Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) Oct/Nov 2018 Aspire Mag Full Issue | Page 33
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The most important and perhaps hardest
step in this process, in my experience, is to
first acknowledge that we are feeling stuck
and that our behaviors up until this moment,
have given us the results we find. This is
about taking ownership! When we do not
accept responsibility for what is showing up
in our life, in my experience, we are denying
our divine nature and ability to co-creator
with Life itself. This strips us of our personal
power!
Many of us are afraid to accept responsibility,
because we have not been shown a healthy
version of what this can look like nor how
it works. There is a very strong element of
blame and shame inherent in the collective
consciousness, which is keeping us stuck in
feelings of shame and guilt. These emotions
keep many in a state of re-action and unable
to let go. To stop this knee jerking, it’s going
to take each of us to take ownership of what
is going on in our lives and be honest about
the way things are.
It is what it is!
Learn to be okay with things as they are,
because until we do, we are simply resisting
and creating more of the same old same. This
can lead to feelings of frustration, disillusion,
stress, lack of confidence, desperation or
simply playing it safe, not wanting to rock the
boat, not asking for bigger and better and to
stop growing.
Life is all about growth! It’s about expansion
and when we are stuck it hurts and eventually
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Flip the Emotion
What makes a part of the human experience
so wonderful I believe, is our ability to feel
emotion plus the capacity to be aware of what
it is we are experiencing. The reason many
of us stay stuck however, is this very aspect.
On the surface, emotions can seem
straightforward. Humans, however, are
extremely complex in their emotional makeup
because there are layers and triggers of all
kinds involved. From very young, we are
indoctrinated about what each emotion
means, we are taught when and how they
are appropriate or not. The scenarios are
set and we are expected to play along and
our part. And for thousands of years, many
did. Those that dared to step outside the
scenario were silenced in numerous ways.
These memories are still ingrained within
the collective consciousness. Nevertheless,
this is changing as more and more of us
are speaking up and out. We are no longer
accepting to live our lives according to
someone else’s outline and definition. This
requires taking ownership – remember
in point 1 – of one’s emotional states and
understanding them.
In my own experience and from working
with many clients to support them from
pain to resolution, it is often the emotional
connections and associations that keep
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Taking Ownership
we can experience disease. When we let
go of our stuckness and take ownership of
our choices, we can expand and respond.
Ownership makes co-creation fun!