SUMMER: Your Body As Sacred VESSEL
SUMMER TIME….BIG, LONG DAYS to fill up with “““I’ve always wanted to do that”””….and so MUCH MORE!
On a well-being level, which means HOW ONE FEELS ABOUT SELF: DOES YOUR VESSEL that houses your bones and blood and organs feel too loose? Too tight? Broken? In need of repair?
Physically? Mentally? Emotionally? Spiritually - where your hopes and dreams live?
Aren’t you worthy of one-hour a day for yourself? YES YOU ARE!
How can ‘getting through __?__ pave the way to thriving? It does NOT.
You, who have given your life to others, are you selfish enough to take one-hour a day to find yourself?
Where can you find an hour?
What has got to go?
To BE oneself? Who is that? Who were you then? Who are you now? Who are you avoiding being?
This can be a challenging, even deeper problem than it may first appear, because there are energy patterns that hate joy, and to do anything one enjoys often produces guilt.
Many of us have become so ‘skilled’ at defending or justifying ourself, not even pausing to take a breath and NOTICE what we are doing, what ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOR(s) we have defaulted to.
REMINDER: We all have a couple dozen daily ‘addictions’….Carolyn Myss writes that daily addictions are not just physical habits—they are energetic and emotional patterns that we unconsciously engage in. These patterns create “energy leaks,” draining our inner power and preventing spiritual clarity, healing, and integrity—- often unconsciously.
Besides the more popular or ‘mainstream’ addictive patterns of eating, drinking, drugging, shopping, exercising, sex, television, screen time…
Which of the following whispers a curious question in you?
Being Right – Craving the satisfaction of proving others wrong.
Approval – Needing others' validation to feel worthy.
Worry – Obsessing as a false sense of control. following
Guilt/Shame – Reliving mistakes as a way to stay small.
Blame – Avoiding accountability by projecting onto others.
Drama – Needing intensity or chaos to feel alive.
Control – Needing everything to go “your way” to feel safe.
Victimhood – Using your story of pain to avoid change.
Judgment – Criticizing others to elevate yourself.
Resentment – Holding emotional debts and grudges.
Busyness – Avoiding stillness by staying overly occupied.
Information Overload – Consuming data to avoid feeling.
Fantasy/Projection – Living in imagined futures or pasts.
Storytelling – Retelling your trauma as identity.
Spiritual Bypassing – Avoiding real healing through idealism.
Suffering – Believing pain equals virtue or depth.
Fear – Letting fear dictate your choices.
Entitlement – Expecting others or the world to fix or owe you.
WHY IS IT THAT so as long as one’s duty is being fulfilled, however compulsively, that is considered acceptable???
TO STOP PUTTING ENERGY INTO DUTY, in order to release that energy for something creative for oneself, feels like being tossed in the washing machine, battered first on one side then the other—-
and where the ego is identified with change, it doesn’t know at first what to do.
It is so used to giving that is doesn’t believe it is worthy to receive, or else thinks that receiving is demeaning or selfish.
WHAT SIZE IS YOUR WORLD? What is the size of your reality? Expanding how you understand yourself: new possibilities, a new consciousness—— an expanded concept of YOUR power—-helps relax, realign and although it can feel risky, can yield to you Grace.