When we feel the weight of the world on our shoulders, it’s time to slow down whatever it is that we are doing.
However, many will call on their reserve energy to push forward even harder. Ouch!
The hand on the planet pushing down on the man is a great visual.
There can be many interpretations of this graphic. When I look at it, I imagine that the hand is showing me where I put myself last. When the stress level in the outer world gets so intense, it might be instinctual to put our needs at the end of the fast-moving train of life. The caboose is bouncing and careening on the rails and there is debris scattered on the tracks.
Maybe you live in the caboose 75% of the time, and rarely get to be the train’s engine leading the way down the tracks.
Do some personal inventory and see your life from above like a transpersonal map of your journey so far. Do you see that it’s YOU that gets to lead your own ‘train of thoughts’?
Sometimes the body will activate its ‘brakes’ and force a well-deserved rest from the rat race of life.
This is when you get handed a metaphorical clipboard and need to re-assess your life.
If your Head ~ Heart ~ Gut are not aligned with what you want, or what you are doing, the outer world will be right there to assist and sometimes get heavy handed with you.
When you are fully present in the driver’s seat of life, you can look ahead and see exactly where you are going. It feels good and you are safe.
On the flip side, when you are carrying the weight of the world, you are feeling pressured to make decisions ‘under the gun’, so to speak. You will be making decisions based on FEAR once again. A sidebar of this is that you will become a perfectionist at procrastination and will be hyper-vigilantly searching in your ‘analyzer’ for a way to survive the onslaught. Think about that!
You will be trying to halt any potential failures by making yourself ‘small’ so that the outer world can’t beat you up anymore. You might just decide to stay invisible and redecorate the caboose.
If you have been passively perfecting your inner procrastinator… the good news is that you can clean off the tracks and move back into the front of the train where you see the way clearly and precisely. It’s a choice to put You first. You didn’t necessarily get that memo when you were growing up. Our role models often made decisions based on tradition, fear, and loyalty to the tribe.
Let’s move the world of troubles off your job list that have been weighing heavy on your soul.
Now place that heavy world of outer stress on the ground.
Step back from it.
Look it over, top to bottom, side to side.
You may want to walk around the circumference and examine its girth.
Wow, that’s a lot of heavy lifting. Phew!!
After examination, ask yourself if this is how you want to go through life.
You also want to note on your etheric clipboard. How much of this heavy world is even yours???
Maybe it became yours because you kept saying ‘yes’ to others, and after years, maybe even decades, it became your job to take on their burdens and make their decisions.
Your Soul doesn’t care how long it takes for you to do your inner work and create your outer world from the TRUTH of who you already are.
If you read this all the way through and it feels like I wrote this directly to you, maybe you want to reach out and book a free 20 minute Discovery Call with me HERE …
I am here if you want a hand to balance your inner world first and the outer world will adapt in a whole new way.
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with Love ~ Dana
