subject: Woman, who are you really then??? [print this page] Woman, who are you really then??? Woman, who are you really then???
I'm going to be quick and brief because we're all busy people, aren't we? Rushing here, rushing there, work targets to meet, domestic chores to be fulfilled, family and social arrangements to be made.... UNTIL WE FORGET WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE'RE ABOUT THROUGH ALL THE 'DOING'!
I can't tell you the number of stressed and unhappy people I'm seeing these days... It's gone way beyond the Richter Scale. You could say that's due to the current economic climate. You could say that's due to living in a technological and now digital age. You could say that's due to global warming or whatever darn excuse you want to make.
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!
What it's to do with is forgetting who you are beneath the identity you assume and the self importance of your ego... It's to do with believing your own publicity about who and what you think you are! Oh, I've been there too! That's how I know.
You think your identity and ego are who you are. No way! You, as a human being and woman, have been well trained to forget who you are. Oh yes, that happens with the guys too but, hey, it's women I'm on about. And who you are is a magnificent being full of potential, full of talents and abilities you have never dreamed about because they weren't acceptable to the tribe into which you were born. Or the education system into which you were fed. Or the same old same old organisation into which you were poured for the world of work.
Liberation??? You must be joking! For most women liberation means having two jobs instead of one... your work role and your role as the 'domestic manager'. And, somehow, with all the demands of both jobs, you lose yourself and then wonder why you feel stressed, restless and irritable... or even downright miserable!
STOP RIGHT NOW!
Take a very long, very deep and ginormous breath in. Now! Very long, very deep and ginormous... like you're a newborn powering in oxygen for the very first time! Then, pursing your mouth, strongly blow out the carbon dioxide so it gushes out like water from a broken pipe in the road. Do it until your abdomen collapses, and keep going until you hear a low rasping sound as you empty the very bottom of your lungs.
