Be a friend to your sadness.

We can tend to split off from our challenging feelings and put them in the bad box.

Healing requires us to embrace ourselves with all our feelings.

We still need to look after others by taking care and responsibility within how and how much we share or act out our reactive emotions.

But when we can learn to be kind inwardly to ourselves when tough feelings arise, we can gain resilience and grace.

Sadness is different to depression.

Depression is a blanket you lay over your sadness, to suppress and dampen its pain. This only delays the cleansing and healing available through expressing your deep tears.

Sometimes we need to suppress our pain, until we are resourced and ready to connect within and let it out.

We need the right support and conditions to grow.

A fruit can’t form without first a budding flower and a bee to pollinate it, it can’t grow without the rain to feed it, and it won’t ripen without enough sun. It needs loving nourishment with compost and fertiliser, to really fulfill it’s innate potential glory.

Without the right love and conditions in life, we struggle.

And sometimes our psyche protects us from this agony of lack, loss or abuse, by suppressing our pain so deeply, that even we can’t see it’s there. As we sub-consciously fear that if we let ourselves feel it, it will destroy us.

Depression sometimes is there to help hold this emotional stall out in place.

This can help us keep going, and yet we still need help.

We need to take courageous steps to reach out again and again, to gain the components that will provide us the support and nourishment we need.

As we consistently tend to our own growth, naturally our efforts will bear fruit.

And when the fruit is fully ripe, it will succumb to your harvesting hand with just a slight touch.

And you will find your inner safety and the tears can flow.

In truth, all rejection is self rejection.

No one can reject you if you are not rejecting yourself.

Rejection is only an occurrence when something in you perceives itself as unwanted or not good enough.

Rejection is not a feeling, it is an thought process.

Yes it is a natural occurrence to notice when someone doesn’t want to be with you, but whether or not you believe you are rejected on top of that, comes down to what you tell yourself, and how much you reject yourself.

Whether you take the load road or and short road, the destination is the same.

You cannot go the ‘wrong’ way. All ways lead back to home, to the truth, in the end.

We are here on a journey to find our way home to the truth of our being.

We cannot go anywhere, where this truth is not.

And no matter what happens, truth remains intact.

We might wander a long way, looking for our way, but this too is all part of the returning in the end.

We return to ourselves anew. We realise we are the home, the source and the being.

And this is enough.

You are more than your body.

You have a body. You are more than your body.

You have a mind, you are more than your thoughts.

You have emotions, they are not who you are.

You are here before feelings come and still here after they go.

You are more than all these changing things.
Your body changes all its cells every 7 years.
They say on average we have 60,000 thoughts a day.

Something in you stays the same. No matter what changes are occurring.

Learn to listen to this presence and sense of beingness that is yourself; before any thought and regardless of body and emotion.