Lighten your Load – Breathe
Be FREE
Hey Friend
Let’s get together.
We can talk about the new, the old, and what we hope will come.
Let the time go by as we discuss life.
Let laughs flow, as the tears fall and dry in the winds that breeze by.
Tell me about the way you worked through your harder days, and how you celebrated on your brighter ones.
Show me the pictures that you took on your last day trip.
We can share stories and talk about how far we’ve come.
Oh friend, I love you.
Let’s make the time fly by as we relax and enjoy each others company.
My joy comes from moments like this.
Hey friend, you make life better.
Thank you for listening to me as I cried about some hard things.
Thank you for not judging me as I shared my struggles.
Thank you for sharing so many laughs with me that made us feel lighter.
You really make it easier to be me.
Friend, you are so important to me.
Let’s make this a more frequent thing, exchanging life stories, sharing love and time together.
Moments fly by, as we try so hard to make it through each day without another broken heart or thought of another worry.
Take time to spend moments with the ones that you love.
Laugh a little more each day and reach out to those who you know you can share conversation with over some sweet memories, or in some deep talks.
Love deeper.
Live more.
-M.
Find Validation Within
Validation
How often do you look to outside sources to feel validated?
This is something I have touched on before, but it definitely feels necessary to discuss again, as I observe it so much, within myself and in others around me.
We want to feel good.
We want to feel accepted.
We want to feel as though we are good enough to be liked or sought after, by others.
Though, why do we go to such lengths as to step away from what is true to us in order to gain validation from others?
Do we even know why it is that we are seeking validation or acceptance from others?
It is a natural part of human nature to desire to be liked and to feel accepted. Though, so many go above and beyond the norms to try to get validated.
Now that we have social media and all these different forms of sharing ourselves, it’s a bigger issue than normal, to seek out validation.
Having followers or getting likes, it seems to be the new normal, yet is it really helping us?
Is it really helping you?
If you need to change your appearance to be accepted by someone, let them go.
If you feel the need to be a different way, that is not natural to your true self, in order to fit in with a group, let them go.
If you need to get on a dating site to feel good about yourself, maybe it’s time to do some self-love practice.
If you feel that you need to have surgery to feel accepted or loved by someone, it might be time to really do some deep inner work and healing, and find new people to be around.
Validation, love, acceptance, these things are all connected. Sometimes they can be confused or seen differently than they are.
So much of the time they can be disregarded, ignored, or even thought of as not necessary…
Yet look at our world.
You are special.
You are unique.
You are loved and accepted by so many, and you are exactly how you need to be, for your life purpose.
When you change yourself, you aren’t allowing yourself to be who you are meant to be.
When you change yourself, you aren’t allowing love in.
When you change yourself you are saying you are not good enough.
There are good changes that we can make.
Facing fears.
Healing from eating disorders.
Learning how to take better care of yourself and of others.
Some changes are necessary and helpful, but there are so many that can cause harm and pull you further away from what is actually really good for you.
Do you look at yourself in the mirror and feel happy?
Do you hear your voice on a voicemail or recording and feel uncomfortable with what you hear?
Do you know your worth, aside from financial gain?
Who are you, behind that mask of flesh and bones?
Who is the YOU deep inside, that inner being?
Do you feel worthwhile?
How do you treat yourself?
How do you show yourself love?
…feel this.
Take a minutes and breathe.
Breathe in through your nose.
Down to your belly.
Let your belly expand.
Let it out through your mouth.
REPEAT.
And again.
Now again.
However many times you feel you need to.
Get centered.
YOU
ARE
ENOUGH
everything in your life is for you.
everything is happening for you.
you are safe.
you are loved.
you are valued.
you are accepted.
Now let go of all this self-hate.
Let go of the need to feel or look like everyone else.
Let go of the need to please everyone else.
You are not supposed to do that.
Validation comes from within.
Love comes from within.
You are always accepted.
You are always loved.
You are doing a great job.
It’s time to learn how to love yourself, just as you are, for who you are.
You are perfect.
You are special.
You are unique.
You are loved.
Thank you for being here.
Now take care of yourself and love yourself so you can enjoy this beautiful life with so much more gratitude and peace.
⁃ M.
Learning to Let Go
We have come to a place of understanding that who we are and where we are matters. Although, sometimes we can think that what we have and who we have around us is necessary to hold onto.
We hold onto expectations for ourselves.
We hold onto expectations for others.
We hold onto hopes that we have for ourselves, and we tend expect that these things are going to make us feel better.
This is not the case. How we feel inside is what matters. Letting go of what is on the outside and letting go of attachments to all of these THINGS is what he’s going to bring us peace.
How often have you felt as though moving, having more money, having a relationship or physical things will make you feel better?
Your relationship with yourself, your love for yourself, your acceptance of yourself, your perception of yourself, and your ability to care for yourself and your inner world is more important than anything else.
When we learn to let go of what we think that we need and what we think will bring us happiness, we can allow what is really right for us to be known.
Let go of your attachments to people.
Let go of your attachments to physical things.
Let go of your need to be numb.
Let go of your need to look a certain way.
The only thing that will bring you true peace is to learn to love and accept yourself.
You matter.
Your need to constantly be distracted will bring you more and more dissatisfaction.
You are capable of doing so much more than you know.
You are capable of being at peace with less.
You are capable of feeling at peace on your own.
Let go.
Be free.
You are safe.
You are loved.
Allow it.
Accept it.
Feel it.
You are free.
Let it be.
– M.
Control
You wanted me to follow you, along your path.
You thought I needed to think like you.
You said I needed to listen to you.
My opinions didn’t matter.
How is that living?
I am free.
I am unique.
I am capable of my own beliefs.
I am capable of walking alone, on my own path.
What we feel matters.
What we need matters.
What we believe matters.
The opinions of others will always be there, but they don’t have to be more than that.
Let us learn to be free.
Let us learn to feel safe without anyone directing us.
Let us feel released from the control anyone tries to have over us.
Be free.
– M.
You Whispered to Me
You whispered to me,
through the silence of the wind,
through the quiet of the stars,
in the silence of the trees…
You whispered to me, in my ears, to my soul, from your heart, to my whole being.
You made me whole, with your presence.
You danced with me, on the sands of the beach, as the waves tried to catch my feet,
while my eyes slept, at night, and the moonlight healed my soul…
You danced with me among the trees, in the forest, while I searched for you…
So much time has passed since you left this world.
So many feelings I have had, so many fears I have learned to hold onto.
Now I’m learning to let go.
Yet, even with you gone, I can hear your voice, and it makes me want to hold onto you.
I can feel your touch, when a flower grazes over my skin.
Your songs are now sung by the birds, with the sunrise, each morning.
Not a day goes by that you are not here, with me.
For so long, I have dreamed of your whispering voice, telling me it is all going to be okay.
You remind me that you are here, I am safe, it is okay.
A windy day lets me know you are near.
A rainy day is the skies releasing all of your tears.
Time had felt so slow, but now I know it goes by at the pace of your heart beat.
You are the nature that surrounds me.
You are the breath that moves the winds.
I feel you more now than ever before, as you surround me.
You will always live within me, and now all around me.
You are within every living thing.
There is no death, there is only life that continues on, to an existence continued beyond.
You are each new blossom, full of fresh nectar.
You are each sky reaching tree, that moves, dancing in your winds.
You are each sunrise and sunset, with magical light that heals the soul.
You whisper to me through nature, in all the ways you possibly can, reminding me that everything will be okay.
Let’s dance, while I dream, in the moonlight, until the morning comes, when the birds sing your songs, and as the light of the sunrise welcomes another beautiful day full of so much beautiful life, life here and beyond.
Touch me as I walk through fields of grass and wildflowers that remind my skin how to feel.
Hold me on the mountain tops as I take it all in, and let go of all the fears.
Wash me with your tears, as they fall from the cloudy skies.
Remind me how to live, as I discover new life, each and every day that I am here.
For however long, I will exist here, with you surrounding me.
Whisper to me…
-M.
Higher Self
Who are you?
Why are you here?
What is your purpose that you must fulfill in this life?
Do you give any of this any thought or attention?
We are here for a reason.
We have a purpose.
We are moving forward on a road that is unclear for us, immediately, yet all the answers will soon be heard and understood.
Soon we will be able to see the reason for all of this.
Soon we will understand why each challenge was there, where it was.
We will know who we are and why we have come to this place.
There is a beautiful energy of love and light that carries us through each waking and sleeping hour.
Time really does not exist, as it is just there to help us organize this present existence.
Each day is but a projection of more of what our human mind and soul needs to work through.
We will find more peace.
We will find more joy.
We will find more beauty and feel more love, with each breath.
This life is precious.
You are necessary.
Do what you need to do to be okay, each minute of every day, and trust that you are perfect, in who and how you are.
There is a reason for your life.
Thank you for your time and your presence here.
May love always be your drive to push you through.
May passion be your encouragement and may the desire to continue on always be alive within you.
-M.
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