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claws at your being
trying to pull you under
grips around your soul
fear – haiku
anxiety
living our best life – today
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With all the stressful things going on around the world, it takes a huge toll on our minds and therefore our bodies. Those of us who live with chronic illnesses have very legitimate reasons to be concerned. But instead on dwelling on the scary, we are going to focus on one postive thing we can do today to bring about contentment, joy, relaxation, or any feeling that is the opposite from the ball of stress you may have rolling around inside you.
So, my question for today is, “What is one thing you can do this very day to allow yourself to feel at ease in the world, even for a little while?”
~ I am praying for every single one of you beautifully amazing people, now go be amazing, even if it is from the four walls of your room.
“Peace is always beautiful.” —Walt Whitman
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living our best life – worry
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Worrying is such a awfully powerful emotion. Many of us within the chronic illness community live daily with a heap of things to worry about. Our health, our finances, our family’s health, a new symptom, our new normal, fear of losing more, the state of the world, decisions on treatments, how to manage all that is required of us, and on many days, how and the heck we are just going to make it until we get to go to bed again.
It sucks. It is not good for our bodies, minds or souls to experience continuous worry and anxiety with only brief moments of quiet and calm. Even if you do not live with constant worry, it has a ability to sneek up on you when you least expect it. You may be living in the moment, consumed with what appears to be happy thoughts and BOOM, you are hit so intensely that you feel as it any moment the anxiety is literally going to take over every cell in your body and bring you to your knees.
I know we all strive to live a worry free life, to be set free from our own thoughts, to be able to live outside of our deeply wired beliefs and messages. It’s hard, especially if you have been living this way for a long time.
So my question for you this week is, “What do you do to refocus your thoughts toward peaceful and calming energy, and removing worry from your mind?”
*This post, nor comments within the post, should be taken as medical advice. We are just people providing suggestions to help each other live our best life possible.
fear
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fear
seeps into your mind like an early morning fog,
slowly expanding into all the open trenches
unfilled spaces
finding places in the mind you didn’t know existed
enlarging to leave no room for productive thoughts
protecting its position like a vicious dog guarding it’s home
settling in like the dust in the carpet
seemingly unnoticed and determined to anchor down for the long haul
I am ready to clean house
sweeping it out, not under the rug
searching for all the hiding places
wanting to turn this into a childhood game i no longer want to play
i will find you
searching, one-by-one, the hidden rooms of my mind,
evicting the fear and pain
refilling the room with light and love and hope
slamming the door shut with a vengence
securing the deadbolt and allowing the love to expand to fill each and every room.
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don’t give up
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when the world seems stacked against you
and the wind is refusing to be at your back
lights appear to dim as you walk into a room
flowers wilt and die before your tired eyes
and those who are suppose to love you never seemed to care
these moments in life can overtake us
creating a sense of feeling unworthy, useless, spent
but you are so very beautiful and you are loved,
if not by those who fail to see your inherent worth,
remember you are cherished by the one who created you
and the beauty of life will reveal itself to you as
a new day will dawn
the fog will clear
and clouds will part
the rain will halt
the sun will shine
birds will sing
and flowers will bloom
flicker
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pitch darkness is a space where you are forced to discover what you are truly made of and how you were created
veils fall off those who surround you, and their souls reveil as they truly are
terror strikes in isolating darkness, not knowing what or who is around the next corner, taking each step with a movement of faith, yet questioning where your faith lies
only in true darkness can you see flickers of light, from yourself, or from others in your life
allow that flickering of light, no matter how weak, illuminate your path
you were not meant for the dark, yet only by trudging through the darkness can you truly appreciate the light.
pebbles
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my thoughts are pebbles
bouncing around in my mind
keeping them afloat
……..wishing you a day that your thoughts remain positive
~ wendi is the author or two books, you can view them here.
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soar
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Shatter the cage your body imprisons your mind with
Allow your spirit to remain free
To soar above the pain,
chaos
and
confusion
fear
and
uncertainty
Instead observe the magnificent beauty that surrounds you
Hidden by your perceived reality
~ wendi is the author of two books, which can be viewed here
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get out of my head
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i don’t want you here, living inside my head
questioning every decision,
every move I make,
putting useless worry into my mind,
creating chaos that cannot be calmed with relaxation or meditation
you want to destroy me
make me feel as if I cannot get better, heal, or live a happy life
i want to be lifted up
encouraged,
experience true peace,
so find a new place to reside
i am kicking you out
for good
wendi is the author of two books, you can view them here.
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shattered
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the delicate tea cups sit on a shelf
dreaming delightful thoughts of being filled
waiting upon the day to soak in their sweet promises
one by one, year after year
the cups crash unto the floor
shattering into hundreds of pieces
leaving an unrecognizable pattern on the floor
too tired and distraught to sweep up the fragments
a graveyard of wishes for me to mourn
the last cup sits upon the shelf
teetering
and all i can do is hold my breath
whispering a silent prayer that this one will remain.
~ wendi is the author of two books, you can view them here.
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