What Keeps You Away from Your Beautiful Life?

What Keeps You Away from Your Beautiful Life?

What keeps you away?

What keeps you away – distracted from your beautiful unlived life?

A life that wants to be protected – protected from distractions.

A life that wants to feel safe in the container of time and space.

A life that wants to be lived, loved, and appreciated.

A life that gets ignored, unheard, unfelt – too distracted we are.

No space in which to live the life that wants to be lived.

Our real lives get pushed out of time and space – snuffed out by distractions.

Our lives feel unsafe, and unsafe they are, because we choose distractions over our lives.

Our lives feel unprotected, because we don’t set boundaries of protection in our time and space. We allow any and all distractions to enter in.

The distractions become so loud – we can’t even hear the life that wants to be lived.

Can’t hear, can’t see, can’t feel ourselves anymore.

Distractions blind us, deafen us, numb us.

“In a minefield of distractions,” he said.*

No wonder we don’t feel safe.

Identify your distractions.

Become aware.

Then identify the life in you that wants to be lived.

Become more aware of the beautiful life within you.

Become more aware of your strength, your courage, and your grace.

These are the tools, here for you to use – to get out of all things useless.

This is how we live more.

If we aren’t living lives of our own choosing – we won’t feel safe.

I know not of anyone who does not want courage, strength, beauty, and grace.

And I know not of any distraction that provides such.

Who and what is living our lives? 

What distractions are doing our living?

What distractions are filling up our time and space? And leaving us unfulfilled.

Is all this useless doing keeping us busy enough that we don’t notice?

Recognize. Recognize – notice what is happening in your cognition.

Start to notice that we notice not.

We notice not that we are unhappy, unsatisfied, unfulfilled, and feel unsafe.

We notice all things not.

So, we squirrel around and grab more distractions in hopes to feel happy, satisfied, fulfilled, and safe.

An illusion is it.

The illusion of a distracted life.

In a fog we are. We can’t see clearly anymore, can’t feel clearly – we have lost ourselves amidst the mist of distractions.

We can’t even recognize strength, courage, beauty, and grace. Gifts waiting to be cognized.

Gifts waiting to be lived, breathed, felt, and known.

We are desperate to find ourselves. To find the life within us that wants to be lived.

We feel unsafe because our distractions have become our destruction.

It’s time for a new construction; no more destruction of distractions. 

It’s time to pay (to give) attention to our internal gifts – then we can pay forward and feel safe giving our strength, giving our courage, giving our beauty, and giving our grace.

Practice (from Undistracted): Take some notes for an entire day on how you spend time between the projects and commitments in your life. Write down all the things that distract you from what you really want to do and what you want to commit to. 

*Inspired by Bob Goff, Undistracted