HELP!

Isn't it awesome how a word as simple as HELP! can be so hard to say?

Often on life's journey we feel like we are working through our "stuff" alone.  We travel our paths with friends and family, but when it comes to actually processing the garbage and recycling of our minds and emotional bodies, we feel totally alone.  Our thoughts are hard to share with others, our ego tricks us to believe that we are the only ones feeling this way or that.  And we begin to shut down, we find it hard to express ourselves, and to share what is weighing on our heart.

The truth of it is that we are NOT alone.  We all feel love, anger, guilt, hatred, joy, regret, bliss, and  uncertainty.  At one point in time, we all experience these emotions - we are all "spiritual beings having a human experience" - and part of that experience includes feeling the full gamut of emotions that the world around us offers to share.  It is by talking about these feelings, and experiencing and expressing these emotions that we can grow. That we can ascend.  That we can overcome and breakthrough the patterns that hold us captive to the past.  A past that no longer serves our highest and best intentions for self and others.     

We quite simply have to express what is working in our hearts - our truth.  The truth about how we feel, about how we think.  And if we can have the COURAGE to speak what we need to, share what is going on inside of us we will find that we are not alone at all.  There are others within our circle that are feeling the same as we are, going through the same emotions as we are.  And when we have courage to talk about it, you lend courage to others to talk about it.  Life is NOT one thing after another - it is the SAME thing over and over and over...we keep feeling, we keep processing, we keep experiencing.  When we have the courage to share with others we will gain strength and confidence in ourselves and we will find freedom, expansiveness, authenticity, harmony, potentiality, love, joy and even bliss.

I will use myself as an example.  My life is an open book - you ask, I tell - and probably more details than you care to know.  Many of you know that when I came home from recent mission work in Guatemala, I brought home a parasite.  This "bug" feasted on me for weeks before I asked for help and started openly talking about what was going on with me.  I started sharing what the parasite was physically doing to me and the effects of the treatment for it.  Wouldn't you know, that I am not the only one who suffered outrageous hemorrhoids from pooping so much?  Do you know that almost every woman out there suffers hemorrhoids or has at some point in their life?  So, I was able to connect with others, and learn about different courses of treatment.  I mean, seriously, this is not something that people talk about...ever!  But once I started talking about it, I find that along with hemorrhoids, there are feelings of isolation, embarrassment, frustration and even anger.  Who knew, I instantly felt better knowing that I am not alone, that others are suffering through the same thing - and even the same emotions!  I know that this is absolutely outrageous to blog about such a thing, but what do I have to gain by hiding it?  What do I have to gain from suffering through it in silence?  ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!  By sharing my experience, I have created freedom around it!  By talking about it, I (hopefully) have passed on valuable treatment options to others.  By opening up and expressing how I was feeling about it, others now know that they are not alone. 

"Help!" for women is the last word in the dictionary...and that is why we multi-task.  It is easier to do things yourself than to ask for help.  That is why we take on so much "stuff" and "stuff" that isn't even ours to take on in the first place!  If we fail to ask for help, we will get inundated with life, with "stuff" and the more we get buried in all the "stuff" the harder and longer it takes to get out. 

So, just for today, ask for help.  Start small, ask small.  Expect a "Yes!" because you deserve a "Yes!"
But, if the answer happens to be a no, that is okay - you still asked - and that takes courage!  Hold a little experiment, find someone close and say "Today, I am really feeling ______" and you fill in the blank.  See what kind of response you get.  The more open you are to sharing the truth about what you are feeling the closer you get to your authentic self.  It is time for all of us to reconnect our lives with our emotions and thoughts and by doing so we live our truth.  We live our best life.  And that is a life worth living!

Consider that...

Blessings,
Juli