Is it time to connect with you?

Hey, as I was on my run this morning, it got me thinking….. I wondered why people can be closed from themselves. How we can lose sight of ourselves, our needs and emotions. How we can bury ourselves with other things going on our life.

I have fallen for this trap many times by the way, but its time for us all to be conscious of what we’re all about and what we experience.

Why don’t we feel our true emotions or even express them?

Maybe because we worry what we maybe truly feeling? Whether that’s good or bad.

Fear, Passion, Hurt, Connection, Our needs, Energy, Wants, Love or lack of it?

Stay with me……..It does not matter if what you feel is good or bad, its worse to keep it buried inside.

Can I be honest with you?

I’ve only recently learnt how to master this myself, without boring you, I was like this, closed off from myself because of the..... what ifs....?

But here’s the thing, I quickly realised the more I did this the more it increased those boundaries and the less I felt the real me.

So what was there really to be fearful of?

Well there was nothing, when we embrace our feelings and emotions, we become true, when we become true, we start to dissolve the negative as we acknowledge it and allow it to transform. Think about it, if you were to injure your foot, but you kept walking in it, you would feel for pain, because our body is trying to tell us something.

It’s the same for what we feel inside, what ever we resist persists.  When we give ourselves up to ourselves, to embrace ourselves, to feel our true feelings, we become one, a whole. Its not bad to feel good or bad emotions. Its natural, its less natural to avoid them, bury them and let them get stronger.

Embrace yourself; get in touch with you, your mind and heart, when you do this you will truly become connected with your true identity and potential to master your emotions and to flow with them as an observer to your magnificent life.

Your friend

Joseph Clough

www.josephclough.com www.josephcloughtrainings.co.uk

This blog is especially for you

Wow its June already….. Hasn’t this year flown by so far! I thought I’d give you an update on what I’m up to.

Well I’ve been writing a lot recently, and as you will soon find out, they are all for free and all for you and I plan to give you one or two every week. You can find them here on the article section.

I was thinking today, when I was in my garden feeling the rays of the sun, how wonderful it is to be outside in the quiet.

Personally I am a very private person; I like being by myself and spending time with myself. Don’t get me wrong I do socialise, but I feel it’s important to enjoy your own company and be by yourself and connect with yourself. By going within in, you change the outer.

I have a question for you….. How often to you give yourself 30 minutes, 15 minutes even 5 minutes dedicated to you? To be outside, to be quiet and just stop for a while?

I know you have lots going on in your life, we can have many different roles we take on, maybe being:

A Son or daughter A father or mother A grandson or granddaughter A grandfather or grandmother A sibling A wife, a husband, boyfriend, girlfriend A friend A job role

The list goes on and on, we have so many sides to our life, but I think we forget about the most important side of us.

Just being you.

To take time out and stop…….. and yes again be YOU.

I know for a fact the roles I mentioned above are simply going to get stronger and healthier when you take time out for you. I always refer to the safety drill sheet when you go on the plane. You should always put the oxygen mask on yourself first before putting them on others.

Why?

Because you are no good to anyone if you are losing oxygen! You are also a human being not a human doing!

Sounds harsh, but I say what I say for the best of intentions. You need to take just five minutes out for yourself.

Go outside; connect with your thoughts, your feelings and take in your environment around you. Take in the fresh air, the sky, and the trees and be you. This will re-energise you and also help all other areas of your life.

You are a precious gift to many people in your life, they want you to be you, so take the time and be you. And remember you are the precious gift to yourself, so take the time out for yourself.

Did I go off on a tangent? Sorry about that, when it comes, it flows.

Oh what I was also going to say is.....Thank You, no reason other than for being you.

Your friend

Joseph Clough