How are you feeling being you today?

Hello. If it would be okay to ask, how have you been today? Or, how do you think your day might go? Have you connected with yourself and given yourself the chance to breathe, to be silent, and to be at peace with your circumstances and who you are?

Sorry for all those questions. I think though that we all have an opportunity, each and every day, to come into the presence of the most special person alive as far as we ourselves are personally concerned. We can only serve and be of help to others, properly and adequately and sufficiently and safely, when we have sought that most intimate connection, a communion, with us, ourselves.

How are you feeling in your relationships? You might be preoccupied by one relationship. You may be sad because you’re not being respected. Or that might make you mad. Or both, which is commonly felt.

Perhaps it’s a particular person or kind of relationship that you’re burdened by. 

Or, it could be you’re overjoyed by something that’s happening. You may not even be able to contain yourself.

Maybe there’s something that’s a growing concern for you. Something gradually gnawing away at you.

You could be perchance unsure what to make of a circumstance or offer or opportunity.

Change may be being foisted upon you. Perhaps it’s loss. You may feel so out of control. It’s horrid.

You may be feeling weak, or fearful, sad or mad, or a combination of all these feelings, maybe to the point where you’re confused and overwhelmed with just how to feel.

That’s okay. To sit there in silence, or to lay or stand, not knowing what to do or how to do it, even though it seems totally confounding, is worthy of a smile, or a “Yes! It does hurt.”

To know that our emotional realities at times are beyond all reason, unfathomable, that they enter the realm of mystery, to sit there and accept it, is the grandest maturity.

I mean, who does that? Who can? You can.

How many people can do that—just attempt to feel glad in an inexplicable pain—not mad or sad—even if in our gladness we’re saying, “Come and sit with me, madness and sadness, for you have a right to be here, welcome just as much as gladness is.”

This is being real about how we feel. It may seem that we’re being courageous, but it’s simpler than that. Honesty is the profoundest simplicity, and it is always the most intimate of experiences, worth ever fragment of miniscule pain we might feel in the second we face it.

How are you feeling today? You know that this question is important. If we cannot start our day, or end it, or ask ourselves at any time—asking this kind of question—who do we really give ourselves permission to be?

If we didn’t allow ourselves that freedom, we would make our own choice to be less free than what we could be.

You know how important you are. As important and as valuable as anyone who’s ever lived or will live, just as everybody else is.

Be you today and enjoy the fact that only you can be you, and nobody else can be.

Say, “Be free to be truly me... today... all my days.”

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