Our 'GAME OF TRUST'

Our 'GAME OF TRUST'

Like it OR not, we are all in Our 'GAME OF TRUST' in life.  We can hear all kinds of challenges [call it TURMOILS] in life.  LIKE I have just been laid off.  OR one of my kids is having trouble in school.  OR my father is very ill but we are penniless to bring him to hospital.  True, we should feel GRATEFUL for all that we have in life a roof over our heads, food and support from family and friends BUT with these challenges, WHAT else could you feel but ANXIETY📗📙📘

And this slows down our life.  WHAT slows us down is our respect for WHAT we are going through in life.  And HOW else should we react in the midst of those grim situations?  And IF ever I'll ask myself if I'll be grateful if I had just been laid off from my job, and NOT to mention the other challenges you are facing, obviously, the answer will be a very loud NO💧💧💧

There's NO need to point fingers here.  You and me could all have been in the same boat, at least sometime in the past [if NOT as we speak now].  Wherein WHEN we are confronted with difficult feelings, our tendency is to want to figure out the feelings will serve as our very 'teachers' and make us more aware, helping us grow as a human being.  And IF I may surmise, that's probably our own way of keeping feelings at a safe distance and under the control of our own mind.  In real life, however, some of us tend to create distance from our own feelings by focusing on how we can change them😀😀😀

Looking at the horizon, others relate to their feelings through the 'LENS' of WHAT their feelings mean about WHO they are, HOW their feelings reflect OR DON'T reflect their identity.  Still, others manage by turning them into their own narrative and continue that narration OR describing their feelings to themselves and everyone else.  And psychologists highlight that there is also a minority WHO keep their feelings from being felt at arm's length  by focusing on WHY their feelings have appeared, the particular cause and interpretation.  And they highlight that there is also a plurality WHO avoid their feeling altogether by projecting them onto others through schemes of blame and the like.  The point here is that whether understanding, learning from, examining OR manipulating, we are all quite clever enough WHEN it comes to finding ways to NOT feel our feelings directly💥💥💥

Our takeaway:  Let's NOT get too far here because for the longest time, we were taught that we should NOT get too close to our feelings, and certainly NOT get inside them, feel them in the flesh OR inhabit them.  We DON'T want to experience suffering so we keep our feelings in the realm of the mind, that safe distance away, through countless rational and seemingly self-protective strategies.  We believe then that if we were to feel our feelings directly, close the gap between the person WHO is experiencing the feelings and the feeling themselves, we might NEVER come out the other side.  This brings us back to the fact that, like it or NOT, we are in a 'GAME OF TRUST' in life❗❗❗