Easy to say, hard to do, but none the less it’s a must. There are so many scenarios that this simple but yet unfathomable statement can be made. Let’s take smoking for example. Everyone knows that smoking is bad for your health, that’s a given. But people don’t stop smoking. They say they want to quit; they have tried quitting a hundred times but they “just can’t”. Well, I am here to say yes you can and you do that by just stopping. You see I believe that our brains are fully capable of almost what seems impossible tasks. We don’t believe in it though. We believe that we have to be held in bondage and there is no escape.
Just stop! I have said this to countless people and my soul grieves because I can count on one hand the people who did just stop. I’m talking way across the board and not just quitting smoking. People continue to do things that don’t and doesn’t serve their mind, body or soul. They utterly, selfishly, ignorantly, stupidly continue on and on and on with things that are toxic in every way. I whisper out to them, “just stop”, but they turn the other direction. I scream out to them, “JUST STOP”, but they still can’t hear me.
Stop going back to an abusive relationship, stop believing that a person loves you after they continue to hurt you time and time again, stop going to a job that destroys your body and your soul, stop letting things control you be it food, alcohol, money, people, fear. Just stop! Stop allowing the lies and the chains of this world to hold you back from being who you truly are. Stop believing that this is all there is. Stop believing that you are less than. Stop believing that you can’t just stop. Yes, you can.
You first have to come to understand, to acknowledge, to be aware of who you are, where you are, what you are doing, and where you want to go. Once you can come to that enlightenment than I am honestly telling you that you will have an entirely new life. You will have the power to Just Stop and be free from all things that keep in bondage and chains of self and soul destruction.
So many people continue to go through life like it will last forever but the truth is, is that life is extremely fleeting. So many go through life un-empowered and miss out on so much beauty, blessing and real love. Please, please I implore you to just stop. Just stop and listen, breathe. Separate emotion from fact. Separate fact from fiction. This is your life and nobody else’s. If something is not serving you but is toxic to your life and those around you it seems to reason that the toxins should be eliminated. So just stop. You’re not going to die, your lungs aren’t going to rebel if you quit smoking, quite the contrary. Your heart won’t stop pumping because you left this abusive person in your life. Your pitiful Just Over Broke Job will go on without you and replace you in a heartbeat so why put up with it. Go live your passions, live your dreams because once you Just Stop then you can begin and Just Live.
Just live in the now, because now is all you really have and that will be a story for upcoming discussions. Just be the person that is free to make their own choice and not controlled by something that makes the choice for them. Your brain is more powerful than absolutely anything. Your soul is more powerful than anything this world can dish out. It’s time for you now. The journey is yours and yours alone. How you take that journey is entirely up to you.
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