08/05/2023
⚫ THE DARK ROOM ⚫ A place we slip into and struggle to find the way out of.
This is my analogy for a state of being I’m too familiar with. The feeling of experiencing life as if you were in a pitch black room with no windows, no light points, nothing… just the awareness of your crippling anxiety growing within your chest and the sound of your own breathing.
Taking a few steps forward, and sideways, and backwards… and everything is still all black, nothing changes. Calling out for answers, reaching your arms forward in the hope you’d touch the edge of a wall, the edge of something that could get you out of there… and still nothing.
When we’re in the dark room, it’s easy to feel hopeless, lost, tired and on the verge of despair. It’s easy to look outside of us for things that will make us feel better and pray that tomorrow we’ll wake up and the lights will be on.
But what I’ve learnt is that until we decide to search within ourselves, we will continue to stay stuck. It’s only when we’re willing to face our emotions, thoughts and beliefs and still be ok with feeling uncomfortable that we’ll begin to make progress.
When you turn on the light within you, you illuminate what’s outside of you. You begin to see the next steps in front of you.
⚫ ⚪ YOU are the switch. YOU are the light. Honour the power within you.
