It’s up to you it’s always up to you.
You can deny, repress, distort, and bury your unresolved wounds all you want. You can re-frame them, pseudo-positivity them, detach from them, bypass them.
You can rename yourself, hide away in a monastery, turn your story around. And you can spend all your money on superficial healing practices and hocus-pocus practitioners.
But it won’t mean a damn thing if you don’t do the deeper work to excavate and heal your primary wounds. The material is still there, right where you left it, subconsciously ruling your life and controlling your choices.
This is the nature of unhealed material it is alive, and one way or the other, it will manifest itself in your lived experience. It will language your inner narrative. It will obstruct your path and limit your possibilities. It lives everywhere that you live. And so you have to decide to excavate it and bring it into consciousness where it can be worked through an integrated, or repress it and watch it rule your life. It’s one of the hardest truths we have to face: If we don’t deal with our stuff, it deals with us.
There is no way around this.
There is no way around this.
Choose.
If we don't deal with those wounds, they will deal with us . . . and it is always up to us.
"Choose". No blame placing, no pointed fingers, no assigning whose 'fault' it is - those are avoidance and delaying tactics. If we want to survive we must fight. We must struggle with the poison within us to clean and heal our lives.
Most of the greatest achievements on the planet are unknown to other private overcomings, silent attempts at belief, re-opening a shattered heart. These are the real heroes. The real path of champions truly lies within the transforming of suffering into the expansion, the clearing of horrifying debris, the building of a healthy self-concept without tools.
The greatest achievers have found a way to believe in something good, despite being traumatized and fractured on life’s battlefields.
No matter what else they accomplish in their lives, they are already champions. Such words of empathic understanding and a recognition of what courage is for some just to keep going.The sea of trauma, a hard sea to sail through.
Too many beautiful souls are trying, even if it seems they are not!! Pure-hearted people if naive can get trampled almost to death by society and the awakening to a world of what seems like scary perpetrators, a deeply embedded pattern, recognizing, acknowledging even this can be traumatic in itself.
One day the world will realize that it is much harder to heal a shattered heart than excel at worldly matters. Gold medals all around…
We come into human form so open, so trusting, so vulnerable. And then we shut down to stay alive. And then we confuse our adaptations with our authenticity, our wall sticking to us like crazy glue. As complex as the process of breaking our walls is, in a way, it’s quite simple. We are just trying to open again. We are just trying to surrender to who we really are.
This is the work of all truth-speakers and heart-lifters- to remind us of our misplaced magnificence, to raise our authenticity to the rafters of consciousness, to get real again.
May we continue to support this intention in each other. Joy to the inner world!
love light and peace
ps/smoh
