Hold on and Trust: Don't Lose Yourself in a Sea of Despair

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Every single person on the face of this planet contains within them a deep inner reservoir of vitality and strength. This potent life force, whenever appropriately attuned, becomes a commanding conduit of empowered energy, channeled. When dialed in together with perseverance, it’s almost as if you’ve acquired superhero like resilience, making you unstoppable and quite literally enabling you to push through damn near any obstacle that stands in your way, your own fixed belief systems included.

Look, we’ve all had our defeating moments. You are still human after all. There have been and still will be times in the future when life feels extraneously difficult and hopeless. I’ve never met a soul who actually enjoys finding themselves feeling stuck at life’s crossroads, lost, confused, and wondering which way to turn next. But I have met people who have trained their minds in these particularly important moments of feeling bogged down with uncertainty and fear to remind themselves that they can ALWAYS FEEL SUPPORTED.

These folks aren’t superhuman or waving some wand around like wizards magically fixing everything that sucks and feels broken. No, they simply realize that it’s better to stop fixating on how they feel stuck neck deep in their “problems,” and instead choose to reorient their mindset toward a solution. They are no different than you and in fact you can do this, too. It all begins with coming into a full acceptance that you and ONLY YOU can impose any limitations in regard to what you’re capable of and where you can go in life.

When your eyes open to the fact that you are your own judge and jury, holding the key to either enforce your own self-imprisonment or walk around unrestricted and free. Then suddenly, it becomes far easier to assume full responsibility for creating your own reality, and mold it into one you’d actually want to live in. For it’s once the pity party is over and victim-mode becomes disabled, then life becomes surprisingly clear as rain. Nobody else can create the life you want for you and nor would you want them to anyways because there’s only one person in existence suited for this task, and if after everything I’ve explained above you still feel clueless in regards as to who this person is…then go take a look in the mirror. You see the reflection staring back at you? BOOM, there they are, you have been the savior you’ve been waiting to come along and rescue you all along.

I completely emphasize the fact that lately it’s really felt like our energy reserve tanks are all but sputtering out, damn near to the brink of empty. Most of us are mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually weary, and right now it’d be far to easy to throw up our hands, throw in the towel, and call it quits. It wasn’t too long ago where even entertaining the mere thought of climbing out of this hole I allowed myself to sink in felt exhausting. Every time I tried to gather my strength I’d eerily be reminded of some scene in one those “Mission Impossible” action spy movies where the only way out of this mess would be if I assumed the lead role as Tom Cruise and embrace this life or death mission, breaching straight the core in order to disarm some diabolical plot created by my fixed mind to kill my dreams and destroy my passion. A fixed mindset really is diabolical, and our only choice is to save and free ourselves
from its clutches. Any failure to complete this mission always lands us straight back into our self-made prison where we feel utterly and desperately depressed.

Okay, time out. Take a moment and reflect back on the many countless times in your life where you wanted to give up and call it quits…but now look around, the truth of matter is that you are still here very alive and breathing. Everything difficult you’ve been through in the past didn’t destroy you, but it did make you stronger. Because YOU ARE STRONG, so don’t let anyone tell you that you’re weak, yourself included.

What got you through the difficult times are these reserves of strength we all have access that pulsates from deep within and ripple outwards as true vitality and sheer willpower. Similar to a life raft, and one that’s nearly indestructible and always available to be used at your calling. This life raft is constructed from inner truth and capable of carrying you through anything in life throws your way regardless of how tirelessly exhausted or distraught you’ve become.

Remember how oftentimes it’s the very moment when we feel like we’re about to hopelessly drown out in the seas of despair that the shoreline appears, and by in regaining the strength to swim towards it, we rediscover new possibilities, opportunities that reignite our optimism and fire back up our hope.

Self-awareness is the key to learning how to access this innate inner strength, but once this door is opened, the ability continuously preserves, never fades, even when the shit hits the fan in the darkest of hours. Your only requirement is to continue holding on tightly to your life raft of inner truth and keep trusting that a way out of your perceived problems will soon be revealed. Even when life’s rapids decide to get wild and its currents crazy, have faith to believe this life raft you’re in is still always safely guiding you back to shore.
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