Mama Gena's Five Day Receiving Challenge
As women, we struggle with receiving praise, love, and acknowledgment.
Whether we...
Avert our eyes and deflect the praise...
Respond with self-deprecation...
Or sabotage our own happiness because we don’t feel worthy of it...
...We don’t seem to know how to graciously accept the good that comes our way.
A Thought for Friday, Thanks to Lao Tzu
“Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will be blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner. Dor your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.” Lao Tzu
Chronic Shock and How it Affects Your Life
Divided attention, crazy schedules, overflowing to do lists - these are all symptoms of shock. Who knew?
Certainly not me. When our teacher asked us to turn to the shock questionnaire you'll see below, I took one look and burst out laughing.
"What?" she said.
"You're telling me people have less than three things on their To Do List? Like, for real?" said I.
She smiled at me, very kindly. "Yes," she said.
I probably rolled my eyes. I think I might have. What sort of functional person doesn't have an overflowing, insane list of stuff to do?
So I did the little screening test you'll see below, and guess what? I'm insanely high on the sympathetic shock scale, and I flip over into parasympathetic on a regular basis.
Surviving and Thriving During a Kerfuffle
Unless you stay home, turn off all of the electronics, avoid all of the people, and stay curled into a ball in fetal position it's pretty much impossible to avoid the splatter. Even then, there's a problem, because chances are good that you too are having some messy emotions right about now.
So what are we to do?
Just Start Somewhere
Decision making is not my strong suite.
I can hear my Viking snorting as I write these words, even though he's not even in the house at the moment. He's all about making decisions, and they are generally good ones. For him, the world usually flows in direct lines from cause to consequence. He's boggled by my difficulty.
My Meyer's Briggs temperament type is INFP. Some of you will know what that means. If you don't, let's suffice it to say that my brain prefers to ponder the whys and wherefores of the universe rather than the common sense realities of the world around me.
Making decisions? I'm like a kid in the proverbial candy store. So many choices, and I'm never allowed to choose them all. Making a decision is like closing a door on possibility.
Big door. POSSIBILITY in all caps.