Heal Your Self with Writing

A child growing up in an alcoholic and/or abusive environment may create a wall around himself for protection. Such defensive methods may actually ensure surviving emotionally and physically through challenging and threatening times in our lives. Years pass, however, and though we are now safe, these walls and other defense mechanisms may sometimes sabotage both our personal and professional lives. The wall is no longer needed yet it remains. It has become habitual. The first step is to become aware of what we have built around us, and how this invisible wall prevents connecting and leading a full and meaningful life.

Your limitations are not set by who you are but rather who you think you’re not. The people who are put in high regard and given much respect are those who are confident enough to believe in themselves. And it is far easier to believe in yourself if you are being an authentic Self.

Today’s Age of Information is a poor substitute for the callings of spirit. Information is not — nor ever was — wisdom. Knowledge is more than the naming of names, and survival more than material sustenance. In olden times a shaman would interpret psychological illness as a separation from soul. His job then was to retrieve the severed soul and unite or return it to the one possessed or ill.