I am making a series of brief posts about some very key things I have learned and am still learning at the age of 54 at the time of this post being made. I am no expert on life or reality but I have had 54 years of lessons that have repeated enough to be clear for me. I will not go into a lot of depth in a personal way as that isn’t the point or needed. Your life is your journey, it helps to look at it as an adventure I find, so best wishes on your adventure, I hope I can provide a positive influence to that in some way for some.
Only you can heal you
We go to see doctors or counselors for healing, but they can only aid us in healing ourselves and the truth of that is a responsibility to ourselves we must take ownership of. A doctors advice should be followed and I am not saying otherwise, but your mind and body are yours and the healing that a doctor or counselor facilitates is really done by you, your mind and body, and those, it is YOU who must be in control of. It is rarely ever truth that all you need to do is take a pill or just talk to someone who may or may not provide you with helpful advice. As well the healing that we as humans who are so fragile in this world, so vulnerable to the choices of others, is not always something that a doctor or counselor may even be qualified to address, matters of the mind and heart (who you are, your consciousness) are things that happen inside us even if the cause came from outside us, they must be dealt with there ultimately and only you can do that, another person (relationship) a thing (money or stuff), drugs/alcohol (avoidance) those are not where you will find healing, at best aid or easing and at worst enabling and repeating the same situation or choice that is yours to make even if you are not the cause of your pain, wound, illness or life situation, some would call it cyclic existence, maybe sometimes we are just carried away and need to pick our own selves up, you always can until you can’t and that’s not a bad thing to know. “Know yourself” “To thine own self be true” “The truth will set you free” might not be in that order or might be all those are stating the same thing, but there is where it is…and it is for no one other than YOU.
And this is something someone named Max wrote for YOU…
And if things get really tough here’s something someone named Rudyard wrote for YOU…
There are those who have come before us or are here with us today that have been through things and learned maybe what it is we are needing to know, the above poems are great inspiration to me and I hope you also.
I do understand this is a brief post making what is no doubt an obvious and simple point, but I question is it that obvious, is it that simple? I have found the answer is really no it isn’t and that is the point, but yes it is and that is the point.
And so my next post will be along those lines, or more specifically about understanding. Thank you whoever you are that happened to read this, you be you…