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Every experience in life changes us – give yourself permission to feel good

22 June 2020 By Amanda Bowen

Every experience in life changes us

Every experience in life changes us, physically, mentally and emotionally, even on the most subtle level, over time these make a huge difference in the person you become.

You are not the same as you were a week, month or year ago.
Go back even further and even though more traumatic or highly emotional events are more at the forefront, be aware that each decision, thought and action shapes who you are.

If you are struggling right now, and many are, take some time to reflect on the challenges you have faced throughout your lifetime.

How did you get through difficult times?

What great things have happened since then?

Use this reflection to meditate on, keeping eyes closed.
Now feel the feelings of your achievements, no matter how big, small or even seemingly irrelevant to you, they all count.
Every small change equates to massive transformation over time.

Give yourself permission to feel good.
Happiness is contagious.
But……., so is unhappiness.

Despite the world turning upside down, there is so much love and care around you.
Amazing people helping in every way possible.

You are alive; feel the life within you and somehow find that light that is still there, that’s maybe just hiding in the darkness, just like the sun is always shining, even though we do not always see it.

Let go of how you think things should be.
Feel the freedom of letting go.

Belief is more powerful than you can imagine, one of the strongest forces in the universe.

Trust and believe that good times are waiting for you along the horizon, because they are, and when the time is right, they will find you.
Trust me.

Dr. Amanda Bowen

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Here is a beautiful poem by the very talented Australian poet Erin Hanson, the words really struck a cord with me personally and my own healing journey. I hope this will resonate with many of you who find yourself in the constant doing-mode. Life changes when we start to just be.
 
give yourself permission to feel good
give yourself permission to feel good
 
“Let me tell the tale 
Of a girl who didn’t stop,
Who climbed up every mountain 
Without a pause upon the top
She’d dance until each blade of grass 
Was clothed in drops of dew
And the sun knew her by name
But the silver moon did too.
For a fear had settled in her bones, 
A fear of sitting still,
That if you’re not moving forward,
It must mean you never will.
So in time her dance got slower 
And she looked at all she’d seen,
But found gaps inside the places 
That she’d never fully been,
For she was a human doing, 
Human moving, human seeing,
But she’d never taken time 
To simply be a human being.”
 
Erin Hanson thepoeticunderground.com
 
 
Image: Anna McNaught
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