Are you turning well-being into work?
And I wonder what would happen,
Just think about it,
If you just took the word work out of your wellbeing vocabulary.
And didn't use it anymore,
Doing the work,
Personal work,
Working hard on healing or being well or enjoying life.
Sometimes we do use the word work a lot in our desire to become well and enjoy life.
As if well-being is something that you have to force or earn rather than just receive from all the sources that are offering fullness and nourishment and healing grace to us right now.
They're knocking on our door.
The concept of turning towards,
Prioritising,
Receiving our wellbeing is something that we humans can struggle with,
Can't we?
Messages that have been coded into us can mislead us into thinking that well-being begins with a problem that needs to be fixed.
Or a special permission that needs to be given that says,
Yes,
You too have the right to feel good and enjoy life.
And the assurance that there will be no punishment for that.
We sometimes forget that we are so stressed and impacted by some of the messages that we continue to carry within us.
And so we find ourselves believing that we have to work harder to feel better.
Or that we have to earn well-being.
As if it were a commodity that you have to earn and work for.
And we have to do that by being good,
By not being broken.
By fixing our perceived damage.
By delaying our well-being while we exhaust ourselves trying to learn from books and courses and other sources what we need to do,
What we have to do,
How hard we have to work to feel well and enjoy life.
But again.
.
.
I wonder.
What would happen?
If you took whole concept and word work out of your well-being vocabulary.
And notice if something in you really wants to hold on to it tight.
And you might get curious.
At some point about what that piece is trying to protect.
Or what it is afraid of.
But what if there was another message to hear and it's this?
What if we were just to let life nourish us the way it's meant to nourish us?
The way it nourishes the plants,
The grass,
The trees,
The flowers,
The bees,
The birds,
The way it nourishes the oceans,
The lakes,
So that everything is free to grow and blossom and be.
What if healing was less about effort and more about receiving?
And more about giving ourselves permission to receive,
If permission is needed for any reason.
What if healing happens when we stop pushing and forcing and begin to receive?
When we give ourselves space to heal in a kinder way.
What if well-being doesn't need to involve struggle,
Which after all is the opposite of being well?
What if life is here to support,
Nurture your healing and my healing?
Your regeneration and expansion and mine just as it is for every other part of living creation.
What of well-being?
Is wired inside of us as part of our innate intelligence.
And if we accepted that more,
We would understand more how connected we are to the sources that will give us the wellness we desire.
The well-being,
Not being perfectly this picture of health that we see on the outside,
Not meaning we won't have challenges or even illnesses,
But meaning we feel good about being ourselves and being alive and we feel curious about what there is to come and hopeful.
That kind of deep well-being.
What if wellbeing is about surrendering?
Not efforting.
Opening up.
Turning to what feels light and nourishing,
Like plants and flowers do.
So that your natural heal,
Repair,
Expand system that lives inside of you and has its own intelligence processes can just do its job.
What if it's about collaborating?
Rather than pushing and forcing,
Efforting and working.
What if your system doesn't need you to work,
Only to accept that there is nothing wrong with you?
That you are not damaged,
That there is nothing to prove or fix or earn.
There is so much in life to enjoy.
To discover.
To get interested in.
And excited about.
To fill your body,
Mind and soul with.
And feel loved up by life itself.
What if that was right there on your doorstep,
Right now?
Making an invitation to you.
Calling you,
Even in your longing to feel worthy of it.
In treating you to drops.
The thought of worthiness and the word work from your vocabulary.
And to open your eyes,
Your ears,
Your heart to the way the deep well of being That is the vitality and vibrancy of life.
It's calling to you right now.
In a voice that says,
Beloved,
I made all of this for you.
For us.
Be here.
Enjoy.
Now though your mind might fight this knowing,
Your body knows this.
That it isn't just a container for stress and exhaustion and struggle.
But for beauty,
Pleasure.
And nourishment.
And for creativity and curiosity.
An adventure too.
Let your system live.
Let it have.
Let it have full range to move in the big and beautiful spaces of life,
Unbounded by little,
Mean,
Striving thoughts.
My friend,
What if well-being is not work but the discipline of remembering?
Remembering to give yourself permission to pause,
To breathe.
To look up at the sky and the great mystery of that vastness.
And down to your feet and the earthiness under them.
To look out to the horizon.
And all that spaciousness and all that vibrancy of life that lives between your body and the horizon you're looking out to.
To turn to each of your senses and celebrate its connection with all this wonder.
To get out of your head,
Out of your head,
Out of your head,
Beyond your limited arguing mind.
Let that mind rest.
Let it have peace.
Let it rest in the spaciousness and absorb the beauty and say hello to the wonder.
What if you were to look within you?
Remembering that in you is all this love.
All this love.
And to hear these words in your own inner voice.
We cannot shame ourselves into healing or work ourselves into well-being.
We can only love ourselves and let life love us into evolution.
