Restart, Transform & Renovate your Life like a Falcon

Rawad Sheikh
5 min readFeb 24, 2021

There is a strong scientific fact about the Falcon, the Falcon as we all know is one of the strongest birds genre, he got a big claws, a great beak, and he is so focused, poised, determined in achieving his goal and destination, he is so perceptive, challenger, calm, wise, both mentally and physically resilient.

No wonder many of eminent organizations as well as nations encapsulate all the aforementioned mental/physical traits of the falcon by merging the falcon as part of its Logo to deepen what it stand for.

The Falcon’s average age is 40 years old, yet some falcons live up to 70 years, How possible is that??

When the Falcon approaches 40 years old, his feathers start degenerating and sticking together to the extent he is unable to fly on a high altitude as before. Besides, his claw and beak become week and decay slowly where he no longer is able to hunt preys. Thus, he dies at the maximum average age among his peers at the end of 40 years.

This tragic fate happens to all Falcons at the age of 40 years old EXCEPT for a one type of Falcons that maintain its stillness; strength among these inevitable and predestined symptoms, hence is able to transform its Fate.

How then the Falcon is able to transform his predestined and unavoidable, inescapable Fate??

Once this Falcon, realize his weakness as the end of 40 years of his life is approaching, he immediately hunt a sizeable prey that last him for the next 150 days, and take it up to a very high altitude he could ever possibly reach in the high mountains, during the 150 days, he commence his transformation, he pluck his own feather, and on rocks, he starts breaking his own claws as well his beak. Can you imagine how painful this process? Scraping his own beak and claws over and over the rough firm rocks until he remove them completely .All this transformation process take place at a painful conditions among the unforgiving freezing cold of the high mountains, he stays there for 150 days until he has a totally brand new grown feathers, new claws and beak.

Now, the falcon can go back fly and hunt fiercely as strong as before and is able to extend his life span for an additional 40 years.

This inspiring story teach you and me the following

· Never give up, life is challenging, do not die early, some people souls die early even though they are still physically alive

· You can transform your life at any point no matter your age, circumstances, space you are interfacing

·Life is not here to make you happy until you transform, you probably heard this phrase (life is here to challenge you)

Ever wondered Why Life keeps on challenging you on many ways and on different levels? Ever wondered when your struggles could possibly end?

ANSWER is: The struggles you have, the pain and the sorrow, the grief, the anger, the self –pity, the depression, anxiety and the list goes on , are happening for a reason and that reason my dear is : To find your TRUE ESSENCE and IDENTITY beyond YOUR LIFE STORY (whither a Glorious or Misery life story you got now) YOUR PAST, FUTURE STRUGGLES stories you are dealing with RIGHT NOW. Ask your self how a Rock could be Transformed into a Diamond without pain and high pressure /struggling conditions, How a Pearl could ever be identified without breaking its shell.

Pain and struggles in different forms are in most cases INEVITABLE AND UNAVOIDABLE UNTIL YOUR SHELL IS BROKEN and THE PEARL or DIAMOND is IDENTIFIED. This identity is your true self-identity, you are the pearl, you are the diamond, you are inseparable from it, there is nothing called me and my self. You and your self are ONE, you are inseparable from your self, You DON’T HAVE a RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR SELF, YOU ARE ALREADY YOUR SELF, THE DIAMOND THE PEARL, The One which is inseparable from LIFE, you are LIFE, you are ONE WITH THE UNIVERSE. Having a relationship with your self (me and my self as a separate entity) create EXTENSIVE Endless struggles for you and others because, you get stuck in a cycle where one day you love your self, and the other day you hate your self, one day you feel your self superior among others, and treat others with superiority to enhance the sense of your self and the other day you feel inferior among other important affluent people or people who are much skillful or acquire much more materials, knowledge or beauty, and that what create evil and misery in the world, because you spend all your life trying to make this self look good , feel good , have more , enhance it in front of others even if you stepped on others along the way, and in case you failed , you live with the defeated , small , inferior , jealous, victimized self , both are a dreadful way of living .

In order to realize your true self identity which is the timeless, eternal, unbeatable, unbreakable, the STILL self rooted in Intense Focused Presence, Peace, Surrender, Love as well as gratitude and honor for life, a self that uses its Five Senses beyond labeling to honor and connect with its body and the universe without naming or labeling this or that .

In order to realize you are the eternal shining diamond regardless what is happening in the surface and in your reality of struggles, pain and challenges which will keep on happening in different forms until you realize you are the formless and eternal in your essence which is in other word you are the peace + stillness within and without.

Surprisingly, once you realize this, your true identity, you will be amazed how the outside straggles and pain forms that are currently taking place in your own life will slowly fade, decay and override to outer joyful, happy, abundant reality in your life.

Remember always, All got to emerge within, inside transformation leads to outside form transformation.

Inside transformation is = to the realization of your true essence, true identity of the timeless eternal presence, live vibrant existence (like a tree) beyond the thinking mind of your past, future stories or struggles taking place in the now, these struggles could range from something simple like (traffic, flight cancellation,,etc. ) or major like ( car accident , wedding cancellation , lost of loved one , lack of finance ,,etc.)

All these painful and unpleasant various outer forms that is taking place now in your life can transcendent to pleasure and joy once you realize your true being, your true identity, the Still, Calm, Peaceful, Timeless, Eternal, Untouched, Unbreakable, Immune, the eternally brightening shining being like a diamond

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Rawad Sheikh

I am a Female Artist, with passion for wellbeing, organic lifestyle, Dancing, Art and Human culture www.rawad.art @rawad.artist , @the_wellness_space