brotherhoodforhealing

Shadow work can easily be overlooked in times of flowering season, and so it’s important to remind ourselves that we must tend to the weeds in our beautiful garden, otherwise all the work we’ve done will be overrun by something that was lingering all along. And I can attest that it often feels unfair for how quickly the weeds grow, and how deeply they are still in the soil. Sure we can go to the store and buy some RoundUp to kill it off (aka SSRI’s, Booze, illicit drugs, porn, materialism, complacency, conformity) but we all know that leaves a barren wasteland where nothing new can grow. So as much as we despise it, those pesky weeds just showed up in our beautiful garden and we must get our hands in the dirt and tend to it if we truly want our garden to grow. This reminds us that one of life’s undeniable truths that most like myself often learn in only the hardest of ways, and that is this: what we work so hard to create- all of our back-breaking efforts to plant something new - can slip away from us even when we are blooming and that even our brightest, most magnificent blooms can be overgrown by unattended weeds which often sprout up quickly. Just when you think they are gone, the next day they show up again. Don’t let the weeds overrun your garden grove. Do the shadow work, it’s always lurking. #tendtotheweeds #philosophyoftheday #natureheals

On this Mental Health Action Day, it is a good reminder that imperfect action outperforms perfection seven days a week and twice on Sundays. As we step into each one of our daily habits, we are faced with a choice to continue into the known, or develop comfort in the dissonance of the unknown. The latter choice opens up a world of possibilities for us - which creates excitement in and of itself so profound that we realize there might actually be an outcome much better for us than the one we had planned. Whatever your habits are that you want to let go of- whether it’s alcohol, caffeine, porn, gluttony, complacency or anything else on the list… ask your heart one simple question, “How is this serving me?” What comes next? For me, it’s a change of mind and a step into new, unknown imperfect action. And that I’m finding serves me better than what I thought I knew I was getting into… #imperfectaction #mentalhealthactionday