Who are
you without your struggle? If you are so
used to struggling, unhappiness, emotional suffering, scarcity, lack,
less-than, and you want to create ease, happiness, enthusiasm, joy, abundance,
self-worth – start in small ways to enable a greater and greater capacity to
hold happiness – to open and receive your good.
How
practiced are you in receiving? When
“my” dog showed up out of the North Carolina woods, he was tired, starving,
ribs showing, ears cut up from running through briars, scared, and yet he was
ready to soak up the food, water, affection, play, and love showered on him by
a bunch of strangers! What a lesson to
witness in being open to receive goodness.
In coaching conversations with clients, it is interesting
to hear how much we identify with the past, clinging to the familiarity of what
we do not want. We often have a lot of
resistance to practicing the new way of being that we imagine. Replacing the old is not as far off as we
might think. “Positive” thoughts have
much more oomph than “negative” thoughts.
Think about this – one small flame from a candle can light an entire
huge dark room allowing you to see everything; however, it is impossible to
bring a small amount of darkness into a bright room and make it dark!
I wish I could show you, when you
are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being. ~ Hafiz