Whilst listening to Bon Jovi's "Bed of Roses", my attention was captured by a certain phrase, "For tonight I sleep on a bed of nails".
This had me thinking and being my inquisitive self, I found myself asking, why nails? Were they a mere metaphor for something else? but for what and why? I certainly couldn't come up with answers for these questions but for a second thought, how many nails do we create and gather for ourselves? How many uncomfortable situations do we create? How many uncomfortable situations do we linger in and entertain? Why? Why do we create room for it?
A close friend of mine sent me a message this morning which mentioned how we have become victims of a notion which dictates we are not in control of our emotions. "I lost my temper", "He made me angry", "But I can't help it". Whilst reading this I was reminded of a phrase from one of our older Church Prophets, Brigham Young who said, "He who takes offense when offense is intended is a fool but he who takes offense when none is intended is an even bigger fool".
Why lie on this bed of nails when you can choose to lie on a bed of roses? Why allow things to get to you when they can glide off like water off a duck's back? Why hold on to this jagged knife which keeps cutting you when you can release and let go? Why drown under deep waters when you can rise above them and exhale? Do you feel you do not have the power and capacity to do so?
Exhale the negativity, let go of the pessimism, the belief that you cannot and therefore you will not. Exhale the desperate need to belong, what has gone wrong and what has not gone right, Exhale the doubt, the notion that you have not been enabled to achieve and control yourself and alter ego.
Learn to inhale, to inhale positivity, the optimism that anything is possible and achievable. Inhale the agency provided to choose for oneself. Inhale the sprinkles of sunshine and hope. Inhale life, take a deep breath and feel as life fills your lungs and broadens your horizons. Open yourself up to possibility and risks, take chances, leaps of faith and gallops of happiness. Create your own bed of roses, there will be thorns and some might sting, but they are ever so worth it. The good and the bad come together to form a beautiful picture.
Inhale calm, Exhale stress, Inhale the future, Exhale the past...
-I am Pam, the Nubian Goddess, a Woman of Substance-
Why lie on this bed of nails when you can choose to lie on a bed of roses? Why allow things to get to you when they can glide off like water off a duck's back? Why hold on to this jagged knife which keeps cutting you when you can release and let go? Why drown under deep waters when you can rise above them and exhale? Do you feel you do not have the power and capacity to do so?
Exhale the negativity, let go of the pessimism, the belief that you cannot and therefore you will not. Exhale the desperate need to belong, what has gone wrong and what has not gone right, Exhale the doubt, the notion that you have not been enabled to achieve and control yourself and alter ego.
Learn to inhale, to inhale positivity, the optimism that anything is possible and achievable. Inhale the agency provided to choose for oneself. Inhale the sprinkles of sunshine and hope. Inhale life, take a deep breath and feel as life fills your lungs and broadens your horizons. Open yourself up to possibility and risks, take chances, leaps of faith and gallops of happiness. Create your own bed of roses, there will be thorns and some might sting, but they are ever so worth it. The good and the bad come together to form a beautiful picture.
Inhale calm, Exhale stress, Inhale the future, Exhale the past...
-I am Pam, the Nubian Goddess, a Woman of Substance-
