by Rosie Bason, Mullumbimby, NSW
We all have something to share; a piece of wisdom, a story that we can either choose to keep to ourselves or we can share with others. I have come to realise that when we share our expression with others through song, spoken word or in a written format, it can inspire so many and be a gift for all of us.
I have benefitted firsthand from the generosity of others sharing their knowledge and wisdom – both practical and inspirational. Of what use is it if we keep what we have come to know to ourselves?
In the past when I have held back from expressing what I felt was there to share, it felt like conversations and time spent together with others was incomplete, whereas the times when I was not afraid to express fully what I was feeling I had a sense that nothing was left undone or incomplete.
This way of expressing has been inspired by the support of Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine and from the Esoteric Women’s groups, which have given me the opportunity to connect to me and feel that what I have to share is worth sharing.
I have always loved writing but have never shared my writing publicly because I feared it was not good enough, not easy to read, that others wouldn’t appreciate it, that I would be critiqued and the list goes on: but when I do not worry about such things and I just express what I feel and communicate it in a way that comes naturally to me, then it’s easy.
This year I have not allowed that fear to stop me from writing and I have had such an amazing healing experience from writing and expressing!
Sharing my writing and expressing more of what I am feeling has been a healing process. A lot of old issues that I had not dealt with in the past have come up for me, but in expressing them and writing I have found a sense of completeness… I feel that I have worked through some issues that I have been carrying around with me for way too long.
Through sharing it in this way I have come to new levels of awareness about myself, and I am aware how I have also inspired others. The feedback I have received has allowed me to see how valuable our expression is – and the inspiration I receive from others constantly enriches my life.
Expression is a gift, don’t keep it to yourself!
The Truth about Serge Benhayon 
‘Expression is a gift, don’t keep it to yourself!’ – I LOVE this statement as it says everything. This is the one place I’ve held back, as expression is in everything. It’s in the writing, the way we move, the looks we give, the energy we emanate, the way and how we speak, how and what we eat and drink, how we dress, how we angle the contents in our homes and the list is endless.
All of these ways of expression are constantly communicating but many of us don’t even realise, until it’s expressed by another. So that one day someone can read about it and realise that we are constant communicating, and the sharing is an awakening for them to explore the many opportunities that is out there in the world.
The writing for me is something I would like to evolve with and in the mean time, commenting is the way forward, till it will be in my DNA to just write so another can awaken from their slumber.
In our silence we can do much damage especially if it is a time when we really need to be speaking up. For silence can be the fuel that feeds the hand of evil, and this is not something we want to be contributing towards.
Henrietta, I agree when we hold back in the moment we are to speak, the internal dialogues come in, the ‘should have’, the ‘would have’ song plays in our head. It is damaging for both, to those that should have spoken, and to those that should have received it.
There are also times when silence is needed and that is louder then the spoken words. So expression is everything…
Expression can come from the way we write, from the way we speak, from the way we sing or play a musical instrument, and it does not stop here. For how we move is an expression, how we are at work and in relationships is all about expression. So the real question is how much of our true expression are we allowing to be released? I know I can hold back at times and let it all out at times, and this is not right nor wrong, but simply a learning to express from my heart and with no reservations.
Rosie, this is a gorgeous blog and one that certainly confirms that expression is a gift that we can all give to ourselves as well as all those around us. Thank you!
Rosie, this is GOLD and something I love to keep reminding myself of: “In the past when I have held back from expressing what I felt was there to share, it felt like conversations and time spent together with others was incomplete, whereas the times when I was not afraid to express fully what I was feeling I had a sense that nothing was left undone or incomplete.”
The simplicity of expression for the wisdom of our unfolding selves and for others. How easily I can feel that my expression would not be accepted by all and yet this is a complete lie, as we all have a wealth of inner wisdom to express.
Our expression is valuable, ‘Through sharing it in this way I have come to new levels of awareness about myself, and I am aware how I have also inspired others.’
Bring on the gifts as we can all deepen our expression and it is time to put pen to paper or fingers to key pad and walk the talk or is it talk the walk?!.
“Of what use is it if we keep what we have come to know to ourselves?” It is a great point Rosie, it’s not only appreciating our life experiences and what we have learnt and developed as wisdom, but understanding it has much greater value when we share it so it can be also a learning for others.
The list of reasons as to why we don’t allow ourselves to express is very true, and this is a simple way to address our concerns “but when I do not worry about such things and I just express what I feel and communicate it in a way that comes naturally to me, then it’s easy.” We do let pictures of what might possibly happen stop us, and the truth is even if negative experiences do follow they are simply opportunities to bring more love and wisdom to life. Otherwise we can live in a perceived safety and comfort ruled by “what if…” thoughts.
In a recent conversation with a friend, I experienced how powerfully healing it is when we are able to allow the exact configuration of words to come through in our expression. Our body goes through motion of activity in every moment, and we are already communicating much in the way we move, but something happens when two or more bodies come together with an intention to share what one body has moved through. It was a great confirmation that we are a vehicle, and that our expression is for the all.
Bottling up our expression thwarts evolution, ours and everyone’s – it sets a whole species back from realising and living what is available now. i
So True Gabriele, lets take the lid of and explore our inner-most expression of Truth as we have capped ourselves for to many lifetimes!!!
Expression is everything, it is important for us to always express.
Absolutely we need to express, and sometimes that is very stilling and silent.
Expression is what we need in this world. One that comes from our heart. We have already too much loveless expression, that is not even ours!
I’ll take you up on what you are offering Rosie.. When there is something there to express its best to allow it to come out as it is. How it comes out though is determined by how you have felt it. If you feel jarred and in a state of reaction its best to bring that feeling back to a state you can accept before you express it out. Very important to not circumvent expression that is not holding of you and therefore others in equality.
Absolutely Rik, it maybe difficult but at times we may have need to bite our tongues as this is the only response that another is ready to hear and thus in do so we are honouring an-others quality and living in deep-humble-appreciative-ness. Humble being our most divine connection to our essences or Soul. And appreciation that we have never walked in an-others shoes so how could we ever judge them so as you have shared we are all equal.
When we see expression as being for others as much as it is for us to express then there wouldn’t be the restriction of holding back.
Expression is beyond the self, me and mine and supports us all.
Well said Aimee, and in saying that we get to feel the responsibility we hold towards others in and by allowing our expression to be open and free. To not express, or to hold back what we know needs to be expressed is about not wanting to take responsibility and when we see it this way, it helps us to… well, express! 😉
When expression meets truth, the air cleans with the essential beauty we connect to. Sharing your true expression with others is a measure of your own relationship with beauty.
Sharing what we can feel and are learning is healing and inspiring for everyone. We love reading others’ stories so why do we think others would not be interested in our perspectives? Everyone has something to share, life experience that we can all relate to on one level, and that’s how we learn – through the reflections that we offer to one another of what we’ve learned, and what we’re yet to fully embrace and master.
Expressing in truth is so healing for all, and is what humanity needs.
Why are we taught to write, if it is not to express who we truly are? And who is the master we were moulded by school and university to serve, it if s not the deepest wellspring of wisdom we innately hold within?
I too am healed when I express truth when I write.
Well said, it should be a crime to hold back !
It is in a way, since it is detrimental to all.
It is inspirational to read your writings Rosie — very inspirational. It is an honourable feeling to not hold back ..
I love what you present here Rosie, to write to express yourself in what you live and truly feel and experience. And this is something we have to re-learn because the way we learn to write in school is very static in that we learn to search for the right words instead of letting them come from our bodies, from our own lived experience.
Holding back who we are, goes hand in hand with not expressing what is there to be expressed and shared for the benefit of everyone. Expression and being who we are are the two sides of the one coin as we are vehicles of expression.
Exactly Alexander, expression is not something we do in the sense of it being a separate activity, we are either being our true selves or not, and from one of these two places we are always expressing.
True expression is equally healing for the one expressing as for the one receiving. Lack of expression or untrue expression leaves everyone short of what life can and should be.
How many have the experience of not being listened to or understood correctly and therefore expect just the same to happen over and over again? And how many either consciously or subconsciously have given up on eve trying to make themselves understood or to share and express themselves at all?
Rediscovering and reclaiming one´s expression means to reclaim oneself, to honour oneself and take a stance in a world that not always might be receptive as we would wish for but nevertheless gets to experience who I am as part of what the world is made by all of us.
I have a lot to share, I know it. But when I don’t value myself then I don’t value the fact that I do have a lot to share.
I can relate Leigh, I’d say this is quite common. We may have a picture of what we think an expert, author, presenter, or wise person is, yet we all have life experiences and wisdom from what we have experienced, and each person has something valuable to share that we can learn from and find of interest. It’s a great point Leigh, as this may be the only thing holding us back from sharing.
It is expression that brings out the full you, expressing who we are in full. Anything less lets us be less than we are.
So often stories and writing are about making something up to impress another/ others rather than as you offer here sharing something that we have observed/ learnt from our actual life. And I think there can be many beliefs about how we think our expression has to be or look like that can lead to us holding back the beauty and simplicity of what we have to share…
Being real and sharing from that true and authentic place within ourselves is what I find truly supportive and healing to experience. It’s such a blessing to have someone express in a way that is honest and true to who they are, as you get let in and the relationship has a real foundation and it feels very honouring. It’s also delightful to truly know someone. To me it’s like a form of nourishment to have a true relationship, and that includes reading someone’s writing.
Beliefs are quite damaging for all concerned, ‘ there can be many beliefs about how we think our expression has to be or look like that can lead to us holding back the beauty and simplicity of what we have to share…’
Communities used to have rituals and gatherings where wisdom was shared amongst all equally. I feel we have lost that, where people of all ages value the wisdom they have to share and know that what we have experienced or mastered is for the benefit of the whole of society. Perhaps this lack of sharing and expression is part of the degradation of society we are experiencing now.
“Communities used to have rituals and gatherings where wisdom was shared amongst all equally” By writing and sharing on-line blogs we resurrect these age old rituals with a global community.
Yes it’s great to see how much we all have in common and yet how we all have our own flavour and that is beautiful.
With every person sharing and expressing themselves, we all get a bit richer in being who we are.
I love the oneness that this presents.
Expression not only sets us free from what otherwise gets stuck inside and hence creating an unnatural congestion and pressure, much more expression opens a flow of an endless stream of who we are, what is given to us and wants to be shared with everyone for the sake of all.
The insights we discover through writing bring expansion and vitality not just to our body but for every body.
For me there is nothing worse than walking away from a conversation with the feeling that it was incomplete; there was more to be expressed. And what usually follows, is that which was held back goes around and around in my head for days, weighing me down and giving me a reason to give myself a hard time. A simple example of how holding back our expression can harm us and of course the other person misses out on what we had to say.
Yes, I know that feeling. I had an issue with someone recently and didn’t discuss it and each time I saw her I could feel it building to way past what it really was until yesterday I asked her to talk to me and in that I was able to hear her side of the story and have more understanding. The beautiful thing about this is now when I see her, I won’t have all that anger towards her in my body. Thats the thing, we may project it towards another but even having it and projecting it in the first place is harming us.
I know that feeling Ingrid, it’s like the washing machine spin cycle! I imagine that when an expression is there to be said and it’s not we block and obstruct a natural flow, so it still sits there drawing our attention as it was meant to come out. A huge ongoing learning.
Perfect to read today. Life can feel dull or mundane when we don’t express what we are realising with others in one way or another because it is the spark of expressing ourselves that gives a feeling of aliveness and vibrancy that can not be experienced in any other way. I got reminded the other day that I talked with my mouth almost closed and that it was hard to hear me. I was asked to pronounce more and speak more slowly and the magic that happened in myself by just truly saying what I felt to say in a way that it was clear was enormous. I felt a warmth and a joy I hadn’t felt in a long time, I felt me as a woman instead of a girl and I felt the power of it. It showed me that even though we can be saying things, the way we are talking can actually be holding back the true blessing and power of the words said and it can hinder other people from truly hearing it.
I love that you shared this, because it really does make a difference how we express, when we pronounce and speak loud and clear with out being worried or with an ounce of anxiety. Thing is, we don’t have to be perfect and I still shake if I speak on a mic in public but you just have to go for it even if its not easy. I have had feedback from my friends that they had no idea that I was nervous to speak on the mic and really appreciate my sharing. The other option is to say nothing, do nothing and nothing changes.
I love that you have been sharing your writing, Rosie, as the love you have for writing shines throughout your words – as does the lived wisdom you generously share with the reader.
Thank you Judith, I can feel your love and appreciation, it is palpable.
Over the years I have learnt so much from the blogs and comments on websites like these, and have found my confidence growing by commenting.
Yes, these blogs and comments, and my commenting regularly on them support me to express more and more.
Expression is indeed a gift and one that many of us often hold back, and yet when we do express there is such a completeness, a joy in sharing for the truth is; we’re not meant to do this alone, we’re here together to support and inspire each other to evolve and live and express more the love we naturally are, and our expression in it’s many forms is very much a part of that.
What a beautiful comment Monica. It totally stopped me in my tracks and brought tears to my eyes. What a lovely understanding that yes we are all here to support each other in our expression of our full selves.
Absolutely Monica! It is the completeness that you write about that I love most, because I no longer have to hold onto what I felt or think about it as once shared, my part is done.
Yes indeed it is a gift and I know that I have benefited enormously from reading your blogs and I also know I am but one of many. We have no clue the ripple effect of our expression so express we must – with love.
Thanks Lucy! I was listening to one of your interviews the other day and shared it with my friends and loved it. When we share in whatever way works for us, it can touch many.
I have always felt to share, writing predominately is because I want to share myself, I want to share it with me first and foremost, the words coming through offer a support to me, and to everyone too. So is writing really from us or from heaven? Can we really own it?
Good question! I used to own it but realise now that my writing is not mine. I do the writing bit yes, but was is given to me to write and share is from heaven for sure. Sometimes I read things I have written and know that I could not have come up with that. Its quite magical.
“Of what use is it if we keep what we have come to know to ourselves?” I agree Rosie, and we often do not see how much we have to offer the world as all that we have learned and experienced and the values that we hold we deem as normal, but we have all a different awareness and perspective on life and thus each of us has a multitude to share and enrich the world with.
This is so true, what we deem as normal may not be in another’s awareness even, so by sharing we are giving them an opportunity to see another way, an insight into how we live.
I totally agree with you Rosie, I have begun expressing more and writing blogs and it has been a deeply healing experience to not hold back anymore, this also offers a powerful reflection for others to feel inspired and supported by.
Yes, it has a roll on effect. I am seeing that too now with more and more of my friends writing. I love it.
Life is expression. We are never not expressing. So if we are feeling shy from writing what does this show us about how we live life in general?
I have to say that for me writing is a lot safer than standing on stage. That I am yet to master and for now I will keep giving it a go even if my knees tremble and my voice shakes!
Thank you, Rosie. You have beautifully reminded me that what I experience and what I learn from it is not mine to own and keep, that I am part of the whole and every expression is a reflection needed for every one of us, we all are part of something much grander.
Yes we are even if we don’t realise it or want to admit it, on some level we know it.
Expressing from truth expands the world of truth. Nothing can replace this.
And we know it and feels so good!
We all have something to share, and its great when we value ourselves enough to know that even (or especially) the simple mundane insights are valuable and to be shared… primarily becuase the more simple, the more mundane, the more we come across them everyday.
This is beautifully explained Simon, it is the everyday things that make our life and it supports us greatly to know how, so there is great value in sharing what we have come to learn that truly works for us.
It is so true, the simple every day things, that we do over and over they are the important ones as they actually make up the whole and are part of the bigger ones too.
When we share our wisdom it becomes collective wisdom that we all have equal access too.
‘Expression is a gift, don’t keep it to yourself!’ Thank you for expressing your truth Rosie in simple words but with much power. And with reading your blog I feel within myself that there is not enough appreciation for what I have to offer, so that is something to take on board, the appreciation for my unique expression and to go for it and not keep it for myself.
Absolutely, what would a rainbow look like if some of the colours decided that they didn’t think they were good enough so they decided to not shine!
“the times when I was not afraid to express fully what I was feeling I had a sense that nothing was left undone or incomplete.” When we express what we truly feel it matters not how another may react or respond, we have spoken our truth.
Yes, you have done your part, which is to express the truth and how they respond, react or receive it is their responsibility and their part.
These very wise words need to be on billboards in every town. “Expression is a gift, don’t keep it to yourself!”, because as I have learned you never know when you are going to make a difference in someone’s life by sharing your wisdom. I have also learned that holding back our beautiful expression not only denies others from hearing what we have to share but that it also hurts us; now that to me is one very self-loving reason to keep on expressing.
Yes it hurts the person who holds back the expression and the person who didn’t hear the Expression.
I wouldn’t be where I am today if those around me had held back what they had to share with me.
Yes, such a simple truth, Rosie. If we do not share what we see and how the world makes sense to us, then we cripple all of us because we do not offer each other the true reflection we need to get out of our behaviours that do not serve us nor anybody else.
We all see things in a different way, depending on our experiences in life. When we express our truth not only may the other person see the situation in a new light, it also encourage them to express. It just opens up more possibilities. Deeper levels of connection. So do not hold back. Go for it!
I love your sharing Rosie and especially your inspirational words “expression is a gift, don’t keep it to yourself”.
It’s true, if we all went about our day ignoring what we felt and never shared anything, just imagine the state of the world. It’s already in pretty poor shape, I can not imagine what it would be like if those that stopped speaking up withheld their expression. Where would we get the reflection that we matter from? Who would lead the way?
Exactly! I admire those that speak up, even if they get it wrong because at least they are giving it a go rather than waiting for someone else to do it.
“Expression is a gift, don’t keep it to yourself!” Great truth, great bumper sticker!
If kids live in a way that allows them to have true expression they will naturally embrace their true magnificence. Finding ways to meet our children for who they truly are and how they truly wish to express themselves will encourage them to naturally acquire the agency to shine out to others regardless of what others may think about them, building confidence and self-empowerment.
‘Expression is a gift, don’t keep it to yourself!’ Yes it is and something I now understand. Not feeling worthy can mean we hold back from expressing, comparing ourselves and feeling less than others. Turning this around and expressing regardless of what others think or feel, is liberating. It also means we share who we are with others, and people get to know us. Living constantly in the shadows when we could be centre stage does not do us justice. Why stay small, when we could instead embrace our true magnificence.
‘Why stay small, when we could instead embrace our true magnificence.’ Beautifully expressed Kehinde!
Yes the more we express, the more we allow others to see and know us and that way there is no hiding or misunderstandings. It’s all out in the open.
We are all connected – and because of that, we are not given anything that is not given to everyone else to express. We all receive everything – but it is our bodies and lived experience that makes the expression of what we receive unique and seemingly different, and if we really listen, we’ll notice that many are saying the same thing just in a different way.
This is so true and why when you hear something expressed from another, it sounds so familiar if it is something you could have said or written and this is true. We do know it, and no one gets it more than another or is more gifted or special.
What we have to share is often so normal to us that we do not appreciate the support it can offer another. Practicing this expression without holding back is part and parcel of our medicine chest I feel.
I get this, my normal can be so different to another persons as my normal now is so different to my normal 8 years ago.
Yes which is why when you fill out a survey and it asks how you are feeling you might say ‘great’ yet when you look back you might say ‘really sick’!!!
It is all relative to where we are now.
I can feel the fear in holding back and how in fact we’re protecting ourselves from the world, but in doing so we’re also incarcerating ourselves and the joy that is us. So yes expression is a gift, to be shared, and the more we embrace it, the more we can share. We support each other.
“Expression is a gift, don’t keep it to yourself!” – when we free ourselves from what is our greatest fear, we often find it is our greatest joy.
That is inspiring Elizabeth – turning it around from a ‘can’t do this’ to enjoying it through a simple and consistent commitment. That is the way we grow.
I was recently reading something profound on giving – and my takeaway was.. who are we to hold back from sharing everything that we have been given?
Absolutely, it is not given to us for us, it is given for us to share for it is never about just one of us.
‘Of what use is it, if we keep our expression to ourselves?’ Expressing to one another, and having a go at always expressing what we can feel, when it’s there to be shared, and not holding it back, is one of the greatest gifts we can give to ourselves and everyone else. I liked to think that I could get away with not expressing – that if I hung around for long enough, others would naturally understand me through some kind of thought osmosis process.. which inevitably left me disappointed when it turned out they weren’t mind-readers! The only alternative to expressing how we feel is to keep it all in – and that eventually feels more uncomfortable than just getting over our fears and letting it out.
That part of wanting others to read our minds is so common and yet it just leaves so much space for misunderstandings and frustration rather than just asking for what we want and saying it how it is.
Beautiful Rosie, I agree expression is a gift and should be shared hence why we feel the tension in our body when we hold it back. I have experience this throughout my life and I too am starting to express more and share the wisdom and truth I have access to.
Yes I have also found writing about my experiences in life including the tricky times has been very healing and therapeutic for me, especially if I write from the point of view of what have I learnt about life that would benefit everyone to hear.
Yes and there is plenty that I have written and once complete I realise was just for me and part of my healing process, and then there is others that I know is for everyone.
When we share ourselves with others and let them in, it is through this connection that the levels of our awareness increases, which is the gift to ourselves….and then for others, a win-win all round I would say!
That’s wonderful Elizabeth and highlights the power of brotherhood, of receiving support through the expression program, and now your expression is supporting yourself and others.
What I feel from your blog Rosie is that we all have equal value and that includes our expression. We are each needed to share in our own unique way and with our own angle and collection of personal experiences. There is so much to learn from one another through our expression, without expression we are literally like closed books.
Yes, what one can understand from your sharing is going to be different than mine and thank god for that cause one person may be able to relate to you and another to me.
Thank you Rosie for sharing the importance of expressing and writing and the responsibility we have with this. You are very inspiring and bring the simplicity to something many feel difficult and bring a realisation of the need for truth to be shared lovingly from our essence and the healing with this.
In general it’s not uncommon for us to think we can’t say something for fear of upsetting another, but in truth if we do not express what feels true for us at any given moment then are we not denying another from also knowing that truth. So you could say if we dont express ourselves in full when it feels right but keep it to ourselves, it comes with an arrogance that suggests the other person may not be able to handle it. But who are we to judge another in that way? Is it not more supportive to give another the opportunity to hear something that may inspire them to change something in their lives, than not?
As uncomfortable as it can be at times, it is those that love me that speak up even if they risk me reacting…. because really they know that sometimes I just need a reminder and it is not personal, but about us not being stuck in our own mud.
Expressing is enormously important. If anything is held back not being expressed or even I hold back from letting the world in I feel deeply compromised the effects can range from feeling depressed to not being able to sleep and more.
I know the not sleeping bit, tossing and turning and churning it over in my mind until I get up and either speak or write and stop it from ruining my sleep.
I have found that too, when I express things how they are for me or simply do things how they feel to me, then once expressed, I can see clearly what is going on, it is an expansion to my awareness as opposed to thinking about things that keeps me trapped in the same loop with many thoughts to be on offer but no true opening up to the situation at hand or I am in.
Every time we express truth we are blessed by the vibration truth, reflecting the Soulfulness of who we are, be it coming through us or coming to us by way of another. The more we express truth the more our world is flooded with the vibration of the light we all are in essence. And in essence, we all have worlds of truth and wisdom to share.
It is a beautiful thing when you feel your vibration affected by words spoken by another. A true gift.
Sharing our experiences and our wisdom with others can greatly enhance another’s life, because they have an opportunity to not make the same mistakes we have made and equally can be inspired to make different choices. When we hold back our expression we are holding back on everyone including ourselves.
My life would not be how sweet it is today if it were not for those around me expressing and inspiring me to make the changes I have made.
Thank you for the encouragement to simply express what we have to share. So very true, each of us has a lot to share that is of value, inspiration and help to others. We often underestimate what we know and are aware of.
True Esther and I have heard this way too many times at the end of someone’s life, how they wished they had shared what they felt more often. It is time not to hold back but to enjoy our expression as part and parcel of the whole we are from.
We underestimate because we don’t value ourselves or what we have to share and this is a shame for ourselves and those around us.
It is great to hear how you have worked through some long held issues and gained greater awareness through sharing and expressing, ‘Sharing my writing and expressing more of what I am feeling has been a healing process.’
Lovely to read Rosie and Elizabeth, I too was someone who held back writing, finding it very challenging. I now express daily, through writing, and have found it has become easier.
We can rest well and deeply at night after a day of expressing ourselves in full. This is not only in words, but in our actions, the way we dress and how we move.
Oh yeah, I am learning and experimenting on the dress front of expressing and it feels so good when I go past my comfort zone!
I have only recently started to feel confident about what I write being in the public domain. Even writing a comment on a blog like this caused me great angst at first. I had to deal with the idea of being seen and accepting that my views matter and count just like everybody else’s. Now I’ve actually written a few blogs, so who knows what next in terms of my expressions. I agree that it expression is healing.
Super point Debra, I had to work through this too, that what I have to share counts and is worthwhile, and I can feel that giving ourselves permission to express is very healing and opens us up to receive even more to express!
That is great Debra, I look forward to reading your blogs. I can at times feel a bit naked when a new blog is published.
I too love writing. As a child I kept a diary and the habit of that has stayed with me. Sometimes when I sit to write things will come out that I wasn’t expecting. Its as if I reveal stuff to myself through the act of putting pen to paper. Then there is the whole ritual of what journal to use, the colour and feel of the paper and what pen.
It is a beautiful thing to write in a journal, something I haven’t done in years but in reading your comment I realise it is like giving yourself the time and space to stop, reconnect, feel your day and what is actually going on.
Me too. I find writing is a form of healing for me and I can express my thoughts better. I feel so good when I write! 😅
Thank you Puspha, it’s a very inspiring reminder you have given me of how much I also benefit in understanding myself and the world when I write down how I feel.
Thank you Rosie, your blog on expression has really communicated to me how much a part it is in the healing of issues and their completion. When we are with others and don’t communicate fully it feels incomplete. In many ways expression is part of the completion process allowing us to then be ready for the next new beginning, not still stuck in many incomplete cycles.
Thank you, Rosie – I agree, I get so much from reading what people have expressed in writing. When we consider the fact that we don’t think and we are a vehicle through which an energy expresses, it becomes easy to understand how nothing we say or write belongs to ourselves. It is a constant flow of energy and our body is here to express that. We all have something to offer to everyone. I must be working super hard to resist the flow when I feel like I have nothing to say or write.
I love that you so openly and freely express Rosie without any holding back, it is a beautiful reflection for others to be inspired and reminded of the power and healing offered when we choose to express.
Always appreciating the simplicity and thus true wisdom of the messages you bring in your writings Rosie Bason.
If we hold back, everyone loses out. Fact.
It’s like there is something inside of us, constantly trying to calculate how much is ‘won’ and how much is ‘lost’ every time we have something to say. The thing is as you show Rosie, our mind cannot fathom the true beauty of how the universe works, and how we can present exactly the thing someone else needs to hear to connect. All we need to do is choose a Loving quality and God takes care of the rest. It’s not about us but everyone else. To continue to play at being an editor and censor of divine plans is the ultimate arrogance.
And sometimes we think it has to be NOW and forget that there is a whole world at play and we are just one part of that whole, and that there is a right time for everything, so there is no need to control or hold on. Just allow and surrender to being a part of that whole.
I’ve never had a problem with written expression, but vocal expression can be an entirely different matter. The good news seems to be becoming proficient in one aids the other – and in all the potential avenues of expression we can enjoy, from what we wear to how we move. In fact the more I consider Serge Benhayon’s simple presentation that ‘Expression is everything’, the more I realise just how profound and far-reaching expression actually is.
It is so common that we hold back wearing things, saying things, writing things and expressing as we are afraid of how other will judge us and react. But when we hold back, we all miss our.
It is so very important to know and understand what you are sharing here, that we reflect to everyone in every moment, and how very important it thus is that we allow ourselves to express our truth so that we can inspire each other to trust more and live from our truth every day more. In that way we will build a society and systems that reflect and carry our true values.
I always learn so much through other’s expression, yet when it comes to my own, and what others may learn from that, I question it – which makes no sense, because we’re all here to learn and be inspired by one another. If we’re putting pressure on ourselves that we need to express in a certain way, we’re not allowing the space for our true expression, and learning what that feels like, to flow naturally. Expression – and life – is not about perfection, but about learning – and it’s only through giving it a go that we get to feel what is true expression, and what’s not.
Its funny reading about all the fears and worries you have about your expression and how it might be judged, yet it is so simple and clearly written that I cannot help but fully understand, learn from what you are sharing, and it’s so totally at odds with all the worries that you had!
There is a hollow feeling of incompleteness and tension that I feel too when I hold back and don’t express myself or I know there was something I felt in a moment or conversation that wanted to come out but I did not allow it to. Appreciation feels key here and really being aware of how much impact we have when we do express how we feel either verbally or just how we walk down the street. I am discovering that when I really allow myself to just be me and don’t hide that away, it is far more inspiring to others than I often let myself feel.
Yes we are always reflecting and what may be unnoticed by yourself, another may be checking out and being inspired by.
So true Rosie, there is always someone watching and willing to receive our reflection, which makes us more responsible if we truly embrace this fact.
I am also finding that writing is healing and realising how incredibly powerful it is. It is no wonder that many of the issues I had created in my life before I came across Universal Medicine were due to my lack of expression.
I can relate to what you are sharing about the issues you had created due to your lack of expression. I never thought about it in this way but true what I have been holding back has created a lot of complications because of me not expressing what I felt was needed to express. There was a gap between feeling and expressing which caused manipulation of the truth, frustration and resentment of not feeling seen or heard instead of a willingness to see it were consequences of my own creation.
And adding to this I can see how not expressing the fullness we are, not just in words and writing, but also in not allowing our inner qualities out fully and sharing all of ourselves with the world is the basis for our issues.
This is something I have been constantly inspired by you Rosie, how you don’t hold back and express what is there to express for everyone…. thank you! I agree it is so powerful when we express wisdom from what we have lived. Every time I read a blog on this site I am more aware and get a deeper understanding on so many different topics.
Thank you Aimee, we may not realise just how much wisdom and how much we have to offer one another because our lives and experiences are so diverse. We truly do have so much richness to offer each other.
Yes Melinda, and that wisdom can come in any package and any age.
It is so gorgeous that in sharing something with the world you can address and heal what is there to be worked on whilst offering awarenesses and inspiration to others to allow them to do the same.
I love your opening line Rosie as what you share is the truth of us all. As we are all love in essence, the wisdom of our love is within us all. As such we all are here to learn, grow and evolve together through the way we live and we can only do so through expressing with each other our experiences of what is love and what is not. When we express we claim and confirm the light we are, offering a loving connection, and this is what we then magnify through our bodies and as such the lives we live, illumination the truth for all to know and see, that this is who we all are.
Beautifully described Carola.
We do all have wisdom to share and sharing it in a simple and loving way is inspirational. Expression is a gift, and we are not meant to keep it to ourselves. It needs to be shared.
And thank you for your sharing Rosie.
“We all have something to share; a piece of wisdom, a story that we can either choose to keep to ourselves or we can share with others.” A beautiful reminder that we do not own wisdom – it is freely and equally available to all to be shared with all.
It’s a sobering thought to be deeply pondered, that we do not own the wisdom that flows freely from us and it is our responsibility to share it. Often we seek the recognition that goes with the wisdom and yet we are just the vessel it flows through for the betterment of all.
“Of what use is it if we keep what we have come to know to ourselves?” – a great point, Rosie, and really exposes how it makes no sense when we behave as though there is only ‘me’ and no other.
“but when I do not worry about such things and I just express what I feel and communicate it in a way that comes naturally to me, then it’s easy.” Thank you Rosie, what you are saying here is very simple, all we need to do is to allow ourselves to express what we feel and to know that that is enough. We all have a unique way of expressing and most of all see the world from different angles, the more we allow us to communicate what we see and feel the more understanding we will gather for each other.
I used to keep everything inside and did not express myself much although I am not a quiet person, I was at times very loud and outgoing but it did not come from a truth inside me but rather a need for attention and being heard. Since a while I have put time and effort into expressing myself regularly in writing and also in talking to others and I looked for support with that and as you describe Rosie it was and is a very liberating experience and I was able to let go of a lot of fake and pretentious behaviour that was not me at all and find out more who I truly am and what my uniqueness is.
What I love about your writing Rosie is that you write for everyone. You maybe conveying something that is a personal learning or observation for you, but it’s from an understanding that others would be going through or observing similar things, so really it’s being shared for others. Expression in service.
A gift that keeps on giving may I add!
Thank you Rosie for sharing your expression and not keeping it to yourself, as I read the many blog about peoples experiences I feel greatly blessed and inspired by their sharing, it makes me feel more open to share my experiences with others, and not hold back.
“Expression is a gift, don’t keep it to yourself!” That is so true Rosie as with not holding back to express what I have found out I also take the full responsibility for my life and can be a role model for the people around me.
Yes expression is for all equally so when we hold back everyone misses out and the world is less because of it.
Taking responsibility of expression to a new level! Bless you Rosie
What I am getting from this article is that expression is deigned to be shared, it is not for us to keep, so in fact it is our responsibility to continue to bring it back to the world.
Yeah! The knowing we have is for all of us to hear and feel, to evolve together with it – to keep it away from the all would be selfish.
Dear Rosie,
A learning that I am discovering around expression is the responsibility I have to not only express but to hold the whole world in my heart as I do so, be that with writing or speaking words, or how I move and hold myself each day. I am learning each day as much challenges me in my ability to maintain this level of love, to continually consider that this truth is greater than any fears and inadequacies that may surface.
This is inspiring Rosie, it is beautiful to read what expression is truly about, letting ourselves be all that we are. That is deeply healing.
“Expression is a gift, don’t keep it to yourself!” I love this Rosie. Unless we practise expressing – and sharing it – the world won’t change. We all have so much to offer.
Rosie you are indeed an inspiration – thank you for not holding back. You let us feel what it meant to really express instead of swallowing it and to sit on it. This is really a more healthy thing to do.
Rosie thank you for sharing your gift of expressing what you are feeling. Learning to express and not hold back frees the movement of your body and builds confidence in sharing what you feel and know is true.
Thank You Rosie. You are indeed an inspiration. Writing for me has never been something I’ve enjoyed and yet I feel I have so much to share. I feel inspired by your sharing and also feeling how to hold back the lived wisdom we all hold is an hugely arrogant and harming thing to do. We cannot keep gold for ourselves – it is to be shared.
So wonderful to read all the lovely blogs you Rosie, and all the people have written. They have helped me to connect to many people and relate to my experiences and deepen my understanding to situations. By commenting to these blogs has allowed me to have a voice for my truth to be openly expressed and a forum to be heard. This process has deepened my connection with me and many others.
This is perfect timing for me to re-read this blog and be inspired and reminded of how powerful and healing our expression truly is. I can often feel a block and fear around my expression, when I don’t allow these thoughts to control me and I allow myself to connect to the purpose I am often surprised and humbled by what has flowed through me.
Thank you Rosie – I love reading your blogs and I am very grateful you have connected to the power of expressing through writing. I feel inspired to write more after reading this.
Getting straight to the point, the writer has demonstrated that yes, expression is a gift, and we should definitely use it, the thing is, it can seem like an insurmountable obstacle when we don’t use it, but once we start to, it can be a very smooth road that we are used to walking down.
Expression allows our uniqueness to manifest and communicate to others in a way that has the potential to inspire. That is a true gift indeed. As you say, ‘Of what use is it if we keep what we have come to know to ourselves?’ Withholding our expression is a form of stagnation that serves no-one, including ourselves.
Rosie, you’re spot on – truly expressing ourselves is a source of blessing and healing for everyone. I’ve found that when I have something on my mind (great or troublesome), it can go around and around with nothing coming of it except a lot of distraction from all the mental chatter. But when I put it all to good use and talk with someone or write it down etc, I find that all sorts of inspiration flows, both into and out of me. Thanks for reminding me that we all benefit when we don’t hold back our expression.
By expressing we not only evolve ourselves but also others
So true Joe and on the flip side of that by holding back what needs to be expressed in word or action we can equally hold back the evolution of ourselves and others.
Too often then not when we choose not to express it is not because of another person but from our own insecurities.
No matter how small we think our contribution is, I betcha it is worth expressing.
I have learned so much from reading these blogs over the last few years, and from the contributions of the commenters adding to, expanding on and confirming what has been expressed. With so many of them I can say, “it has been like this for me too”, there are common denominators in each for most of us. They show me that we are, in essence, all the same. This is beautiful to feel.
My own expression is expanding as I let go of the silly thoughts that what I have to say may not be good enough or worthwhile. I am learning that it is safe to express what I feel. After all I am the authority of what I feel and to deny what I feel in favour of a voice in my head that ‘poisons’ and ‘cruels’ my life (Amanda WoodmanseyI used your words here as they feel appropriate) is patently ridiculous. Let’s have no more of that!.
While I was reading this I was wondering what stopped me from expressing. I used to write a lot and share everything with friends and family. I realised I had this thought that someone will always express things better than me and did I really need to add to the conversation when most things have already been said.
Then I realised that these were not my thoughts. I remember the moment when somebody who I always sought recognition from told me that what I had written had already been said and far more eloquently. I have been carrying this for 35 years, not realising how I had allowed someone to impose this. I had given power to this as if I agreed. It is time to stop allowing that thought to colour my life. It is time to stop that thought from sitting on my shoulder and allowing it to criticise my expression.
It just shows how recognition can really play havoc with expression, and how this poison can cruel a life.
Absolutely gorgeous blog Rosie. I have had so many ideas for blogs I want to write lately and this reminds me why it is important to start writing them. It is selfish to keep these gift to ourselves. You are an inspiration and I appreciate what you share very much. Thank you.
We have the opportunity to learn so much from each other, yet at times we remain closed and let our internal dialogue fool us into thinking we are not good enough or our stories/experiences don’t matter. By expressing we come together, we relate and share and connect with the fact that ultimately – we are all equal and have pretty much the same stuff going on. Through our experiences we find that we are no less then another but are working through life in the same cycles, sunrise to sunset.
An inspirational blog that calls us all to rise above the doubt-full stories in our minds and share who we are with the world. Your expression is indeed appreciated Rosie Bason.
Truly inspiring Rosie “Of what use is it if we keep what we have come to know to ourselves?” Imagine the opportunity we would have missed out on if Serge Benhayon and other Universal Medicine Practitioners and students hadn’t been willing to share and express what they had come to know. “Expression is a gift, don’t keep it to yourself”. Thank-you Rosie for not holding back your expression.
Rosie I love your blogs, and totally agree that when we do not express in full there is a feeling of incompleteness. The more I express the more awareness I have around so many things. I realise that not expressing has been a major way I have controlled events and people in my life.
Rosie I agree expression is a gift and to hold back from this no one wins. I always enjoy reading your blogs and it has been beautiful to watch you grow and expand in your expression – I appreciate the inspiration you have offered me.
Awesome that you are claiming you and your expression Amina, very inspiring for others to read that have held themselves back for any reason including me.
Thank you for sharing the gift of your expression Rosie, it is deeply appreciated.
Rosie, the blogs you have written have inspired me on many ways. Thank you for sharing the way you do. All the worries you speak of are all too familiar its so easy to get caught in doubt and hold back what we have to share with each other.
Something I realised is that quite often I have taken for granted what I have experienced and learnt from it and therefore ‘forget’ the importance and necessity of expressing this with others. Thank you Rosie for the reminder.
Loved re-reading what you shared here Rosie, it seems it was something I needed to read again as I too have often held back expressing myself in both the spoken and written word not seeing that my expression was needed. What struck me this time was the fact you shared that when we don’t express something feels incomplete. It seems for me as for many we are frightened to show our fragility, to be exposed as not knowing it all, so we hold back our truth and our expression. But I am beginning to see the error of our ways, as we all have something unique to offer and through our expression we can learn, grow and evolve together.
Why is it we get bashful at having our written word read for the truth and wisdom it brings? Is it that we go into comparison, or ‘not good enough’ and that this in turn serves to derail us from sharing those golden nuggets expensively bought through real lived experience? It’s as you say, Rosie – ‘when I do not worry about such things and I just express what I feel and communicate it in a way that comes naturally to me, then it’s easy.’
Without expressing our part of what makes up ‘human life’ everyone else misses out on understanding the whole because there is a void where our expression should be. After reading this I sat and felt that there is great appreciation to be felt from what we bring to life because without us that part simply would not be there for everyone. It completely blows that ‘I’m not good enough/I wouldn’t be missed’ attitude out of the water. We all see things from our own perspective and if we only follow one angle of life then we can get stuck in a rut. I deeply appreciate Universal Medicine and these blogs for opening up my picture of life and myself for being open to see that there is far more to life than my single image or set of images and that life flows much more when we are open to the all rather than the parts.
Thank you Rosie for the reminder that through our life experiences there is always something to share and express, which could inspire or support another as well be healing for ourselves. I know when I have written this has been the case though there have also been times when I have thought what I have to write is not that interesting or useful but actually it is and I am learning the value of these experiences and not to keep them to myself.
Thank you Rosie – this blog is a beautify reminder of the power of expression. I have found the opportunity to share my writing very healing also. When I share what I have written publically I feel called to account. I have also noticed that when I write about a certain topic it inspires me to go deeper and more truth can be seen.
Lovely to read your comment Leonne – I’m feeling a blog coming on myself!
I can also feel the responsibility as well as the healing involved with openly sharing our awareness and revelations in writing – ‘When I share what I have written publically I feel called to account.’
Beautiful Rosie. I too have felt for aeons that what I have to share is not of value. But this is simply my issue with my own worth. Now, as I express it heals these issues – one supports the other. As I express, my value of my worth increases, as my worth increases so does the quality of my expression. And it is indeed valued by those who receive it – the perception it wasn’t good enough was only mine. Thank God I’m getting myself out of the way. Thank you.
‘Expression is a gift, don’t keep it to yourself!’ – love it Rosie for it is so true.
Holding back our expression means we all miss out on the truth that needs to be said and thus we miss out on the potential healing that these words or gestures could instigate – for both those that need to say the words and for those that need to hear the words.
What you say is true, that expression is important for everybody, and it is a healing process for you. Sometimes I feel I hold back cause i am avoiding the healing, because sometimes when I express, I either get exposed or something deep that is unresolved comes out and there is the opportunity to unravel it, to dismantle it, to look at it and heal it.
Expression is still developing for me, but I do not notice very clearly that it asks me to dig deeper into myself, to bring out how I truly feel about things and that for me is the magic of expression. We all feel so much, if we are but willing to express it.
Thank you, Rosie. This is a beautiful reminder. What I am experiencing is that the more I am able to appreciate others’ expression with no judgment, the more I am able to resurrect my self-worth, as I get to feel that we all have something to offer with no exception.
It’s so easy for us to hold onto the belief that what we have to express isn’t worth listening to or people won’t want to hear it. But it has been my experience that once we start to say or write what we feel, people are willing to listen and usually respond favourably, and not at all in the way we expect.
Yes, by holding back we do a disservice not only to ourselves but all others as well, thank you Rosie all your generous contributions have been much appreciated and very inspiring.
So true, Rosie – true expression is a healing gift for all and is not meant to be kept for one’s self.
we do indeed all have something unique to share, we are in fact all unique and when we express our unique qualities and expression, humanity becomes more of what it is meant to be.
“Expression is a gift, don’t keep it to yourself!” Such a beautiful feeling of connection and expansion comes from sharing our own unique expression with others. Expressing from our deepest truth is the key to the door that connects our hearts as one.
“Expression is a gift, don’t keep it to yourself!” – Beautifully expressed Rosie and your writing is a gift that inspires and supports many people thank you.
This is beautiful Rosie, thank you, this is very inspirational, and I feel that there is a lot to share, so I might start writing soon!
Reading this again for the first time in ages and seeing how wonderful it still is, a reminder and a confirmation. Thanks Rosie, your words live on, so glad you expressed them!
Gorgeous Rosie. Our expression is our gift to the world and we should open it up with joy and openness. Gifts are there to be opened and enjoyed.
I really loved your blog Rosie, I so much enjoy the expression of others and am often inspired by what they have expressed, I now know I too have something to offer, so thank you by inspiring me to finish some of my stories that I have half written so that I can share them with others.
Rosie you are truly inspirational for me – yes it is time to express on every level and in every second of our lives.
I can feel the joy in what you have written and the joy you are Rosie. Sharing from who you truly are by writing, speaking, singing is a healing gift for all. I am still to completely let go of the holding back as I write. and in saying this I am in awe of ‘me’ because I am starting to express more and more clearly. When I put my thoughts and feelings into the written word I feel expanded and amazed at the depth I sometimes share. It is something to be celebrated.
I agree Rosie, learning to express again is a very healing experience.I also love writing but expressing verbally is equally important for me and there are still things to learn to express truth and nothing but truth.
Completely true, I love the way you express Rosie, it’s fresh, honest and real-life. As i read your words, I could indeed a feel the sense of healing completion that is there when we do express (written, orally) what’s needed, and the flow of ‘air’ that this generates. Rather like cleaning our home, or clearing out old clothes, it allows for there to be space. Space to express more of who we truly are. It feels lighter to me; expression is this lightness.
I love it Rosie. It is so true. Every day I am inspired by you and all those that share their wisdom, who they are and the truth they feel. Through this I have gained so much understanding which has restored my trust in letting people in. With this I have been inspired to appreciate that I too feel a lot and have a lot to share and now am developing my expression through song, written and spoken word more and more. And am finding how beautiful and confirming it feels to honor and share who I am and the truth and love that I have discovered, feel and know from my lived experience. This feels very powerful and does feel complete as when I express in full, I have claimed myself in full and shared the truth needed at that time. Thank you Rosie for being such a beautiful inspiration.
I love this little blog, it shows that you can say a lot with few words. It has been my experience that I can talk on forever about rubbish, but when I have something that is important for someone to hear, I clam up or start to stumble on my words. I also agree when we hold back there is always a feeling of incompleteness.
ITs a good observation Julie – we can spew great streams of trivia, but for me too when it comes to something more profound I clam up, start to tread carefully and so the expression contracts (and can often come out sideways). Its by speaking and writing more freely that what I truly feel is being allowed out more naturally.
Rosie I love your writing and the world is a lot richer for your expression. I am finding that I have issues around expressing the written word because I hold back, and when I do I get anxious and then try to measure what I will say by trying to get it right, but it never feels complete and I am then searching to try and find more to say.
Rosie I am another you have inspired. I also did not realise consistently expressing each day from my heart in writing brings love to my life.
Expressing is Everything and Everything is Expression. It has changed my life. I now commit to creating space each day to write. It’s my vice that feeds everything else in my life – the most powerful thing I have ever been a part of.
Indeed their are many lessons to be learnt and knowledge to be expanded through reading and expressing through these blogs
Thank you Rosie for your inspiration and wisdom.
I too have benefited from the lessons from the healing available in other’s awarenesses that are shared through their expression. Thank you for not holding back from expressing as your writing is deeply inspiring and full of wisdom that needs to be shared.
I am on an expression programme at the moment, before starting this I felt very blocked in expressing through writing. With the programme I now know how important it is not to keep our expression to ourselves, but to share it as we all learn from each other.
I like how you have made it known that our expression is not something to keep to ourselves.
We are all different and will have our own unique expressions and they way I see it, is everyone’s expression is a piece of a massive puzzle but without one then the puzzle will always be incomplete, Individually we are an amazing puzzle piece but once we have everyone expressing their essence then we will have the whole picture to love and adore. That is the purpose of inspiring others… go Rosie!
So true, we need every piece of the puzzle not just a few here and there and it is our uniqueness that is needed, so we all complement each other as it won’t serve if we are all the same.
I love what you have shared here Rosie. I can relate to how great it feels to express in full and not hold back. – “Expression is a gift, don’t keep it to yourself!”
I am finding how much I have held back from writing, always avoiding it wherever possible. Through the expression program with Serge and Simone Benhayon I am learning how valuable it is to open up and express in every situation.
Yesterday, I did the Expression and Presentation workshop offered by Serge Benhayon. So this blog is very timely. There were two moments for me. The first one in which I heard a little voice inside me undermining what I was claiming about me. And there was a second in which that little voice was gone. In the first one, the feeling was not a great one, but in the second one, everything was very fluid and felt complete and beautiful. So, no holding back is a great moment, a great healing for all the time we have chosen not to express truth.
Rosie, your expression is really beautiful.
I love your expression Rosie, thanks for being an inspiration.
I am definitely a member of the ‘Shrinking Violets’; not so much anymore when it comes to speaking, but when expressing publicly in written form, all kinds of stuff used to come up and block me getting the words to flow. Simply beginning to express more in the written word, without worrying about perfection, has been a brilliant support to my expression in general – and I am confident that it won´t be long before I resign from the Shrinking Violets!
Ha ha yes Alex my resignation from the Shrinking Violets is getting closer too!
Haha, the more people start to deeply understand and honour the fact that everything is expression and expression is everything the sooner the ‘Shrinking Violets’ will be declared extinct – there are glorious times ahead.
Thank you for the reminder Rosie of how important it is for us to not hold back our expression.
Very well said Anna. Expressing and not holding back is so important. The reference to saying, “a shrinking violet” by Elaine is so apt.
It has taken some time for the depth of the truth you have shared with us here, to sink in. I feel more and more the repercussions of holding back and not expressing in a moment, and conversely felt the joy that is shared when I do express in full.
This builds confidence and trust and is so ‘worth the risk’.
There is an expression ” a shrinking violet” for someone who holds back and doesn’t share themselves or their expression with others. I feel this so aptly describes the feeling of either holding back oneself or feeling someone else holding back. We feel a shriveling of petals rather than the fullness of a beautiful flower in bloom – however small that flower might appear to be.
Wow…so simply expressed and so full and complete. Inspiring and enriching, sharing what’s inside of us. I love the healing process you have committed to here, Rosie, and I’m not sure what is taking me so long to put pen to paper myself, but reading this has shifted something! Thank you!!
I look forward to reading more of what you write and share Peta. Bring it on!
I can really relate to what you said, Rosie about a conversation feeling incomplete to me when I’ve held back, in contrast to just being and expressing all of me and the lovely sense of completion this brings.
And when we complete, we allow space for more…. but we get overwhelmed when we are all over the place with too much going on. Complete and then go onto the next is a much better way for me to work with. I feel much more at ease.
Hi Rosie, I can relate to much of what you share in this blog. I enjoy writing and have found that it is a very healing experience which allows issues to come up that can then be looked at.
Thank you Rosie, expressing through writing has become part of my daily routine and I have also found it to be healing . Using the Our Cycles App has helped me to be more honest with myself and therefore making me able to see the truth in myself, others and in general. I too didn’t have any faith in my writing but if it is coming from truth you can’t go wrong.
Beautiful Kev and the thing is, we need more men in the world to write and express and leave a different kind of foot print on the internet that shows us all that men don’t have to be as tough as nails etc etc.
It is an awesome feeling when that which you just experienced feels complete, as you say “…when I was not afraid to express fully what I was feeling I had a sense that nothing was left undone or incomplete.” I am learning to express in full and yes this is one very special gift to share with others, it is very healing. Thank you for your words and sharing.
Hi Rosie – I love your blog. I’ve always kept things to myself too and not shared huge parts of myself with the people around me, you are right – there’s no use in that! Thanks for the inspiration and encouragement to no longer hold it all in 🙂
Hi Meg, how are you going with sharing? I would love to read more about you?
Reading and commenting on the blogs daily for just over a month I have started to feel what you have brilliantly shared in this blog. By sharing our expression and experience that allows others to express and in turn inspire equally.
How wonderful fear has been shown the door and we get to read your writing, Rosie.
They say the pen is mightier than the sword and the following certainly supports that. ‘Sharing my writing and expressing more of what I am feeling has been a healing process. A lot of old issues that I had not dealt with in the past have come up for me, but in expressing them and writing I have found a sense of completeness… I feel that I have worked through some issues that I have been carrying around with me for way too long.’ How awesome is that!
So true Rosie, expression is for everyone!
I totally agree Rosie sharing with others through the blogs has been for me such a healing, and the comments received enrich my life again and again, and what inspiration I receive from the blogs written by other students of the livingness.
Same Same! I love all that is shared through the blogs!! Bring it on, you are all awesome!
Hi Rosie, thank you for inspiring me to bring forth more of my expression to the world. Reading others writings is healing and I love that I make the time to read these posts. I sat to write a piece this morning and got myself into a state over it and thus one sentence was all that I got on paper. I allowed my head to tell me that I couldn’t do it, that others would do it better and I put myself under pressure etc. Yet, deep within I know I have much to share. So this piece this morning was just what I needed to read. Amazing.
Hi Sally….it feels like “I allowed my head to tell me that I couldn’t do it, that others would do it better and I put myself under pressure etc.” happens in life in general and that the beauty and self honouring of “Yet, deep within I know I have much to share” is the way to let go of the doubt and complication that trying to be someone else – someone better, brings. Simply inspiring. How to be an author in my own life.
So true Sally and Adrienne, I say “Off with our heads!” 🙂 Let the ‘deep within’ reign.
But even the one sentence is a step forward… we learn so much from the trying, and for me the hardest part is the first sentence. Often once this is out, there is a flood to follow.
That is a really good point Simon, often the start, the first step or the first sentence is the hardest but once the choice is made, and you commit, everything that is needed thereafter is just waiting for you.
Yes Simon, I can also see how I do this in other areas of life… like making a project or cooking dinner or running an errand bigger than what it needs to be and then struggle to do it at all. But when I just take a first step, by even asking myself how I’m feeling what do I need first, then it all runs smoothly after.
Hi Sally, I have come back to my blog and am enjoying everyon’s comments. Imagine if no one wrote and no one commented. We wouldn’t have learnt what we have from each others sharings. I hope you have been writing more since you allowed your thoughts to stop you back in 2013!
Thank you Rosie. The completion is truly felt.
This is so true Rosie. I have been amazed, what happens once I drop my fear of being good enough or ‘clear’ enough to express…once I drop it and express, I become clear enough to do so. 🙂
Yes that’s right, the shift happens when we give it a go… nothing changes if we don’t begin.
Rosie what you write is so true, I have also had similar experience. Through the art of expressing there is so much to be gained by everyone involved, both reader and writer. It is such a simple tool with such profound effects. Like you say – it is a gift, given first to self and then shared with others.
I have so enjoyed reading your blogs, they are amazing. Where would such thoughts of insecurity come from for us when we attempt to write? I know they do not come from reality, because this has been proven false. Is it possible these thoughts are fed to us to keep us and others from healing and moving on. If this is true, which I have experienced it to be so, is it not ours to not allow such thoughts to hold us back?
I felt this too tonisteenson. The thoughts Rosie describes are clearly false and I can see that I have allowed similar false thoughts to rule me many times. My soul would never feed me thoughts like these so I know there is no point giving any energy to the lie that I am not good enough on any level.
Yeah! Claim it Rosie, your expression rocks! I have loved reading your blogs and they are always so simply put and very strong. I have felt the same thing as you have: expression is for everyone. People have often said I have a lovely expression. I have felt too shy to share it until recently when I have claimed it as me. There is an amazing freedom and empowerment as we do this and embrace our true inner strength in our words and our actions. Awesome!
Claim it Josh, write more and share more of the sweet man that you are. There are many many men in our world who need your reflection.
I love the simplicity of your writing Rosie. What you say about the incompleteness of things left unexpressed is true….it’s like the colour goes out and it becomes beige and lifeless. But in those moments when expression is allowed to be and flow there is a delight and fullness that comes with it.
And lots of colour!!! This was a very timely read for me today which I appreciate very much Rosie and Adrienne.
Ah I love this Adrienne, only just read this now.. just a few years later and I so get the colours..and the visual of how things are when we hold back and how different it is when we express.
Rosie, you are an inspiration …thank you.