You will have to keep coming up for air. Oxygen resets your mind, your body and your soul. It heals. It clears. Rejuvenates. Resuscitates. Breathe deeply.
Overwhelm. There is too much going on. Too much noise. Too much pulling and pushing of you. You feel like you’re underwater. Under a cloud. Under cement. Under the ground. It is heavy. You are experiencing descent into oceans of fatigue and frustration. The currents are pulling you under and you just want to close your eyes. Close your eyes and let it take you. Take you down. To be numb. To be gone. It would be so good to let go. To surrender into the deep darkness. It would be so easy to just stop fighting and let it have you. Or…
You can come up for air. You don’t have to pull your whole body out. You just need to get close enough to the surface of your being and gasp for air. One deep breath. Two deep breaths. Three. Feel it course through your body. Oxygen. Life. Possibility. There is power in deciding to come up for air. You fought for it. You did not surrender to the ease of descent. You took the hard way and got out faster. The short term pain for the long term gain. GAIN. One last fight and you got through. One last burst and you made it. You are safe now.
We will always be challenged. We will always have reasons to give in or give up. But there’s something else that is constant. You can always come up for air. That option {or solution} is always available to you. Yours for the taking. Take it. You need it. It will save your life. It will save You. When in doubt look for the surface. There is light up there. There is love. Hope. Possibility. Help. Look up. Follow the light. The light will get brighter as you get closer. Keep focused on it. Light and dark cannot co-exist. Not in the world and not in your heart. Gratitude is light and where there is light, there is oxygen.
Love to you,
Alicia.
