Intermission

So far as I know, that is not a book title, though I suppose one exists out there in the world somewhere.

No, this post is a intermission. A pause in my themes of finding health; a respite from trying to shine a positive light in the struggle to feel good in both body and mind.

Today is just a sober reminder: there is no louder voice in the world than the one in your own head. Attend. Teach it to listen to your soul more than your mind. Teach it to be resilient; to stretch out of habit thoughts; to be eager and willing to learn and ponder new ideas — and to not act as judge and jury of your life.

Teach your inner voice to listen to your soulSelf. Do not let it be drowned out by the sounds of emotions, or society. Do not try to drown it out with unhealthy habits — be they patterns of thoughts, or dangerous activities.

Teach it to listen, so that it can hear your own survival instinct cheer you to healthful actions. Teach it to listen, so that you can hear the love and respect behind the ‘irritating’ advice of loved ones — thereby REALIZING that you are worthy of that love and respect.

I want you make your inner voice strong, grounded, and resilient.

Because someday a voice of illness might creep into your mind, and I want you to feel firm and capable when you face it. So that if you experience a cascade of negative thoughts, you can step firmly aside and say “That is the illness speaking, not ME, and I need not feel it’s words.”

If you read this, try it for me?

Ponder Pema Chodron’s quote that “You are the sky — everything else is just the weather.” Feel yourself as the sky! Just observe the weather.