After going through rough times, we may lose our identity. These frightening moments in life may feel like being hit by a truck. After we have mended ourselves through treats and self-love and gotten back on our feet how can we come back to a space of joy? It tough. Due to circumstances from the past, we may have become addicted to feelings of sadness, grief or anger. These feelings become dysfunctional friends that won’t seem to leave us because we hold onto them so tightly. In life we choose what we think and feel, and we are responsible for how our life turns out. Even though the patriarchal culture has told us we are in fact powerless over our feelings and thoughts that is a lie. We have the power to build the lives we want by thinking in light ways. All feelings come up, but we can let them move through our bodies one slow breath at a time. In every life there is a moment where we can transmute our old karma by making the decision to let go of the past. By choosing to have faith and living in self-love the voice of the inner critic is diminished. We remember we are not victims but heroines and heroes of our own stories. Lately I have been working on a new technique to keep me grounded and present. I have been honing in on my pelvis and hips and really feeling those areas. I am not religious but the phrase “thy rod and thy staff they comfort me” keeps buzzing in my ear. The rod is the masculine right side of the body and the feminine is the left side. So, in some ways from the pelvis down the leg is the rod (the right side) and the staff (the left). These places of comfort reside inside us which means we have all the love and peace we are seeking within our own beings. When I feel my body, I am drawn to the present moment. I get out of the negative head space and allow my higher power to pour into my crown and that keeps me light filled.
The ego does not give up easily so as I’ve been practicing staying present and in joy, I can feel my body/mind jonzing to go back to the old ways of overthinking and being stuck in sadness and negativity. This process is not dissimilar to putting down the drink, or the drug or the food. We get to ask the universe for help, and it is given. As we get used to releasing the old negative tapes and inviting in the new ways of thinking in it becomes easier. I am noticing this sense of peace and well-being arising from
my efforts.
A friend always says to me “love is simple, and fear is complicated”. After living in negativity for many years I have come to realize that it is time to put down these addictive thoughts. Nobody is going to save me. “The universe and I meet my needs” another quote from my wise friend. Loving self-talk can turn internal monologues of fear into those of love. What a gift that is to myself and all those around me.
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