NO NEED TO “GO ASK ALICE”

 When the world we love seems to betray us, the natural reaction is to go down the rabbit hole looking for answers.  Hurting and falling apart our inner confidence can be torn from the soul…  and while this journey can be a lesson in humility and perseverance, searching for the prescribed majik pill to console a broken ego can be expensive - physically, mentally and financially.

In a state of duress we are so wrapped up in our heartache that we just can’t see (or don’t want to see) what is directly in front of us. It is much easier to seek advise as a victim rather than to grab hold of the reason that brought us to our knees. We tend to turn away from the many choices (and circumstances that follow the choices) instead of claiming accountability - even we all know; we truly know in our heart what lead us to the place where we are currently residing.

Now more than ever, turning to the “Self Help Gods and Goddesses” of our social media culture instead of trusting what is inside has taken over. It is driven by this so-called efficiency and our intuition is riding in the back seat. This “efficiency” taints our inner knowing and the art of sensibility inside the self begins to wane. We become attached to what the “experts” believe and detach from the natural world. As this separation grows it only exacerbates what we “think” we have lost (which is NO-thing) and we suffer. 

We become the fools at the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. In an out-of-our-mind heartache, we run to the ones who “know” and drink up their words. In a world of instant gratification (as the Cheshire Cat is grinning) we rarely look what our truth is showing us – a heart and soul full the answers that lie with-in.

Getting back to sanity is a hard work. We get big and we get small, yet if you remember to take hold of your responsibility and trust what you innately know (not what someone else has told you it should be) there is balance and life looks very different.  Even if you have had crappy role models, shitty relationships, endured abuse etc. you really know exactly what you deserve and desire. Trust it.

It sounds so flippin’ cliché but there really is beauty and opportunity inside each and every problem. Find it - you don’t need to go ask Alice or Dr. Oz, or Oprah, or some personality who doesn’t know YOU at all. (Remember, our eyes will see only what they want to see – and things are only as real as we want them to be).

So the next time you are experiencing pain; instead of giving your power, money, precious time and energy away just pause. Ask the simple question of how the situation got to be where it is and be truthful with it. There is nothing to find on Facebook or “Google”, and we cannot compare our situations and lace them with regret.

If you don’t get the answer you like, change it.  Make right, make it real and give yourself great alms for another chance to grow without tumbling into the abyss and swallowing anyone else’s prescriptions or advise. 

Honor what you were born with - we never have to go farther than our heart. (dl)