We need to listen to the body .
I'm surprised how hard it is for us to accept the good things in life. And I know it sounds crazy, that deep down it seems easy for good things to happen to you, but there are many people who when they have something to celebrate they don't believe it, they distrust it enormously.
We live in a society of effort, of sacrifice and where it seems that if we didn't suffer it wasn't worth it, then when things happen to us that we think we don't deserve we make a short circuit. The so-called impostor syndrome enters and we become paralyzed by opportunities or circumstances that just need to be lived.
For those who need to read what I'm writing: sometimes you don't have to do, it's enough to be.
I lived it, I have the experience, which ended in cancer. It is inevitable that you will not feel the cold of pain, panic, sadness, doubt, hopelessness, fear or uncertainty. Doubt comes a lot of times.
We seem to be in the well-known squid game or the hunger Games. It is a hard battle that remains for a lifetime. After having been diagnosed, even if we die ppr another cause. Even the greatest optimism does not disappear, although a good attitude, mental health and joy are the best weapons.
For years I carried around faults that weren't mine. I thought I was guilty for feeling, for saying, for being. Until I got tired, and we went "from guilt to self-esteem."
Stop making demands like nothing is happening. I often see the idea of being strong and enduring suffering without stopping to look at the consequences.
It sounds stoic to resist without complaining, but more than complaining what I invite you to think is that if your life is going through a crisis, illness or difficulty learn to look at what you can do and offer in that situation.
It's not about giving up, but about adjusting the gear to what you can.
If you think you can always do it as if it were nothing, you won't be able to do it all, in fact... your health will remind you that if you lose it, you have nothing.
Everything has its time in the health processes of the body, everything and "patience" is the key to transcending anger, resentment, going through pain and being reborn. As long as we do the inner work, little by little the wounds become scars, little by little the wounds become key learnings for our mental and physical health.
Writing for me is my art, it allows me to drain with letters what I have inside and that often makes knots in our throats and squeezes us in the stomach.
Janitze.🌷
Separator made with Canva by @janitzearratia
Any images in this post are taken with my iPhone 12, the Infinix pro-note 30 or with the camera eighties Rolleiflex 2.8 f, and edited by me with Canva
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