Imagine how the world would change.
I’ve received a big lesson this year that I wanted to share with you. It’s one that I’m working with in my own life and seeing play out all around me. I think it’s an important one and may be especially useful as we move through these turbulent times. The lesson is simple: I am fully responsible for my experience. It’s the invitation to move out of victim consciousness and see that everything that happens to us is happening for us. That everything I feel about anyone else is a reflection of how I feel about me.
Stop and think about the implications of this in your own life. You no longer blame others for how you feel. You don’t give your power away. You take full ownership for your moment to moment experience and reclaim your narrative for life. How does this change how you feel? For me this process has come with a bit of resistance and grief. It’s hard to own all of it. I’ve had to look at the places where I hold on to judgment of others so I don’t have to feel my own vulnerability. Moving from resistance to allowing to feeling to knowing is so empowering that it has become easier and easier to embrace.
Where in your own life are you holding on to resentment? Where are you allowing yourself to indulge in judgment? We are simmering in a culture divided by blame and we are justifying our own disempowerment. If you are willing to look at where you are giving away your power, you might ask yourself…what is the vulnerable feeling I’m not wanting to feel? How does this experience reflect a wound in me that needs my attention? What an incredible opportunity we are in right now to reclaim our own sovereign power. To choose to live in and from our own hearts rather than hate. To go into our own fragility with compassion and forgiveness. And then notice how this begins to transform how we feel, how we experience ourselves and how we move through the world. And ultimately to show up in each moment with more grace, more compassion and more love for all beings. Imagine how the world would change…