Take all the pain you have,
and imagine it as a balloon.

Any shape, any color
doesn't matter
You will be letting go of it soon.

Release the string
you hold onto so tightly.

Tell yourself,
I am worthy.
I don't need this anymore.
This doesn't belong here.

Let the Mantra be true to you.

Find the Courage
to Face the Fear.

You won't collapse
or disappear.

You will see nothing was lost.
but rather,
Your Power Returned Home.

When we surrender,
We take back what we Own.

Watch as the balloon floats up and away.
The pain will go,
and you will stay.

Choosing Happiness today
doesn't make the pain go away,
but it helps me remember
my mind does not decide for my heart.

Happiness comes from the deep inner willingness to
Accept each situation as it is, and make the best of it.

I cannot articulate
The number of causes we drifted away
Some things remain unexplained.

Every sea has it’s storm
The moon waxes, and tides wave.

There is a reason we have seasons
The Earth is titled at a 23.5 Degree
We cycle through our Yearly journey
Passing through different sensations and feelings.

Most things are unpredictable.
At least we have the constant constellations;
Hercules and Orion,
Leo the Lion.

Reminders of Inner Strength
Look Outside Yourself
And into the sky.

The constellations Shape
The lines we trace
Map out the way
We Are Made.

The future is uncertain.
Do not lose faith.

The darkest skies
And New Moon,
Bring the most Dazzling Stars
Into View.

Our magnitude
Is Brighter than Sirius,
Vega, and Arcturus.

All the stars combined
Could never out-shine
The incandescent light you are.

Dear Beautiful Star,
Stay close by my side.
No matter how I far I go,
Help me know
I am never alone.
Though independently we shine,
We all rest together in the sky.

I love watching how the air blows through the leaves of a tree.

The sky constantly breathes life into our surroundings.

A suble reminder that something is Present without being seen.

I can disagree with what others think.
I must live with me,
And though they will judge
And throw figurative punches
And jabs, I have the ability to fight back,
Laugh, and walk away.
No matter what they say,
I refuse to loose
My happiness from their projected
Self-Hate
And
Internal-Turmoil.
I will not coil
Into submission.
I shall not ban my Thoughts, Feelings, and Words like prohibition.
I treat myself with

Respect

Dignity

Pride.

Of course a heaping side of

LOVE.

I can BE brave
BE fearless and
BE-autiful.
Stop saying
How Dare You
And start Daring Myself
Go far, far, beyond the limits and lines
Exceed Heights
Find the Joy and Excitement in Life.

Take a L E A P
Of Faith
Even though I might fall.
At least I can say, I tried at all.

I can loose myself outdoors,
And still always find my way back home.
I know where to find shelter and safety
But I cannot grow
If I keep myself caged in captivity.
I then risk it all
First Sanity
Then Creativity.
I whole-heartily believe I need the latter
In order to have the other.
Sometimes loosing myself
Creates my best work,
Then I have both my project
And a Lesson Learned.

I fall back,
And I step forward.
All part of this natural process
Of Life Leading Onward.

New places I crave,
Goals I will attain
Not one day, or some day,
But All The Days
I Live Out and Breathe In.

As for now I Pray:
Light my way,
Send me Strength.
I embody the Present,
I Am Here Today.

Can't* is a word I refuse to comprehend.

Can't does not exist in my vocabulary.
Not if I intend to live fearlessly.

Can't and Fear feed off each other like fire and air.
The two will dance and expand,
Spread to the last corner and inches of my land.

Can and Faith are the words I will invest into my mind, body, and soul.

Can't will not enter into my mind,
For it might sit in my mouth,
And slip off my tongue.

Can't is a poison;
The everlasting **** to my garden.

Can't will destroy every blossom created,
And seize the seeds yet to sprout.

Can't has the power to end the action of planting.
I will never again see a flower, if I let Can't grow.

Can is the remedy to imagination and ingenuity.

Whereas,
Can't impedes and blocks creativity.

Can't eliminates possibilities,
It drains and empties.

Even the most tenacious sea
Could not withstand the
Dehydration of Can’t

Can't ignites negativity, creating an immobilization and inability to try.

Can't creates an ending before there was a chance for beginning.

Can't breeds the misbelief of failure, even if there was never to be a winner.

In many ways,
Can't is the biggest lie created from out mind.

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But if I were to look on the inside,

I'd rather give myself a fighting chance,
Then quit before I start
because of the word Can’t


We will be faced with new challenges each day,
New obstacles will arise and come into play

Life has an abundance of what we must overcome,
I would hate to make myself the enemy,
Be the one standing in front of a self-created machine gun.

If I were to approach the word for all that it is
It is after all,
Just a word.

I would let a word dictate and decide
The choices, risks, and chances taken in life.


Seems unbalanced
That one word can have full access
To my thoughts and actions.

There
The infinite possibilities
in the World and Me.

If the only difference between Can and Can’t
Stands an Apostrophe and T,
Then I choose to remove
The contraction entirely.

If you still don’t believe
How destructive Can’t can be
Here are a few synonyms for contraction as taken from Wiki:
“shrinkage, decline, diminution, decrease”.

None of those words seems appealing to me.
All of those words will devour my dreams.

Which is why Can’t is a word
I refuse to comprehend.

If conquering my fears means feeling the fear, and doing it anyway, then I have always been halfway there;

I’ve been stuck feeling the fear for all these years, and now it’s time to do it anyway.