At certain times in our lives it is difficult to see our way forward.
Finding the way of controlling the stories we tell ourselves and which ones we choose to believe can be daunting.
The place of our power, the process of our power is watching the thoughts that we think, the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, understanding that even though we didn't put those stories there, we have the power to change them.
Telling new stories is the key to recovery - we can disrupt negative thoughts. We never have to go back to that negative space once we have a framework for understanding where to go with our suffering, how to transform it into something useful.
When we face our fears or at least define our fears, we can come up with an action plan to combat them.
There is a wisdom that comes from the experience of working through our fears.
Wisdom is always the by-product of facing our fears.
“In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.”
― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays
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This sculpture by Kiochi Ishino and is called "In The Grey of Daybreak" - taken at Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Sydney, Australia in November 2019.
The statement says "This sculpture depicts the dawning era of a new beginning in Japanese culture, the Reiwa era. |
