Emotional Traumas

Scenes of Liberty and me playing on stage with our drummer Jack Willoughby (also with Spirit) and guitarist Mauricio Ramirez (of Columbia) raced through my head. The laughter, the cut ups, the mistakes that we converted into triumphs, brought back good memories. After finding Jack’s number we reconnected after 30 years and we both discussed our friend and how much we will miss him. This was a part of the emotional healing that was taking place after the emotional trauma. It was an attempt at making sense out of the situation of our friend’s death. We struggled with words and occurrences but in the end, chose to celebrate his life and his contribution to our lives. Liberty was a great friend and a caring individual. All of his friend’s will dearly miss him.

Emotional traumas such as the death of a loved one have a way of creating anchors in minds in relation to what part we play in where we are in our lives. It is a good time to take note to the fact that we are mortal and have a specified amount of time to accomplish the desires of our hearts. Do you feel you are worthy of creating a life of fulfillment? Or do you feel that you must do something first before you can accomplish anything? Don’t let your mind constantly present pre-cursors to you accomplishments. When you believe in your abilities there is nothing that you cannot accomplish. Yeah, it might be scary to dangle on the precipice, but take that leap of faith. It is better to have tried and failed than to not have tried and regretted it forever. Like my friend Liberty and this author did; take that chance and move toward the goals that you seek. Concurrently, move away from any image that your mind or your friend’s and family’s words express to you about how you can fail. Failure isn’t bad; it teaches you what not to do. Failure is being successful at doing something the wrong way. You are always successful! Recognize and take note to the emotional traumas in your life to awaken you to the possibilities and subsequent probabilities of your ability to overcome any obstacle.

Use your mind to overcome. Vince Lombardi, the great Green Bay Packers football coach was once asked how he chose which football player played what position. He said that he set up a brick wall at the end of the field. The players that crashed into the brick wall and fell backward were the offensive linemen. The players that crashed into the brick wall and went through it were the defensive linemen. The players that ran at the brick wall and jumped over it were the halfbacks. But the player that ran at the brick wall and ran around it was the quarterback. The person who calls the plays is the person who can find ways around any obstacle. The quarterback knows the plays by heart and calls them in the huddle. But, no matter how confident they are about the execution of the play, the quarterback utilizes signals to his team if the defensive line is not set up to allow the proper execution of the play. Make your plans to excel but keep them flexible enough to modify them when circumstances change. Take the talents and abilities that God has given you and run your plays. You have nothing to lose but the fear of trying.