There are things that we are attached to that help to keep us bound somewhere in between then and now.
Even when we look forward towards what we dream of our fear of falling makes the familiarity of who we have been a much more comfortable place to hang on to.
Those items that hold our view are the moments that we either have to get past or work through in order to find value in our present selves.
Choosing what we see and feel while being enfolded by the duality of unhappy and happy of each day has always been a choice that we have had the power to develop along our journeys.
Imagine what you would be doing differently if your problem was solved.
How would your reflection in the mirror look to you if that statement were the truth?
What tune would beat in your heart from the relief of no longer having that mess?
Would your smile now radiate like the sun and your embrace feel like being wrapped in a blanket on a cold day?
When we take the time to get a glimpse of what we can look like in the next moment or perhaps tomorrow, its like we are planting seeds of joy that can grow as we go slowly into the process of learning to step ahead.
With each shuffle that we take between the before and the current, we get a little closer to figuring out how to show up for ourselves by expanding our view of how it all flutters within our hearts and then the possibility of transforming it.
We tend to think that growth will lead to happiness but progress actually walks hand in hand with love and that emotion is about the honesty of all the ways that we have experienced our lives not just the pieces that are enjoyable.
Love, like change and forgiveness, is nourished in the way we unfold our stories of weeds, storms, dragons and the blah because landing places will fade in our memories but the affects of the debris on our trails will linger long after we have passed those locations.
Some things can simply be let go of and it will be okay for us but other parts require us to overcome not only what hurts but to do it while not feeling good about ourselves and our surroundings.
We don’t have to like the unhappiness and the grief that flourishes on pathways and in the garden of our hearts but they are a part of our rides that lead to working through our messes to find the treasures that live there as well.
The sun is back but it doesn’t look like what we are use to thinking defines it’s appearance so don’t worry so much about the weather.
That glow can be seen shining in simple and big ways in the form of kind words, tears of laughter and pain, colors, singing out of tune, moving our view and hugs but especially in our continuing to look for help until we find what’s just right for us.
Have the best day POSSIBLE for you. Love Always, Heavell
Days awaken with beginnings and conclude with endings all the while being filled with our moments and as each new period emerges, what has been on the previous pages is not what we should believe about ourselves as they exist just as pieces of the tales that need to be told.
Locations can become comfortable places for us to remain in even when we are distressed in those positions because fear makes it seem far safer to stay within what’s familiar than it is to venture into the unknown in the sunlight around the bend.
Hope is the nourishment that our seeds of possibilities need because without it, we would fall back from our “f” moments and never imagine or try stepping forward again.
Flowers are the colorful visuals of the things that we want just as dragons represent the things that we don’t desire but together those two very descriptive words share the similarity of materializing in a variety of forms that we are often unable to easily recognize simply because we think they should look like what’s found in the stories of others.
Storms dilute our feelings of love and happiness restricting our ability to show up for ourselves but when we practice the act of living them, they slowly change from periodic emotional encounters into the beams that light our way whether the sun is concealed from our view or not.
Smiles can be used to hide what appears to be our imperfections but when we embrace the marks found within us, we grow the grins that depict the stages of our works of art in progress.
People, places and things will disrupt our movements and muddy our palettes but by expressing our own true colors, we paint the beauty of the rainbows that come from the joining of our particular sun and rain.
And journeys are not just about getting to a destination because once we arrive at that wished for point, its value, like the excitement for it, will eventually fade but what we learn about ourselves as we navigate through the prickles will always be the best blooms that take with us.
So don’t worry about the weather because in a life that is so very heavell, the most perfect days can hold weeds of unhappiness that stick with us and the scary dark ones can contain lights that we can trust to lead the way.
Have the best day POSSIBLE for you. Love Always, Heavell
Do you believe that someone’s smile can be seen as a beacon in another person’s stormy day even if that individual is in the rain as well?
Do you believe that a song, through its lyrics, notes and tempo, can give voice to the feelings that a variety of people just haven’t quite been able to convey themselves?
Do you believe that black and grey colors can represent a great love despite their normally being viewed as either gloomy or intense?
All of those things require imagination in order to visualize them as something other than what we would typically think of. The same can be said about change and our desire for it because it’s a slow process that we can easily become dissuaded from when we find ourselves feeling and seeing what we are use to because of its familiarity in our lives. It’s a little like wishing for brightness in the tomorrows as we look back down our path staying focused on our marks of distress and darkness while still hoping that some kind of light will find us. How we make sense of the magic of transformation is by understanding that we have to move through what is in the way such as the limited definitions of the words in our stories so that in the times that we can’t trust that our smiles are from happiness, we can still be all right.
Do you believe that each day begins with a blank canvas or an empty page so that we may keep attempting to narrate our kinds of epic tales in better manners as we discover more and more about ourselves?
Do you believe that within the chaos of the items that what we don’t want there are also the parts that hold the proof of growth and possibilities?
Do you believe that seeds will develop roots and perhaps some type of buds depending upon their environment and what we fertilize them with?
Those sentences are merely words that have been placed together in a particular order much like how brush strokes join different hues to impart the visual of an encounter. The power of what they connect to depends upon what rhythm is beating in our hearts and sometimes our reaction will feel really strong as what we are meeting with on the inside is also what we focus upon on the outside. Turn by turn, though, that can be modified by recognizing the things that haven’t been working for us all along even if they have been a comfortable place for us to lay down in.
Do you believe that our needing to change is an indication that we require different ways to nourish ourselves particularly across our emotional experiences?
Do you believe that its achievable to move forward without being uncomfortable on at least some of the areas of our rides?
Do you believe that it is possible to show up and love ourselves even when we don’t like all that we are or have been?
Too much of anything isn’t good for us because it leads to what sticks, limiting our ability to find all the ways that light actually exists in and around our travels in the darkness as well as encouraging us to think that simple definitions won’t restrict our series of movements as long as we have hope. Curiosity and compassion for ourselves helps us to foster our stories by moving our view on how we approach the change that we need as well as the reshaping that enfolds us whether we want it to or not. In all that glitters, what sticks is not meant to stay because it’s a balancing act as we add and leave behind both the sun and the rain.
Have the best day POSSIBLE for you. Love Always, Heavell
Throughout our lives we are aware of people, places and things that we think are in need of fixing, including ourselves.
What’s not there, though, is the understanding that how we approach the knowledge that change is necessary determines whether we see ourselves as belonging in the category of broken items or the one in which a different nurturing is essential for growth.
Transformation requires us to believe that we are indeed possible in order for us to truly engage in it but it’s pretty hard to imagine being a mystical beast slayer or the writer of a story of love when we find ourselves listed with fragmented objects that are usually tossed aside.
Modification begins at the point where we recognize what hasn’t worked for us but that idea isn’t just about our missteps on our journeys as it also includes perceiving of the actions that we have attempted in order to help ourselves that haven’t worked despite giving it our all.
Learning what’s best in encouraging our blooming is a slow process of trial and error in search of the success of what connects with our individual selves not the hunt for proof of being impossible regardless of the murmurings of dragons that imply that’s who we are.
Continuing to pass by the view that we have repeatedly stared at and breathed in persuades us to separate parts of ourselves such as strength and pain as well as courage and fear as if having one means that we can’t also be holding the hand of the other or that the value of the sun far exceeds the rain even though everything needs both in varying amounts in order to thrive.
Feelings are situational and while it may seem like happiness is a dream to get to in the tomorrows, traveling the path of discovering how to show up for ourselves includes being all right with not being all right when the clouds come rolling in because joy doesn’t disappear when we are in the weeds but we may have to wait a little longer to locate it’s less obvious position within ourselves.
So look in the mirror and ask yourself this question, “What is it that I don’t like about myself?” Breathe while being honest with your answer. Now invite what you do like about yourself to be seen as well and if that’s harder to do then practice at it because it means you have been too comfortable with growing the vocabulary seeds that keep you on the needing to be fixed list when you are not actually broken.
After all, colors can be changed to fit how we feel in our moments but we remain the same in our capabilities within that fluctuation.
Musical notes are rearranged every day to create new songs but the sound that each individual one makes remains the same within those opportunities.
Love can be defined by a single term or millions can come together and still not quite express it but the feeling of it remains the same in every experience of it.
And words can be planted in the fields of our hearts and minds but what flourishes depends upon what we focus on but we remain the same in being viable no matter how long it takes for us to recognize that we need to nurture ourselves.
Have the best day POSSIBLE for you. Love Always, Heavell
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