How do you tell someone How to break free from the grips of hell When they’re the one With burns Cuts Scrapes Bruises And gashes; And all you’ve got are words From unblemished pages And pure intentions
I help busy people do inner work.
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How do you tell someone How to break free from the grips of hell When they’re the one With burns Cuts Scrapes Bruises And gashes; And all you’ve got are words From unblemished pages And pure intentions
You can’t force clarity.
Clarity is something that needs to be surrendered to.
Like when you’re in the middle of a big life decision—stuffing more “solutions” into your mind will probably only further confuse the matter. When what’s really needed, in most cases, is less stuff altogether so that the quiet, unmistakable voice that speaks from deep within can offer its solution based on the depth of knowledge that’s already there.
Try to force the mudded pond to settle and you’ll mud it more.
Surrender to the settling process and the pond floor suddenly starts to come into view.
Creating is self-expression in its rawest form.
We take already expressed things from the world, mix and mash them up with our ideas, and end up with a never before expressed thing that we get to share.
Which is why, the ultimate win from a creation is a renewed desire to create.
Because self-expression isn’t something that’s ever done—it’s as living and as breathing as we are. And the more we create—the more we express ourselves—the better we get to know ourselves.
It’s also our creations that act as the very foundation of our legacies—what better way to be remembered than by referencing what we uniquely expressed?
With that in mind, here are some gentle reminders for you to keep in your back pocket as you continue to create:
Remember, the ultimate loss from a creation is an extinguished desire to create.
To be mindful is to observe and label thoughts, feelings, and sensations in the body in an objective manner.
When we subject ourselves to the firehose of information that is social media, we lose touch with our objective understandings and become distracted and manipulated.
…We’d be naive to think our current state(s) isn’t being affected by our digital environments.
And regardless of the type of information (not all media is created equal), the real problem is in the wildly disproportionate amount of time people spend consuming vs digesting.
The reality in today’s world is that people’s appetites to consume is ever growing and the time they’re allotting for digestion (of said information) is ever shrinking.
And without digestion, consumption can have harmful, toxic, dire effects—which is precisely what many of us are experiencing.
If we’re going to use social media mindfully, we need to establish boundaries from the consumption and make more space for digestion.
This means space minus the phones. Conversation minus the screen(s). Walks minus the ear buds. Showers minus the Siri and Alexas. Waiting minus the feed-refreshing. Driving minus the podcasts. Experiences minus the highlight reeling…
…Life without the penetrating influences of everybody else’s life experiences.
Time to just settle and be.
Be someone who’s missed They said So I spent my life Collecting notifications From distant platforms To prove to myself That people think of me I thought But something was missed
Little wins I’m proud of today:
Little wins matter, too.
When someone needs help But, they aren't asking For the help they need Because they need help Asking for that kind of help I can't help but to hurt How to make sense Of what's helping too much And what's only going to hurt When hurt is what helps And help is what hurts It has to come from them But, what if it can't?