Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) August/September 2015 Unleashing Your Magnificence | Page 22
When a woman allows herself to see how glorious,
brave, and brilliant she is, despite what she’s endured
previously, she will feel the courage to step out of
her shell, stop playing small, and fully step into the
potential of her own life purpose.
and fully step into the potential of her
own life purpose.
As a woman embraces how worthy she is,
she plays a bigger game in all aspects of
her life. When she heals the parts within
that have been wounded and have held her
back, she gets out of her own way and lives
a richer, fuller, more abundant life. By doing
so, she changes the lives of the people
around her in ways and with a magnitude
she will never really know. The ripple effects
of this are endless.
To fully live up to your calling and live a life
that is rich, full, and abundant, your greatest
challenge is to be absolutely, totally true to
yourself. You must believe in yourself, loving
yourself warts and all. You must accept
yourself as a child of God, accept your
purpose, have compassion for yourself,
and, most important, express fully who you
are and what you believe. You must share
all that is you, without regard for what others
think or how they will react to it, no matter
what the consequences.
To fully express yourself, you must set aside
any tendency to put on a mask. Instead,
tear down the walls that separate you and
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your truth from the world. The ways in which
you haven’t been authentic and any false
pretenses must stop. This is so important
that I urge you to see it as going into battle
in the same way Joan of Arc went into each
battle—with courage, conviction, faith,
perseverance, and fierce determination.
You’ve succumbed to and previously accepted
some false beliefs about yourself and your
capabilities. These false beliefs come from
family, religion, teachers, and society, and
they are not true. Accepting them causes a
loss of your sense of self and disconnects you
from yourself and your true and just power.
At the same time, your sense of the
importance of what you are being called to
do also generates a level of fear and anxiety
deep inside. The anxiety is the voice of your
soul wishing to be freed into full expression.
It is battling against the fear of what might
happen if you do so. The “what might
happen if I am really myself” is a fear that
is primal and feels dangerous. The fear of
being rejected, cast out from the tribe, is a
fear of great proportions, and it feels like the
fear of death.
Most people don’t even know that this fear
exists and even fewer are determined to
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