Normalize people working with expert inner-workers (therapists) so that they can better understand the inner-workings that drive literally 100% of their experience of life.
Placing (and accepting) a stigma on this is to rob people of a chance to live their most fulfilled life.
Do not think that today will come without challenges.
To think so would be naive and in contradiction to the countless challenging days that have come before.
No.
Instead, think that today’s challenges will be met with the inner strength, resilience, and resolve that has helped you overcome the endless list of the challenges that have come at you before.
And with this… head into your day with your posture straight, mindset ready, and smile on for whichever sorry challenge makes its way onto your path first.
Because onto that endless list it too shall go.
P.s. I’m giving away the first 3 meditations from my new guide away for free to anyone who shares it—on social media or wherever. If this is you and I missed you, reply to this email and I’ll send them to you asap! And if you don’t really do social media, reply and I’ll send them to you anyway :)
Whatever hardship you’re going through right now remember: This too shall pass.
…What you do while it passes, however, is worth talking about, too.
Try and suppress, ignore, hide, or run and the passing will take longer.
Remain present, open, reflective, soft, and connected (to yourself and others)—and the passing will come sooner.
Time shouldn’t be the end-all-be-all strategy.
Inner work is the real means for having this, too, pass… and sooner.
P.s. I shared a book update today. 👀
I can think back to several times in my life when I could’ve easily died.
And I think about all the proud things I’ve done since those days.
And I think about all of the beautiful interactions I’ve had with others since those days.
And I think about how much progress I’ve made on my path towards self-actualization since those days.
And all of this reminds me that luck is undeniably a part of my life’s equation.
Because I think of the countless others… people whom I knew personally… people who were younger than I… people who were stronger than I… people who acted less recklessly than I… people who were wholesome, good-hearted people… people who were met with just one thread of bad luck…
…And it was there that it all ended for them.
And I think about how this could’ve been me 10, 20, 30 years ago.
And I think about how much I would’ve missed if it had been.
And I think about how there’s no guarantee which way luck goes for any of us moving forward.
And it is with this in mind, that I do my damn best to make sure I don’t waste a single one of these gifts that are bundled up in moments that others would’ve given literally ANYTHING for.
…And I hope, with this in mind, you might do the same, too.
P.s. In case you missed it, you can read the best of what I posted to MoveMe Quotes last week, here.
It can be tempting (now more than ever) to let: likes; saves; praise; comments; shares—signal to us our worth.
“The more I get = the more I’m valued = the more I’m loved”
…So tempting.
…But, so backwards.
The goal isn’t to GET signaled our worth…
The goal is to STEP INTO our worth and send a strong ass signal out for all of those within our worlds to receive.
This way, we don’t become who/what the latest trends/algorithms tell us to become… we tell the world who we are and let the right interactions happen from there.
Right people interactions >>> Greatest number of digital reactions.
Don’t get it twisted.
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There’s a difference between avoiding your triggers and AVOIDING your triggers.
When you consciously avoid people who spew toxicity, for example, that’s strategy.
When you AVOID the feelings that arise when you’re triggered and suppress/ numb/ hide—that’s not strategy—that’s a slow tragedy.
P.s. In case you missed it, you can read the best of what I posted to MoveMe Quotes last week, here.
Emotional turbulence doesn’t usually come about all at once. It’s usually the result of an ongoing accumulation of emotional messages that get overlooked and ignored until they pile into an overwhelming mountain of unread messages—which, then, triggers inner turbulence.
…It happens when we say we don’t have time, we’re too busy, or when we keep ourselves blindly distracted. Yet, we have time to incessantly check email and swipe every notification that pops up on our phone?
Maybe, if we took some of that incessant energy that’s pointed towards “productivity” and “networking” and used it to read even just a small portion of the emotional messaging our body sends us… we’d be a helluva lot less turbulent and anxious.
And, heck, we’d probably be a helluva lot more productive and present for proper networking, too.