There is a saying we have heard from some of the most ancient peoples of the Americas:

Everything is medicine.

It's a beautiful idea...until life brings us something we never wanted.

A loss, betrayal, confusion, a diagnosis...a moment where everything seems to fall apart.

In those moments, it becomes much harder to believe that everything is medicine.

What has to happen in our life for us to look back at something painful and recognize that it was also a blessing?

That something so difficult truly served our life?

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Perhaps before judging an experience, we first need to understand something about life itself. That everything in creation moves according to a greater design, and that we are part of that design as well.

The universe is designed in a dual manner.

There is day and night. Good and bad. Man and woman. Mother and father. Yin and yang.

Duality.

And everything, absolutely everything, exists with purpose.

This is not a theory. We must simply pay attention and see how everything that exists serves for something.

So the question becomes: What corresponds to us if we want to move beyond the pain and suffering?

For that, we make a call to the power that keeps the entire universe in movement and ask for humility, so that we can place ourselves in a space beyond our thoughts and return to the heart, where love vibrates in its highest frequency of harmony and peace.

Only from there can we begin to recognize the greater purpose behind all of our difficult experiences.

Remember some of the most difficult moments of your life. Beyond judgment, simply remember them. And then remember everything that happened in your life after you moved through those difficulties.

At the time, perhaps there was no clarity. Maybe it was a point in your life where you felt an absolute void, where you experienced pain, density, and suffering. That is something like a night. Yet every night brings its day, inevitably.

Because this is the design of creation, and we are not the exception.

We are a particle within this universe. How could we be the exception?

Everything that does not feel good, everything that has not been clear, is transitory. This is a natural law of the universe, and we too are governed by its natural laws.

After the night, the day comes. Everything becomes clear.

After a storm, everything becomes green again, and a beautiful rainbow shines.

And what makes our life shine after we experience density? How does this happen naturally?

Look again at the most difficult experiences of your life.

Look at the pain you have lived through.

All of that pain has made you stronger.
It has made you more humble.
It has made you more grateful.
In one way or another, it has made you a better person. Not better than anyone else, but perhaps clearer.

And above all, it has given you experience.

Experience is what gives us the possibility of knowing ourselves.
Every experience is a path of knowledge.

Through life, we have come to know our limits. And for what?

So that we can go beyond them.
So that we can expand them.
So that we can become more free.

The Great Choice

What makes the difference is how quickly we can become aware of this. 

As we change our relationship with suffering, we stop speaking only about the pain and begin recognizing the blessing.

Because that suffering made us stronger.
It made us more grateful.
It gave us experience.

And there, we’ve made alchemy.

It is at that point where we take the medicine behind all of our experiences, and we empower ourselves in the process.

That is the great choice we can make in favor of our well-being.

This is what truly expands our consciousness, and what truly empowers us as we walk upon this Earth.

We pray to the love of this universe that it may help us transform our relationship with pain into one of blessing. So that perhaps one day, we may become medicine for others.

But at the very least, may we become medicine for ourselves.

And may we recognize from our hearts this truth: 

Nothing is simply good or bad.

And yes, everything is medicine.

A SEED TO CARRY

Think of one experience in your life that you once believed should never have happened.

Without forcing yourself to call it good, and without denying the pain it caused, look at everything that came after.

What did you learn?
How did it change you?
What did it reveal about your limits, your strength, your humility, or your capacity to begin again?

The invitation is not to deny what hurt. It is to recognize what life has made from it.

Because it is in that moment, when our relationship with suffering begins to change, where we consciously take the medicine behind all of our experiences.

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