Okay, maybe that’s a bit too peppy for this cool rainy
Sunday but I don’t really care. I love
it when it rains and I love it when it doesn’t.
I love every day and when I think of my life in this way I find the
colors change. Blue is not just blue,
it’s cerulean or azure. Red isn’t just
red, it’s scarlet or crimson. Your
perception is what you allow it to be.
It can be heavy with the filters of your experiences in life that limit
the colors right in front of you OR it can be transparent and open allowing the
full spectrum of unanticipated or before known to you colors to appear on your
horizons in the blink of an eye. It’s
amazing when you notice the befores
and the afters.
I have seen dark stormy days that seemed like they’d never
end. Sometimes this or that created this
filter of experience that left me feeling as if I were trapped in this vortex
of absolute dire distress, doom and gloom.
Lucky for me I figured out that such moments are usually short in
duration if and only if I decide to shove the negativity out of my perspective
and open up to the lesson instead. What
caused the darkness to enter my realm of experience? Was it the lingering past hurt I forgot
about? Was it that one that occurred so
long ago I allowed to be reinforced over and over again unchallenged? Was it just an unfortunate series of
tragedies and stress? No matter. All can still eventually be dealt with
through greater understanding. There is a reason we encounter the things we do
and it is up to us regarding how we wish to integrate that into our
experience.
At first it doesn’t seem like we have a choice. Environmental psychology may have dictated
our deeply ingrained beliefs laced with fear and wounding. But, when we begin to understand the true
source of those things, challenge all facets of thwm in terms of proving the
beliefs to be truths or a series of misguided falsehoods, we can learn to
embrace a new experience all-together and one free from the filters of the past
psychological trauma and drama. It can
be done. I’m telling you from experience
and not just some made up positivity mumbo jumbo that won’t do you any good. I have walked through the darkness of
despair. I have challenged my beliefs
and rooted out their misguided existence and I have faced the pain, the terror,
the fear and worry and then a light appeared at the end of a very long, dark
and lonely road…freedom….the colors of life in a full spectrum…and all the love
in the universe.
I won’t lie, it’s not an easy road and there is no one that
can bring you there, give you a pill or point you to a drive through where you
order up some healing to lift the filters of a life filled with malware and
pain. You have to be the one who wants
to do the work first and then it is you who must map out the steps, find a way
to leave behind you the fear of the dark and embrace hard work, roll up your
sleeves and dig into the stuff that just prevents you from experiencing the
beauty and magic of this world.
Sometimes you do need help with that – so get it. What are you waiting
for anyway? (smiles). You can do so much to create joy, beauty and
magic in your life. You don’t have to
spend a lot of money, but you do need to invest in yourself in some way. Figure out what makes you tick; figure out
what you really love without the filters of worry, fear and pain. Find something healthy to do to lift your
spirits knowing that THAT is your true state and if you are not now in it, you
can be. You really can be.
The picture above is not the prettiest picture or the best
shot I could have taken and that doesn’t even matter…what matters is I saw it…a
beautiful rainbow right there in the sky and I shot it to remember that the
memory of the rain coming in to cover the sun brought me the gift of a
rainbow. There are so many gifts in life
if we decide to look for the beauty, the color and enjoy life even if a storm
is rolling in. We were meant to enjoy
life. Find a way, a very whole and
healthy way and walk that road not with hope born of fear it cannot be but with
the very strong faith born of love and truth that lies deep within the heart of
you to get you there. You can. Really!
© 2015 Jaie Hart (photo and words)
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