Discovering A Want of Change
Discovering a want in yourself to change, heal and grow, can happen in many ways and at very different times in your life. Mostly people go through a process - a string of events brings a person to a conclusion and an acceptance of admitting to themselves that they have a desire of wanting to change. This process of wanting to change can happen many times before a person finally decides to take courage and face themselves.
It can happen slowly and gradually, until someday you find yourself picking up certain books or thinking differently about your life. Or, it can spiral out of a life-crisis. Just like every moment of every day holds a space in which you have the power of choice, every life-crisis brings with it an energy in which you have a chance to change the direction in which you are faced. It is within this space that a gift dwells, a gift of time, a gift of reflection, and a gift of transformation.
Regardless of how you come here, this want of change always enters your life when you give it the space, and the chance to be. And for all, it is a time when you sense and know that somehow you want to be different. That your life needs changing, rearranging, growth, and you know that for this to happen it needs to come from within. You know that deep within your Soul you are not being true to yourself, and that life for you is lacking in some way.
You may feel that somewhere along the journey of life you have lost yourself and that as scary as facing yourself is, it is far scarier to face your future repeating the past and staying blind. You come at last to a place in your life where you want to discover who you really are and connect back with the beauty and essence of life.
You may not yet quite know how, or why your life has brought you to this place and that is okay, because your Soul does, and your Spirit does, and together with your Mind and your Heart you are going to figure it out; your way, and at your pace. You are the one in control and you sit in your ‘Self’ by choice.
All you need do now is open yourself up to yourself, not just with your Mind or your Heart, but with your whole being. You want change; now give yourself permission to go where it takes you. Once you do that, all else will flow if you let it happen. Be gentle with yourself and slowly open your eyes, open your Heart, and allow yourself to get to know yourself once more.
The Gift of Choice
Choose to be true to youself, to listen to yourself and your dreams, and you will be filled with a life of peace and fullfilment. Stop chasing rainbows and find instead the rainbow inside your own Heart. Let it shine out and touch all the hearts around you.
Choose to forgive yourself for the choices you are not proud of, let them go and bless them, for they allowed you to learn and they brought you through your experiences of life. Forgive yourself and in so doing understand we are all here doing the best we can, and we all have frailties of Heart and aspects of ourselves that need healing.
The past is the past, the future is the future and the now is the present. Let your past go and learn from it. We have all done and acted in ways that we feel bad about at some point in our lives. We are also all capable of being true to ourselves and of going against ourselves, and we have this capacity every single second of every single day.
Sometimes we make good choices and sometimes not. The choices we make have a power in them, but they do not hold us for they are only choices and they can be changed at any moment. You can change how you choose at any moment and you can feel good knowing that you are the one with the power over your choices.
You can change your experience of life by changing how and what you choose. Choose to fill your life with love, beauty and joy and you will have a life experience filled with those qualities.
Know that people for the most part don’t heal because they don’t want to, they don’t heal because they don’t know how to and it is fear of failure that often keeps a person locked into believing they don’t possess the ability to change.
Have compassion for those that are stuck in old pain and ways of conditioning, and offer them a helping hand of grace for courage and change. Let them know that what we forget so often, is that we are magnificent beings with tremendous potential, and our power to transform and heal is profound.