The Problem: Working hard and yet not finding fulfillment or inspiration in the lives we are leading. Living in the modern world can be depleting, leaving us feeling dissatisfied, uninspired, and stressed out. We lose the energy to achieve what deeply drives and motivates us. 

Why? Often times we succumb to our emotions and a depleted physical state leaving us feeling empty and stagnant. Perhaps, because we doubt ourselves and our ability to support ourselves as we follow the motivation of our inner selves.  Or we are not taking the time for self-care that we so desperately need. Ultimately, this can lead to resentment, anger, confusion, and insecurity all turned inward and often on the ones we love.  We find ourselves feeling burnt out, overworked and uninspired.

This may lead us to seek cheap thrills in vices or addictions that have temporary effects, or worse, negatively impact our health, leaving us feeling guilt and emptiness. Eventually, this cycle and the inherent negative thinking patterns that develop, begin to take their toll on our health, first in subtle ways and ultimately as disease. If we don’t slow down to rest, heal, and reflect on what inspires and motivates us, our physical and emotional limitations take control. Physical pain and negative behaviors can be our mind and our body’s way of telling us to reflect and change ourselves, not our surroundings.

So how can we manage to listen, heal, and indeed thrive, when we are working so hard from day to day? We can seek balance in our health and attempt to connect to our true self on a moment-to-moment basis. This is not always easy, and it takes work and reprogramming of daily habits and thinking patterns, but slowly, connecting to our deepest self, the cement that once sealed the bricks in the walls around our hearts and our minds will start to wash away perhaps leaving behind soil and seedlings, until little by little, your life will blossom into the life you truly want to be living.

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