Sometimes, Resting is the Work By Catherine Viel

[Manuel Tavares]

Sometimes, Resting is the Work
By Catherine Viel
https://rayviolet.blogspot.com/2022/09/sometimes-resting-is-work.html

Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care,
The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,
Chief nourisher in life’s feast.
~William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

Some things I’ve discovered lately…

~ Everything does happen for a reason. The more we dislike it or resist it or hate it while it’s happening, the more it needs to happen.

~ Beating ourselves up for what we see as unconscionable behavior is part of the process of letting go of it.

~ Letting go of hating ourselves for any reason is the graduation step.

~ Sometimes we have to give ourselves a reason to generate self-hatred in order to recognize a pattern. Only then can the pattern be dissolved and allowed to dissipate.

~ The more stubbornly we resist seeing to our own needs, the more they multiply and seem to create unsolvable problems. ...+
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