Wisdom Gained

   
     Our past experiences both good and bad create who we are. The events that take place in our lives from conception to the present are the paths we have traveled for who we are right now. Some say letting go and shutting up the past is how you move on, leave the past behind. But why would you leave behind the very things that have molded you into the person you are today? Now I'm not saying dwell in the past or allow those experiences to define us. But acknowledging those experiences for how they have changed your outlook on life. Our perspective. Maybe this is that elusive wisdom that our elders seem so privy to. They have lived, made mistakes and allowed themselves to learn from those mistakes, making them wise. They didn't walk away from their past but allowed themselves to learn lessons from their past experiences. So we listen to the voice of our past, we recall experiences that conjure up pain and joy and that becomes our perspective. Our wisdom gained. Our inner strength to draw from.

Try and Stop Me

Uncovering Your Essence

     We all have that place that our soul feels free. Some already know where that place is others may not yet have found it. We start out with this knowledge as children but we don't realize what is then. Along the way as we grow up it gets lost in the busyness of becoming an adult. We must remember that familiar feeling and let it guide us to the place that allows our soul to be free. To be able to remember our essence. That imaginative, creative child that lived life through curiosity and saw magic in the world around them. Your essence is within you waiting to be found. Waiting to be uncovered and brought back to life. You may have already stumbled on your essence but don't realize it yet. It took me several years to finally put my finger on mine. All the while having this feeling that there was something waiting inside of me. When I finally had the "aha" moment it seemed so silly to me that it took so long to know something that I had within myself my whole life. Have the courage to know yourself, the courage to listen to your inner-voice and the faith to take the first step to freeing your soul and bringing your essence back to life.

Be Still

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Out of Your MInd

     Do you ever think too hard? To the point of making your head feel like it will explode with all of the thoughts you are thinking. More like the thoughts you are over thinking. That one thing you are thinking of starts out as a minor issue but by the time you are done thinking on it, its turned into one huge gnarled up knot of an issue. Or at least that's what you think. You've thought yourself into doubt, past handling the issue at hand with a confident thought. In fact you have thought so long and hard that you have thought yourself right out of seeing the goal and right into a bunch of obstacles stacked up by the doubt you brought on board a few thoughts ago. Quit! Just stop right there. No more evaluating the circumstance, no more thinking. Thinking about something until you over think it doesn't give you more control over it, it gives it control over you. Get out of your mind and leave things alone. Step away from your thoughts for awhile to allow yourself to see clearly again. Let the overwhelming deluge of doubt and insecurities - the OBSTACLES- that get a foot hold from over-thinking drain away, they will if you just give yourself half a chance by quieting that busy mind for a few moments and allow yourself to regain your sight on the original goal.  Have faith and believe that in you lies the passion that you need to continue with your pursuit. That by quieting your thoughts you are quieting your heart enough to allow faith to work!

You Are Strong

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Challenge

     Are we up for the challenge? Many times life it seems is one challenge after another. You make it through one challenge and then life hands you another one to slide right into the place of the challenge you just met. Your mind screams that you need a break! You think to yourself "I am not ready to take on this challenge!" Sometimes I for one feel like throwing myself on the ground and having a good old fashioned temper tantrum when life does this. I just don't feel up to yet another challenge. I am tired. Wrung out. Done. So now what? Life doesn't give us the choice of turning down the challenge. The only choice we have is how we meet that challenge and the next challenge and the challenge after that. Sometimes I square my shoulders and plant my feet so to speak and yet others I tackle by digging my heels in-or shall I say being stubborn and defiant to the challenge that lays before me. Every now and then it might be that I have to let out all of my strength in tear form and cry. Choose to meet your challenges. Remember that there is more then one way to meet those challenges and meeting them may take some strategy on your behalf because letting them get the best of you is not an option!

Baby Steps

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