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You Must Overcome The Biggest Block On Your Healing Path: Isolation
We all have our own subjective measurement of what it is to be “isolated”.
However, I would venture to say that in the United States, most of us are perpetually isolated, even if we are around people, constantly. We tend to be disturbed by our experiences of extreme isolation, and only then do we begin to recognize we are isolated. We wait until isolation has been so completely woven into the fabric of our lives, where we feel utterly overwhelmed, before we begin to do anything about it. Often, we wait until our lives have unraveled into crisis, due to our extreme isolation, before we seek to live differently.
How is it that we are so isolated?
Well, for most of us, at least 85% of the time, we choose not to share our deeper self, feelings and experiences with those around us, because we believe or know it isn’t appropriate. This is isolation.
Of course, we need to respect contexts where it is indeed inappropriate to share more deeply. However, it doesn’t mean these contexts are helpful or healthy.
Most of us spend the majority of our adult, waking hours, at work. In the majority of work environments, there is rarely a culture of checking in or sharing openly about oneself. Checking in is the act of taking time to share a little…
