Discover the Healing Treasure

One of my favorite books to read to Declan is “What Do You Do with a Problem.” (I recommend it to my adult clients as well...as basically, everyone.) 

In the story, a little child discovers he has a problem. He didn’t want it. He didn’t ask for it. He really didn’t like having a problem...hey, who does, right? 

He tries to avoid it. He tries to pretend it’s not there. He tries to ignore it but it’s still there. 

And the more he ignores it the bigger the problem becomes. 

Kind of like our emotions. 

Everyone experiences negative emotions. I don’t care how positive you are, or how many OM’s and affirmations you do, as we go through this life we experience a rainbow of emotions, some darker shades than others. 

But we don’t like those negative emotions. They feel icky. Yucky. Or way too powerful to “deal” with.

Most of our conditioning has taught us to  “deal” with them by one, repressing or suppressing them, two, expressing them - You know like when you go on a FB rant about whatever, just to let out enough emotion as you feel appropriate before you repress it or - three, escaping them.

NONE OF THIS BULLSHIT WORKS! 

Because you’re not actually dealing with the root cause of the problem - the emotion itself.

The hidden gift that crisis and trauma bring us is the ability to deal with the BULLSHIT BELIEFS and negative emotions around those beliefs that cause our mind to go down the rabbit hole of shitty thoughts. Bye, bye, Alice!

Those emotions come to define who we are and how we operate in the world...and we don’t even know it.

Ever seen a child skipping down the sidewalk with a smile on her face? Sure. You don’t judge it. You reason - consciously with all those thoughts - of course, that child is happy and carefree and skipping. She’s a child! She has no cares! No bills! No mortgage! She’ll learn. And we pass joy through some bullshit conditioning and “reasons” (which, let’s face it, are really excuses) as to why that child has so much skipping joy, and you don’t.

But when you see an adult skip merrily down the road - she must be crazy! What is she smoking! Weirdo. 

Yet, your soul is CRYING, BEGGING to be liberated to experience that level of joy and vibrancy.

THAT is what crisis and trauma teaches us. It’s a mirror that life holds to our face to show us all the shit we have on the inside - all the fear, all the doubt, all the insecurities, all the limiting beliefs and reasons, and control-freak boundaries that we put on our potential to feel amazing...JUST BECAUSE. 

Here’s the beauty though, the treasure lies in the lessons you take from the experience. 

Lessons transform your perspective.

Lessons transform your emotions.

YOU HAVE THE POWER, NOW, THE GIFT, THE CHOICE TO FIND THE TREASURE IN WHAT YOU’RE GOING THROUGH.

To find the lessons.

The learnings.

THE GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES THAT WILL MAKE YOU STRONGER, BRAVER, MORE LUMINOUS, MORE VIBRANT, AND FULFILL MORE OF YOUR POTENTIAL.

Just like in the story.

The child realizes he can’t take it anymore. 

He gets to that place many of us have...maybe you’re already there now…

It’s that beautiful place when your fear squares up against your potential for courage.

Courage needs fear to exist. Fear is not the enemy, your perspective is.

Change your perspective and you unlock the treasure of opportunity to heal yourself.

For, as the book says, “Inside every problem there is an opportunity, to learn and to grow, to be brave, to do something!”

One of the questions I regularly ask my clients when they’re stuck and down is…

HOW IS THIS THE BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO YOU?

What is the BEST learning you can take from this experience to make you MORE profitable? More healthy? More wealthy? More joyous? More loving?

You have the power to choose the meaning and the context of your life.

Choose wisely.

Remember, your reign is now.

P.S. If you have a friend or a loved one who is struggling through this crisis, be the badass, bold, courageous leader that you are and share with a friend.

Leaders inspire leaders. Be the leader of your family, your community needs right now. 

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