Granted I have been cracked open a lot of times but had no clue.
I have come to find out that it means feeling what is tender and raw underneath the surface.
It is like literally cracking something, anything open.
You get to see what is inside eating at you. You get to see the raw flesh oozing out. Yes, oozing. Pus-like. Yes. I know it sounds disgusting, but that is what cracked open is all about.
It is getting in touch with those real feelings that stay covered up never seeing the light of day. The thing that is never examined, never let free, festers and becomes putrid.
These are the scary feelings you don’t necessarily pretend aren’t there. You just don’t know how to face them. They are hard to look at even though they are never far from your thoughts.
They drive you to do more.
To keep going even when you can’t keep your eyes open.
They give you the fortitude to never quit when all you want to do is to not do that thing.
What happens when you give in to being cracked open is that you set your self free.
You let those pent up feelings ooze out.
Those sticky, taking their time so you can feel them, scary, fearful thoughts you would not allow the time of day get to take all the time they need to ooze right on up out of you.
Raw and real.
You feel every though in a way you have never ever felt before.
You get to examine every one of them. There is no escape.
CRACKED OPEN!
They hurt. They are in your face and you can’t turn away.
But you know what?
Since you can’t stop the nastiness from flowing what happens next is a cleansing.
There is no more oozing as you come face-to-face with the things you refused to look at. Refused to deal with.
That dark night of the soul falls away and you begin to feel the warmth and the light of for real healing and soothing.
There is light at the end of the tunnel.
You just had to look at the monster you thought would stay under the bed.
The monster had feelings that needed to be released, looked at, examined and felt.
Released because you can’t stop it, looked at because it’s time, examined because you have to and felt because you have no choice.
All the stuff you swept under the rug finally gets exposed.
Cracked open, set free, cleaned up, transformed into stuff you needed and can use.
Stuff that sets your heart free.
Stuff that lets you see that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
Stuff that lets you know you are firmly on your path and have always been.
Stuff that lets you know all the things you are doing are the right things.
Cracked open to all that is good, right and true to and for you.
Cracked open to yet another new beginning to all that you are.
Cracked open was hard and painful but opened up into joy and peace.
Allow yourself to spend time with the nigglings that keep tugging at your heart and your thoughts. Take a look at the feelings that keep creeping into your thoughts.
When you don’t they grow into a discomfort you eventually can no longer ignore.
They will confront you up close and personal all up in your face.
Set them free.
Set you free.
Let the sludge, the thickness ooze out so the good, the light and the peace can flow in.
New ways of being. New ways of doing the things we do. New reasons for doing the things we do.
No room for stagnancy.
It may not seem like things are changing, but all things are always changing.
Although things might look the same, they are always in a state of changing.
People, places, things, situations, ways of looking at things, feelings, ways of being.
All things are constantly changing.
There is not really much you have to do, because you can’t stop the change.
Life is designed this way.
We fight it. Yes, we spend way more time than is necessary trying to fight the change. Stop the change. Not change. But change you will. Change you are. Change is the name of the living game. And it is good. Good for you. Good for your life. Good for those around you. Good for the world.
And so it is.
What is it about change that is so scary? That makes the hairs stand up on the back of our necks? That makes us want to hold on tightly to what is known, what is comfortable, to that which no longer fits, to that which is, one way or the other, on it’s way out of our existence?
Change is elusive, subtle, often hard to see coming.
That is what shakes us up about change. We don’t always see it coming.
The truth is, we don’t want to accept that things are changing.
We like, and think, we want everything to stay just the way it is.
It won’t!
We don’t wake up saying “things are changing today”.
We don’t think like that, but we should.
If things stayed the same, we would, all of us, remain infants, not ever growing into the wonderful beings we are all destined to be, and become.
That’s exactly what change is.
It is our destiny.
We are here to grow. Evolve. Become more. Be expansive. Build. Create. Change the world, and who and how we are in it.
OUT WITH THE OLD. IN WITH THE NEW!
Out with the old. In with the new is the order of the day.
It sounds good to me.
The thought can be scary, because nothing remains the same.
It’s not meant to be.
Life is comfortable. It gets to be comfortable. Then change shows up and turns everything you have ever known upside down.
Even when you don’t see change coming, it always is.
That being the case, perhaps we can kind of prepare for it by actively thinking a new thought. Making a new choice. Wanting a new thing. Expecting a new thing. Taking control of the fact that since life, my life, your life, our lives are changing anyway, I, you, me, we, us, can use this happening any way, no matter what, phenomenon to our advantage.
Remove the fear out of change and replace it with expectancy.
Think that new thought, expect that new outcome, see the way, the how you have no idea is there, show up guiding you in the change you are always becoming.
Play with it.
Open yourself up to the possibility. The opportunity. The fun. The change. The profit. The richness. The reward. Even the craziness of it.
Change you will. Change you must. There is no way around it. So you might as well, instead of fighting change, embrace it and allow the good things in.
Change is, in the end, always good to, and for you.
Seasons change. It might be winter now but next comes spring. After spring comes summer. After summer comes fall. Fall changes into winter.
Change.
Always changing.
That’s change.
Predictable.
Steady.
Flowing.
Out with the old. In with the new.
It is a natural rhythm.
After the night time comes the day.
Everything, that is life, about life, in life, is always changing.
Even the breath you take.
Let change be as easy as breathing in a new breath of air and releasing, exhaling all that is used up and no longer serving you.
Shedding what no longer works and picking up, putting on all that is making everything about you and your life better.
This is simply a reminder to you, because we often times rarely think about things changing, that change is the name of the game we are always playing. Whether you want it to, or not. Whether you like it or not.
Understanding, knowing and expecting change is what makes change so much easier. Allows you a sense of control about it. And might just light you up along the path of change. Allowing you to roll with change, becoming, growing, evolving, expanding, being better, being all of you, playing with the possibilities, opportunities, with all the things calling, and pulling you forward.
Change is in the air.
Always.
And so,
Out With The Old.
In With The New.
Cheers to the breath of fresh air that is change in your life, in my life, in our lives.
