Apr/May 2025 Aspire Magazine FULL Issue | Page 32

Of course you want to make the best choices in life. But those choices will come from self-awareness, not self-criticism. I used to think that beating myself up would somehow help me shape up and get ahead.

I didn’ t realize that self-criticism blocked my ability to feel my light, and to step into the kingdom of guidance and higher powers. On the soul path of learning to trust yourself, you are called to listen to self-love.

This isn’ t self-delusion or narcissism. This is stewardship of the authority you have been given.

Too often we hold on to what we think of as our mistakes. But the soul path of learning to trust yourself depends on this: you focus on what you learned because of a mistake. You don’ t see yourself as broken. You see yourself as growing.

It’ s natural to make choices that you wish you could have done differently. Yet every choice we make helps to shape who we are. For example, I am more committed to trusting myself now because I didn’ t trust myself in the past and I saw where that led. The spiritual journey turns on what we do in this present moment, not what happened in the past.

I don’ t know about you, but sometimes I can feel worse when i focus on“ manifestation.” The more I keep looking at what I don’ t have and what I think I need to attract, the further away I feel from abundance.