The Light We Forget We Carry
In The Light We Forget We Carry, Liz Landon explores the metaphor of humans reflecting light as a way of revealing our inner truths. Drawing from her own journey through grief and loss, she reflects on how our light can sometimes feel dimmed, and how hypnotic practices can help us gently reconnect with our radiance. Through visualization, breath, and compassion, this blog reminds us that even in the darkest times, our light never disappears, it only waits to be remembered. This piece invites readers to honor both their brightness and their shadows while considering how authenticity, presence, and shared energy can transform relationships.
What if, as humans, we reflected light the way the sun does? No filters, no masks, no rehearsed responses. Just light…pure, raw, undeniable. When we are radiant, others would feel it instantly, basking in the warmth of our glow. And when our light is dimmed, the world would know that we are carrying heaviness, grief, or exhaustion.
I’ve been in those dim times. Moments of deep loss when the world felt darker than I could bear. Grief can be a thief of light, it pulls energy inward, makes it harder to radiate outward. And yet, what I’ve discovered, both personally and through my work as a hypnotist, is that even in the darkest times, light never disappears. It can be softened, hidden, quieted, but it still exists within us, waiting to be remembered.
Hypnotically speaking, when your light feels dim, you can gently invite it back. Sometimes it begins with closing your eyes and imagining a single spark, like a candle in the distance. You don’t have to force it brighter; you simply allow it to grow, breath by breath, thought by thought. You might imagine inhaling light and exhaling heaviness. You might picture your heart as a lantern, slowly warming until it glows again. These small shifts in the subconscious remind the body and mind that radiance is our natural state…it’s not something to achieve, it’s something to uncover.
And when you remember, even just for a moment, that your light still exists, you also remember that others can borrow from it, just as you borrow from theirs. Light shared is never light lost.
So perhaps the invitation is this: to honor the dim times as seasons, not destinations. To lean into daily practices that reawaken the glow. And to trust that, like the sun, even when hidden behind clouds, your light is still there…steady, waiting, ready to shine again.
Reflective Questions
If your inner light were visible today, what color, brightness, or quality would it carry?
What gentle practices, breathing, visualization, or simply resting, help you reconnect with your own radiance?
How might your relationships shift if you allowed yourself to be seen in both your brightness and your dimness?
By Liz Landon, Certified Hypnotist, Healing Expert & Creator of the Release Resistance Formula™