Your body can’t go where your mind hasn’t been and the mind won’t go where it doesn’t feel safe.  I’m stubborn.  I repeat mistakes until I’m damn well sure that it isn’t going to work.  I stick with things long past their prime.  I save things that have no business being saved.  I try to keep the past present because that means nothing has changed and I’m not dealing with my fears of losing people I love.  This is partially anxiety, partially control, partially depression and fear.  No matter what it is, though, the result is the same—there’s no forward movement in constantly repeating the past.  There’s no progress in constantly trying to make people comfortable.  If the only time we feel safe is when we contort ourselves to whatever is needed in the moment, then we are never truly safe within ourselves.  We will never successfully feel safe until we are secure in ourselves and until we are secure, we will never trust our choices and abilities that help us move forward.  And here’s the thing: we need vision and dreams to see the potential of what may come, but just because we can see it doesn’t mean that we are aligned to experience it.  I fully believe we need to see it but we also need to be in a vibrational match with it to experience whatever it is we are looking for.

Healing takes time, focus, patience, and honesty.  It takes a willingness to go back to the root of our pain (or even just the problem) over and over again until it’s removed.  It’s not a one and done thing n some cases.  It’s easy to feel like something is wrong with us when we are triggered by something we thought we addressed but the fact that we are human and have to practice recognizing what we feel doesn’t mean anything is wrong with us.  It just means that there was more to the situation that needs to be looked at.  Sometimes it means that we need to look at the situation from a different angle—or that perhaps what we thought was the issue wasn’t quite it.  I’m not fully convinced there are things we can’t get over (so to speak) but there are things that are more than challenging in their own right.  These are the things that keep us locked in old habits.  They keep us small and afraid of what could be next. They make us believe that we aren’t capable of doing what we want to do.  Until we face those demons and do the work to trust ourselves, we can’t possibly find that safety.  Looking for it in others isn’t realistic either.  Humans change their minds as they change so our safety can’t be contingent on someone else.  Our foundation comes from us.

Wanting something is only part of the deal when it comes to creating the life we want.  We need to be crystal clear on the what and flexible on the how.  We must be ready and open to receive what we ask for and that means doing the work of clearing the obstacles in our path—especially those in our minds.  We have to identify what it is that stops us from becoming the person who has what we say we want.  If we can’t see ourselves there, we will never get there because that vision tells us the frequency we need to be on to match that energy.  The body won’t feel right when we don’t feel safe.  The body responds to vibration and what it knows because that is comfort in familiarity.  We can day dream all we want, the mind has no shortage of imagination.  But actually taking the leap means we have removed the barriers stopping us and we can become a match for what we want.  The entire world opens up when we manage our thoughts and emotions because we recognize the power of the mind.  We have created security in our ability to navigate through whatever comes our way while keeping the goal clear.  If things feel a little stuck right now, take the time to evaluate if there just might be some old feelings holding us back.  As soon as we get on track, there is nowhere we can’t go, no energy from our mind and vision that we can’t match with our body.