14 November , 2024

I’ve consciously realised lately….

In the realms of personal growth

New learning

Life exploration

Seeking greater understanding

And lasting engagement with all things being human

“I lean in”

I head straight for stuff

Sometimes the eye of the storm

Sometimes the bliss

As humans

There’s positive

And negative

Good & bad

Well, for me

Really, there’s just “empowering”

As in, what does and doesn’t

And then, how it does and how it doesn’t

Cause, even when something doesn’t empower you, the knowing that, DOES

So it all serves a purpose

It’s not so black and white

Yet another polarisation we have as humans

We’re really into this construct of one versus the other

Anyone live in the grey….

The space in between

It’s spacious

And comfortable

And less dramatic

Anyway, getting back to right versus wrong….

I believe

What’s positive for one

May be negative for another

And vice versa

Let me give you an example

Let’s use this actual version of problem solving or looking at life

that we’re talking about

So can you resonate with right and wrong?

Or is it just right or wrong not to include grey?

Personally, I can’t exist with only the 2 options

It’s just wrong

It’s limiting

For me, exposure with things that create extreme reaction or response

Feeds me, lights me up, has me leaning in

I want to explore

I want to get to the other side of it

For others – it can create fear, anxiety, uncertainty

They lean back, not forward

Or even push it away

I do what I do, because

I want to stretch myself

I love the learning

The achievement

I’m ok with where it takes me

I’m ok with uncomfortable, we’re friends at this stage

I’ll contemplate all sorts of options

(That doesn’t mean I’ll execute all of them, maybe not even ANY of them)

But I’ll look

I’ll think it through

I’ll engage with it in my thoughts

I’ll play the scenarios out in my head

Cause when I do this

I explore how it looks, feels, and ends

I get to discover, for me, the endless possibilities that could be contenders for actualities

Or my realities

That being said

I’m not fearless

I’m human

I know this emotion

I’m first hand familiar with it’s existence

I just won’t let it immobilise me

I feel the fear

And do it anyway

There may be pause

This may mean doing it slowly

Gently

Checking in more along the way

I can only do it

As I know how

As “Me”

The gift being

I’m a constant work in progress

My “best self” is always & forever

In motion

Ahead of me

Because I’ve committed to growth

Always & forever , constant organic action

Freed, fed and set forth from the moment before

The version that is continually upgrading

It just makes sense to me

To think like this

Always has

Even when I couldn’t own it deliberately

AND

It’s served me

When I come up against “stuff”

That creates pause

Or scares me

I know, if I can just keep going

I WILL get to the other side of it

Whatever it is

I’ll pass through it

It’s assured I’ll reach the other side

And it’s always brighter

And freer

And full of hope and possibility

And I want that

And we’ll always want that for others too

Less fear, more freedom

Thanks for being “here”

Thanks for being “you”

Much love

Kate & Hope