Amas Israel - Seasonal Shifts: The Journey From Our Breakdowns to Our Breakthroughs

SEASONAL SHIFTS

The Journey From Our Breakdowns to Our Breakthroughs

Amas Israel

The St oryBook Poet

Copyright 2021 by Amas Israel

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The information provided within Seasonal Shifts is meant to assist with your daily life and it is not meant to force or make any demands to how you should or should not live. The author of Seasonal Shifts is not responsible for the results of any actions following the reading of this book.

My purpose in life is: To teach our people who they are and what they represent. I accept that I have to take one of the many steps by writing this book! I am your friend and resource. I am The Sto ryBook Poet.

This book is written with the inspiration from my Father, Mother, Siblings, my Beloved Daughter, and every person who has believed they are somebody more than the y are today.

Table of Contents

SEASONAL SHIFTS

The Journey From Our Breakdowns to Our Breakthroughs

Amas Israel

The St oryBook Poet

Introduction

Can we all agree that a priority within each individuals life is balance?

As humans, we will strive, replace and do whatever is necessary to complete the priority of having balance. The areas we want to prioritize are family, work, friendships, community activities, etc., and when we do not accomplish that balance, it displays as a stronghold or what can be coined as an up hill battle.

The Bible tells us in James 1:8 (KJV), A double minded man is unstable in al l his ways.

This applies to us when we stop and think past religion or o ur feelings.

Two specific sections within our lives need to be exposed. With exposure comes an outcome that will reveal an un derstanding.

The Breakdown to The Breakthrough is a process that will vary throughout our seasons in life. You will be able to capitalize in both areas readin g this book.

When we analyze where we are in our own lives, we should conclude that a process took place, and we did not randomly end up in our cu rrent state.

A process happened. We are not born criminals; we are not born to hate, we are not born to kill, steal or rob anyone.

What happened was a process that lead those individuals to those outcomes, and that is the same with our Breakdown to our B reakthrough.

At the end of this book, your life will be transformed, and you will have come out better than when you started reading. I trust you will enjoy and appreciate th e easy flow.

As the reader, you will learn:

• What is T he Breakdown
• What is The Breakthrough
• The Process of The Breakdown and The Breakthrough
• What feelings and emotions are associat ed with each
• Practical personal management and developm ental skills

Lets get started!

Chapter 1

T he Breakdown

One of my favorite quotes that came into my life during my middle teenage years is, Seek first to understand then to be understood.

That applies to us all in every way possible because if we do not understand what is taking place around us, how can we grow and become better individuals at home, at our workplaces, and in our communities?

For my life, it is evident to me that I have had many shares of breaking down. I had breakdowns involving family, friends, school situations, the football field, and sometimes even m y workplace.

I sometimes felt I was going from 0 to 60 when the breakdown happened. It came like rushing water and sometimes felt like a drowni ng scenario.

That is surprisingly only half of what the breakdown is all about, and the spectacular part of what we will talk about is the process involved with th e breakdown.

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My experiences with the breakdown have grown over time, yet it remains. As a child, my breakdowns came more from my interactions with my parents after I was given directions that I did not want to accept or corrected in school for ba d behaviors.

As I grew, my breakdowns came through sports; school was part of it, just not behaviorally, but academically and sometimes within my community i nteractions.

I struggled with wanting to understand school and applying myself, which led to m y breakdown.

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The definition attributed to the Breakdown is to fail in strength or vitality. What does it mean when we fail in strength?

It means to become weakened within our physical body, spiritually, and/or mental capacity from an out side source.

We become weakened by that external source, and the emotions of hurt, fear, loss, and shame are introduce d within us.

Hurt explains a physical, mental, and/or spiritual hurt. Fear explains a scared, intimidated, and/or the unknow n component.

Loss explains the helplessness, confused, distracted emotional context, and shame explains an embarrassed, shocked, omitting behavio ral pattern.

I have fought against these emotions in my life because of a false sense of what a man is sup posed to be.

I brushed aside the signals that should have been catered to because of my ignorance of the mental understanding of what the breakdo wn entailed.

From this point, we will enter into the process of Th e Breakdown.

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The Process

We need to believe and accept that our lives are created with a process of events that happe n over time.

There is not a random act that placed us into our circumstances. For us to make the right choices, we need the right information and un derstanding.

If we make the process of childbirth until adulthood, we can visually and personally see the process. When we have to use the bathroom, that is not a random act that comes out of nowhere.

The process occurs from the external source that then reveals itself through our mind, then we act with an emotional and/or physic al response.

The Breakdown h appens with:

• The outside source: a person(s), a situation we are emotionally connected to, a physical, spiritual or emo tional hurt.
• The internal: the mind is powerful and easily manipulated; the uncontrollable thoughts, the hurt, fear, loss, and shame start to uncover themselves. Negative thoughts are recurring and starting to establish themselves.