Accepting Reality

I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently and have reached some conclusions that I would like to share with you on this subject.  I believe it is vital that we accept the reality of our lives, the past, present and future so that we can truly heal and become what we were made to be in the first place.

When I left England behind me (4 December 2008) my mind, body and soul were so twisted up and confused I didn’t even know where to start in my new life - what to believe or accept or even who to trust or how to know I could trust them.

There can be circumstances or situations that our body/brain/soul know are simply too much for us to deal with.  Instinctively, it tries to protect, cover, hide, run, ignore….anything, simply ANYTHING to prevent us from knowing what is really going on.

Leaving and starting again is one way to begin that process, but with the total confusion that is now part and parcel of life, it can feel impossible to even begin to figure out where on earth to even start.

But for us to become what we are meant to be, there comes a time when these things HAVE to be faced.  We can’t remain forever in the mindset of the fight/flight/freeze response that has been running our lives. Well, actually, truthfully we can, but it will continue to cripple our ability to function in the normal world.   And I know from personal experience that it’s not an easy thing to do.  In fact, it is one of the hardest things I have ever faced.

Healing cannot come unless reality is truly accepted.  And there have been many, many things I have been in denial about through my 50+ years of living.  I know I’m not the only person out there who has had bad experiences.  At some point in our lives things have been or gone wrong - whether through ourselves, others, or circumstances we find ourselves in.

Pretending things didn’t or aren’t happening doesn’t actually change things in life or allow us to heal.  Facing, accepting and dealing with the reality as and where we can is what brings us peace in body, mind and soul.

TREASURE

Accepting reality and not hiding away from it is the way I can heal and restore myself to what I was always meant to be.