Well, what is it?

Could be many things, I suppose.

What it means to one may not be what it means to another.

When you think of strength what’s the first vision that pops into your awareness?

Is it a Herculean figure standing atop a mountain peering down upon the land?

A sure sign of strength, indeed.

But what kind of strength?

Strength of the physical kind?

Maybe an idealistic vision of man.

Strength that suggests super human status.  One that can only be achieved by Gods.

But what about the Goddesses?

Does She also appear in your visions of strength?

A Goddess of super human strength?

Can the feminine of the ideal be associated with strength?

If you said yes then why wasn’t this ————————————->

the first image that popped into your head?

Before you begin with the “becauses”, lets take a closer look at the possibilities.

According to Dictionary.com, when I boiled the froth from on top, the definition of the word strength is this:

“The quality or state of being strong.”

Boil that down a bit further and you may get this:

A state of being.

That statement is according to the dictionary of yours truly.

Just the way I see the world.

Believe it or not, we were all born strong.

Even as bobble head babies we produced strong cries to get what we needed.

Nature provided us with the impetus to hold ourselves up, crawl, walk and eventually expand our horizons both on the physical plane and the discovery plane.

Then it happened.

Somewhere along the line we lost it.

Someone told us or something showed us a broken mirror that suggested we weren’t strong at all.

Something wasn’t good enough, therefore we were lacking or weak.

The unfortunate part is we believed it.

And as the convoluted acceptance of that weakness spread into our thoughts, it also crept into the physical body.

It changed our perceptions of strength.

And when it did, we began to think of strength as something out there rather than something in here.

Then we began our search for images of strength.

Something we could idealize.

Something that was unattainable.

This brings us back to the beginning of the discussion.

If we left these thoughts here just to ponder, the efforts of these writings would be fruitless.

Strength would still be out there wandering in the images of Gods and Goddesses.

Can you begin to imagine strength in terms of character, presence, determination, appeal, self awareness, consideration, kindness, faith or choice?

Literally, the possibilities seem endless when the mind opens to the opportunity.

If you can imagine strength as any one of those things then your next step is the hardest.

Realization.

To realize that you embody one or more of those attributes demands acceptance of your strengths.

And if you can accept that you are indeed strong, then doesn’t the image of you qualify as the first image that pops into your head when the word strength is mentioned?

You must see and give due recognition first to your strengths before the image becomes clear.

So what if you believe you are strong in the arena of anything other than the physical?

You’ve determine that you have strength in character, faith or determination.

What if the physical arena is the area you desire to strengthen the most?

Maybe because your perceived lack of physical strength weighs down your ability to feel strong on the emotional or psychological plane…what should you do?

Just like when you were a child that could barely hold your head up before you crawled and then walked, you tried.

Everyday you pushed yourself to see what you were capable of next.

If you haven’t heard it before, let me be the first to tell you…

You have endless amounts of untapped room to grow and strengthen your physical body.

If…

If you give yourself permission and opportunity.

So what if a push up is hard.

So what if you can’t do a pull up…..yet.

Who cares if you get dirty and sweaty and your hair gets messed up trying.

Big deal.

Did you care when you were a kid?

Or did you just get out there and explore and discover everyday?

So why don’t you?

Why don’t you challenge the strength of your character, determination, faith and awareness by choosing to strengthen the physical body all in one act of mortal discovery?

Gods and Goddesses be forewarned.

The image of strength is soon to be replaced by the efforts of one mere mortal.

You

This is a grand attempt.

And with that comes acceptance and responsibility.

To earn your cape or crown you must come to realize that you may now embody the image of strength for other mere mortals that witness your attempts, struggles and accomplishments.

Others that, like you may have once been, are unable to recognize their own strengths.

So break the cultural mold and be strong.

Accept that you are and go on with it.

It’s people like you that need to be out there pushing it everyday.

Doing the things that we all know we should but can’t muster the strength of something to do it.

Can I count on you?

If so, tell me about it.

If you need help to get strong(er), I’m here to supply support, direction or whatever else you may need.

What do you need?

Let me hear about it.

Leave your thoughts in the comments section below.

Thank you…

Get strong(er) and stay strong,

Rochelle Gravance

PS- I got ur back on this one too. (read the last post if I lost you here)