Imagine if you will that you have a backpack on you back filled with very heavy rocks that you CHOOSE to carry with you everywhere you go. Everyday when you get out of bed you strap it on your back and carry it with you everywhere you go all day long. By 10 a.m. you are already weary and hurting. By the time you are home you feel like you can't take it anymore. But you will not or feel that you can not drop the rocks that are inside of your bag. If you took even one of them out you would feel less pain...So the prompt today is to NAME YOUR ROCKS. We can not even begin to start the process of dropping the rocks with the goal of having an empty backpack until we admit that we are carrying them and identify what they are.
Here are some examples of some of the rock names I have been familiar with during my lifetime:
Anger
Resentment
Fear
Guilt
Low Self Esteem
Past Failure
Past Mistakes
Regret
Self Pity
Do any of these look familiar? The list could go on and on. Many of us have rocks that are uniquely ours.
Today make a list of the names of your rocks that weigh you down and together during our journaling throughout the year we will address them and courageously take them out of our backpack and throw them out with the goal of not picking them back up again!
Have a joy filled day!
Sending Love,
Susan
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Oh those rocks...and the aches they have brought. In the movie THE MISSION a favorite scene has Robert De Niro being freed of his version of rocks after dragging the burden up a waterfall as penance. I choose not to accept the suffering of those rocks, no matter what their source...fear, worry (is anything more useless?), comparisons, sense of lack...the mind serves many purposes, not all of them to our benefit. Good topic, thanks.
ReplyDeleteOkay, mine is not a backpack, but rather one of those old Samsonite suitcases!
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ABUSE
ADDICTION
NEGATIVITY
SELF ESTEEM
WORTHLESSNESS
CRITICAL OF SELF
OVEREATER
CRITICAL
BITTER
BEWILDERED
CONFUSED
EMOTIONAL
HURT
JUNK
DISGUSTED
UNLOVED
USELESS
VIOLATED
WORRY
FEAR
LONLINESS
oh, wow. what a visual. I teach high school and yesterday I saw a freshman struggling with his backpack. He had so much packed into the backpack that the zipper broke. He was sitting in the hall before school struggling to get the zipper closed. He had serious books in the backpack: chemistry, calculus, literature. One of the other teachers came up and tried to talk him into putting some back in his locker. I just wanted to give him a big hug because he was very stressed at the thought of leaving one of those books.
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