Imagine reclaiming our lives. Instead of our mental health being, “An enemy attempting to devour us”, do we think we could see it as a friend, grounding us to the earth on which it is safe to stand?
We may proclaim, “What do you mean I have poor mental health?” Feeling grounded will show us the way to wholeness, thus allowing us to heal.
Recovery forces us to come down from the clouds in the sky and become rooted in our truth with its opportunities, limits, gifts, darkness, and light. We rebuild ourselves from the deepest, root, and authentic part of our soul.
Another way to imagine constructing our lives is by learning to befriend ourselves. When we realize circumstances and people have attempted to awaken us throughout our lives we will finally start to embrace and discover our true selves. We will experience our mental health gradually improving and bring light back into our lives.
Self wants us to discover who we are, befriend and love ourselves. The true self is a true friend. One ignores or rejects such friendship only at our peril. Adapted Parker Palmer’s “Let Your Life Speak”
Reflection:
The figure calling to you I believe is the “true self”. This is not the ego self wanting to inflate you, the intellectual self wanting to hover above the mess of life in clear but ungrounded ideas, or the ethical self wanting to live by some abstract code. The true self is a true friend. Parker Palmer “Let Your Life Speak”
Superhuman Being
Peace
Larry
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