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Art of Words

In listening to, "Silent Sister" by Diane Chamberlin….she had a line…."Anxiety entered the car, like a third passenger."

I loved this description. 

It shows the hugeness of what we carry.

Mine would read, "Denial entered the car like a third person.

It truly lives with us like a siamese twin.

An unwanted passenger that speaks for us and makes choices based up its needs. It truly is a passenger in our lives that has the drivers seat.

Another part in this fictional book, she talks about healing the Mind and the Soul, as two very different things.

I wonder about this.

Did I have to heal my mind and then also heal my soul?  I would even say, my heart.

That it wasn't enough to just correct the definitions in my mind, but I had to allow my neglected soul to live…and my broken heart to mend.

The mind is where my thoughts about reality were corrected.

My soul had to speak its truth and live by it.

My heart had to separate itself from those whose love hurt.

I love how authors can write simple but deeply profound sentences.

Art of words.

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  1. Joanie Avatar
    Joanie

    Oh, Beth, I am going to have to read/listen to that book. The passenger description is priceless and so true! I do think there is separate healing because sometimes our soul identifies truth before we can silence the mind. Joanie

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  2. Ann Sandberg Avatar
    Ann Sandberg

    I agree with Joan. Not everyone would recognize the third passenger mentioned in the quote above. You have to be at a certain level (no matter how slight) of awareness and healing to recognize that you are not generating this—you are reacting to it. Then, you can choose to limit your time around such anxiety producing events.

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  3. Beth Jukuri Avatar
    Beth Jukuri

    Ann, I do believe we are generating the ‘passenger’ due to unexpressed emotions and unknown truths. Anxiety isn’t found outside, laying on the ground.
    Nor is depression or denial.
    I believe, that these states proceed us (our true self) due to our lack of being true…if that makes sense.
    Just interesting to note….how the energy of depression, anxiety or denial overshadow us and often ride in the drivers seat of our lives.

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  4. Michele Avatar
    Michele

    This somehow makes me sad. Like maybe I picked up a bad hitch hiker.

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