Emelia Sam

We often struggle to find the appropriate response in situations where there seem to be no words.

Perhaps you are rendered speechless because you are supposed to be. Some things are beyond the limitations of spoken language.

It’s not about you being response-ready or you taking the opportunity to try to fix. It’s about acknowledgement and acceptance of the other. To be present is to witness and allow space for their being.

Sometimes, intentional silence is the most powerful gift you can offer.

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When circumstances are less than ideal, it’s easy to place the focus on the external.

If only this person would act a certain way…If only another opportunity would appear…If only a miracle would occur. However, these types of interventions are completely out of your control and may not be readily available. And even if you are gifted in this manner, it’s often transitory.

On the other hand, changing your perspective is always a choice and can be instantaneous. Unlike changing circumstances, it lasts as long as you wish. By shifting to an internal focus, instead of waiting to be gifted, you gift yourself.

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Each of us is a complex being. We’re composed of layer upon layer of expectations and values and to sift through them can be challenging.

It’s easier not to ask the hard questions of ourselves.  However, it’s the willingness to dive into the uncomfortable that allows you to expand your sense of self. To wander around the tangled landscape of your being without judgment is a powerful exercise

Enter the space of self-inquiry not with the intent of finding one answer but with a mindset of unlimited discovery.

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It’s natural to want to make sense of the world. However, it’s important to acknowledge and revere the mystery of things. When there is discomfort with the mystery, striving appears. It can be framed as strength when it’s really an attempt to take matters into one’s own hands because trust is absent.

While there is value in being accountable, there is also value in noting that magic lives in the unknown. This is the difference between inspired action and fear-based action.

Striving abandons the senses- your sense of self, a sense of others and a sense of something larger attending to your needs.

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Painful interactions can leave a void so deep that regaining wholeness seems impossible. But perhaps that type of excavation is ideal, in some respects.

Suppose a seed of hope is planted in this space. Maybe the vast emptiness creates the room for this seed to flourish and subsequently form the deepest, widest roots. Just maybe, it’s preparatory for something glorious to take hold.

Tweet this: Deep wounds make for fertile ground.

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