What is it that holds us back when we want to step up and step out, when we want to use our voice whether that is to raise it or sometimes just to speak? Is it the risk or fear of that voice trembling when we first speak up? Fear of what others might think about our truth or fear of rejection and/or being judged? All natural thoughts, feelings and fears but are they true or relevant and should we allow them to hold us back from our truth, from the things that we were created and designed to be/do, from sharing our offerings with each other so that others can develop and grow from our own journey, discoveries and learnings?
I have written poetry and prose most of my life and never really shared publicly much of what I have had to say through fear of rejection. I have had to dig deep to push through and find the courage to step out with this page, even with taking photos of myself in yoga poses and posting them but I find myself now wanting to do just that because I want to share what I have learnt, what has helped me grow, heal and change. It’s who I am, and expressing myself publicly and outwardly is part of what I want to do.
So can you.
In some ways I am redefining who I am and allowing a light to be shone on this part of myself, the part of me that sometimes feels discouraged. I am pushing on forward in spite of myself and I am becoming willing to shine.
Keeping quiet keeps us small.
I am opening myself up to rejection and realising that rejection is not the real hazard in me expressing myself wholly and accurately.
Life is an exciting, beautiful, tough, and often unusual journey but if we dig deep and listen intently to what our bodies are trying to tell us we grow and from that growth we are so much more richer and so much more able to help others. Im so grateful for a deep and powerful spiritual journey and for always finding my way back to connection with a world beyond my physical self and as a result I have allowed that journey to help me grow, develop, heal, understand, be, become, love, and connect.