I had my ears pierced! At 43 years old as a birthday gift my hubby bought me a gift card to go get them pierced.
I was so excited about doing this for myself. And what I noticed was how I felt more like an adult woman once I had them pierced. Curious…
Upon having them done the technicians instructed me in how to take care of my piercings to avoid infection and scar tissue buildup.
They also let me know that I should wait at least two months before switching them out to different earrings. I was very diligent about following their direction, keeping my ears clear of infection.
And in anticipation toward envisioning myself wearing all sorts of styles of earrings, especially dangly ones and hoops, I went ahead and intentionally bought specific styles of earrings for that day.
Let’s skip forward to just shy of two months in, wearing my new beautiful earrings.
I was on my way out of the house readying myself for a business meeting and decided to try out a new pair of earrings. When I couldn’t pierce through the skin to the other side I asked Ben, my hubby to come and help.
When blood started spilling out from the piercing, I panicked a little. I didn’t have time now to try to get the original earring back in so I cleaned the area up, brought the earring with me, and decided I would go back to the establishment that had done the piercing to see if they could help.
Interestingly, the business associate I was meeting with, happened to have been a body piercing professional and was able to calm my fears around the adventitious mistake I had made.
He said “Tawnya, everyone heals at different rates. Your body was letting you know that it wasn’t quite ready for the next step yet. But within a couple of weeks’ time or maybe another month you’ll be able to wear other earrings and enjoy getting to have fun with that.”
How many of you have had an experience like this where maybe you’ve started into a new endeavor, challenge, goal; been super excited about it, pushing through, doing all the things, and then you hit a bump, a snag, you come to a full stop?
When my ear started dripping blood and when I couldn’t get the earring back in, I could have focused on the blood. I could have felt defeated about not being able to get the earring back in. I could have beat myself up for making this mistake. Of even being impatient and not completely following through with the instructions given.
And as the business associate of mine helped me to realize, I could have compared other people’s healing times with my own and been angry with my own lack of “healing process.” “How dare my ears not heal as fast as someone else’s!” HA!
I could have allowed my fears to get in the way of pursuing after my dreams of wearing dangly earrings and told myself “Well! You’re never going to try THAT again!” And gone on wearing the same earrings for the rest of my life! How boring!
I wonder where you can notice this way of thinking in and throughout your own life? Where have you started into an endeavour… weight loss, quitting smoking, getting work projects going, stopping biting your nails, joining a gym, finishing a certification, starting a podcast, writing a book, the list is endless… Only to run out of steam when you face a challenge, you haven’t seen the progress at the stage or point you thought you should be at, and then said, “Yeah, that didn’t work.” “I knew that would happen.” “I failed before.” “I’m just not meant to succeed.” “I always lose.” “I always give up.”
At Hamilton Hypnosis I teach methods where you will learn about your coping strategies and how you can stop sabotaging yourself.
You will learn new and resourceful ways of behaving and thinking to claim those goals and dreams that are just waiting for you to achieve.
I’m wearing my dangly earrings, and you should get to, too!
