Imagine yourself at the beginning of a trail that looks like it will be effortless because in the distance you can see the sunlight streaming through the trees, that the edges of the path are lined with small grasses as well as blooms, and that the walkway is level as well as free from debris. So, with positive feelings about being there and the hope that it’s going to lead to a beautiful place, you move forward with curiosity into what is unfamiliar with the idea that it will be a relatively easy task and that you’ve got this. You admire your surroundings along the way and smile as birds happily flit from tree to tree and you breathe in the fresh air but as time drags on and the location remains out of your view, your excitement and pace begin to slow down. Suddenly you realize that the uncomplicated trail has evolved into twists and turns and has periodic cliffs and that those little clumps of sweet grasses on the sides have been replaced with dense weeds that are narrowing the trail and somehow seem to be moving even though it’s a calm day. The question of “why did I even commence on this journey?” starts to creep into your thoughts, distracting you, and you stumble over a rock that you didn’t even notice. So, now you lower your sight to keep from tripping again, but instead end up falling into a bush that has prickles because you didn’t see a tree branch that was hanging across the path. As you pick yourself up, you get a glimpse through that thicket of an individual on a different trail who is holding a bouquet of flowers and smiling. You don’t know what that person had to go through to get those blooms, but that grin feels like a thorn in your heart and the emotions that gave you the courage and the belief to begin your journey slip silently into the shadows. You turn and look at what you went through and wish you were back at the start where safe enough existed and life was at least familiar. You then rotate and look towards the unknown, wary of what has yet to be, and doubt whether you can continue especially since there isn’t a guarantee that you will like what you find. Even that powerful voice of hope that you heard so clearly for so many steps has become merely background noise while those weeds are thicker, and you can’t move without them touching you. Do you go through, or do you go back? Or will you walk in circles for your matter of time unable to commit to either? Now replace the details of this imaginary story with the particulars that can be found in your kind of life. It seems like life is easy when we only have positive emotions but without the negative ones, we wouldn’t even be able to recognize and enjoy the favorable ones. Our difficulties lie not in the emotions that we don’t want but in our not giving ourselves a moment to be curious as to why they are there and when we don’t pause to hear them, our personal experiences turn emotions into feelings whose voices are really loud and get expressed in ways that immobilize us. It seems like life is easy on a different trail or in a narrative where you can just skip the parts that you don’t want or at a new location but then that wouldn’t be the better story about you and all the authentic ways that you have encountered life. Today is a good day to be curious about the debris that has been tripping you up. Feel it because it is always all right to not always be all right just like it is in all grand narratives and then ask yourself “how would I like to see myself dealing with it now” while giving yourself some time to answer. After all, we share more than you realize through our emotions but it’s the particulars of our personal experiences that makes us who we are and it’s why we have to show up for ourselves. Oh, hell and the movement of the weeds can happen on a calm day because they are like just like unseen rocks on a trail or dragons that appear out of nowhere that cause us to stumble and fall no matter where we are or how positive and hopeful, we are. Have the best day POSSIBLE for you. Love Always, Heavell
We apologize for the delay of including a link to our partner website. We had some serious weeds to move through and while we are still dealing with some debris, we are excited about the possibilities and the tools that Skywriting.net can bring to our journeys.
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