Shine Your Light, baby!

Someone once told me to stop shining so bright, it was hurting her eyes and she didn’t like it.

She thought it was making others feel small, my light was overpowering all the others and "it wasn’t fair”.

I took a look around I realised she was right - my light WAS shining bright! I thought it was quite pretty with all these cool colours, and everything it touched looked amazing. Others around me were smiling, and they seemed to have their own glow of happiness about them.

But it upset me that one person was uncomfortable in the light. How could I help her feel better? I tried to shield her from the light but it didn’t really work, I was just waving my hands around with no effect.

I dimmed my light to see what would happen. Just a little at first, and it seemed to help. So I dimmed it a little more, and a little more, until she was more comfortable with the intensity. The bright colours were gone and everything was a muted light, like an overcast winter day.

Then I took another look around and realised she was WRONG. My light hadn't overpowered anyone else’s - it ENHANCED their light. Without it their own glow had dimmed.

So I turned the light back up again, until its now shining so damn bright its hurting MY EYES in the best possible way. It gives so much energy to me and countless others that its impossible to switch it off, even if I wanted to.

Its time to shine YOUR light, and turn it all the way up too.

That overwhelming feeling of certainty?

That sense that you’re doing exactly the thing you were born to do?

Yeah. I see the way you glow with happiness and excitement when you think and talk about it. Do more of THAT stuff.

As for the one who was uncomfortable? She was ME.

I let self doubt take over and took myself out of the arena. I had a glimpse of how powerful I could be and it scared me to realise what I was capable of. Niggling thoughts from a life that should have been left behind were holding me back. I’m not that person any more, I don’t fit into that box.

Don’t listen to anyone who tries to dim your light - especially if that person is YOU. 

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