Emotional Healing has so many phases. The mere feelings of nostalgia in our lives for a time long ago which seems like just yesterday is a sign. A sign that God is calling us to heal even more. A sign that God is pulling us to look within and to identify. What did go right? What did work? What was the lesson then? What is the lesson now? How did I grow since then? And how could I grow even more now? Nostalgia is the missing of. It also has a layer of feeling a “lack of”. That lack is where God is directing our attention to. Pushing us to seek to fill our own momentary void. Acknowledging our own respect cycles of where we are growing is what God is pushing us to take a great account of.
Love is a powerful thing. It has so many lingering heart strings that often times don’t ever disappear yet instead because so faint that they become invisible to the mind, the emotions, and the heart when it has passed in our life. When the season has changed. When the leaves have turned and when our Soul has exceeded the moment’s need for the connection. It’s not until moments where we are triggered, that we can literally trip on the invisible strings that bind us to the memories of all that was. The ones we didn’t even realize still were present. Those moments, those feelings, those memories, those experiences of love shared can even become so distant yet so close. Nostalgia has a pattern of glamorizing and highlighting. Nostalgia has the pattern of fantasizing.
As the the time passes, the unfolding of what God wants for our Soul’s evolution and learning continues. The path finds us having to confront and face all that “we are”. All that “we were”. All that “could have been”. It’s those moments of nostalgia that teach us. That guide us to where there still yet may be even more clearing of energy pent up to do. Even more release. Those moments in which we are being guided to look in, to reflect, to watch as the waves of anything lingering passes through us, with a deep allowance. Allowance can mean tears, laughter, love, sadness, joy, hurt, remorse, guilt, relief and flow. Healing requires permission. Healing requires submission. Healing requires knowing that where we are now, is where we are supposed to be and that as we reflect, we need only breathe, close our eyes, and release. That release could take minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and even years, though in all it’s entirety the process is strengthening an even deeper process of awakening within us.
How beautiful of a thing it is to be able to look back in awe that “we created” and “manifested” that which brings us back to a state of feeling of love in our life through our very essence, right? Our essence of thought. Our essence of emotion. Our essence of exuding out and projecting all that we are that exists as “us”. We are such magnificent beings. Beings that have such a collective learning experience here on this planet to guide each other to the calling of purposeful life. Nostalgia is the reminder that we are here along the journey collecting soul treasures. The treasures that hold the golden moments of strength as we seek, learn, and absorb the lesson. Absorb the circumstance and to surrender to knowing great love takes great risk and that in all that we risk, we are rewarded. Life favors the risk. Risk challenges us and can shake us to extend the deepening of our open arms. Risk challenges us to abandon. What is it that we are abandoning? An old self? An old story? An old emotion? An old relationship? An old version of who no longer serves us? Abandoning doesn’t have to be a bad a thing. Abandoning could be a “safety”.
It’s not until we truly reflect and honor and allow pass any wave of emotion that we can learn to be “one” with the thought. Nostalgia often brings sadness. Momentary, though present. Passing, though real. It brings a passing wave of lingering care, lingering love, lingering desire for all that has moved on. Interestingly enough, in those moments, our minds can literally fabricate all that was as if it’s all that is. It can be all consuming of energy and thought. It can shift our internal atmosphere. Through it all, what God is calling us to awaken to in that very release and surrender process of observation is that ‘nostalgia’ is the reminder that we have “tapped out” of the flow. Our string to where we are growing to. The flow of internally generated love. We feel a longing and missing of. That’s nostalgia. That mere missing of is never wrong, yet is true. True of the now, and in the allowance of the now moment and permission of all that is in the here, we are being authentic to our process of understanding. To our process of childlike curiosity. It’s necessary.
It could take us a lifetime to learn the lesson. To learn the reason. To change the path. To cut the internal ties that shift the external representation of all that we co create. Whenever nostalgia waves through, it’s time for gratitude. Gratitude to know that the “story” of what once traveled through our mind reflected back to us in reality those very treasured moments that call us to “miss”. With all that we once were though, it is our opportunity to seek within. To meditate. To pray. To bear witness that we are “here” and now. Souls evolving in God’s power manifest on this planet. We are collecting treasured moments from treasured people. Even those that may have brought upon us the most undesired outcomes, all have a window and a space for “honoring”. To be able to transform the feeling in the midst of the experience of the feeling is where our depth of character is really built. We are capable. We are doing it constantly, yet it’s our harnessing of it that is what will allow us the level of “mastery”.
In the waves of nostalgia, I encourage you to “center” yourself. Honor what was and take the moments to journal, look within, seek the apparent lesson and thank God for all that you love about what was and all that you love about what is and all that you love about what is yet to even be imagined to come. That’s where the magic is. More moments to come. More living. More joy. More love. More magical lessons of deep serenity to awaken us to fulfill even more our purpose. I thought about all this today as I was working out. Literally, working out is the best thinking tank. It has the gift to be a portal to physical clearing of all that is bottled up in our cellular composure. Every little sweat particle is life. Life awakening through our mobility. It’s powerful. It’s why we were gifted “play”. The child in us needs to yet keep learning and growing. We must play to continue living our most honorable life. We get to gift that to ourselves. The present moment = is the gift. Let us center ourselves back to this moment. Breathe. It’s time to create a “new story” for ourselves. Don’t you think?
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