World View Perspective: Going beyond the family imprint

 As we develop within our families, we are given an imprint of some kind.  An overarching view of what’s expected.  It may or may not reflect a gender bias, a financial or educational expectation or a professional or work emphasis that scaffolds our learning and offers us a developmental push!  We might see this in all our relations because they have the same imprint!  If our path goes and grows in this direction, we will be applauded, encouraged, supported and positively rewarded through praise or frequently given attention that we are indeed a team player!  If we aren’t given to this expected nature, it could start to be a bumpy ride!  The family may start putting undue pressure on us or begin to choose other family members to get the job done!  We might go through feelings of being rejected, neglected, ignored, not loved, not wanted there or even dismissed because we aren’t living up to the imposed on us family imprint! 

Our natural resistance to the imprint might be due to a different path for us, a different skill set, a variety of other points of view or our talents just lie in different areas!  If our family of origin won’t accept a variety of players in the family, then we could end up feeling or actually being swept under the family rug or worse, thrown under the bus entirely!

It is most valuable to realize that, if this is the case, that we can dig deep inside us and find where our own direction lies!  Not only can we and should we find it, we must begin to trust it!  Maybe we were born into a family of business people and we’re the only artist or we’re born into a family of scientists and we’re the only ballet dancer!  At some level and some age and stage, we simply must find our own clear direction and follow it!  Accessing our own inner courage and determination is a great first start!  As we find and continue to develop our own identity, separate from the original family imprint, at some point, we will have to most likely go beyond it!  This may not mean an easy path but a necessary one!  We must honor and respect our own path in order to fulfill why we are here!

On the soul level, it is important that we follow the signs and open doors to our designed destiny, despite what others tell us, teach us or dictate to us!  ‘Seek and ye shall find’, as found in the Bible, is indeed true on this level!  

When we leave the family imprint behind, we must realize a period of time on our own might ensue!  We might, at times, feel very alone!  Loneliness might creep in as well as self-doubt or self-judgement!  We might even begin questioning our decisions and desire to move on!  We may feel their judgement, criticism, harsh sentiments or anger and take in quite personally! Yet, if we have intuition, inner knowingness, awareness, consciousness or guidance guiding us, we must heed that!  We are being lead correctly!

We may have no intention of leaving the family imprint behind because of our attachment to it or to our memories of it but if we must do so on the soul level, then we must!  Gratitude and forgiveness are useful tools in the process of letting go as well as sending all family members Love and Light and Grace for them and to them on their continued path and journey in life!

The family is our respected beginning of life, even if it is a rough beginning and start to our life!  We have been placed there for a reason and purpose with the other players to help us on our path!  Maybe they are there to show us who we are or maybe to show us who we aren’t, still, we are there to learn!  It is in this spirit that we must keep going and growing to find our own soul path and purpose and to fulfill our designed destiny through Love, Light and Grace!  And to trust, with courage, determination and Love, that we’ll get there!

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