Sharing our beauty with the world, is such a joyous part of our experience as beings of love and light! I couldn’t imagine how dull my own journey would be without the people in my life that share their multifaceted brightness with me. It is through them that I’m both reminded of the power in showing up as our authentic selves and inspired to do the same. We all spend a lot of our lives sharing, but in order to do so, we must also make sure we’re holding enough space for letting ourselves simply BE as we are.
In what ways do you share yourself with others? How do you create space in between what you choose to share, and what you choose to cherish for yourself?
Words are clearly my happy flow. I get so much fulfillment out of absorbing them and exchanging them with the people that I love! Still, having room for the simple act of existing, no writing involved, is just as necessary. Without such boundaries, the things that we naturally love to do can almost become chorelike.
For instance, I started to notice room for my own improvement when some rather simple moments of my life that I’d otherwise be enjoying became deep mental moments of how can I best write about this to share how I’m feeling with others instead.
As a way of gently reminding myself that I’m first living to live and then to share, I’ve been remembering a simple mantra: “This is life. This is MY life.”
Be kind to yourself when you self-reflect about whether or not your relationship to the things that you love to share with the world could be better.
We get into a habit of pouring out and we pour and pour and pour until we almost forget how good it feels to be actually pouring from a cup full of genuinity and excitement. It’s okay that sometimes we have to press reset to get back to that place. Unplug, rest, live.
Unplug.
Release yourself from the internal traps of feeling like you HAVE to share, or else . . .
Spend some time away from your obsessions. Come out from wherever you are, and just focus on what’s in front of you. Here, right now.
Rest.
Know that sometimes, your existence itself is just enough for the world. Your contribution isn’t only in what you directly share. It’s in your thoughts, in your everyday actions, and it’s even in smaller things like the clothes that you decide to wear. You are a natural creator! The other things that you feel compelled to share are bonuses. You are just as worthy when you’re resting as you are when you’re working hard to show yourself.
Live.
Above all, don’t forget that we’re here to live out this wonderful life. This IS life! This is YOUR life! Learn about yourself, find new things to fall in love with, change for the better, get through hard things, have a multitude of experiences, and only after your cup is overflowing should you stress about letting the rest of the world on.
For months on end it has been so much fun, but also super habitual to sit behind my screen and type up these lengthy deep analyses of things that arise on my journey each week. That’s how come last week, I intentionally spent time truly living out all of the experiences that probably could’ve made for great blog posts.
Living for me was having lunch out alone, trying a new flavor of fruit juice, going to Walmart and forgetting where I parked my car, signing up for and attending a whole focus group even though zoom discussion is one of my worst fears, arguing with family members etc. etc. All things that I probably would’ve prepared to write a blog post about instead of letting myself soak up in the moment.
What I learned was that an opportunity to post will always be there, but the experience will not be. The Instagram pictures will always be there, but the feelings of pure love from that particular moment might not be.
Let’s challenge ourselves to be more open to sharing the genuine things pulled from our hearts instead of just from our habits of sharing. This is life, this is YOUR life. Many thanks for sharing it, and you might also thank yourself for allowing yourself the space to live it!
a word by, Wisdom
04/03/21