Realizations Offer Insight

The past repeats itself until we shift our thinking.

I just realized something profound. It happened quite without intention. I had been listening to lectures on Neuro Linguistic Programing (NLP) as part of my Elite Life Coach Certification program and the lecturer, David Key was helping a women find a focus from where her struggles reside. For the past two weeks, I have been listening, taking notes, and having a few, “Yes! That makes perfect sense” as I moved along the topics.

Part of my brain stated, “This is going so slow…” as I am used to hyper mode in acquiring information for my insatiable mind. The program is geared to be drip fed over six months.

Brilliant! I am forced to slow down. Allow ideas to settle, connect, digest, and reboot my mind.

Not an easy feat for someone used to absorbing data and applying it immediately to my life. Is this another symptom of our rush society? Pondering still, I recognized something after a string of simple texts between myself and my partner today.

You see, about 10 years ago, I had noticed the sadness, the despondency, the lack of joy in a friend’s posts on social media, and his life. While we were only friends for the longest time, I noticed the sorrow and the deep pain associated with each word selected.

I remember endeavoring to encourage him, and despite my own sadness and the desolate feeling I had with an abusive boyfriend, I wanted to help him find joy. I connected with him because I tapped into my own despondency and pain. I mirrored his sorrow and lifted him up because I knew how to do that, and finding the joy was part of my path.

With most people I interacted with, I found myself connecting and encouraging. It was my method, or my personality I shared with the world (social media or in real life). I was on a mission to share the joy I found internally despite the horrible, painful, and negative experiences I had walked throughout my life. I was a Pollyanna, and I knew it.

So, while I studied my Bachelors program, and dealt with the negative hand I had allowed into my life, I made it my focus to lift him up and build him up as…

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