Friends,
How often does something feel absolutely enormous to you? Like, it's taking over your mind and soon your body feels heavy and weighed down and you can barely breathe? And how often do these "things" (for me, thoughts) even have any truth to them? How often do we literally feel like we are drowning in the untrue stories we are telling ourselves? NOTE: I am not talking about actual, horrendously difficult trials we are going through. Those are different!!! I am talking about thoughts that we have that create stories in our minds that are not even factual...
I had this happen yesterday morning. In one hour's time, I had told myself story after story after story - NONE of which were true. But these narratives that I told myself sure as heck created physical symptoms! They sure took up so much space in my head that I no longer had room for the truth - that I am worthy, that I am lovable, that I am just fine!!
In that hour's time, I did all the things - got up and moved my body, did some grounding exercises, prayed my guts out, wrote all of my thoughts on paper to get them out of my mind, played music, meditated --- ALL the things.
And here's how it went: just fine. I was just fine. In the end, I had self awareness of my imaginary stories that I was creating. I had the ability to go to all of my resources to quiet the stories. I did them. And I was fine.
In fact, in the end I was able to go breath by breath and bring myself back to true self. In the end, I was able to show myself grace. Not immediately, but eventually. Not right away, but after some time.
Focus on what is right in front of you and do that one minute or that one hour. Breathe through that right now emotion. Then tell yourself you did it. Then go to the next emotion or the next thought or the next feeling.
You got this. I promise!!!
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