11. Finding Your Voice

We give our power away to all that we don’t speak up for.  Most of us have learned to keep quiet to maintain status quo, to keep peace, to not make a big deal out of things, ignore what we feel etc.  On top of that we don’t want to be labelled “too sensitive or too emotional”.  When we don’t stand up, we lose that part of ourselves and we dim our light.  Our emotions or feeling sense is the language of our inner world, when we pay attention to them and use words to understand our own emotions, this gives us trust in our feeling sense, it gives us a way to communicate clearly what we feel and then stand up for ourselves.  There is vulnerability in trusting, acknowledging and communicating what we feel; this vulnerability is our ultimate shied  and it’s what makes us whole.