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“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” May Sarton
As a child we are immersed into a world of feelings both physically and emotionally. Two predominant feelings are love and pain. Like little sponges, we all absorb these into our body and mind.
Feelings of healthy love create security, safety and being centered. Repeated emotional or physical pain creates fear, sadness, and insecurity.
As children, it doesn’t feel safe enough to heal the pain, so it quietly gets buried in the body. Ultimately as an adult it shows up as:
- Self- loathing
- Deep anger
- Depression
- Self-sabotage
- Self-abuse
- Passivity
You can imagine how difficult it is to live with emotions like these on a daily basis, so over time a survival mask is created. This way, it appears to our co-workers, friends and family that we’re thriving on the outside, but on the inside we’re in pain which can also show up as physical ailments. This altered self-reality to mask the pain looks like:
- Controlling and blaming others
- Neediness
- Busyness
- Grandiosity
- Manipulation
- Emotional highs and lows
- Addictions
- Unhealthy boundaries
In business this mask ultimately creates lack of focus, blame, difficulty managing others, stagnant growth and self-sabotage. In personal life it creates unhappiness.
But the joy of living is choosing to free ourselves from our mask to then discover, be delighted by and then share our true self.
It’s a journey from darkness to light that most everyone is now experiencing. It involves challenges, real honesty, creative breakthroughs, setbacks, awareness, guidance, clarity and love.
It’s a beautiful journey we’re all on together as business owners and owners of our life.
Ultimately it’s about practicing being our true unmasked self.
-Nigel Sampson, CEO Whole Body Method and my personal Energy Healer
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