Thought for the Day ~ Stand in your Power

Always do your best.......what you carry in your heart is reflected to the world. Our opinions of others affects how we treat them, and what we expect of them. And yet how we see others usually has very little to do with them. Our opinions, our perceptions, and our judgements all stem from self. They are a function of who we believe we are or are not. In fact, how we see someone else is more often rooted in what we want and need for ourselves. The judgements we impose on others contain valuable information and clues about where we feel depleted in our lives. They provide insight into where we have become stuck, and to where the past may still be controlling the present moment and our future. Those judgements show us that life is a continuous unfolding, that what has been resolved will need to be resolved again and again.

That there are some things we can only truly understand with the wisdom of age and the grace of years.?That, we cannot bond to our past, because that will ensure that we get stuck right where we are. It will also prevent us from healing what needs to be healed. So, examine what makes you sad, angry, or frustrated and you will reveal what must be healed. For what you carry in your heart will ultimately determine how you will approach and engage with other people. It prescribes how you move through the world; It is either a great burden to carry or it is a shedding of what is painful, and what holds you back. Do not assign responsibility for what you are experiencing now, to your past. True belonging means standing in your power, exercising forgiveness, and letting things go. It provides us with the powerful lesson...... You do not have to change who you are; you have to be who you are. Namaste.

Brene Brown said "True belonging is belonging so fully to yourself that you're willing to stand alone in the wilderness; an untamed, unpredictable place of solitude and searching. It is a place as dangerous as it is breathtaking, a place as sought after as it is feared. The wilderness can often feel unholy because we can't control it, or what people think about our choice of whether to venture into the vastness or not. But it turns out to be the place of true belonging, and it's the bravest and most sacred place you will ever stand. It is the spiritual practice of believing in and belonging to yourself so deeply that you can share your most authentic self with the world and find sacredness in both being a part of something and standing alone in the wilderness.

By Lisa Scott ~ Executive Life Coach