A couple of weeks ago, I attended a meeting with natural health women entrepreneurs… We were discussing the challenges we are all facing in building and maintaining our businesses while trying to spread the message we believe in. A friend summed it up in: “We need to learn to feel secure in midst of insecurity”… This immediately resonated with me… It brought me back to the meaning of TRUST…
Do you trust that you are loved; you are guided, you are protected by the highest power of all… By God?
Do you feel that your life, your trials, your challenges and pains have a higher meaning and reason? Do you believe that they have a purpose that may not be clear to you just yet?
The whole ‘New Agey’, ‘mind-body’ movement trained us years back to re-formulate our thoughts… call our problems challenges and our pains lessons. Unfortunately, it is not as simple as that… This ‘reformulation’ business led people to deny their pains and problems and to even beat themselves up for not being ‘grateful’ enough or powerful enough or wise/enlightened enough to withstand them… We can fool everyone, but we cannot fool ourselves… We can fake a smile on our lips, but we cannot fake it in out hearts…
Re-formulation should start with acknowledgement… acknowledgement that we are human, with all the human limitations… We have the right to feel pain, to cry, to be frustrated, to object… We have the right to scream in anger and fall down in tears… this is not lack of gratitude. These are rightful human emotions. If we do not let them out, they will eat us on the inside.
This of course does not give us the right to be nasty, inconsiderate or rude, nor to be wimpy and whiny all the time… It just give us the right to be human… vulnerable and fragile at times.
From this vulnerability, strength and wisdom are born… Vulnerability is not weakness… It is the ultimate strength…
Strength to be ourselves…
Strength to know that we are enough… good enough, beautiful enough, wise enough…
Strength to embrace our pains and problems, learn from them not sink with them in a hollow pit…
Strength to show up everyday in life and keep going despite the wounds, despite the pain…
Strength to take off the cardboard mask that we were hiding behind and announce to the world who we truly are…
Strength to trust deep in our heart that we are loved, we are guided, we are protected in every step along our path…
Strength to admit that we might not understand the wisdom behind our current suffering, we might not be ‘happy’ about our pains and challenges; yet we are grateful… and our gratitude doesn’t mean we’re helpless… it doesn’t mean we’re victims… it doesn’t mean we have to succumb to our current reality… It means we stand up… show up… and keep going trusting that we are loved, we are guided, we are protected every step along our path…
Do you trust that you are loved; you are guided, you are protected by the highest power of all… By God?
Do you feel that your life, your trials, your challenges and pains have a higher meaning and reason? Do you believe that they have a purpose that may not be clear to you just yet?
The whole ‘New Agey’, ‘mind-body’ movement trained us years back to re-formulate our thoughts… call our problems challenges and our pains lessons. Unfortunately, it is not as simple as that… This ‘reformulation’ business led people to deny their pains and problems and to even beat themselves up for not being ‘grateful’ enough or powerful enough or wise/enlightened enough to withstand them… We can fool everyone, but we cannot fool ourselves… We can fake a smile on our lips, but we cannot fake it in out hearts…
Re-formulation should start with acknowledgement… acknowledgement that we are human, with all the human limitations… We have the right to feel pain, to cry, to be frustrated, to object… We have the right to scream in anger and fall down in tears… this is not lack of gratitude. These are rightful human emotions. If we do not let them out, they will eat us on the inside.
This of course does not give us the right to be nasty, inconsiderate or rude, nor to be wimpy and whiny all the time… It just give us the right to be human… vulnerable and fragile at times.
From this vulnerability, strength and wisdom are born… Vulnerability is not weakness… It is the ultimate strength…
Strength to be ourselves…
Strength to know that we are enough… good enough, beautiful enough, wise enough…
Strength to embrace our pains and problems, learn from them not sink with them in a hollow pit…
Strength to show up everyday in life and keep going despite the wounds, despite the pain…
Strength to take off the cardboard mask that we were hiding behind and announce to the world who we truly are…
Strength to trust deep in our heart that we are loved, we are guided, we are protected in every step along our path…
Strength to admit that we might not understand the wisdom behind our current suffering, we might not be ‘happy’ about our pains and challenges; yet we are grateful… and our gratitude doesn’t mean we’re helpless… it doesn’t mean we’re victims… it doesn’t mean we have to succumb to our current reality… It means we stand up… show up… and keep going trusting that we are loved, we are guided, we are protected every step along our path…
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