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Hi, I'm Jasmine Nicole. Welcome to the Motivational Mystic, a space for authentic, higher conscious conversations to motivate, inspire, and empower. Thanks for listening. Each week I'll drop a new conscious raising episode. Let's dive in. When you close out certain cycles in your life, when you learn the lesson from past mistakes, scenarios, or negative interactions, make sure you don't revisit those prior people, situations, or things once you learn the lesson from it and begin to elevate yourself. There's no good going to come to you by backtracking. It's important to be gentle with yourself during those moments of introspection and recognition of you consciously taking the initiative to elevate and advance yourself from one point in your life to another. No one is meant to stay the same forever. I always say, life is a journey, not a destination. So you just have to continue moving forward on the ride. Continue moving forward in the game. There are going to be low periods, of course, but in those low periods is where it's most important to be gentle with yourself and indulge in self-care to avoid self-deprivation. That is your integration period. Take the time to integrate those emotion, scenarios, thoughts, and mindsets. Bring it all into your awareness. You need time to integrate, to be gentle with yourself, to just be still for a moment. You can look at it as being in a transitory period or being at a transitional point in your life where you might be closing out one chapter in your life story and getting ready to begin another. When you're in that transition, that space in between that one chapter flowing into the next chapter, it can be a little disorienting. It can be a little confusing. But in moments like that, it's important to make sure you're checking in with yourself and that you're not just bypassing your feelings. When you're in a transitory period, a period of change and sometimes confusion, it can be scary. There's nothing wrong with being honest with yourself and saying, Whew, I got a lot of things going on in my life, but it will work itself out. You will figure it out, but in that transition period, you want to make sure you're not backsliding, you're not backtracking, and going back to those previous lessons you graduated from, previous people you've outgrown, previous places and things, and a previous version of yourself that you have evolved from. Because it's comforting. It's familiar in a period of uncertainty. We don't want to do that because being in a transitory period is also a time in your life where you're being tested. Seeing if you can get over that hurdle and persevere so you can get yourself to your next level. But let's be realistic. It can be challenging to be in a transitory period in your life when you feel like you're on the verge of great change. And that could also be a positive thing. Transitory periods don't have to be negative. Maybe you're really working hard at school or building a business or just diligently working on something you want to create or achieve. And you're not there yet, but you've been working so hard to get there, and you know eventually your hard work will pay off. But you're just in the thick of it, in grind mode. You're in that building period where you're just kind of putting those pieces together and waiting for the fruits of your labor to pay off. In those times, it can be frustrating, but also fulfilling at certain points because you're making progress or headway with working towards your goals. But when you're in the early stages and putting in the work to make things happen, it can be stressful during the process. But ultimately, you know your hard work won't be in vain. It's just in that transitory period, you're waiting for the hard work you put in and continue to put in to finally pay off. But you know it's coming, you can just feel it. You don't know when it's going to happen, you may not even know what it's going to look like, but you just know your hard work will pay off. Like I said before, transitory periods can be positive or negative. From a positive perspective, it's really just opening yourself up and preparing yourself to get ready for the payoff of what you've been working towards, to either release or come to full acknowledgement of everything will work out for your highest good, even if it's not quite clear to you in that moment. Those transitory periods are character building because whatever doesn't break you makes you stronger. Tough times don't last, but tough people do. And it's a really good thing to always remember that, to remind yourself of that. Always keep that resilient, positive outlook on things when you're in that in-between or transitory period of your life, where you're essentially just living in the unknown, the gray area, until you get to your next level. Hey, whatever happens is just a part of the journey, but it doesn't have to define you. What you want to do when you're in between chapters in your life story during those transitory periods is just lock in, man. Just get hyper-focused on whatever it is you want to accomplish. Or just release whatever it is that needs to be released. Even if it's just taking the time to unplug and take care of yourself. Sometimes those transitory periods in life give you a minute to stop and integrate things so you can put them into perspective. Acknowledge where you came from or started, where you are now, and where you want to go. Transitory periods in life are necessary, and we all experience them, whether we recognize it or not. It's just how you choose to look at it, how you choose to deal with it, and how you choose to define it and not let it define you. Those transition periods in life can be scary, dealing with the unknown. You don't want to get too easily defeated by tough times. You don't want to fall off and never be able to regain equal footing again for fear of failure. And even if you fail at something, so what? You get back up, dust yourself off, and restrategize. If anything, I think transitory periods build resiliency. So, no matter how hard or uncertain life gets, just know there's always a light at the end of the tunnel. Nothing's ever permanent. It's just a part of the life experience. It's just a lesson, one aspect of your life journey. Whether you're experiencing sadness right now, whether you're in euphoria, whether you're enjoying good times or dealing with bad ones, it's all a part of the experience. It's all a part of your journey, and we all experience these things in one form or another. So it never really made sense to me to compare my life to other people's because you never really know what someone else has been through. No one carries all of their battle scars on their sleeve. There's a lot of people out there fighting an invisible war in their head, and putting on a mask each day, pretending everything's fine. The one thing we all have in common is that everyone is just trying to figure out our lives one day at a time, and we're all here, just coexisting with each other. So, we need to be kind with ourselves, gentle with ourselves, and be kind to one another. Being in a transitory period is very interesting once you accept it, and just say, hey, alright, maybe that's what I'm in right now, a transitory period. I don't know what's coming next, but I will persevere. Especially in those times of uncertainty, when you don't know what's coming next, what to expect, it can be a little scary. Also, when you're dealing with periods of change in your life where you know things are not going to be the same, you don't know exactly what it's going to look like on the other side of it, whether good or bad. But you just feel an impending change coming, and you're just preparing yourself for it. Especially when you perceive it's a positive change on the horizon, and you're like, oh, I know I have something good coming to me. I don't know what it is, but I'm just going to put myself in a position to be ready to receive it and have gratitude for when it comes. To just be in the flow state of being ready to adapt to whatever life throws your way is very important when you're in that transitory period. It's funny because the only constant thing in life, ironically, is change. And when you're in a transitory period, it is a period of preparing to deal with some type of impending change. So anchoring into yourself, whatever comes my way, I will deal with it, I will persevere, I will figure it out. Whether it's a positive change on the horizon or a negative one, or maybe just a time of uncertainty. You know, just knowing like everyone goes through those growing pains in life. And we all have those transitory periods where sometimes you just feel like you're in limbo. You don't know whether to go left, right, up, down. You're just in a moment of stillness and preparation, and maybe even just getting into a space of being ready to receive, right? That all depends on the scenario that you find yourself in. But needless to say, the transitory period is a period of just stillness, of being put on pause, to be honest with you. And knowing that you're in between stages and between chapters in your life story, and just preparing yourself for whatever is next. And just knowing once you've prepared yourself mentally, emotionally, and even spiritually for whatever comes your way, the impending change that, you know, once you're getting out of that integration period, that hold period, that building period, that eventually, you know, from the transitory period comes the payoff, the lesson, the realization, the knowledge. It's just really getting to a place of comfort within yourself that you have the tools, you have the resources, you have the intelligence to persevere through that period of unknown, that period where you're being placed on pause and just ready to capitalize or accept what comes your way once you break out of that transitory period and walk into what it is that's meant for you. And that involves really just being patient and gentle with yourself. When you're in the transitory period, there may be a lot of unknowns, there might just be a lot of confusion. But it's important not to lose yourself, not to beat yourself up, not to spiral, right? Because sometimes you just need those periods of rest, of stillness, of uncertainty to really just sit and integrate everything. So once you're finally out of that transitory period, you'll appreciate or have gratitude for it. You will look back on it and say, okay, this happened for a reason. Maybe there was a lesson, maybe it's a blessing. But that transitory period, it didn't break you. It built you, it built character, it built resiliency. Because you were able to get over that hurdle, get over that hump, and finally accomplish whatever it is that you needed to or you wanted to once that transitory period subsided. So most importantly, when you're in a transitory period, is just to definitely just have patience with yourself. Be kind to yourself and know that as long as you keep that positive mindset of everything is working out for my highest good, it will. Well, that's all I had for today, everyone. Until next time. Goodbye.