Captured Moments

  Once we have acknowledged our True Self, we must forgive all those who doubted us, hurt us, questioned us, betrayed us or turned on us, including ourselves. Each child contains within themselves all the potentials they can become.  Like the small acorn has within it the mighty oak.  Our parents, our initial waves, that bring us into creation as babies, come with their best abilities, talents, skills, intelligence nurturing and experience and they offer that to us.  What they have not developed, attained or grown into they cannot offer us because they don't possess it either.  We take in, absorb, follow or emulate many of their traits, biases, judgements, worries or concerns.  We utilize those aspects they best we can, until or unless, we realize and discover, through our own development, that we are no longer that idea or ideal they once had for us.  As we peel those old  identifications or roles they projected off of us, we can discover la...

  Whether we were taught how to respect ourselves or not, we can decide for ourselves, in any current moment, how to identify it and consciously apply it.  Maybe our early mirrors (parents, grandparents, extended family, siblings, teachers or friends) reflected their fears, disappointments, anger, disapproval, depression, lack of self-respect or even disgust at who they thought we were, we ultimately have the power to shift and change that self-image into self-respect that TRULY reflects who we TRULY ARE NOW!    When we CONSCIOUSLY invite in our OWN INNER LIGHT with the intent of seeing our old ideas, identifications and definitions of us, it will show us what we have outgrown, no longer need or want and what and how it can be discarded now.  This takes courage and determination and, as we release from these old self-identifications, meaning letting go of who we thought we were, space is created for a newer version of ourselves to enter.   OUR OWN INNER LIG...