Wow, this question got me thinking. What a thing to consider! I can honestly say I had never thought of this question but have felt the same way at times when my health was at its lowest point. Because I am so invested in my health now, I got caught off guard a little and taken back when I was asked this question from a client this week.
Here sits someone who is looking for not much other than a small spark of hope. If there was just a little hope in her then healing would not seem so impossible. But in the mindset that your ship is sinking, and the captain always goes down with his ship! I mean, wow, not a place anyone should stay too long mentally or physically, yet I bet everyone of you can relate and have felt this way at one time or another.
It is easy to have hope when we feel good. Of course, when we are tired, depressed, or in pain on a continual basis we get discouraged, and quite frankly, hopeless with ourselves and our body’s abilities. We have lost trust in what our body can do for us, because we have been fooled by it one too many times it seems.
I work with people every day who don’t want to give up on their health and life but are also so discouraged and have been so taken advantage of that this thought becomes their belief. So why put money into a sinking ship? I mean, “That money could go to so many other things and nothing is going to help me get better anyway,” right?
Honestly, the first thought I had go through my mind for her at this point is, “There is hope, you can heal, and you will have your life back.” This is where I am in my life now. (A healthy place.) I did it, anyone can do it. But then, old me soon came forward and I started to think of when I was in this lady’s shoes. When I was in bed wishing that I could be done of feeling so sick all the time. So why? I had to think about it. For her, the answer was obvious, right off the bat I could see in her a beautiful person full of purpose. Just shrinking away into nothing because of disease, but she couldn’t see what I could see.
I thought about why I did it. Why did I invest in my sinking ship? More importantly why should she? It has taken me a long minute to think this through. I have been out of those woods for a long time now and it brought up a lot of thoughts. But the best thing I could come up with was, because once someone believed in me. It happened for just a moment when I felt that someone else believed in me 100%. That one moment with that one person was all I needed to fuel me into the right direction and give me strength to change my story in life. (From victim to healer.)
I want to be that person for hundreds of people or thousands of people. And I felt that as my truth realigned with my purpose and decided right then and there, I would heal.
If I can change my life, that means I can change the life of one other person. I know there is worth for me if I can change just one other life for the better. I am worth taking care of, so that I can give to someone else, the gift I have been given. And if I lived to only ever help one other person, I didn’t care. That one person would be worth it! That one person that I got to help and teach, they would get back a real life full of health and happiness. Yes, it is worth me investing in that sinking ship.
You never know where life will take you, and if you don’t invest in yourself you will never find out what all you could have been.