THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Choose Light and Love over Darkness!

Dear Ones,

When the world is filled with hatred there can be no peace. As long as there are those who choose to hate a whole class of other people, then there will be wars.

Common wisdom holds that wars are about money, power, land and greed, but we would tell you that these are the reasons that people want to start a war. It is hatred, fueled by propaganda, lies and staged events that allows the war to proceed.

Every war in history was conceived by parties who decided that a war would serve their purposes. They garnered support for their wars by creating enemies and generating the energy of hatred toward those enemies. The IDEA of the war preceded the trigger event that supposedly caused the war.

This is the Law of Attraction at work, but it is attracting darkness, not the Light.

We are sharing this with you today so that you can take conscious control of your thoughts of hatred. What can you do to spread the Light in the world? Do not be fooled by those who claim to be of the Light but who also talk about hatred. There is no God of Hate–the Divine Energy is an energy of Love. Hatred is generated by individuals who have become locked into the level of their personalities and who cannot see that all on Earth are spirits who are learning lessons. Hatred stems from a desire to avoid personal growth, to define a world according to a personal construction of what is ‘right’ with no allowance for other views. The people who hate are engaged in a contracted, regressive life on Earth. They have been so constrained that they have disconnected themselves from the compassion energy that wants to be expressed through them. The fact that there are so many people in these times who choose to hate rather than to love is very disturbing, for humankind throughout history has been seeking to expand in consciousness and Love is expansive energy. When so many people choose to contract in the energy of hatred then the people are inviting humanity to enter into another Dark Age.

The scales are getting ready to tip. Those who come from a place of Light, Love and Compassion can counteract the darkness that emanates from those who choose to hate. However, apathy is the antithesis of Light, for if people do not champion others, do not lift high the standard of the Light Bearers and work to counteract darkness, then the Dark Age can become a reality.

How do you sow Love and Light in your own little sphere of influence? Are you willing to work to counteract hatred or do you stay silent? Have you chosen to take action to increase the Light in the world or have you chosen to remain complacent? Remember that apathy on your part allows those who would sow hatred, separation and fear to increase their influence. Make sure that you are spreading Light in the world. Take control of your thoughts and increase the Light content of your thoughts, i.e., make them expansive thoughts of Love, Acceptance and Trust. Let Light shine from your heart through your eyes when you look at others. Even those who spread the darkness of hatred have some part within them, no matter how hidden, that is yearning for the Light, yearning for expansion, yearning to be Loved. You do not need to love the hatred but find love for the seed of Light that is within the person who hates. The spark of Divinity resides in every human being but many choose to starve that spark until it can no longer ignite. Moving from being a person with great capacity for Love to the choice of becoming one who hates is a sad choice but one which many make because they have been misled.

Have compassion for them as human beings but do not allow their darkness to spread until it overtakes the Light.

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: Are you ready to live your Life Purpose?

When we see messages about our Life Purpose on Planet Earth, sometimes we run the other direction.  And sometimes we say defensively that we are living our Life Purpose so be quiet about it, already!  What’s your reaction?  Are you on track?  Do you feel that you know WHO you came to Earth to BE?

If you struggle with this whole idea, then ask yourself if you have developed a plan for figuring it out.  Have you done the personal growth work required to know what’s important to you and what you are holding onto that creates drama in your life but doesn’t expand your level of consciousness?  This is what I often see with clients when they are ready to do the inner work.  They’ve been living in the drama without knowing what it is that will move them forward.  They know, inside, and can often identify to me what the blocks and obstacles are, but there is a reluctance to let go.

The familiar keeps us locked in a place where forward motion is held in check by limiting beliefs and negative thoughts.  Sometimes we cling to what is familiar even though it is painful, because the fear of moving forward into unknown territory is greater than the pain we know.  But this is not how we learn our lessons – this is not how we expand our level of consciousness.

Ask yourself today if there is something in your life that you are holding onto that keeps you anchored in a place that has some pain or discomfort associated with it but that feels familiar.  Is this place really better for your personal growth than that unknown place just in front of you?  Can you make a decision to learn the lessons of today and allow yourself to grow, to move forward?  This forward motion results from your making a decision, not from outer actions by someone else.

Also ask yourself if you’ve been waiting for something to happen, or for someone else to start something.  Please understand that YOUR Life Purpose is for YOU!  Others are supporting characters in the play that YOU are starring in!  There is no play if you don’t show up.  The supporting characters are waiting to support you!  And, no, creating more drama in your life is not the same as moving forward in the play that contains your life lessons.

Use this week to lift yourself into the observer position in your life.  Watch how you move through your week.  Are you growing?  Are you making choices to move forward?  Are you looking for your lessons?  Are you living your Life Purpose?

Ask for help if you need it!  Life is precious and we are all here to learn and to help others to learn.  Participate fully!

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Do You Know Your Life Purpose?

Dear Ones,

Where is your heart leading you in these troubling times?  Are you more worried about your pocketbook than about your Soul Mission on Planet Earth?  Are you struggling with temporal worries and forgetting about your Life Purpose?

Relax.  All will be well when you put your focus on being the person you incarnated to be in this lifetime.  You did not become a human being on Planet Earth to live in the 21st Century as a worrier.  Your Life Purpose is not, we repeat, NOT to fret about the future.  You are living in these times so that you can bring to the Planet all that you came here to be.  Life is that simple.  Life is also very complex.

Are you even aware of your Life Purpose?  Are you thinking that your Life Purpose is the same as your job?  It is not.  Are you thinking that it is something as nebulous as ‘to be a good person’ or ‘to do what I’m supposed to do’?  It is not.

Your Life Purpose is a very specific mission, a role you are to play, the person you agreed to be when you decided to live on Planet Earth at this time.  You and the others in your Incarnation Group decided that you would work to help each other learn the lessons that you came to Earth to learn.  Some of you agreed to be the good guys and some to do things that others wouldn’t like but that would assist them in their path of personal growth.  Your own path of personal growth demands that you focus on the WHO you came here to be but too many people are looking for the WHY they are here.  There is a difference.

For every person on Planet Earth the answer to the question WHY is ‘to learn what I came here to learn, to become who I came here to become, and to grow in my level of consciousness.’  That is the answer for everyone walking on Planet Earth today.  It is a simple answer and it indicates a complex life pattern.  Imagine if everyone around you were focused on what they could learn from every situation, instead of on gaining power, money, ‘stuff.’  Imagine how your personal interactions would unfold if you and the others were all seeking the lessons in the situation.  Now you know that you do not have control over what the lessons are for others, nor can you control how they approach a situation with you.  What you CAN control, though, is how you behave in a personal interaction.  You can control your focus.  If your focus is on what you can get out of the interaction rather than on the lesson to be learned, you might choose different behaviors.  Make the choice to raise your own level of consciousness and seek the lessons.  You will be rewarded by personal growth when you shift your focus in this way.

Are you wondering now what your Life Purpose is, the WHO you came here to be?  Ask for help if you struggle with this question.  Work with someone who can point you in the correct direction and help you to ask the appropriate questions.

The answers lie within you.  All power is there.  All the knowledge that you need resides within you.  The help that you might need is in connecting with the wisdom within.  This is where choosing the appropriate assistance is so important.  If you ask for help from someone who points you outside yourself for answers, then you are moving into the script for someone else’s lessons.  Find help from someone who resonates with your own energies.  This personal growth work is too important, especially in these days, for you to engage in efforts wherein you give away your power.

Claim your power.  Find a way to go inside to find your answers.  Work with those who believe in your empowerment and avoid those who would take it away.  And surround yourself with people who are focused on learning their own lessons.  These will be the support you need as you learn what you came here to learn.

And so it is.

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: NOW is the time for the NEW!

Dear Ones,

Today is the day for you to start something new.  What would you like to bring into your life that brings the energy of newness to you?  What have you been waiting to start, to do, to have?  What is ‘the perfect time’ that you have been waiting for so that you can start, do or have it?

Every moment in your life is the perfect NOW for the NEW.  Do you realize this?  Whenever you find yourself putting something off, waiting for that perfect time, when everything else makes way for that new thing, that new energy, THAT is the time to catch yourself and pause with this question in mind – “Exactly why am I waiting?”

Are you waiting for someone else to line up to support what you are doing?  Maybe you can find a way to do it yourself, or to shift a bit so that you can at least get started on the project.  Are you waiting for the stars to align, the budget to support, your calendar to open up?  Are you waiting to lose weight, gain weight, change your wardrobe, change houses, get a new car?  Are you waiting to find the perfect _____ [fill in the blank]?

Lose this ‘wait’!

This moment NOW is the only moment you have.  Everything you need is here in this NOW.  Every resource is within you to make happen that which you need in your life.  Creativity is within you if you allow it to be expressed.  Resources are available if you open yourself to guidance and seek resources that you think you don’t have – where else can you seek them?  How can you modify your plans to use what’s available?  Who do you need help from?  Can you permit yourself to ask for the help you need?  What is ONE STEP that you can take in this moment NOW that will bring you closer to your goal?

If you find yourself resisting these words, then ask yourself if you have been waiting to start something because there is a block or obstacle in front of that something.  Are you using as an excuse something that is keeping you from facing the real obstacle to moving forward?  Do you really need to have all the resources lined up first or can you start and then find the rest of what you need?  Do you really need to lose weight, find help, have a new car or can you find step one to get the energy flowing in the direction of what you desire so that the rest can follow?  Are you focusing on the cart and letting the horse struggle at its tethers when it really wants to get moving?

What project, idea, program has been coming to your mind as you read these words?  What is one step that you can take NOW to move in the direction of that idea?  If we asked, what is one thing that you wish you could do that for some reason you have not started yet?  Would it be all right with you if you allowed that to get started?

Starting is the hard part.  Deciding to start can be even more difficult.  If there is an excuse why you can’t start, then look at that excuse and ask, “What is behind this excuse?”  Are you hiding from some personal work that needs to be done before you move forward?  It is easy to look at calendars and budgets and lack and say that these are the reasons that you cannot begin something, but they do not serve your forward motion in life.

Examine yourself.  Examine your life.  How have you been holding yourself back because there is some personal growth or spiritual work that is waiting to be done?  When you determine that this is the place to start, you will be amazed at how easily the rest follows!

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: Is This Mushroom Safe?

Interesting analogy – early humans figuring out which foods to eat and 21st Century humans figuring out what truth is for them.

One way to extend this is to think of the early humans who ate the poison mushrooms.  I wouldn’t want to be the one who tested that!  But I don’t think this message is about eating poison mushrooms first – it sounds more as if we are being cautioned about eating the poison mushrooms that someone is telling us are safe to eat.

Think about ideas that poison a society but permeate it anyway.  Hatred.  Intolerance.  Injustice.  Ignorance.  Think about how easy it is to swallow that poison mushroom if someone you trust tells you it is safe for you to do so.  I think it’s time we stood up to our responsibility to be individual thinkers, to ask for evidence that a mushroom is safe or to eschew eating it altogether.

Every day, each of us is bombarded with ideas from many sources.  Do you absorb and accept every idea that is sent your way?  Do you believe everything that you are told?  I suspect not.  Who, then, do you decide you will believe?  Are you willing to find the original sources of the data, to do your own research?

I remember a paper I had to write in college, in a History of the Theater course I was taking to fill in my schedule so I had enough credits to live on campus after I had taken all the math courses I needed for my major.  My assigned topic was ‘Squire & Marie Bancroft’ who had lived in the 19th Century.  I traveled from Greensburg, Pennsylvania into Pittsburgh to find resources at the University library there and was fortunate enough to find primary sources, documents written by the Bancrofts themselves.  Unfortunately, they were written in French so I had to painstakingly translate them for my paper, but the information was invaluable because it came from the principles themselves and hadn’t been distorted by a biographer’s perspective.  [Aside: The professor didn’t believe a lowly math major could write such a good paper so he accused me of plagiarism!  I did prove the sources of the materials to his satisfaction and he gave me a good grade later.]

What are you willing to do to determine the veracity of what you hear?  Are you like a sponge, sopping up what is told to you?  Do you check a few sources to see if you can find corroboration or do you just listen to someone you think is giving you the whole story?  Do you know how to check inside for what rings true for you?

Living a Conscious Life requires choosing what you will believe and what you will question.  Check with your Inner Guidance before you accept any idea, even the ones I am writing here.  If you don’t know how to do this yet, learn.  Sometimes you need to meditate or take a nap or take a walk in nature before you can see clearly what you need to see.  Give yourself permission to do this before you commit to an idea or a project that doesn’t feel completely right to you.

You are moving along a path of your own spiritual journey.  You don’t have time for detours into someone else’s ‘stuff.’  Believe what is in alignment with who you are at your core, with the energy that carries you forward on your journey.  Don’t believe someone who wants you to eat a poison mushroom by telling you that it is safe!   Skip the mushrooms, please!

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Be Your Own Genius!

Dear Ones,

Ever since humans have been walking on Planet Earth they have been questioning the reasons for happenings around them.  You might believe that early humans were not curious but how do you think decisions were made about what to eat and what not to eat?  They came out of curiosity and someone tried to eat something.  They lived or they died, and the others learned what was safe and what was not.

Humans have a similar kind of curiosity today but the situations are more subtle than when they were looking for food.  Today, people are searching for simple solutions to complex problems, and so they look to someone else to tell them what is safe and what isn’t, what works and what doesn’t, and what is true and what isn’t.  People are giving away their power to the external source who tells them what they want to believe.  Unfortunately, many of those who are speaking out have not done the research themselves, as the early humans did.  These speakers are believing something told to them by someone else who supposedly did ‘research.’  This so-called ‘research’ might or might not have been valid or worthwhile but for every bit of research there is some audience who wants to believe the results and so in that sphere it becomes validated by acceptance and repetition.

Do you see how far removed people are becoming from the source of the information available to them about ‘safe or unsafe,’ ‘works or doesn’t work,’ ‘true or not’?  Decide today that you will become a person who seeks the source.  Don’t believe or accept on blind faith.  Check inside yourself for your own truth.  Just because someone says it is so does not make it valid for you at this time.  Even what we are telling you should be checked against your internal compass to make sure it is congruent with the direction in which your journey is taking you today.

In all things it is important that you learn to go inside and reach for your Inner Guidance.  You KNOW what is true for you, even if you feel you cannot be certain.  There is always a part of you that knows for sure.  Reach for that part.  Seek help if you do not know how to do this.  Get in touch with guidance for yourself, for there is a wealth of information available to you if you seek it.  Great thinkers throughout time have known this and have used their innate abilities to find answers to their questions.  They seek answers but look to themselves, their own research, even their dreams to find what they seek.  Many geniuses will tell you that it is in rest and relaxing out of the search that great ideas arise.  Why should you be different?

Are you one of those who think you have to be active all the time?  Do you feel you must be doing, doing, doing in order to move forward?  What if you could make more forward progress by resting, thinking about something else, engaging in a hobby, and then returning to problem-solving with fresh eyes?  Perhaps napping and allowing your unconscious mind to connect the dots for you would be more productive.  Maybe a meditation exercise would free your creativity so that you could return to your task with greater understanding.

These are suggestions for 21st Century humans to approach problem-solving and answer-seeking.  The early humans knew what they were about when they made their own observations.  Stop giving away your power as a thinking, creative person and do your own research, find your own answers.  Listen to others but do not be swayed to act against what feels true for you.  Do not believe just because others believe.  Be an individual, for you were brought to Planet Earth for an individual purpose.  No one else has the same roadmap.  Be careful about who you allow to drive your life!

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: Do not water the seeds of doubt!

Doubt seems to have a lot of power in one’s life.  It can choke out the Light that is unfolding in you, just as a weed chokes out the life in a garden.  When we attach our thoughts to doubt we invite that energy to take us over.  Have you ever followed a path of doubt so far into the darkness that you couldn’t see any way back to the Light?  It’s easy to do because doubt in ourselves is so easily reinforced by others around us.  Sometimes it is even planted by those who are supposed to be supporting us.  Teachers set low expectations for a student who starts to believe that they will never be an academic success.  Parents compare their child unfavorably to another child and create doubt about worthiness.  Teenagers gossip about others and create insecurities in each other.  Society says we must be beautiful, rich, thin in order to be successful, and we must drive a certain car, drink a certain drink, wear certain clothes to be attractive to the opposite sex.  Who hasn’t doubted that they measure up to these rulers of society?

Doubt can be seductive in its attractiveness.  What masquerades as humility, which we are taught is an admirable quality, can actually be doubt in our merit, our own self-worth.  We are taught not to brag about our achievements or our good qualities but isn’t that a false modesty?  Why is doubt a better choice than self-acceptance and self-confidence?

In a relationship, doubt can often create a chasm between people who have not developed healthy communication skills.  One partner starts to doubt and holds back a part of self from the other.  The seed of doubt grows with every thought, often way out of proportion to the original circumstance, but once it starts to grow it takes on a life of its own.  Relationships can be ended because someone watered and fertilized a seed of doubt until it took over the whole relationship.

What can we do when we start to feel doubt?  The first thing to do is to examine the source of the doubt.  Did someone else create it or did we attach our thoughts to doubt as it arose in us?  Sometimes determining the source is all that is needed to dismiss a feeling before it attaches and grows.  If you are feeling doubt, ask yourself, ‘What is this?  Is this real?’  We often react to something that is difficult to believe by doubting that it is true, without ever taking the time to ascertain the facts.

And if you are feeling doubt about yourself, your self worth, your abilities, then look at what is behind the doubt.  Did it start in your childhood because of a belief you held at that time?  Are you believing what someone else has said about you without checking inside yourself for your truth?  Are you avoiding accepting your own inner greatness because you are afraid to claim it?  Sometimes the doubt is not about worthiness but about the magnitude of your own worth in the world.

When you attach yourself to thoughts of doubt you are moving yourself away from your own Inner Light and the source of Universal Light.  Think about the story in the movie ‘Doubt’ where people acted on what they thought they saw, or how they interpreted a situation without really ever determining the facts.  This path led to anguish in the doubters and choices all around that caused pain.

It is time now for us to commit to dispelling doubt because it doesn’t serve the highest good of all.  If you doubt that something is true, then instead of feeding the doubt, determine the truth.  If you feel that you are unworthy, if you doubt yourself and your abilities, then find a way to examine the source of that feeling and accept yourself as the Being of Light that you are.  Choose what you will believe and choose to believe in yourself.  Doubt arises only as a flag to get your attention. Resolve today to use it as such.

I believe in your Inner Splendor!  If you still have problems with doubting yourself, then just remember that!

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Move beyond doubt!

Dear Ones,

Where there is doubt, let there be Light, for the Light chases away doubt. Doubt comes from dark thoughts, from believing that one is separate from the Light. Doubt begins because a seed has been planted like a weed in a garden of Light. If the seed of doubt is watered and fertilized it takes over the garden, just as a weed does.

You must make sure that you are not watering and fertilizing the seeds of doubt that blow into your personal garden of Light. Sometimes these seeds come from society and societal beliefs, sometimes from people in your life. Sometimes they develop from previous life experiences that are not truly representative or relevant to your current situation.  Be aware that doubt is the enemy of enlightenment. Doubt chokes out the Light that is unfolding within you.

There is only one purpose in doubt – it points to the place in your life that is begging for attention. Do you doubt that you can be successful?  Then examine how you are limiting or even sabotaging your own success. Do you doubt that you can have healthy relationships? Then examine how you are not in a healthy relationship within yourself, or how you can be or become the kind of person/partner you wish to attract. Do you doubt that you can find happiness or even that you deserve happiness? Then examine your definition of happiness and ask if you are looking outside yourself for something that must come from within.

Do not doubt, Dear Ones, that you are less than perfect just as you are, for that which you might label as an ‘imperfection’ in yourself at the moment is merely the pointer for your current lesson.

Conscious Living demands that the individual live a self-examined life. To slide through life without honestly examining one’s inner existence, inner workings and the choices one makes leads one away from happiness and fulfillment. Human beings have an awareness of Self that can lead to extraordinary leaps of consciousness when they look for growth through that awareness and understanding. Many, though, choose to live in denial of their own power to effect the course of their lives, preferring instead to give away that power to external sources.

You are not a canoe with no one to paddle and steer, being carried through life by the flow of the river. No, you are the one with the paddles, choosing your life’s direction in every moment. You choose whether to go with the flow or paddle upstream. You choose how to avoid obstacles or go through them. You choose which branch of the river to follow when you reach a fork. Do not hand those paddles over to someone else. Do not doubt that you are in charge of the direction of your life.

You may not be able to control the weather or the obstacles in your path, but your life is not controlled by those. Your Life is how you respond to those things over which you have no control.

Never doubt that you always have choices about how you respond to challenges. If you allow doubt to control you, then you are giving away the paddles of your canoe.

Keep paddling. Open yourself to guidance. Look at challenges as information, as opportunities for growth, for there is great Light awaiting you on the other side of every lesson. Claim your own power and seek the Light. You will always be rewarded for making this choice.

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: How many times do we need to hear: “Love yourself.”?

Whenever there is a message about loving yourself, I wonder how many times we need to hear this!  Love yourself.  No matter what messages you receive, no matter what someone else believes and tries to get you to believe, no matter what has happened in the past, no matter what you have done – forgive yourself and love yourself.

Sometimes people hear this message and dismiss it because people do bad things, therefore they must be evil people.  And I am not such a Pollyanna that I believe there is no evil in the world.  But  I learned an important message decades ago during my first retreat with Dr. Bernie Siegel.  He had us all imagine we were holding a tiny newborn baby, looking into that innocent face.  We all felt a wave of Love.  Then he told us that that baby had grown up.  Where is the Love?

We judge others.  Let’s admit that.  Some of us try very hard not to do this, but, at some level, we do it, even unconsciously.  And once we are in judgment it is difficult to find the Love.

This kind of Love is not conditional on behavior that meets our standards.  No one must work hard to earn this Love.  There is nothing to do that changes someone from unlovable to lovable.  Every human being on Planet Earth was once that tiny, innocent baby, lovable because it was born.  Sometimes, when someone has done something that hurts us, it is hard to remember that we once loved them or that they were once that lovable baby.  This kind of Love is a decision, not a sweet emotion or infatuation.  This deep Love comes from a place within us that knows the truth of our very existence – that we are timeless, spiritual beings who are having an experience of Life on Earth.  When we remember who WE are then we are free to share Love with others.

All Love starts with Self Love.  Really listen to that statement.  All Love starts with Self Love.  The Self within you is the radiant presence of the Divine, your connection to the Source in the Universe, to Spirit.  Self Love starts here.  And this kind of Love demands that you accept yourself, with all your warts and foibles and the lessons you are in the process of learning.  That Self within loves you unconditionally!

Accept that you are lovable.  To believe otherwise is the true self-absorption of the ego!  Love your Self.  Then love yourself.  Do you want to change?  Love yourself enough to do so.  What parts of you do you accept no matter what others say or believe about you?  Accept them.  This is only about YOU and your eternal Self.  Others don’t define who you are at your core.  You are lovable because you ARE.

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Learn the Lessons and Love Yourself

Dear Ones,
What are you listening to in your Life today?  What kind of music?  What kind of nature sounds?  What kind of outside noises?  But, most importantly, what kind of messages are you ingesting in your daily Life?

If you watch a lot of TV, you are being bombarded by messages, from newscasters, from commercials, from people who express opinions that may or may not be based on fact and intellectual analysis.  Whatever you read, whether the newspaper or a novel, a non-fiction or a textbook, contains messages that are being absorbed by your psyche and often accepted unconsciously as true for you.

The most insidious messages are being accepted by your unconscious mind because they come from someone you trust, even someone you love and whom you thought loved you.  Parents are comparing their children to others with the subtle message that their child is not good enough.  Superiors at work are giving out criticisms thinking they are focusing on getting the job done but the employee is hearing, ‘I can’t do anything right.’  Teachers have a pet who gets the best grades and other students think they’re not lovable because they aren’t as academically successful.  The list goes on and on.  And sometimes the saddest case is when a life partner criticizes or ‘puts down’ their partner, implying, again, that they are not ‘good enough’ or that they are ‘unlovable.’

What messages have you embraced that are not about your inherent goodness but you believe them because someone you trust or trusted in the past told you they were true?  How many religious leaders have told their congregations that they are not worthy, not good enough?  Have you ever taken the time to examine what you do and do not believe about yourself?  Have you ever asked yourself WHY you believe some things that you believe?

Today is the day to start examining your thoughts, your beliefs about yourself and who you really are.  You are a person with a big heart.  You have a good mind.  You are worthy of being treated well, by all those with whom you come into contact.  You are lovable, just the way you are today.  There is nothing that you need to do to earn anyone else’s love.  You can give love to others.  You can figure out the solutions you need or you can ask for help, which you deserve to receive.  You have always been this way.  You have always deserved to be loved, so if Life has given you experiences that contradict this, then examine those experiences and ask yourself if they were about the other person and not about you. [They were.]

That little baby who was you a few years ago is still as lovable as he or she was then.  That baby lives within you.  If you are resisting these words today, then get in touch with that tiny, innocent baby and love it.  Grow that love up to today.  Everything you have done or been in the past has helped you to grow into the person you are today.  Accept that with gratitude.  Every behavior you have exhibited, every choice you have made, has helped you to evolve.  If you are feeling stuck, then examine your current situation for the learning that is there.  There is ALWAYS something to learn, so if you are stuck it is because you haven’t finished what you need to experience.

Forgive yourself for the choices that you have made.  You did the best you could in that moment.  Knowing what you know now you might make a different choice, but in that moment you made a choice that brought you lessons, albeit painful ones sometimes.  Forgive others.  This does not mean that you must believe that what has harmed you is acceptable and it does not mean that you must stay in relationship with people who have or continue to hurt you.  But to hold onto anger and unforgiveness harms you without resolving the issue or, indeed, having anything to do with the other person.  Forgiving others means deciding that you will no longer give them power over your own Life.  You choose now to release whatever strings they have been holding that continue to affect your Life.  Let them go to learn their own lessons – then you can be complete with yours.

Learn the lessons and love yourself in the process.  Life is really as simple as that!

And so it is.