Living Large

TODAY'S QUOTE:
Find your center and stay there: it will allow you to live your life to its maximum. Barbara Ann Kipfer

We're often so busy simply reacting to circumstances, performing in someone else's drama, or creating our own to have any spare time for self-examination. But take my advice and pump the brakes, slow your roll, and get a firm grip on what's truly vital to your quality of life. Really living demands that you have a clue about who you are, what you want and how to achieve peace and happiness.

You'll never find it inside someone else's pocket; digging there may only compound your problems. It doesn't reside next door. A new mate or a mate that belongs to someone else doesn't hold the magic key to your kingdom. By all means if you're truly unhappy with someone move on... no sense in your hunger for more causing mass starvation inside your own household. What you give to someone else shouldn't be stolen from anyone. Get free, release them too, and continue your journey without shame. But don't expect magic fairy dust to rain down and make you suddenly whole.

Doing the work and making it last is a long and painful evolution, but it's well worth the agony involved. A huge part of your repair and restoration demands that you dismantle and separate what's viable from what's not. That process will get you soul deep and there you'll find your core. That part of you has all the answers to any question you can dream of and it'll never put you in danger or convince you of a lie. You can rest there and look all around at all the bull-shit you've collected by default or by choice your whole lifetime long.

The sorting from this position isn't pain free, but there is instant comfort from a soul grateful for its rescue and a steely determination to not reload yourself with more than can be carried in comfort. It's here that you learn the real magic of choices made verses simply accepting whatever others choose for you to medicate their own wounds. If you refuse to move from your center then nobody can push your boundaries or bully you into choices you'd never make otherwise. And you'll realize that you don't have to wound others to stay safe. Take care of your soul and it will gently take care of you. And that awakening and validation is for you, happens to you, and changes you in ways you never dreamed possible. To earn the right to live large we must first become small and grow from a position of soul-strength. Think about it... let it ride... then decide!!!