Knowing – a curious firefly

Do you ever find when you give advice about something, you’re often then put into a situation to practice what you preach?

Happens to me all the time.

So, a little while after I posted Getting Still about the fear based stories our minds create and how to filter them with Love to get to the truth, I was confronted with something to practice this new way of being.

Here’s what happened.

Although I’m not on Facebook very much, I still get email notices about friend’s activities. Someone had tagged me in a photo, so naturally I got curious and logged in to see what was posted. And, as it usually happens with Facebook, I was lured in to scroll down and see what other people were up to.

And that’s when I saw a video that triggered me.

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I have a problem with getting still.

When I’m faced with a situation and not sure what to do or believe, a friend told me to get still and listen to my gut–that it knows.

But I have a problem with getting still.

When I am still, the silence can be agony for me. When I wait for an answer to an important question, a text reply from someone, or a response from an on-line blog on a piece I submitted, and sit in silence, it can be agonizing. When I am still, my mind makes up all kinds of stories to fill the silent space.

Maybe I’m not worth a response.

Maybe I’m too needy.

Maybe I’m too pesky and ask too many questions.

Maybe my writing is not good enough.

In her book Rising Strong, Brene Brown talks about the stories we tell ourselves, that they are often works of fiction, not based on any real information.

“When we are in pain we create a narrative to help make sense of it,” she states.

The stories that bubble up are neither healthy nor helpful. They may also be inaccurate. Still they persist.

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When the Rubber Hits the Road (aka Practicing What I Preach)

Getting Still