My one-year-old nephew started standing up when he was only 10 months old. Seeing him trust his tiny legs to hold his body up for the first time was inspiring. He walked around without any inhibition, grabbing objects, and exploring his environment. I realized how much inner courage is rooted in our human species. In our previous post, we promised to explore what healthy inner courage feels like. In this post, I encourage you to test out the following phrases in your inner laboratory to see how you relate to courage:
- Courage is staying in your body and mind when you feel intense emotions in your heart.
- Courage is waking up daily to work hard and pursue your dreams.
- Courage is facing discomfort instead of running away from it.
- Courage is ending something that no longer works instead of clinging to it.
- Courage is smiling at your loved ones even when you carry a heavy heart.
- Courage is having that difficult conversation you've been avoiding.
- Courage is letting go of conversations that no longer serve you.
- Courage is bringing the wounded parts of you back to life and healing them.
- Courage is staying present in life and co-creating with what it offers.
- Courage is building a new life one step at a time.
- Courage is loving again after experiencing loss.
- Courage is facing our fears and parenting ourselves.
- Courage is finding a balance between taking care of ourselves and taking care of others.
- Courage is getting up again after we fall.
The inner courage reminds me of the Ocean. Here is how John O’Donohue describes it: