Crying Makes You Stronger

Crying Makes You Stronger

I’ve gone through many long periods in my life when I’ve cried almost every day.

The faster I’m growing and making changes in my life, taking risks, putting myself into uncomfortable situations in the pursuit of expanding my comfort zone, the more I cry.

The more somatic meditation I do, the more I cry.

The more embodiment and healing work I do, the more I cry.

Crying is associated with growth, healing, and letting go of pain.

Vulnerability is necessary for true leadership.

It takes more courage to be with the pain than to try to run away from it.

And trying to run away can only ever work temporarily anyway.

What’s good about turning toward our pain, is that it gives us a chance to be with life as it really is, as opposed to sustaining our neuroticism, our ego-projects, trying to freeze everything in place, trying to control ourselves and everyone around us.

When we turn towards our pain, we remember that it was for us the whole time.

It is the fuel that empowers us with purpose and clarity, when we turn toward it, as a practice.

And we begin to discover more life with less effort required for the living.

We discover a life that is surrendered to something even greater than our own attempts to build and protect who we think we are.

We are so much more, so much more beautiful than any idea we could come up with.

And when we practice being with life as it really is, through embodied, somatic practices, we experience more of the beauty, ease and infinite grace of life.

Crazy, I know.

Counter-intuitive…. or, at least, counter-conditioning.

It turns out that the poison is the cure.

The pain is the medicine which, when we turn towards it, transforms us into more of whom we are really meant to be:

Infinitely, more fully ALIVE.

Pain into power in about half an hour

Pain into power in about half an hour

Did you know you can turn your pain into power in about half an hour?

Ok, maybe not ALL of it, but definitely SOME of it.

And wouldn’t it be nice to let some steam out of that pressure cooker, if you know what I mean?

We’re all holding tension in our bodies, in one way or another *unless you’re already immortal, and if you are, then come talk to me now*

The problem is, we think we can lose.

We think we’re in this game of winning and losing, and sure, from one perspective, it looks that way.

But what happens when you just surrender?

What happens if you stop the effort and just…. tell it like it is. Say what you really think. Do what you really want to do….

Well…

Sure, maybe the whole world is not ready for that yet.

If you’re going to start a fire, maybe you should use a fire-pit, instead of lighting up in the middle of a Colorado pine forest.

What I do with my clients is sort of like that fire-pit.

I give them a place to experiment with letting go a little bit.

They get to admit how they really feel.

About their dreams.

About their perceived failures and shortcomings.

And about what they really, really, *really* want in their lives, and how they feel about receiving that.

We get real, so that you can stop putting forth so much effort, and relax more into the person you are underneath all that tiresome trying.

I’m a big fan of trying, don’t get me wrong. I think trying often gets a bad rap.

If you don’t try something, you won’t know…

But I’m talking about surrendering to the truth and power inside of you. The fuel that’s waiting for you.

Allow me to help you remember more of your unlimited, unstoppable, unkillable power.