacles – against the backdrop that time is running out – we are beginning a shift in our state of consciousness from our time-since-birth to our time-left-to-live.

From “midlife crisis” to “awakening”

In these middle years, if we can allow these experiences – or moments of crisis – to turn our attention to a deeper reality, we will discover that below the roles we play in our lives lies a deeper part of ourselves. We can think of this deeper part of as a priceless pearl.

But pearls are not found on the beach. Up until midlife, this priceless possibility lies buried under an ocean of first adult life obligations: to fulfill the social contract: to be good citizens, have families, go to work, and contribute to the building of society.

Our task in the second half of life – starting at midlife – is to uncover this priceless pearl and take the necessary steps to release it from its shell. Our task is to be who we were born to be: unique expressions of our deepest selves.

But how do we do that?

Media-driven stereotypes suggest that we respond to our midlife crisis by getting radical, numb ourselves, or do whatever we can to turn back the hands of time.

In fact, popular media’s top three recommendations for those facing midlife are: Increase your exercise, eat a balanced diet, and get plenty of rest.

Do you think those three suggestions are going to help you become who you were born to be?

Though it might not feel like it, at midlife you have a profound opportunity for transformation and the blossoming into who you were born to be, free from whatever has encumbered you during the first half of your adult life. The so-called “midlife crisis” is not the end of our lives. It heralds the spiritual awakening the can come at the end of our first adult life ushering us into a second, one that transcends all prior expectations and imaginings.

How can Hidden Blessings help our Midlife Crisis?

Hidden Blessings: Midlife Crisis as a Spiritual Awakening reveals a new map for discovering and embracing our authentic selves, an indestructible foundation from which a new life agenda – for growth, purpose, and meaning – will take shape. At this stage of life our soul asks – or demands – that we live larger lives by repeatedly showing us that…