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Poison Control Center
Would you drink Antifreeze?
No you say, its poisonous?
Lets look at antifreeze. Antifreeze is odorless, colorless and tastes sweet. A little bit won’t kill you you may barely notice it. Drink a little more and slowly in time the body begins to feel ill. A little more antifreeze cardiac problems ensue then leading to acute kidney failure and then death.
Negative energy is like antifreeze. The first doses of it, you cannot feel its affects. You may not even notice it working in your system. A little more of that bad ju ju and you start to feel lethargic, sad, physically weakened, the mind and body’s defenses start breaking down. But your mind tells you you can take it, it will pass. Keep taking in higher doses of negative energy, more serious affects follow. The heart and spirit shut down, we shrink to a image of our former selves. We’re delirious not knowing how we got to this point, and we see we are dying.
So, why do we ingest negative energy then when it is poisonous?
What labels or identifying marks can we put on negativeness so we know to avoid it?
Who or what in your life is toxic?
There is more to gratitude than being thankful.
So much has been written and told of gratitude. Feeling full of gratitude myself, I turned to the dictionary to see what Merriam Webster had to say:
gratitude |ˈgratəˌt(y)oōd|
noun
the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness
Ah ha! “readiness to show appreciation for and return kindness”. We often are thankful, appreciative and grateful in our lives but do we return sincere kindness? If the kindness is not sincere then the fullness of gratitude is lessened.
So today, I am going to try to return the kindness for all things and people I have thankfulness for. Expand the dimension of gratitude just a bit further, expand on my return of kindness and reciprocation. I can only imagine that it would expand my heart and my place in the world.
I will let you know how it goes…
Be an explorer
The celebrated Sir Edmund Hillary climbed Mt. Everest in 1953. He faced bitter cold, difficulty in breathing at altitude, equipment challenges.
In 1947 Thor Heyerdahl sailed a reed raft across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands to test a theory that people traveled by using only the materials and technologies available during pre-columbian times. He faced ridicule by his peers for the concept, faced the weather of the Pacific and finally his raft struck a reef.
Amelia Earhart in 1937 attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe. She had two prior attempts which included mechanical failures, unfavorable weather patterns, and always the fear of reaching her fueling stations.
So you are thinking, yes all these people are great explorers, how could I possibly add my name to that list?
When you do the work to explore your inner self are you facing the unknown. It won’t make the cover of National Geographic but it takes courage, guts, fortitude to look inside and see your truth. There will be times where you cannot think of putting one foot in front of the other, as Sir Edmund Hillary must have thought as he climbed Everest.
You may be ridiculed as Thor Heyerdahl was, but it did not stop him because he believed in his vision, his project and his mission.
To navigate your heart and your life there will be failures, you may have to make several attempts like Amelia Earhart.
To explore you will be scared, you will feel fear, and so did these three explorers.
To explore your true self can be as steep a climb, as wide as an ocean, or as vast as the sky. You are an explorer in the truest sense of the word.
Add your name to the list!