Warrior paint.
A full face of makeup.
Dancing in the woods around a fire.
Chanting the songs of your ancestors – or your favorite sports team.
Certain activities take us beyond our every day personality and elevate us into a different mindset. Or descend us into a primal state of expression.
You could be a suited up lawyer by day, a masked raven dancer by night.
Which of these is You?
This morning as I got ready for the day, I had such an urge to decorate my face with pretty colors, maybe some glitter, as I would at a festival or on Halloween. I felt into this urge and realized it was because I’d been dealing with something so frustrating. It was there, silently spinning in circles in the back of my mind.
I felt ugly harboring this anger, resentment, and frustration. Like there was an ogre hunched over inside of me, angrily scurrying around with no real purpose.
I imagined painting a butterfly on my forehead, maybe some glitter around the temples. And as I imagined this, another part of me came forward. The part that isn’t angry. The part that remembers running around in a field on a sunny day. The one that laughs and floats atop an alligator filled spring in the summer.
Maybe that’s why we engage in these activities. To remember the parts that aren’t so stiff and stuck and heavy.
I am more than my anger and I am more than my happiness, I am.
I am the amphitheater where anger and happiness exist in an ever-changing tide.
I support you today in your desire to dress up or dress down, paint your face with beautiful colors or with mud. I support you in however you want to free yourself for a little while from your regular programming.
I am with you on your morning run and while you hammer that tire in the gym. I’m with you while you meditate for 3 minutes in the bathroom, or spin around until you’re dizzy in the living room.
Let’s make non sense together, and remember the “I am” that we all are.
With Love,
Heba
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