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Hey and hugs for wherever your now finds you…
It is my hope you are standing…
…not stewing,
…fretting,
…worrying,
…doubting,
…shaming,
…judging,
…distrusting,
…fearing,
…accusing,
…attacking,
…criticizing – –
YoUrSeLf …
We applaud babies when they take their first roll…first crawl, first steps, and stumbles….
But we run from doing so for the rest of our lives….unless we self justify and seek applause from others because we prove we’re running ‘toward’ something.
Of course if others deem the sought after pursuit as worthy and give this applause, and we’re empty all the while, we tend to ignore that, again and again and again…and keep running…and keep seeking something else worthy of being applauded.
But where it matters most…in our hearts….we are fully aware the running continues….and if we’re more honest even still we know we keep running from….not toward…
~ from the who we yearn to be…
~ from the sculpting of moments that enables us to squelch the strongholds of fear, which is really ALL we’re ever asked to do…
And this cycle of running from fear becomes such a part of our disguise, we form new ways to make it seem productive….
masking it with new cities, people, projects and the like…
All to seem….
…Til one day we wake up and just know we can not breathe another moment if we continue to run.
And then we wake up further to know and see the very thing we think is worth running from is thing we must face down…for it is the very counterfeit of truth.
Fear will never be able to manipulate us to the degree we squelch its stronghold in that very hour.
But what this demands is standing…refusing to run…refusing to excuse or hide or shun or occupy our moments with that which distracts and puts our hearts once again on hold.
Yes, this facing of fear down demands not running.
Not running, excusing, hiding, denying, surface appearing, surface living, playing the social games of interactions on and offline to seem busy, and all the etceteras you know full well you do.
But here’s a little secret fear won’t like it if I tell you: it has only the power we give it.
In the same moment you choose to run, you CAN choose to stand and not be bullied yet again.
In the same moment you choose to binge shop, eat, work out, drive, gossip, and all the other millions of ways you’ve made yourself stay mentally running on the thought treadmill, you CAN CHOOSE to stand still.
If you need help standing….if you wish to stop running from your heart…and this often means pulling yourself up by your bootstraps in the midst of this seeming gross mess that is your life (even though you will learn it is right now a beautiful canvas), be in touch.
I’ve grown rather adoring of the seeming mess that my life was and have time and again proved the powerlessness of fear to strangle and suffocate your now.
I look forward to helping you with this if you so desire but…it requires deep honesty, total commitment, and a willingness to stand.
Be in touch if you’re wanting support to help you stand still, stop running from fear, and prove its nothingness.
I would adore working with you.
Email me at tre (at) thought by thought (dot) net.
Here’s to you and your standing still. 😉
Thanks for visiting and investing moments here. 🙂
Til soon,
Tre ~
