A Hypnotherapist on...Our Continued Growth

I'm not great about celebrating my birthday. I'm not one of those people who gets super excited about it and for a couple of good reasons first, my birthday is the day after Christmas. So much of the world is pretty preoccupied with the holidays when it's supposed to be my day. Second, my younger sister was born on my sixth birthday, which, although she doesn't believe me, was actually an extremely cool thing at the time. I mean, what six-year-old girl doesn't want a live baby doll for a birthday present? It was awesome. But she did steal a teeny bit of my individual birthday thunder. So I've sort of downplayed my birthday most of my life, and that's okay. But birthdays are important because they not only mark aging, they mark growth, and we continue to grow. It's so funny we say that people are grown-ups, like, Mark is all grown-up, or I have grown children as if they've been fully baked and are finished with their evolution. And of course, when I was younger, I looked at people my age now and thought, they're done, they're finished, like, not like they're dead, but they had finished changing. Their lives were simply on rinse and repeat at a certain point, right? But as the birthdays tick by, I realize we don't stop growing. We don't stop changing. We continue to expand, to learn, and even to create. Creation never ends, nor should it. It's pretty trippy, but we continue to want things, to influence our worlds, and to reach new horizons. And it's sort of like yin and yang 101, our bodies are material, more yang, and they eventually contract. But our minds and our inner beings, our spirits, are more vibrational, more yin, and they continue to expand. And in fact, those two things tend to happen in lockstep, as the body contracts, the spirit expands. That's why our grandparents and the village elders and experienced leaders of a certain age can be the wisest, clearest, and most powerful people in the room. It's hard to concentrate when you're worried about your health. It can feel like there's a wall between you and the rest of the world, like you can't be fully present. At AXA Health Insurance, we build our teams with people who care, so when you need us, we're here to support you. For cover that cares, search AXA Health Insurance. Pre-existing conditions are not covered. The new LinkedIn hiring pro can't undo your last hire, the empty seat, who was actually just that, an empty chair in your office, because you couldn't find someone to fill it, so it just sat there costing you money with all its fancy ergonomic features. But LinkedIn hiring pro can make it easy to fill that seat with the right candidate, with nearly 60% of businesses finding someone to interview in the first week alone. Hire right the first time with LinkedIn hiring pro. Post your first job today and get £100 off at linkedin.com.ai hire. Terms and conditions apply.