Faded Jeans Living

Warning: Manure ahead

In a heartbeat, you can go from cruising at 75 mph to crashing and sinking inward just as fast. Flashbacks, dread, regret, pain—they rush in, pile on, and press you down until you’re frozen in place.

The trick is catching that very first warning sign – and taking a detour around all that funness before you plow straight into it.

Wayne Dyer talks about this perfectly in The Power of Awakening:

“You want to be able to say, ‘It happened. It’s over. I’ve resolved it. I want to be there in the right frame of mind. I don’t want to be mad. Let’s push it out. I don’t want it there.’

However, a lot of therapists might then reply, ‘That’s unhealthy because you’re not really dealing with it.’ I don’t think you have to deal with things all the time in order to prove that you’re healthy!

Imagine there’s a great big pile of cow manure in the street. Now, there are some people who’d say, ‘Hey, I can deal with that—I’m going to walk right through it.’ To me, that’s pretty crazy. A healthy person would say, ‘No, I don’t have to deal with that. I’ll walk around it.’ And that’s what they’d do.

You’ve got to go around a lot of stuff in your life, including your own thinking, when it doesn’t serve you. How do you do this? Well, you just do. Don’t think like that anymore!”

Sometimes strength isn’t pushing through everything head-on. Sometimes it’s recognizing the manure early… and choosing not to step in it at all.

What are you still walking through that you could walk around?

-Dwight