There's no hitching a ride to self-discovery (or a new career or relationship) on someone else's coattails! To own your power, you must be willing to scrape your psyche on the rocky road inland. It's the only way to discover and claim your unique gift. You'll encounter tests along the way, which can be innocuous or even pleasant, depending on our degree of resistance.
I saw a woman wearing a T-shirt that brings this principle home: "If you want to live life on your own terms/You gotta be willing to crash and burn." Now that's answering the call!
Step Eight: Humor Yourself
We can lighten up our enlightenment. When I was deep into my journey, a healer told me, "One day you will hear laughter and realize it's your own voice." It seemed a strange prophecy. Yet as I peeled away layers of false beliefs and crusty attitudes that kept me enslaved, I felt laughter spontaneously bubble up from some subterranean source, and understood. This is who we are. Let yourself feel the joy, the light, the love inside your being.
To encourage dormant humor, play with a puppy, a kitten -- or a child. Make up nonsense words to popular songs and walk around singing them -- in public. Enroll in an improv comedy class.
Step Nine: Be Grateful
Gratitude and forgiveness are brothers. Be grateful for all the challenging people in your life -- bosses, colleagues, children, friends -- because they're your greatest teachers. These relationships are difficult precisely because of your resistance to the teaching, which might be about compassion, self-worth, generosity, or unconditional love. The Mayans have an expression, In Lakech, which means, "I am another yourself." We're always looking in the mirror. If we don't like what we see, we can blame the mirror, or look within. The latter is the path of personal mastery, and peace.
Expressing our gratitude can also bring healing to a relationship. Remember that intention initiates transformation. Everything we manifest in the outer world begins first as a thought in our minds. Appreciating another opens new avenues for our own abundance to flow in.
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