Consider The Boulder

Hey. You. Good on you, for taking a moment to pause. Breathe. Inhale. Exhale. Welcome to A Hit of Hope. Consider the boulder. A water-rounded stone. A hunk of broken mountain. Or a piece of rock pushed up and out of the heaving earth. Boulders can come barreling at you from out of nowhere. Boulders can block your way.

Transcript

Hey,

You,

Good on you for taking this moment to pause,

To breathe,

Inhaling,

Exhaling.

Welcome to a hit of hope.

Consider the boulder,

A water-rounded stone,

A hunk of broken mountain,

Or a piece of rock pushed up and out of the heaving earth.

Boulders can come barreling at you from out of nowhere.

Boulders can block your way.

Boulders must take whatever weather comes along.

They sit in the sun,

The rain,

The snow that melts and refreezes,

Encasing them in a coat of ice.

Cold.

Lifeless.

Consider the boulder.

Do you have a boulder in your life?

Something barreling at you,

Something blocking your way?

Or maybe something big and hard is being unearthed inside of you.

In general,

Boulders are considered too big to move alone.

Can you reach out and ask for help with your boulder,

Whatever it is?

Can you sit still and breathe?

Consider the boulder of the mountain.

Consider the boulder of the field.

Grounded,

Strong and of this earth.

Be still.

Breathe.

Namaste.

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Another insightful glimpse at the human condition and a perfect hit of hope for the day. Thanks you

One way to approach boulders is to literally climb on them, by doing bouldering. You brush it up from the moose and dirt and discover new routes, easy and difficult ones and practicing it to perfection by sending a route from the start to the end.
So instead of trying to get rid of them, I would say, it's much more rewarding by getting up on them. It makes you stronger... Once you overcome the difficulty of getting up there, you can approach another problem, even by risking a fall and getting injured.

Too good for words.🤗
Thank you!

I had the passing thought that this seemed to be a branch of the family tree of practices starting with the mountain (range) one, then you said to consider the boulder of the mountain. I chuckled. My mind must be a bit on the contrary side this morning, though. I heard the statement that boulders are generally considered too large to move by oneself...and my mind flashed to the self-rolling boulder people in the movie "Labryinth." 😂 As I said, a bit contrary today. Or perhaps merely unruly from lack of sleep.

Regardless, between that and visions of a boulder-fleeing Indiana Jones and a Boulder, Colorado dwelling Mork & Mindy, I came out of this smiling, and recognizing that even in all those apparently random thoughts (my Odyssey of the Mind training put to good and now habitual use, I suspect), in each case there was no person left standing alone. There was always at least one other person journeying with the subject of my scattered imagination.

And perhaps that was the point for me here today. As Mister Rogers' mother said (and I very loosely paraphrase this all), and I repeat often to my clients dealing with depression and negativity, look past what is in front of you. The helpers are always in the background. They're too busy helping to spare time for cameras and interviews. Watch the news. Even if it scares you, look behind the reporter on the site if breaking news. There is almost always someone being helpful in the background, visible, but unacknowledged in that moment. It is nevertheless a team effort to get through whatever the situation may be, to move that boulder, as it were. And every example my mind tossed out drove that point even further home for me.

Thank you for my morning introspective chuckle and deep thought. Though I sometimes fear I might turn into the female "Jack Handey" with all of this, I could do far worse than to follow the moral compass (as known to me at this time) of the man behind that self-affirmation mirror and armchair. 😊

Now I'm of to lend a shoulder against a few boulders of my own and of others. Have a beautiful day. I see the light within you as always. 🤲🏻❤️🤲🏻