We are amazing beings, capable of so much greatness. Is that how you normally think of yourself? Or do you get caught in a loop thinking that your thoughts define you and your behavior is who you are? It's time to reclaim the grandness of ourselves.
That's the theme of the September Let Your Life Bloom™ newsletter (sign up to your right). Here's one of the tips from it:
Take stock
Sometimes
we wear our past as war wounds, using it as an excuse for why we do
what we do, why we need to avoid or run away, or why we can't do
something new. We always have the choice to do it differently.
It's time to see our past in a new light. We've been through a lot - in
work, relationships, friends, family, money. We've seen a lot of
movies, read books, most likely still know the words to the theme songs
of TV shows that we watched as a kid rolling around in our heads (I
belt out the tune to "The Facts of Life" when I least expect it).
All
those experiences - all of them - shaped us into who we are today.
There's always something to learn, understand, appreciate, and share
about what we've gone through. If you had to lay it out on a timeline
with the major influences highlighted, what are the themes? What are
different ways of thinking about your experiences? Start to look at the
totality of your life, what you've learned and how it's helped you
clarify what you value. In doing so, you'll shed a layer, better
integrate the past, and find peace with truly remembering who you are.
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I've mentioned before that I'm part of the Threshold Choir. Here's a one minute recording of the song "I am remembering" that we sang a few weeks back. It's a bit choppy at first, fyi (cell phone recording).
Always a powerful read, Marianne Williamson's memorable quote on remembering who we are...
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
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