The Meaning of Consequence

CONSEQUENCE

What do you feel when this word is used towards you?

Do you get protective? 

Defensive?

Alert? Looking out for where you can shift blame or maybe thinking through justifications of some imperfection?

I love talking about words with clients because they really show us so much about our conditioning and how we think.

This word consequence for example. 

Its meaning has no good / bad attached to it.

It is simply just a result or an effect that comes after an action or a condition. 

There can be “good” consequences and “bad” consequences if we want to label them.

Yet, for some of my energy management / sound-boarding clients,

There can be a tendency to automatically think any consequence is bad.

This can sometimes get in the way of looking at situations effectively.

Maybe you’re afraid of CONSEQUENCES 

Because you were punished as a child 

Or have been in highly volatile situations

Where consequences were hardly ever positive.

Through awareness and integrative practices,

we can begin to expand into positive consequences. 

Once we are aware that consequences do not

Only mean doom and gloom,

We can rebuild the relationship we have with that word,

Which then also allows us to see things with more clarity.

It takes work and it takes practice,

But there is a beautiful and liberating consequence 

When we finally learn to love and trust ourselves.