Today is the second day of the new year. By all accounts, it would seem that there are many who have boarded the Optimism Train, doing what they do each time a new year rolls 'round. Resolutions are made. Hopes are renewed. Energies rise. Everyone telling everyone else..
"YOU CAN DO IT!"
"THIS is YOUR year!"
"YES YOU CAN!"
All lovely and encouraging and sweet. Also naive and even a little condescending. Not because you can't. Simply because the people posting or texting or speaking these encouragements don't believe you can any more than you do. It's a clear cut case of RAH, RAH, SISSKOOOMBAH from all the mamas in the stands of a blow-out game.
Sound pessimistic?
I suppose, at this point, you might think so. It may even sound a bit cynical. But since this is a space where choosing Joy is the entire reason for my being here, and since I am fully committed to that mission, I would ask you to have a little trust here. I have promised to offer thoughts/ideas/meanderings on the matter of Joy. I shan't recant on that promise.
To that end, I want to offer a more honest bit of encouragement so that, on day nineteen (or thereabouts) of your New Year's Resolutions, when your excuses begin to outweigh your resolve, you will, perhaps, hear this little voice and stick to your guns. Because even though I don't know you personally, I do know that it is possible to become more YOU. It's part of the reason why choosing Joy is so important to me. In my experience, the more you choose Joy and deny suffering, the more authentically you can (and will!) live the Life you came here to live.
Back in September of last year, I wrote a bit about Highly Sensitive Beings. The piece was intended to encourage those who bear what is often an overwhelming onus. HSBs are aware of the subtle shifts in energy, whether it is planet-wide or in the neighbors down the street. A curse and a gift rolled into one giant ball of nerve endings. The beginning of a new year, along with all these resolutions and promises and individual resolve can be even more overwhelming than the ordinary goings-on for HSBs. There is so much focus by the "general population" that it can feel like rather than having a so-called new beginning, it is, instead, the not-so-yummy icing on an already over-iced cake.
NOT fun.
{Stay with me! I promise I won't let you down!}
And so...
The whole reason for a "Part II" here is to remind all you HSBs that you don't have to bear that weight. It's not your job to encourage, coddle, or otherwise fake your way through the onslaught of New Year's Resolutions your friends and family and coworkers are tossing around like glittery confetti on New Year's Eve.
Let me say that again:
IT IS NOT YOUR JOB.
Your job is to moderate the energies you choose to share with those who matter to you. Especially your own beautiful Self. Your job is to maintain some semblance of balance while the rest of the world goes on a free-for-all with their short-lived optimism and convictions and mostly foolish promises that may or may not be kept. Your job is to keep that Highly Sensitive Heart wrapped in the arms of Love so that you, too, can continue on whatever journey you have chosen to take, no matter how important it may seem to anyone else.
I said it before and I'll say it again:
The world NEEDS you.
The world is a better place for having you in it.
You are a rare and beautiful Flower whose beauty can heal and nourish and scatter Joy like no other.
And so...
It is utterly and absolutely essential that you keep your Highly Sensitive Being-ness well and hale and
FULL OF JOY.
Here's to MORE ... of whatever you choose.
"YOU CAN DO IT!"
"THIS is YOUR year!"
"YES YOU CAN!"
All lovely and encouraging and sweet. Also naive and even a little condescending. Not because you can't. Simply because the people posting or texting or speaking these encouragements don't believe you can any more than you do. It's a clear cut case of RAH, RAH, SISSKOOOMBAH from all the mamas in the stands of a blow-out game.
Sound pessimistic?
I suppose, at this point, you might think so. It may even sound a bit cynical. But since this is a space where choosing Joy is the entire reason for my being here, and since I am fully committed to that mission, I would ask you to have a little trust here. I have promised to offer thoughts/ideas/meanderings on the matter of Joy. I shan't recant on that promise.
To that end, I want to offer a more honest bit of encouragement so that, on day nineteen (or thereabouts) of your New Year's Resolutions, when your excuses begin to outweigh your resolve, you will, perhaps, hear this little voice and stick to your guns. Because even though I don't know you personally, I do know that it is possible to become more YOU. It's part of the reason why choosing Joy is so important to me. In my experience, the more you choose Joy and deny suffering, the more authentically you can (and will!) live the Life you came here to live.
Back in September of last year, I wrote a bit about Highly Sensitive Beings. The piece was intended to encourage those who bear what is often an overwhelming onus. HSBs are aware of the subtle shifts in energy, whether it is planet-wide or in the neighbors down the street. A curse and a gift rolled into one giant ball of nerve endings. The beginning of a new year, along with all these resolutions and promises and individual resolve can be even more overwhelming than the ordinary goings-on for HSBs. There is so much focus by the "general population" that it can feel like rather than having a so-called new beginning, it is, instead, the not-so-yummy icing on an already over-iced cake.
NOT fun.
{Stay with me! I promise I won't let you down!}
And so...
The whole reason for a "Part II" here is to remind all you HSBs that you don't have to bear that weight. It's not your job to encourage, coddle, or otherwise fake your way through the onslaught of New Year's Resolutions your friends and family and coworkers are tossing around like glittery confetti on New Year's Eve.
Let me say that again:
IT IS NOT YOUR JOB.
Your job is to moderate the energies you choose to share with those who matter to you. Especially your own beautiful Self. Your job is to maintain some semblance of balance while the rest of the world goes on a free-for-all with their short-lived optimism and convictions and mostly foolish promises that may or may not be kept. Your job is to keep that Highly Sensitive Heart wrapped in the arms of Love so that you, too, can continue on whatever journey you have chosen to take, no matter how important it may seem to anyone else.
I said it before and I'll say it again:
The world NEEDS you.
The world is a better place for having you in it.
You are a rare and beautiful Flower whose beauty can heal and nourish and scatter Joy like no other.
And so...
It is utterly and absolutely essential that you keep your Highly Sensitive Being-ness well and hale and
FULL OF JOY.
Here's to MORE ... of whatever you choose.
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