What we do with our hands is so important.
When you’re stressed, do you reach for pills, or a drink of alcohol, do you notice their movement? Do you watch your fingers wrap around that which will leave you feeling horrible, or worse, the next day or in a short period of time?
Do you grab things and want to throw them? Feel like hurling all of your stuff in the trash and never having to clean or look at it again? It’s normal, first of all. I think it is perfectly acceptable to reach a place of complete frustration and long to reach – and just before we do something incredible can happen: we can choose.
It may take all you have inside of you not to put your hand on a pill you don’t need, or a beverage to “ease the pain” but you can do this. You can sit on your hands, make yourself hold a book (even if you can’t bring yourself to read the pages, you can hold it). Get on the ground, put your hands under you or folded on your chest and don’t move them.
We’ve been trained to do – to reach to feel better. Sometimes the result is far more painful – have you noticed? Have you noticed when you want to raise your arms in the air and scream if you could just wrap them around someone and give a hug and get one the tension lets go.
Where are our hands? The reach we have is powerful – it can do us harm, or others and boy, oh boy can it heal. These hands are capable of making meals for many, typing out our fears and frustrations and caressing a soul with love.
Look at your hands for a minute – choose what to do with them today and amaze yourself at the power of good that is in you.
You can curl up on the floor, hold yourself and rock if you need to – it is okay to heal yourself today.
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