Take a deep breath and remind yourself of your beauty, your health, your happiness, your prosperity, and your harmoniousness. You are a part of all that is, of all that is beautiful and all that is happy. You are a part of the great force of life on Earth and that same great force is within you. Keep it alive with thoughts of positive measure and inner certainty that you are more than worthy of taking your place in the world, just as much as the next person. All that exists is there for you too.
Reach for the stars they say! Reach for your highest potential! Everything is possible! Well, the truth is that all of those saying are absolutely true, the only caveat is that you have to put your own energy behind them, your own faith and trust in yourself in order for them to work for you. No one else can give you the energy you need to propel your forward. You have to instigate it within yourself. Yes, someone can certainly inspire you to change, to move in a new direction, to go for it, but only you can bring forth the energy that will sustain you and the belief in yourself that is so necessary to move forward in life. Part of the process involves acknowledging and resolving what keeps you from achieving what you desire. Look at the flower that blooms, that struggles from deep inside the earth, a tiny seed. Notice how it does not stop. It does not have thoughts of lack or depletion, it simply strives for what it knows belongs to it; the sunshine that will nurture it, the rain what will feed it, the earth that will support it. It does not ever doubt or think negatively; it just grows. So too are you a creature of the same world and so too will you be fed, nurtured and supported, if you believe it.
Under the best of circumstances life would unfold without worry, you might say, but that is not the best of circumstances at all. That would be a life of no consequence, no challenge and thus no growth. Challenges offer growth spurts. When difficulties arise, it is far better to face them than to avoid them, for they are like doors opening to something new, stairways to something better, pathways to new life. Challenges and difficulties in life are the opportunities to grow, to change, and to embrace something new and exciting. All change comes out of such opportunities, at first seen as annoying interruptions but soon seen as just the right thing at the right time.
Let yourself in on a little secret. Tell yourself that you are doing really well and that on this day you don’t need to be so hard on yourself. You don’t need to be so controlling. You don’t need to be so rigid. You don’t need to be so darned committed to that one thing that you just won’t let go of. Can you let it go for just one day and try something new? Can you give yourself permission to hear a little secret? You are not in control. You may think you are, but there is a far greater energy guiding and leading you to where you need to go. Can you reach out a hand and ask for help? Can you give over your heart a little bit more today to that great and wondrous journey that you are on? Can you just say, thank you, and let go?
Each day, as you ascend from the depths of sleep and wake up to the light of a new day, you have the opportunity to try something new and different. It can be as simple as making a decision to eat something different for breakfast, to drive to work on a different route, to change some pattern that you are so married to that you think you can’t do without it. Try breaking away from one of those things you so rely on. Make today the beginning of something new. Break away from the needs of the old self and dare a new self to come forth as you declare a new way of doing things. Starting a new day in a new way is a time worn tradition, one that is well worth taking up!
