Revisiting the Light: Showing Up With Presence

December 03, 20252 min read

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Revisiting how, when, and where your light shows up so you can move into Season 2 with deeper awareness and care.

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Reflection Snapshot

In this in-between reflection, JLyn returns to Reflection #4, This Little Light of Mine, exploring the tension between hiding your light and learning to shine it with presence. You are invited to notice where you have been holding back, where your quiet presence has already mattered, and how Season 2 will stretch you into deeper, slower reflections.

Light and Presence

Sometimes it feels like hiding your light is the only way to keep peace in a room, especially when your honesty feels “too much” for the people around you. This reflection asks whether every moment of holding back is really dimming your light, or whether some pauses are actually wisdom, choosing presence, timing, and care over impulsive expression.

Light With Awareness

Your light is not only what you say, but how, when, and where you choose to say it. Learning to shine with awareness means recognizing that truth can still be truth even when you offer it more gently, in a different moment, or in a space that can actually hold it.

Quiet Presence That Still Matters

Even when you do not speak, your presence carries weight; your listening, your noticing, and your grounded energy shift the atmosphere in its own subtle way. This reflection invites you to remember the rooms you have softened, steadied, or lifted without saying much at all.

Three Questions for Your Light

  • Where in your life have you held back?

These questions give you a starting point as Season 2 moves at a slower, biweekly rhythm designed for depth, clarity, and transformation.

Key Takeaways

  • Holding back is not always hiding. Sometimes pausing is an act of care, giving your truth a better time, tone, or space.

  • Your presence is a form of light. Even your quiet, observant self can shift a room without many words.

  • Season 2 invites deeper noticing. The slower pace gives you space to revisit earlier reflections through who you are now.

Rise Into Action

  • Choose one space this week where you have been dimming your light and experiment with showing up just one step more honest or present.

  • Re-listen to Reflection #4, This Little Light of Mine, and notice what feels different for you now as Season 2 begins.

Until next time, keep listening to the higher note.

Say.

Be.

And it is.

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JLyn is the creator of Words On a Higher Note, where she shares reflections on personal growth, spirituality, and what it means to step into who you're truly meant to be. Through honest conversations and real stories, she creates space for you to explore your own path with courage and self-compassion.

JLyn

JLyn is the creator of Words On a Higher Note, where she shares reflections on personal growth, spirituality, and what it means to step into who you're truly meant to be. Through honest conversations and real stories, she creates space for you to explore your own path with courage and self-compassion.

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