...as long as I'm alive. Those are the words to a song, and whenever I hear it, it just sounds odd. Well, yes of course, we are all invincible until we die... at least in a material sense.
But what about emotional or spiritual invincibility? It is possible to become immune to emotional death or spiritual disconnection - to become invincible on that level while we remain alive? Part of our aliveness is our ability to experience events and people at an intimate level. To do that there are a lot of challenges. The first is to see that we may no longer have the depth of feeling for others that we once had, that it is hard to get excited about anything and that now and then we 'just don't feel like it', we don't feel that we belong or have a part to play in life. To be honest about how easily our hearts and spirits may have been damaged takes a close, hard look and a lot of courage.
It takes courage to look at your own life and say "This isn't really me. This isn't who I am or what I want to do. I am more than this." These are hard statements to make and hard conditions to change. Our first inclination might be to minimize or altogether deny that there might be a problem. But we must turn on the light of awareness. When we can see what's going on can we create new thoughts and behave in a way that leads to the invincibility of our minds and spirits.
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