Bringing sweetness into your life

Children always find sweet moments in life. No matter the circumstances, children have this unbreakable bond with life’s sweetness.

They find the people, the places and the things that allow them to connect to that sweetness.

When we grow up, our connection to it reduces.

Life’s hardships, demands, pressures and expectations take over.

We get caught in functioning. In succeeding. In taking care of others. In proving our worth and so much more.

We search for that sweetness desperately. Sometimes even not knowing we do.

The sweetness is not lost.

It waits patiently for us to return to it. To open our heart’s buds and taste it. Let it in.

If we would just manage not to spend so much of our life in protecting ourselves.

This obsessive need for defense or protection isolates us. It becomes impossible for ourselves to let sweetness find us.

Training to reconnect to that sweetness, can enable us to feel safe. To experience more pleasure and satisfaction. Feel connected and held. It also lets us restore and revive our energy. It takes a way a lot of unnecessary effort.

It may even enable us to find the clarity and courage to initiate desired changes in our lives.

Reconnecting to sweetness is also a path for more of personal freedom. It is between us and life.

Think for a moment. Where did you feel that sweetness as a child?

Where was it? Who was there with you? What was is about? How did it make you feel?

When you remember those moments, pay attention to the sensations and feelings it brings up within you.

Breath in and out with the intention of creating space in your body and experience for it.

You might move through sadness or heart pain. Moments being tempted to feel despair or anger. Let all of this be. This is you reconnecting and moving through the loss and the disconnect.

When you stay in that path, there might be a lot coming in. Maybe judgements, distractions, or numbness- a form of disconnect from what you sense. It is a mechanism that will try to take you away from reconnecting to the sweetness again.

It is the natural protective effort that you meet. One with which you though you saved yourself from hurt in the past. It tries to protect you again, as it fears that when you will reach the sweetness, you may be “too vulnerable”, “lose control”, or “be weak”….

Just know, that when you connect to sweetness, you are actually regaining parts of yourself. You are becoming whole and even more capable than you think. You free yourself from the claws of people and experiences that made you hide or ignore parts of yourself.

You are freeing yourself from structures within you and around you that enslave you to function rather than to live.

Keep on going. Keep on letting the whole of yourself remember. Give it space. Feel yourself reconnected to sweetness. Make sure that you are letting your chest be soft and full. Your back to move and your limbs to enable a flow and fluidity.

You may think of a person, a pet or a place with whom you shared and experienced this sweetness. Try to reconnect to them. Let the memory be breathed and moved into.

Give it life, rather than burying it in the past and the undigested loss that may have been there.

It is as if you want to give it new life. Let it be reborn within you.

It is the sweetness in you that needs to wake-up. The one that will know how to attract more moments of sweetness today.

Sweetness is beyond the stories we tell ourselves and the narratives we believe to define us.

Sweetness cuts through all of this and connects us to our true selves and these pockets of knowing who we are and the beauty of the life we have.

It is in your hand to reconnect. It is your choice to let it in. Try to reconnect to this memory and sensation of sweetness as often as you can throughout the day.

Follow the fullness and wholesomeness it will bring and the sense of freedom, less of reactivity it will enable you.

You will be now tasting life’s sweetness more often.

Yours,

Anna

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