The Art of Showing Up

The Art of Showing Up

We are born into undeveloped bodies we must learn to control.
With minds that are thirsty - and somewhere a unique "I Am".

We spend years learning the language and maintenance of the vehicles we are born into. We make assumptions of our surroundings when the ability to process the details gets overwhelming. So much to take in - so much to process - so much to learn, to absorb into who "I am".

We begin to organize our framework from the morsels of truths we assimilate from our experience. We set a foundation on input from all around us - a gentle voice, a warm hand on our tiny back, safe arms holding us.

Our world develops before us like a tapestry on a loom. We add colors from our feelings and mark off lines and add images and begin to fill in the fabric of our life story.

There can be small breaks in the threads - a death of someone close - an experience that all but tears the fabric from the loom. There can be times of intensity and times of imprint - falling in love, orgasm, laughing till your face hurts, deep sorrow at a great loss.

The continuity is the "I AM"

Every moment in every day - you are at the center of your own universe. You are providing the interpretation of every existence you encounter. You alone experience the pain, the pleasure, the fear, the joy of your moment. You can not do so for any of the others that you observe in your encounters.

Empathy is an Assumption
"I feel bad for you" or "I know what you you are feeling". Each phrase is understood for the intention, but there is an assumption of accuracy in interpretation.

Because you are in the unique time space placement of being you - no other person will ever have the exact interpretation that you have. For no other person will have had the exact stimulation and environmental exposure that you have had in your life.

Who you are at this moment is a culmination of every experience you have had up to this this moment. Your own records have been defined by your interpretations and your own chemical responses to every moment along the way leading up to this moment.

Perhaps it is the nature of our uniqueness that brings us joy when we find others with whom we resonate. When we read words that are arranged in accordance with the way we think, we read them with ease. When we meet others who think like us we feel "at home".

When we read something that states the way we feel or think in arrangements of words that say it more clearly we sometimes feel joy. Perhaps we feel validation.

If you don't show-up nobody can resonate with you.

If you only show what you think will be well received,
you are making assumptions.

Showing up is your gift

Answer with honesty
Offer your opinion
Express your view
Celebrate your uniqueness

If you know yourself then show yourself.