Be Brave Like Helen Keller!

Be Brave!

Glorious morning!

Helen Keller was an amazing human being. We will expand on a quote from her this morning.

“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world”

Helen was born in 1880 in Alabama and died in 1968. She was an American author and a disability rights advocate. She was also a political activist and lecturer. She lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when she was 19 months old. She then

communicated primarily using home signs until the age seven, when she first met her teacher and life long long companion Anne Sullivan. Anne Taught her 

her language, including reading and writing. Helen Keller was the first deafblind person in the United States to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. She was a prolific author, writing 14 books and hundreds of essays and speeches. Yet there are some children who are not disabled and complain that it's hard to get a job, lol.

Being deaf and blind certainly did not stop this fascinating woman at succeeding in life. So what her quote says to me is, we could never be challenged to know our potential in life if it was only smooth sailing and happy 24/7. My spiritual teacher say’s, courage can only be born through fear. So it looks like the downside of life has valuable things that we need in order to grow and know our power. A Lot of the “ bad things “ that happen to us can be great at teaching us what we DON’T want. Let’s say you dated someone and a couple months later you find out he slept with your best friend. That is a 2 for 1 lesson for sure. First you learn self love and respect by breaking up with him. You can then also set out to be extremely careful and very slow in the next relationship, although never a guarantee it won't happen again, it can still help you develop yourself. The other important lesson is who your true friends are. We have friends for a reason, friends for a season and friends for life. Obviously that friend was a seasonal kind of friend.

Let's say someone entered law school to become a lawyer and their dad knew someone high up in the ranks at that college. Let's say that person was able to pass the student all of the years they were there, no matter how much they studied or not. Suppose the student just partied and lived it up the entire time and rarely studied, because they didn't have to. Well that person may have enjoyed themselves and barely had to do anything to graduate, but graduating and passing the bar when the person doesn't really know the law would be a nightmare. The person could not possibly be a good representative for anyone. What a waste right? All the fun they had with no hard work really would not pay off. The ones who really study long hours and dedicate themselves to learning the law and pass the bar with their own sweat and tears have something to celebrate and look forward to. So an easy life may seem great but in reality, we learn from striving, we learn from adversity. We learn that hard work pays off, only when we do the actual work. I can't imagine living the life Helen Keller lived. Always in the dark and always in silence. Her determination to achieve things and learn surely carried her through life.

Through her struggles she learned her full potential and remained happy and motivated. Her patience surely paid off, I mean teaching her to read when she couldn't see or hear must have taken so much more time to read then the average child who could see and hear. She had tough challenges to overcome right out of the gate so to speak and she persevered through the challenges and frustrations of her disabilities. Look at what can happen when some wealthy parents in Hollywood pamper their children and make life soft for them. A Lot of them fail to launch and get caught up in drugs. Our challenges are meant to show us what we are really made of, when we don't give up the fight. Pain can be our greatest teacher.

Do you have trouble allowing yourself to feel the negative parts of life? Do you ignore your pain? Backpack therapy can help bring to light the unconscious aversions you have developed from childhood. Make a free discovery call today. Peace be with you, Dawn

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