What’s your instant emotional upswing?
Have you ever experienced an instant emotional upswing? The experience of intense joy that changes your mood/outlook in a moment? Can you remember the last time you felt this ~ and can you replicate it? Can you feel that emotion again and again when you need it? Can you call to mind that upswing and swing out of a dark mood at will?
What was that moment for you?
Mine was a recent one when a friend said to me, “I will help you,” and it was in that exact second that the intense ball of fear/insecurity/sadness/darkness which had settled in the center of my chest melted away in an instant. One minute I was completely feeling overwhelmed and the next minute (audible finger snap) just like that, it was gone. POOF! Erased, as if it had never been there in the first place.
Why is that? Those words are ordinary. They aren’t anything provocative or medicinal. Or are they? The fact that someone whom I trust, reached out to say, unbidden, “I will help you,” is extraordinary, powerful and priceless. For me, it was a deal sealer ~ it made the tasks that I was facing to feel less daunting, more manageable and less burdensome because a burden shared feels lighter.
And the funny thing is that she lives hours away by plane so it’s not as if she could truly come to my house to help me. No, not a chance. But what she could do, and what she did, was to be there for me. To be supportive, to be encouraging, to praise, to ignite the fire and passion which I had hidden. To fill up my enthusiasm meter when it was lagging and to refill the confidence which I had lost. It wasn’t that she was approving of what I was doing so that I was getting that child-like parental approval. Oh no! She was using her peer-like enthusiasm, her cheerleader friendship which virtually shouted, “yes, go for it” as I went about the tasks at hand.
Knowing she would stand by me, next to me, hand and heart at the ready should I fall, made all the difference…and it still does. It made an Instant Emotional Upswing in my life. I am ever grateful for our connection and I am blessed to have you in my life.
So if you should need a cheerleader, an enthusiastic “Yes, you can! Go for it! Woo Hoo!” friend in your life, just know that I’m here for you. Heart at the ready and friendship available. I am your biggest fan!
Shine On!
xo
P.S. David Kanigan over at lead.learn.live wrote this phrase in his blog awhile back and I just jotted it down. I apologize for not being able to tell you the exact post in which he wrote about it nor how he, himself, used the phrase. I only know that it stuck with me and was my inspiration for today’s post. Thank you David.
This post gave me an instant emotional upswing. Thanks to you and to David.
You made my whole week! Thank you! ♥
I got a very sweet… very belated (by the USPS) birthday present. Clearly, the cosmos waited until a day where I needed a noisemaker etc.
Big heartfelt belated birthday hugs to you! I guess the Universe knows better than me! xoxo
:)) Thank you for always being an enormous cheerleader to the world!
My heartfelt thanks to you! ♥
I’m with Ann — emotional upswing in the post!
Love the enthusiasm and optimism in this post. And God bless all the people who help us, in even the most small and ordinary ways.
Hugs from Ecuador,
Kathy
Amen Kathy! You are so right! ♥
Your post brought a big a smile and brightened my day, it clearly created an instant emotional upswing for me. I’m delighted that such a wonderful person is in your life, and that you are in mine.
Russ
Oh Russ, we do enjoy our friendship and connection. So proud of all the books you have written, the songs and the adventures that Clyde has enjoyed! Keep creating my friend! We are all grateful for your books which give us all an instant emotional upswing! 🙂
Wonderful! I am also remembering we have this inside of us too. 🙂
We most certainly do! ♥
How true my friend! ♥
I’m feeling better just reading your post!
I’m so happy to hear it! ♥
How wonderful to have that support…and I am sure your friend felt the gift of that connection as well. Thanks for sharing. Blessitude – Lorrie
Hi Lorrie! Blessitude…how lovely! Thank you so much for stopping by and commenting! ♥
Well, dearest Misifusa, know that I am your biggest fan, and I don’t live very far away!! Love you!!
Love you too Pat! xoxo
Wonderful post Yvonne. And I wish I could remember where the “Shine On” reference came from. It will now be nagging me until I find it! Thanks again.
For me, it just came to me, just like the name The Presents of Presence. If it came from somewhere else, I wasn’t aware…it just stuck in my head and I felt it was a great way to end my posts, well, that and the xo! 🙂
Oh, this made me think of the time when I worked with teenage girls with eating disorder and depression.Every time one of them came to me saying that I had changed their life by changing the way they looked at themselves I got this instant rush of happiness, I felt like my soul was shining and that I was really living my purpose 🙂 thank you for reminding me of those beautiful days! 🙂
Keep shining your purposeful light on those girls because they need your beautiful soul! I am sure you changed their lives ~ for the better! Such a fulfilling purpose with so much goodness! Thanks for being you! ♥