Part 2: The Only Way Out Is In

So maybe the problem isn't vulnerability.

Maybe the problem is how we handle the hurt that comes after. And as far as asking for help is concerned- as I had also said in the last piece- get hurt, get broken. Sometimes it's all part of your life. It's all part of your process. It'll make you a wiser person. Let God enter your path from the wounds. Your energy inside can only shine through the cracks.

And I'm not asking to trust people blindly. But I'm just saying- be vulnerable and let go. There is no other rule to it.

It's okay to be vulnerable, because vulnerability doesn't ask you to be weak. After being vulnerable, you don't have to crumble emotionally. You don't have to break apart in front of the other person. You're just sharing what is going on with you- and you know you're going to handle it on your own anyway.

And if the person is there for you, even just to listen to your problems, I feel like that's a huge help right there. I'm no preacher but let me share what has immensely been helpful to me- try and never take things personally, humans are different and their limits are different, 99% of the times their actions towards anything or anyone has got nothing to do with anything else but themselves.

So I feel like there's no problem at all in being vulnerable. I do know why people are so scared of it. I do know why people avoid it. But I also do know this: it takes a lot of courage to be vulnerable. It takes a lot of communication and constant conversation with yourself. Have that.

Sometimes you have to shut your brain out. Sometimes you have to silence that anxiety. And you have to just go for it.

Be vulnerable in front of the world. Build healthy relationships with your people. You'll see who's good. You'll see who's who very fast when you start being vulnerable. When you start shedding your layers, you understand who your people are. And it's a beautiful journey of learning and unlearning. When you have nothing to lose, when you don't carry the weight of expectations, you can be vulnerable in a way that's pure and freeing. And if someone hurts you? They shouldn't hurt you though- because you've already protected your energy from the inside out. We are so protected that being vulnerable will now not lead to hurt or damage. Snatch that power of getting damaged from being vulnerable and transfer it all to just your aura, make it stronger.

That's the most important thing in this whole universe- your energy. That is the whole universe within you.

You have to be so protected, so powerful, so grounded in your own self that you never feel the need to shut yourself off. Because you know: I've got me. I have got myself. This is all the reality that could ever sustain itself- and it already exists within me.

It's going to be really, really painful at times, because we've conditioned ourselves to avoid vulnerability- to avoid getting hurt. But we get hurt anyway, right? So maybe the problem was never with being vulnerable.

Maybe the problem was always with the fear of being hurt. And well, buddy- that's an inner work. Just like 100% of the works. It's an inner work, and it starts and ends with you.