The deepness of us

If you are like me and most others, you feel confident for the most part. You may have accepted your “flaws” in the name of self-love. You may feel like you have healed your childhood wounds.

But suddenly you feel “off” and something has seriously knocked you off your game. After some reflection and checking in with your intuition, you recognize an old familiar pattern, one that you know well.

It’s a wound you had thought you were done with and put to bed. Like a quick snake that launches an attack before you even know it’s there, it sneaks up on you and bites you in the ass.

You’ll get the discomfort from it in different ways and you’ll feel it in different places in your body. Often it shows up in places where your tension or anxiety like to hang out. (Hello again, solar plexus.)

Body experiences can range from annoying discomfort to debilitating or even worsening chronic pain, depending on the depth of where something lives in you and how long it’s been hidden from your everyday awareness.

Clearly there is more to this old wound deep inside that is holding you back, and as much as it pisses you off, annoys you, or even saddens you, you know that it’s with you to help you further your growth.

You also know that while perfection is never expected, witnessing what is happening in your body so it can be seen, heard, and appreciated for its visit is the ultimate goal.

This is how we expand. We are always a work in progress in our human lives. There is always a deeper level of understanding about issues that come up for us to heal. We like to think it’s a one-and-done, but we need to be ready to reflect more and look at the additional places that the energy has informed and reminded us of. It’s in that reflection and understanding that the healing will happen.

Using your voice will be part of this discomfort. Why? Because we are constantly challenged to use our voices at greater and greater levels to express our true essence, our true needs. When we hold back, even when we don’t consciously recognize we are holding back, we’re not getting the honest messages out around us or even to ourselves that remind us of our worth and value.

The discomfort can make us think we need to fix something, but we don’t. We’re simply having human experiences that teach us that there are greater levels of healing, voice and happiness to reach. We need only connect to it and uncover all we know about it.

Let yourself go deep into your understanding of what’s happening for you. No judgments of it or of yourself.

There are layers and more layers and likely more layers waiting for all of us. Life is a learning, not a finish line.

Just as I had to remind myself this week …

You’ve got this, my friend. xo