I have always been a change agent, at least in this lifetime. From a fairly early age, I began rebelling against the life philosophy I was to be conditioned into within my early family: get them before they get you; there’s a sucker born every minute; if someone is stupid enough to be duped, then they deserve what they get; life is a bowl of shit at its very best; education is for people who have no snap, and are too stupid to figure it out on their own, etc etc. At first, my rebellion against this way of seeing was silent, internal, and produced only high levels of shame and anger. Eventually, I faced the fact that I would have to teach myself a better set of values than what I had been offered if I wanted to thrive, rather than just survive. Talk about feeling overwhelmed! It took a long time and the help of some loving mentors in my life, but I finally began to model many of the values I had long aspired to.
After reaching this goal, I began teaching myself how to take a stand for these values out in the world. This was much harder, and I kept running into an invisible roadblock that I couldn’t define clearly. Great inner frustration ensued once again (and where there’s frustration, there’s anger) but my intent to discover the nature of this inner roadblock never wavered, even though it took years to get to the source.
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I want to inspire you to do something today from the raw, unblemished core of who Yü really are. I want to encourage you to act for today–or even for one hour–as if there were nothing wrong with you. Not one single thing.
What stops you from living fearlessly? What stops you from doing what you say you wish you could do? It is my thoughts that stop me, and it is yours that stop you.
We have become masters of fearful thinking, and experts at labeling our maladies. We call them things like procrastination, perfectionism, attention deficit disorder, overwhelm, indecision, etc.
By labeling them, we are inviting their existence…and by doing so we sentence ourselves to an unnecessary, more permanent experience of them.
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Excerpted from “The Simple Abundance Companion” with permission of Warner Books. Copyright 2000 by Sarah Ban Breathnach.
Welcome to You
Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage. –Claude M. Bristol
You are beautiful. Right now. Today. Just as you are, just the way you look as you read those three words: You. Are. Beautiful. Say it slowly aloud, as if the phrase were a foreign language, for it probably is.
You are beautiful. Now say it in the first person singular.
I am beautiful.
Do you know that? If so, remind yourself of this glorious fact every day. If not, it is time to become beautiful in your own eyes. This will require a makeover of sorts, but not the kind you think. Learning to love the way you look has nothing to do with starting a diet or reshaping your eyebrows. Accepting and embracing your authentic beauty means seeing yourself from the inside out. I love me, I love me not–I love me.
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I want to share the work of a gifted numerologist, Christine Delorey, who also happens to be a gifted thinker and writer. She has written an extended piece of beautiful truth called “2009 – The Year of the Mother”. In the comments section of this post, one reader stated that this writing was absolute truth, and I couldn’t agree more.
I am including this link to her piece directly in this post, but have also added a link to her blog in my Blog roll. Christine has had a website for many years that offers free weekly, monthly and annual numerology readings, and she now includes this work in her blog. Do yourself a favor and tune in to this particular message from Christine. You will feel so much better after hearing the absolute truth spoken out loud– with no fear, but with calm acceptance of what is and what must be.
Thank you, Christine.
“When we feel stuck, going nowhere — even starting to slip backward — we may actually be backing up to get a running start.”
– Dan Millman
To change, we must go through a transition zone. It’s not easy being in transition. Thoughts, beliefs and habits are all in flux. It can create a sense of groundlessness, of being in a void that can be quite uncomfortable.
When we’re in the void, our first impulse will be to revert to old habits because they feel comfortable. Our goal is to hang in there until the change is complete. Knowing that TRANSITIONS ARE PART OF THE CHANGE PROCESS helps us muster the courage to put up with the discomfort, the uneasiness, the void.
Change requires a letting go of what we’ve always known and done to allow in something new. We need to trust ourselves and higher forces to unfold a new reality for us.
“Every positive change – every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness – involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.”
– Dan Millman
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