Hi D
Life can definitely throw some unfulfilling and challenging curve bulls our way to the the point that leads us to feel like we're cursed in some cruel way: Terrible jobs, potential partners who don't know how to love fully, potential friends who aren't well educated in reaching out to others and so on. Not necessarily a curse but definitely a curve ball is the idea that those around us struggle with how to raise themselves whilst at the same time they don't know how to raise and guide someone who feels so lost and drained.
I admit, I'm pretty quirky so I know I have to raise myself. Most around me aren't into all that 'weird' spiritual non religious 'mumbo jumbo'. It's a tough gig at times, raising your self. You just wish people would understand you. You know that you're good value, it's just them who can't see the value. Their loss. So, the self raising goes on, with many challenges to face.
So, whilst folk around me tend to drain me with their own weird ways, I ask myself 'How do I power up through it all?' Yes, I have lots of strange ways. One is to start the morning in what I refer to as a state of expansion. I go out in the 'cold' and perceive it as invigorating (bit of a challenge at first). I will not contract like most do when they perceive the morning as 'cold' (hugging themselves and complaining). I open my arms wide and say to the breeze 'Give me life'. When I do this, I come alive (how could I not, given some mornings are around 10 degrees). I feel a chill run through my whole body like a charge. It is an incredibly simple exercise but rather mind blowing at the same time. I love 'mind blowing', it blows out the cobwebs others have placed in my mind, the ones that belong to them and not me.
It's a draining world at times D. We have to find ways to charge up. Definitely hard in depression but not impossible, as I have been in that dark place myself in the past, for quite a number of years (an intensely painful and soul destroying place to be for sure).
So D, I challenge you to do the morning charge up exercise. You may say 'Who are you to challenge me?!' To that I say 'I am one who desires to raise you (through challenge) so you understand how incredible you truly are!'
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