Creativity and Health
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Stress and Illness
Stressed Relationships: the Remedy
| Creative Relationships
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Childhood stress and relationships in later life
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The remedy
What’s asked of us in love is to give of our self, with no conditions or expectations attached. Even when our gift goes unanswered, we don’t need to give up or concede defeat.
It’s not like we can keep our heart saved up for a rainy day: like anything else creative, the heart - and the real, heart-centred self - is naturally self-renewing and generous, and needs to be kept in active service. The only time we get caught out is when we forsake the heart, forget about love, and abandon our creative spark.
When we feel rejected, we can find ourselves hiding within stress biology’s false asylum, courtesy of fear, gloom
and anger
- along, perhaps, with wounded pride or shame. Meanwhile, compulsive desire
can make us lazy and assuming, till we grow quite incapable of appreciating our blessings. At such times, staying bold in our real self is a game changer and lifesaver, for that’s how we stay alive in gratitude, respect and forgiveness (self-forgiveness, even).
To a greater or lesser extent, all of us pick up disabling stress injuries, and are in need of rehabilitating - through fearlessly centring in the heart and reconnecting. So where we’ve been estranged, let’s never give up on mending divides and keeping faith with one another.
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