Nope, not talking about that sort of constipation! Although I may refer to it in passing... What I'm talking about is the things that we keep inside of us for various reasons. The thoughts... the emotions... the unspoken things... Withheld communications of various sorts. All of these things that we don't say... that we might think, but don't express, that we stuff down inside of us are a form of constipation... There's a poem that says "it's not the things you do dear... it's the things you leave undone... the words you might have spoken, the flowers you might have sent... that give you heartache at setting of the sun". Sometimes it's the joyful things... the words of appreciation we need to speak. Other times it is the words that gnaw away within us...
Physical constipation will kill you. If you don't get it out... it will kill you... The same with verbal/emotional/spiritual constipation. If you don't express it, it will kill you. To say what you really want. To express what is really going on for you. To ask for what you really need. Those are the things we tend to hold onto... the things we tend to stuff down. We don't want to be a burden on people. We don't want to upset them. We want them to like us. We don't want to disappoint them. So... we stop ourselves from expressing what is there... and we begin to slowly die from it...
So, what is there for you that you need to say... that you need to request... that you need to let go of? Take a look and start clearing out the constipation!
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