It's Like Pulling Teeth!
“It’s like pulling teeth!” is an idiom, a saying, an expression, that I say to myself all the time! I use it to denote the challenge, the pain, or the inherent stubbornness of something that I am doing or trying to get someone to do. Homeschooling, for example, is like pulling teeth, LOL, but in my early morning reading today, the reading I do every day during my morning constitutional, my morning voiding, my daily duty, I read about the power of words and how your thoughts and things that you say to yourself, that seem to have little significance at the moment, actually manifest in your life, your body, and your experiences.
This, to people who study the bible, is the “word made flesh.” This little bit of light reading gave me a huge epiphany and sparked a four-hour conversation with my hubby, which ended up delaying the start of my homeschool day, but nonetheless, was a wonderful deep-dive into the things we say to ourselves and why we say them and are they, in fact, manifesting in the flesh? During this conversation, I had the idea that I would pay attention to my inner voice (just like I did when I started using the Fly Lady system for cleaning my house—which was and is amazing!) and write down any of these idioms—and lo and behold I realized that I say, “It’s like pulling teeth!” all the time and guess what, I have had two teeth pulled just in the last two years alone! It IS manifesting, wow!
So, today I put you on notice, as Mercury has come out of retrograde and goes direct today (and how perfect is that, being that Mercury is the planet that rules communication *eye roll*, it’s so fucking perfect it’s uncanny), to pay attention to the little negative idioms that you say to yourself and then take an honest look at your life, your body, and your experiences to see if they are indeed, “words becoming flesh,” and then I invite you to change that inner voice to a positive one—create new things to say to yourself that you want to manifest—write yourself little love notes of positivity and post them around your house to remind yourself to be kind, loving, and patient with your growth—for “love is patient and kind,” and it IS all about love, and that includes being loving and kind to yourself.
For me, when life gets hard, instead of saying, “It’s like pulling teeth!” (Because honestly, I am done with dental problems) I have decided to say, “Things will get easier,” it’s the truth, I know that things will change and get easier —I can stand behind that affirmation—and I am o.k. with it coming true. Be honest with your replacement phrases because you have to believe what you’re saying.
In time, I will be able to make a much more bold affirmation, like, “Things ARE easy,” but for now this is better than bullshit dental work manifesting! Progress is better than perfection. *wink*
Happy Mercury Direct!
And remember: You are beautiful!