“The cure for pain is in the pain” ~ Rumi
Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well & joyous this weekend. I’m so glad today is a new day…I won’t lie, I had a pretty rough day yesterday. The kinda day that leaves a really heavy feeling inside your gut, your mind, your heart. The kind of day that makes you feel off course and makes you doubt yourself with every breath you take. The kind of day where you become your minds’ bitch because you can’t make the negative chatter shut up! Have you had those days?
Well, I’m here today to tell you…THAT’s OK! It’s ok! Life isn’t perfect, we’re not perfect and things will happen that will make us fall off course. There’s this wonderful thing called “flow” in life. We’re in flow when we’re grooving right along, we have a sense of purpose & empowerement while life’s happening to us, we have good results, we’re flowing with the current of joy, our needs are met and all is good and beautiful. Then bam! It hits you! People you respect who are counting on you stand in front of you and speak the dreaded words “I’m very disappointed with where we are”. Your gut plunges to the floor, the rainbows & unicorns in your mind get knocked out of the way by a big, dark, heavy, nasty cloud. Now what?
Do you listen to your ego self, the part of you that so badly wants to make excuses and point fingers and blame everyone else…or do you lean into your higher self, the part of you that’s guided by God’s loving kindness and take full responsibility for your part in the situation and make it right? It is my experience that, however true it may feel that we had good justifiable reasons for doing what we did (or didn’t do) and there were others just as responsible for the results, taking the ego route is never the right thing to do. Just as Wayne Dyer says it, “EGO stands for Edging God Out” and it never leads to a victorious, feel good outcome. It never resonates as truth with God & others. It puts us in a weak position for creating change as we just cannot change others.
The second choice is the best but certainly not the easiest. It makes us face the less than perfect parts of ourselves, it requires us to confront pain. But it’s the choice that most aligns with truth. The thing about pain is that we must feel it to heal it…we must find the courage to go through the pain not around it. Or better yet, let it go through us. The only thing we fear is discomfort…and discomfort, my friends, doesn’t kill…it’s simply unpleasant. This is our opportunity to self reflect and grow from the experience.
Though it was very fun last night to let a wine buzz with a friend momentarily drown my pain, it was not the answer. This morning I knew exactly what I had to do to get back into flow & joy. I had to deliberately seek the much more sustainable “Devine” buzz, instead. I spent my earliest moments in prayer, in gratitude, in meditation and self reflection.
What I discovered in that still, sacred space between my thoughts, is that last week, on more than one occasion I ignored my “inner compass”. My instincts were leading me in a direction that I should have followed, but I didn’t. My inner GPS (God’s Positioning System) was screaming at me “TURN”, “TURN” but I ignored it. It later screamed at me a few more times, only this time it was “RECALCULATING” but I ignored that too and got off course and created results that were disappointing to many others.
I fell down, and out of joy and that’s ok! God made sure we come equipped with exactly what we need to get righ back into it, only with more wind behind our wings. Life is a beautiful dance…in & out of flow, in and out of joy, a dance that makes us so much stronger, a dance that brings us closer and closer to God. The heaviness has lifted. The lesson is crystal clear and the energy & passion to make things better has returned.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Love,
Dee??
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