“Settle down, it’ll all be clear.
Don’t pay no mind to the demons.
They fill you with fear.
The trouble it might drag you down,
If you get lost you can always be found.”
Song and Lyrics are HOME by Phillip Phillips
It is so easy some days to allow your mind to go racing about a million different things. it is so easy to watch the news, read Facebook Status’, listen to friends and co-workers and even family and get dragged down in to hopelessness.
I love that this song says to settle down.
BE QUIET
BE STILL
DON”T LISTEN TO YOUR FEAR
Leave room for yourself in your day, whatever it is that allows you to clear your mind, to refocus, to really feel like you and not what you believe you need to be for the world.
Allow Spirit to enter … “Make this place your home.” — While we are traveling this life, and its lessons we really need to understand that we are for now at home in the Universe … this is really where we need to be.
I know I have talked about her before — but the dear woman that I work with and for in the morning is a wealth of strength and insight. Yesterday she said to me .. “Even as messed up as you think you are some days, you are a very calming influence that helps all those around you.”
I hear this song soon after our conversation. “Don’t pay mind to the demons.” — Yeah, they are there. There are things that look us all right in the eyes and dare us to do something about it. Recognizing them … that is the key. In recognizing that yeah, I know a lot of my issues sometimes lately stem right from the fact that I don’t admit just how totally pissed off I am some days that Dean is no longer here. I know I am a person that even though I can listen to other people — I have a very hard time picking someone to talk to myself. Is that really strength? Or a fear of losing control? Or is it a lack of understanding how to articulate particular feelings into words — or is it merely the fact that these are the thoughts that drive one from sleeping and really, who wants to wake up someone in the middle of the night to be apart of your nightmare.
So, what is the demon, really, the fact that Dean left? Or the fact that Jenn does not want to admit that some days are harder than others and that she may not be as strong as is portrayed?
First step to any fear/demon — identify the real issue.
In order to do the first step one must be quiet enough to LISTEN.
RELEASE or it will drag you down.
Having trouble? No problem! Help will find you IF YOU ASK.
It does work. Honest. I have found that friends do not think me as whacked as I had envisioned for sharing a bit more of my personal world and being completely honest in what I say and do daily. Why be someone I am not and it is actually much more of a relief to just say what you want to say when you would like to say it than to second guess how each word or action will be received?
I would like to think that my “calming influence” on people is due to me admitting my own shortcomings and that really, we help each other. In a lot of ways, for the first time in my life I am more “me” than ever before. I know I feel very blessed and healed myself after healing/listening and helping others. Each time I teach a QiQong set I feel wonderful, does not even feel like work. Feels like I am exactly where I belong. There is a reward for following the path and being of service.
We all have our stuff. Or we wouldn’t be here. We are here to learn. We are here to love, not just each other but ourselves. Our humanness requires a certain amount of struggle to get that through our brains. Admitting that, Releasing that leaves us open to receive the healing and the love.
I am working on it — Inviting you to work on your own with me. Different paths all leading to the same enlightenment destination.
Be Well.