Energetic Exchange: The Power of Encouragement

If you don’t know the power of Encouragement, you’ve either never been authentically encouraged (I apologize on behalf of your surroundings; since they probably won’t until you don’t need them to anymore); or worse, you have yet to be properly introduced to its step-cousin twice removed… forcibly, Discouragement.

In this case, I often step away, knowing it is only a matter of time until something in them triggers to draw it in. Discouragement is a salesman who has everyone’s names and it’s not one to leave any leads, undone. A narcissistic nemesis who craves unity and perfection while holding none. Offering snake oil with confident words. What a conundrum.

Its need to be known, only trumped by the sweet release it seems to find in being expressed by so many and accepting the dirge as an offering. Little reapers gathering in, leaving Discouragement in a wake behind them… Nothing like its opposite.

So, as you can see I know The Pair quite well, and since Encouragement won’t be seen with Discouragement due to its opposing mechanisms… I feel inclined to do the same thing. Since it was Encouragement’s antics within me bubbling from the heart of me, a gift from within, freely given, not conjured, that got me off my face and walking.

I feel inclined to follow along, offering the encouraging, sometimes fiery inklings that come to me at any given moment and in passing. It isn’t easy, though it may appear to be. Honesty has cost me everything, and I’d give it all again knowing what the cost brings..

Honestly, vulnerability appears lethal and scary. But it’s also disarming. You get to SEE things as they are because you aren’t caught up in whirlwinds… ‘What will they think of me?’ ‘how might they use my ‘knowing’ against me?

And the answer is resounding… who cares, I’ve got this, Boom, my buddy, Encouragement, ever present in me so I have no need for validating externally, only excitement in all parties sharing in something beyond disagreeing together on something, Discouragement, again. In truth, every release has freed me to be, more of who I am finding. And less of where I’ve been and who’s been there with me. Realizing how easy it is to slip into skins that don’t become me. Then, how mercifully that ease bleeds into stepping out of them with a little internal asking and some universal heartstrings pulling in favor of my release. Ever Encouraging me to stay the way and maintain.

I’m beginning to realize what used to plague, curse, and injure me has led to an internal blessing beyond belief. A compass fully operating to guide me more with each day. I’m witnessing what I do and observing myself daily, and seeing with more resolution, everything happens for a reason.. I am meant to come in, not swinging, but allowing them to be, and leading lightly, questioning but only after affirming the good that I see. Encouragement leads to Resiliency, and that my friend, you HAVE to meet. But only after Discouragement is beaten and left in the in-between along with the guilt once becoming aware of the wreckage left in the wake of being chronically discouraged. A lesson on the way to Living Fully.

This is the power between two opposing forces and choosing what serves me while I’m pursuing. I prefer not to actively engage in its company.

Good day, and Godspeed to you.