Life is a journey of self-discovery. We are constantly gaining an awareness of who we are as human beings ‘being’ all that we are within any given moment in time. We live our joys and our sorrows, our successes and our failures, our strengths and our weaknesses. As we interact with those who share in our life’s journey, we live experience. We are each on our solitary path of learning and we learn through shared experiences.
At this moment in time, I ask you to stop a while and reflect upon your own journey. Find a piece of paper and write down all the wonderful events that brought great joy to your life. This is a ‘Feel Good’ exercise that you can always turn to when you need uplifting.
I also encourage you to take a fresh page and write down your greatest challenges. After each challenge, put down value you felt you were learning within the challenge. For example, if one of my closest friend or family member did something that caused me great pain – either mental, emotional or physical, I would write that my greatest challenge was to forgive them and thus ‘forgiveness’ would be the ‘value’ presented within the scenario. This would be so great a challenge for me as they are the ones closest to my heart. Perhaps there were other values they were teaching and helping me learn about myself; respect, self worth are two that come to mind straight away and so on. By doing this exercise it shall help you take the ‘sting’ out of the situation for it brings light to why the experience was offered, at a much deeper level than you have ever explored.
This exercise will assist you in seeing yourself as a ‘work in progress’ in other words you are learning about yourself and how it is you are responding to whatever life presents. I’d like to remind you that the ‘present’ – in other words the ‘moments that come and go’, are a gift to be opened and explored. These ‘now’ moments, are precisely what we could consider as ‘golden moments’ (moments to be cherished) for each has the power to change, to honor, to comfort and to bring so much enlightenment if we just stop and ponder. Wisdom comes with experience wouldn’t you agree? We are much wiser as they say ‘after the experience’.
We live patterns over and over again, different scenarios yet patterns that present issues we are here to learn through. Life is what we make of it. We are all doing the best we can at any given moment in time. The exercises I offer are to bring light to issues that have arisen in your life. Nothing is ever a waste of time for there is always so much within each given scenario and if we stop and ponder, we see the value of the experience; it’s full worth.
I hope you learn a great deal about yourself in doing these exercises. You are an absolute magnificent human being and your worth is unfathomable. You have so much to offer our world and our world has so much to offer you as well. Never forget this! Please also remember you are love and greatly loved and whenever you feel victimized in any way, know you are learning within the situation to be the ‘victor’ the one who comes out on top of your own life for you now have a greater awareness of why the scenario was there in your life. It is all about you and how you are travelling, the other person or group of people involved are helping you be all that you can be. They offer you the negative so you can be positive! As we love ourselves unconditionally we feel lighter and brighter and we are able to offer unconditional love to those who share in our day.
May you appreciate life and all it has to offer! May you feel the blessings each day presents just for you and may you feel so very loved and cherished as you walk your path of learning.
Peace from my heart to yours,
Lisa