Do you ever feel like the world is just too heavy? Like everything is just so serious and the weight of the whole world is sitting right on your shoulders? Does your neck ache, your shoulders hurt and your back throb? Do you feel almost as if your physical body is being crushed by the weight of the world? If you do, you are not alone.
There are many of us that feel this way. What can we do to lift the weight? How can we ease our pain?
I think a good place to start would to be in realizing we aren't alone. It doesn't really make us feel better to know that others suffer like we do, but if we realize a lot of people feel this way then maybe we can see that we really aren't holding the weight of the world on our shoulders, there are many holding the weight. Each one of us is responsible for our own weight and no one else's. Think about that. We are responsible only for ourselves. That's kind of hard to imagine, isn't it? Sure we all have responsibilities, but ultimately each one of us is responsible for our self.
Perhaps if we start by taking care of ourselves and focusing on our inner self we will find that the world around us lightens up. Maybe if we remember to stop and take a deep breath and focus on what's really going on inside of us instead of all of the drama we see going on outside of us. Our world won't seem to heavy.
What if we all stop right now. Just stop what we are doing and thinking and quiet our minds. Take a deep, deep breath, hold it for a second and then let it out. Now we take another deep breath and when we let it out we slowly release the tension in our shoulders. We feel our shoulders release and gently begin to sag. One more really deep breath and then when we release we allow the tension in our whole body to flow out until we feel almost limp.
Now we picture in our minds the ocean. See the waves gently going in and going out. We are standing at the edge of the waves and they are gently tickling our toes, slowly the waves grow higher and as they glide in and out they gently wash away our pain, our deep feeling of seriousness releases and we feel the joy of the water cleansing us. As a wave washes in it surrounds us in warmth and love, as it washes back out it takes our tension and pain with it. Envision the waves coming and and washing over us, feel the tension and pain release.
Gradually we float down into the waves and become one with them. We are the ocean, we are free, we are peaceful . The world no longer rests on our shoulders, we only need to concern ourselves with who we are, there's no one to change, no one to fix, only us surrounded by the waves of the ocean and full of love.We gently roll flowing in and out while the sun warms us with it's love. Perhaps dolphins or whales float by or a mermaid sings us a song. We allow ourselves to float in this feeling for as long as we feel comfortable, flowing with the ocean full of love and then we gradually feel our toes and fingers, feel the sand beneath our feet, see the waves reside back into the ocean. Once again find ourselves standing on the shore, in the sun, full of light and love and refreshed.
That ocean is there for us any time, any place, all we have to to is stop and picture it and let it wash away our feeling of heaviness. Even if we only allow ourselves to feel the light of our ocean a few minutes each day it will help relieve our burden. Perhaps eventually we we realize that we don't have to continuously hold the burdens of the world. Perhaps eventually we will see that the world doesn't have to feel so heavy and that we really are light.
When the heaviness weighs us down go to the ocean, it's always there waiting for us.
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