There are moments in life when your chest feels tight, your breath shallow, and your thoughts scatter like birds startled from a tree. Moments when you wonder if something inside you might actually snap. But what if this moment, the one that feels like your breaking point, is not a collapse at all, but the beginning of a quiet, powerful rising?
Nature gives us metaphors that speak directly to the human heart, and one of the most powerful is the airplane at takeoff.
If you have ever sat in a window seat right above the wing, you know the feeling. The engines begin to hum, then growl, then roar with a force that vibrates through your ribs. The plane gathers speed, faster, faster, and for a few breathless seconds, the entire cabin trembles. You grip the armrest. The metal beneath you shudders as if the whole aircraft is fighting the very air it is about to enter. It feels like too much power, too much pressure, too much noise.
And then, in a moment so subtle you barely sense it, the wheels release the ground.
What felt like breaking was actually the exact amount of force needed to rise.
This is what the soul does too. Right before your next chapter begins, something inside you shakes. Life speeds up. Old patterns strain. Emotions you thought were buried resurface. You feel the pressure of becoming too big for the life you once fit into. It feels like something is pushing you to your limit, but in truth, it is pushing you toward your lift-off.
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The caterpillar's story is no gentler. Inside the cocoon, the transformation is not soft or poetic. It is raw. The caterpillar does not simply grow wings. It dissolves into a kind of liquid chaos. Its old form literally breaks down. If you could press your ear to that cocoon, you might hear the quiet ache of becoming. It would feel warm, dark, tight a place where everything familiar is gone and nothing new is visible yet.
This is the part most of us recognise.
The part where you whisper, I don't know who I am anymore.
The part where you feel suspended between what was and what will be.
The part where the world expects you to move forward, but your heart hasn't caught up.
But inside this darkness, something extraordinary is assembling itself.
Wings.
Colour.
A future that requires your surrender before it reveals your strength.
If you find yourself in this space now, allow yourself to feel it without fear. You are not breaking apart. You are breaking open. And every rise, every reinvention, every powerful becoming begins with this sacred discomfort.
Pause when your body asks.
Speak gently to the parts of you that tremble.
Trust the tension.
It is shaping you.
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How Hypnotherapy Can Support Your Breakthrough
As a clinical hypnotherapist, I often meet people in the exact moment when their internal world feels like that trembling airplane or that dissolving cocoon. Hypnotherapy offers a safe, soothing space where the mind can loosen its grip, where emotional pressure softens, and where the deeper layers of you finally have room to breathe.
Together we gently release what no longer serves you, quiet the fears that keep circling in your mind, and reconnect you to the calm inner ground you forgot you had. For many, this becomes the turning point. Not because I change you, but because I help you hear the version of yourself that has been trying to rise beneath the noise.
If you are standing at the edge of your breaking point, know this.
Your wings are already forming.
Your runway is beneath you.
And your sky is closer than you think.
When you are ready, I would be honoured to walk with you toward your breakthrough.
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About the Author: Mrunalni Bagal
