Like A Phoenix

Sometimes the sideline is the best place for you. Reflection and internal analysis. You think the worst things are actually good for you and the universe knows what you need more than you do. You need to listen too hard to hear the whispering voice that you continually drown out. What you want and what you need can be to very separate things. Loud noise, outside interference, erasing your own true needs. Why do we put others ahead of ourselves? The empathy inside can keep you silent, ignoring your true self. Be you always, and if you bend to a distorted form of yourself, you eventually break to your internal whims, wants and needs. It can be liberating to let yourself out of the internal cage you keep yourself in.

Being into something that continually breaks you down, you may not even realize the restrictions you put on yourself. It could be simple habits, it could be just staying inside your own head too much. I try to change one thing a week to increase productivity, health and happiness. When you find the perfect combination, stay with that. How old do you have to be to have these realizations? Often you have a vibe that works very well and then life changes and those same things don’t work for you anymore. Growth is good, and sometimes you need to return your root self, the person that perhaps gets buried by life passing by. Society has expectations and hopefully you are not still doing things to please others. Do what feels right for you!

Slow it all down, I know life doesn’t always afford us these luxuries. Do it anyway, take the time, meditation, therapy, be selfish for five minutes. If you ignore yourself, you will never feel better. It is mostly women that suffer from so many autoimmune illnesses and other invisible illnesses. Stress ladies, you will look after no one if you don’t look after you. Internally, externally, mentally, get her off the bench and back in the game. Don’t ignore pain, illness, injury, burying it under your brave face, guilt, and expectation. You can try to bury it.. your body won’t, everyone is a reaction to their environment. You don’t carry the world, stop trying to!