Carving in Wood or Stone

Perhaps you may have immortalized a romance between you and a girlfriend or boyfriend by carving your names in a tree trunk or in wet cement. The idea was to make the symbol permanent. You may have already carved some negative emotional states, such as anger, worry, resentment, fear, or sorrow, into your consciousness. These emotions are coming from either your conscious or your subconscious mind. You may have felt so righteously justified in feeling them that you accepted them and had no intention of letting them go. But whom does this really affect? It hurts only you. Perhaps when you adopted these negative feelings, you didn’t know that this option would eventually obstruct your growth.