Today I close the door to the past, open the door to the future,
take a deep breath,step on through and start a new chapter in my life.
take a deep breath,step on through and start a new chapter in my life.
- Unknown
In order to step through the door of new beginnings questions must be answered. And from those questions decisions must be made. The most important question I ask myself is...what am I willing to leave behind?
To be genuinely happy, am I willing to let go of all the unhappiness that I have carried all these years? Am I willing to leave behind the judgments of others and the judgements I hold for myself? What would living a life free of judgment and self condemnation truly feel like to me? Am I willing to leave behind the fears associated with these judgments? Better yet, am I willing to leave behind the fears of having nothing to take judgment's place?
What am I willing to leave behind? What would it feel like? What would it look like? How would I act and appear?
I took it a few steps further and ask myself why I felt to live in judgement? Whether I was the one doing the judging or the one being judged...what was driving me to accept this as part of my life? My story? I know I don't like the feelings being judged brings out in me. And I'm sure no one in their right mind enjoys it either. So I went a little deeper and asked why would I accept judgment into my being? The one word that immediately popped into my head was acceptance. Of course this followed by a resounding WTF? But as I went deeper into Theta the understanding of it all became clearer. I learned at an early age that judging was a form of acceptance. Acceptance into a tribe. (Yea, I rolled my eyes at that one too!) The more I stretched my consciousness the more sense it made. Everybody (no exceptions) yearns acceptance. It is this yearning that draws many into cliques. We've all seen those movies with the "cool kids" you know the ones I'm talking about. The ones that sneer and jeer at everybody who isn't just like them. And while there are some who really don't like being in that group, they stay with it and go along with the "in crowd" all for the sake of acceptance.
That was certainly a WOW moment! So today, I choose to leave behind judgment. It's a decision I have made. To live the life I love, I choose a life that embraces acceptance without conditions.
I don't know how I embrace acceptance of myself and others, I only know that I do now and I am Fulfilled!
I don't know how I love & accept myself and others unconditionally, I only know I do now and I am Fulfilled!
How does that feel? Liberating! Energizing! What does that look like? Beautiful. Flawless.
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What I notice after doing this One Command is how I see others. I notice that I now see more of their positive qualities. I notice the subtle things about the people I work with--the gentleness in their demeanor; the kindness in their eyes. And I notice something pretty awesome when I look in the mirror...a glow. Never really noticed that before until now.
I'm sure it was always there--but now that I abandoned the tribe of judgment, I see others as they truly are and not through dingy lenses of what I once perceived them to be. What I once perceived myself to be.
Namaste!
About Julia K. Cole
What can you expect from someone who considers Putting Reality Back Into Spirituality a personal calling? Straight forward answers that lead to life-changing experiences on a soul level!
Known as The Empress of the Known & Unknown Universes™ and The Diva of Duct Tape, Julia has made it her personal mission to put Reality back into Spirituality™. Julia sets out to assist people in expanding their conscious awareness through her rather unique and personal take on the human experience.
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Book Two of the trilogy is due out in the Fall of 2015 and Book Three will be available in 2016. The long anticipated ZEN of Duct Tape: An Empress Is Born will be out in 2016. As well as The Teddy Mitchell Chronicles.
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