Evolving into 2025

Written By Salama Shelton

Over the past year, I have taken my wellness more seriously and it has been a gamechanger. As I increased my physical movement and pushed myself out of my comfort zone, I’ve noticed the strengthening of my mental, spiritual and emotional fortitude.

For context, I am a very empathetic person and historically I have had challenges with deciphering between care/love and worry/fear. When dealing with tough situations, my learned/self-programmed behavior was to stress, take things personally and close off my light to “protect” myself from “threats”. This pattern resulted in me shrinking my essence, gifts, and light as well as detouring off of God’s path for me.

Increasing my physical activity has helped me to build muscle. I am not simply referring the obvious physical strength and muscle building that comes from putting your body under stress. My improved endurance, capacity for physical strain, exposure to outdoors/sunlight, lifting heavier weights, stretching areas of my body that I hadn’t stretched in a while all has led to building my overall resilience in life. I AM able (with God working through me, of course!) to respond to life’s obstacles with authentic PEACE and POWER.

No matter how much external challenges hurt, similar to how it has felt in some of the races and trail runs that I have participated in has felt, my newly reinforced fortitude allows me to feel everything and yet still push forward while still showing up as myself in my full essence.

After having climbed to this new elevation on God’s path for my purposeful life, I can attest to the importance of working diligently on ALL four quadrants of our life:

  • Spiritual

  • Physical

  • Mental

  • Emotional

As I enter the last days of 2024, continuing to ascend in my efforts to improve the wellness of my temple, the foundation of faith in my soul, the edification of my mind, and the grounded management of my emotions will remain my priority as this approach allows me to show up and shine God’s goodness in every part of my life!!

With Peace + Power,

Salama

Salama Shelton
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