Have you lived? Are you living now? I don’t mean is your heart beating, or are you breathing. I mean are you truly living. Are you experiencing the world around you? Are you having fun? Are you thriving? Do you wake up in the morning and feel spiritually, mentally, and physically awake? Or, do you settle for the comfort of a mundane slumber? You have your daily routine that you really don’t have to be awake for, and frankly, you’d rather not be awake for it. You feel as though you have to do it, so you’d rather not even realize that it’s happening. If this sounds like you, you are missing out. Today is the day to find out what you are meant to do, and who you are meant to be. Deep down you may already know, but today is the day to learn how to make it matter. It should matter to you, it’s why you are here. It’s going to be awfully hard to feel alive without it.
If you don’t think you know what should be doing, or at least incorporating into your life more often, then take a moment to think about what lights up your being. What is it that makes you feel so incredibly present and awake? What engages you? It’s that thing that makes you feel free, happy, at peace, or maybe even fired up. What fuels you? Do that! Feel alive! Truly live!
You have gifts, don’t be afraid to use them. They come from a place of passion and love, and contain your natural abilities. Hone those gifts and skills. Use them to make your life matter. Give your life purpose, and you will most definitely come alive. It will affect your whole being, on every level. Ask yourself if your life matters to you, or what it is in life that matters to you.
Are you loving? Loving is one of my favorite things to do. I do have the heart of a healer after all. :) I love to give and receive love. It is the most beautiful action, I think. All too often these days we tend to discriminate. We discriminate against different religious beliefs, different skin color, different backgrounds, different ethnicities, different opinions, different ages, pretty much different anything. What we don’t realize is what we are missing out on. If we could just put our judgements aside, we could see the God in everyone. We could see their individual journeys, what they have had to learn, and what they have yet to learn. Just because our journeys are different, doesn’t mean that they are less right or less important. We all need love, and we can all use love to help heal each other. You can give love by simply acknowledging someone. You don’t have to stop and have a full on conversation, just a smile with a “hi” can express enough love to warm a heart. How many people feel ignored, or insignificant? More than we think. You would be amazed at what a simple acknowledgement of existence can do. It’s not that hard to be kind and show love, and it is an incredible way to live.
I know it’s one thing to express random acts of love and kindness to a stranger, but what about the people we already know, especially those who have hurt us. This is where it gets tricky. The best way to show them love is to acknowledge and heal the hurt in you. Now, I know that’s not as easy as it sounds, sometimes it takes years. You can only take responsibility for you, and holding on to past hurts and injustices only hurts you. The people that hurt you don’t care and have easily moved on. They don’t care if they are hurting you even further or not. The more egotistical ones can’t even hear anything negative about themselves and will never take responsibility. You have to learn to accept apologies that you will probably never get. Take your time, journal, work through it, use prayer and meditation, affirmations. Whatever you need to do to move past it and have peace about it. Figure out how to let it go, piece by piece, until eventually it’s no longer there. You will find that every time you release a toxic relationship in your life you will make space for several new healthier ones. Sometimes you can even begin to see a healthy change in the relationship with the difficult person as your healing inspires healing within them. The more you let go of past pain, the better you will get at it. Before you know it treating people lovingly can become second nature as you learn to take a deeper look. You will realize that what you may have once seen as risks of loving, aren’t really risks at all. Love truly can conquer all.
Instead of waiting until the end of your days, ask yourself now: Am I living? Am I loving? Am I mattering? If you answered no to any of these, then today is your day to remedy it. Figure out what you can do today to start living your best life. You deserve to find your bliss. You deserve to be happy. You deserve to love your life.
You deserve to live, love and matter.
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