That Moment.....

 That moment when you feel yourself breaking free. 

Unshackled. 

Shaking off the constraints that had you bound. 

Expanding, feeling weightless. 

Lesson seen, all the stages of this remarkable chapter laid down before you so you can watch the whole drama unfolding and being so joyous at realising what you have learnt.

Because you got it. 

You felt it, little light bulbs going off here and there, inklings that you were not being authentic to yourself. But you kept playing the role you cast for yourself, until that moment when you knew. When you saw, when you felt. This needs to stop.

I guess we never really acknowledge the difficult chapters of our human stories, especially the ones where we are a little off kilter, dependant, subservient, desperate, lonely. There is a long list of ways we let ourselves down as we joyfully skip off to repeat patterns over and over again. 

And yet these very chapters are the real gold in our humble little lives. These are the chapters where we have the greatest potential of personal growth.

And we should be grateful for them.

How conscious have we been? Especially with the conversations we get into. Of the words we speak and of the words that never leave our mouths, that simply buzz around our heads. How conscious are we in our interactions with others? How truthful are we with others? 

How truthful are we with ourselves?

Sometimes the lessons come where we are the main character, sometimes we are a co star and other times we simply make up the numbers.

Whichever situation we write ourselves into be sure that there is always something to learn.

Bearing witness of the self living this life. Moments of clarity where you feel yourself looking out through your eyes and wonder, truly wonder. 

Who Am I?

Really, who is this person living this life of days, of sunrises and sunsets and all the moments in between. If we don't concentrate its gone in a blink of an eye. But if we pay attention and learn to stop the story for awhile, to investigate why we feel out of sorts, it leads to wonderful life changing insights.

Stop. Listen. Feel. Release. 

Stop the story, stop the chatter. Spend some time on your own. 

Listen not to the outside world, but rather the inner dialogue, listen to your heart, what does it say? 

Feeling is the big one, because feeling those emotions that you have buried deep down, they are the real treasure. All those dark murky emotions of hurts and angers bubbling and boiling deep within you locked away, sometimes for a whole lifetime. 

Feeling this can be so incredibly intense that more often than not these emotions are boxed away within and forgotten about. 

Hidden and forgotten. 

But what if you really chose to feel them? 

Powerful raw and scary stuff!

And the release, that moment where suddenly a wave of emotions so overpowering comes seemingly out of nowhere and you find you are brave enough to let it flow.

All of it. 

Crying, screaming and expelling every negative emotion contained within. 

The intensity so overwhelming. 

And then suddenly the wave has broken, and the shackles fly free as it is released...........