What if you took all your painful experiences, and used them as fuel for self-improvement?
Imagine using every tear and sob, every muffled scream, all your negative thoughts and fears. All hurts, real and imagined.
Imagine a large empty, glass jar.
A really big one.
Now extract those painful thoughts and images from your head and and heart, and place them inside the glass jar.
Be thorough.
Recall every real and imagined fear. Every argument. Every unanswered phone call. Every sleepless night. Every broken promise. Every lump in your throat. All the horrible things that have been done to you. All the things you’d wished you said, and all the things you wished you didn’t.
When you’re sure there is nothing left, place the lid on the jar.
Screw the lid down tight.
Now place the jar in a small dark room. Perhaps in a cupboard, or in the back of a closet.
At first you may feel a little strange without the familiar, but exhausting, shroud of worry.
Don’t fret, this is normal. You may even notice that you feel lighter. You can see clearly. Your mind is not racing and you feel calm.
A disturbing thought crosses your mind.
What if this feeling doesn’t last?
Go immediately to the cupboard and pull out the glass jar.
Empty this thought into it and walk away.
Very soon your glass jar will become a routine. Just as you clean your house, so will you clean your mind.
There are times you may feel nostalgic. You may choose to visit your glass jar. It will be always be there in that small, dark place.
A word of caution. Make your visits, brief.
After time, you notice the glass jar looks different.
The thoughts and experiences inside of it, have become a thing of the past.
Wisdom has replaced the power your thoughts and fears, once held over you.
The jar has done it’s job.
The fuel of heartbreak, seen through time and clear glass, has given you a new strength and freedom.
A new thought enters your mind.
What if your only job is in becoming the person, you wished everyone else would be?
Lorelie Rozzano.
www.jaggedlittleedges.com