Get Up!
When you feel defeated, beaten down and rejected it is easy to let yourself lay down and die. Sometimes a certain time period or series of events can be so traumatic that recovery seems impossible. Maybe you endured a death, illness/injury, separation or other ending of a life phase.
After months or even years, the pain still feels like an open wound that just won't heal. You stop caring, stop living, stop feeling. The daily grind forces you to take care of responsibilities, but beyond that your days pass by in a non-eventful blur.
Each day you are given a choice. To give in or get up. Usually you decide to give in, and you may resort to apathy, laziness, depression, anger, denial, risk-taking or even drug or alcohol abuse. You watch memories that keep replaying in your head. Or you try to cover them up, hoping they will disappear.
But today is different. Today you choose to get up! You dust yourself off, look to the horizon and go forward into the unknown. Maybe somewhere deep inside you hit rock bottom and the only way out is up. Maybe a tiny spark was released and you suddenly have a newfound will to try to live life fully again.
Upon finally coming out of the darkness, a metamorphosis takes place and you are partly who you were before the traumatic event, but you are mostly a brand new you. Like being back at square one, you must learn how to walk again. Your previous interests no longer appeal to you and your old way of life is gone. It is a chance to rediscover your transformed self and a chance to redefine your life.
Congratulations! Take a moment to give yourself a pat on the back. Now repeat some positive affirmations to yourself every day.
Affirmations
• I deserve to be happy and successful
• I have the power to change myself
• I can forgive and understand others and their motives
• I can make my own choices and decisions
• I am free to choose to live as I wish and to give priority to my desires
• I can choose happiness whenever I wish no matter what my circumstances
• I am flexible and open to change in every aspect of my life
• I act with confidence having a general plan
• I can accept plans are open to alteration
• It is enough to have done my best
• I deserve to be loved
Affirmations quoted from here.
November 2006
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Copyright © Harley Milo 2005.
Also published on Story Pen Harley Milo
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