We are all meant to grow and evolve in life but in order to do that we have to stretch ourselves repeatedly, incrementally increasing our flexibility and expanding our comfort zones.
We came here to grow, expand and evolve… to learn, and to explore, and to discover our gifts and rediscover our true nature, and true way of being.
Stretching ourselves whether physically, mentally, emotionally or spiritually is not always so easy but the benefits are SO worth it!
Whatever you resist will persist!
If you’re not allowing yourself to feel a bit uncomfortable, then you’re not stretching yourself enough and you’re not growing and evolving into your beautiful potential.
When we choose to stay exactly where we are just to avoid a few moments of discomfort we are allowing our ego’s fear and doubt to run the show and “delaying our soul’s expression of who we really are” and who we were meant to be.
Looking at the person in the mirror and shedding light on the things we want to keep in the dark is not always so comfortable yet that is the exact being you have to meet in order for YOU to discover all the answers you seek! YOU hold the key to unlocking your potential and to living the life of your wildest dreams! Nobody else can give you what you seek.
So what physical, emotional and/or spiritual muscle needs a good stretch right now? What can you stretch today, tomorrow and the next day to help your life take off, and facilitate your growth and evolution into the YOU that you truly are and were always meant to be? Does your love muscle need some more stretching? Or is it your joy muscle, fun muscle, adventure muscle, discipline muscle, happiness muscle, serenity muscle… ?
Why wait!? Your LIFE is waiting for YOU to show up! Stretch some more! And, soulfully embrace feeling uncomfortable… at least at first. Once you’re feeling comfortable again, it’s probably time to stretch some more:)
Happy stretching…
2010/02/01 at 2:52 pm
Nice thoughts are expressed in Rhonda Byrne’s book, but perhaps that kind of positive thinking has actually added to the problems we are facing in these modern times. Look at this: http://thmngolf.blogspot.com/2009/06/on-free-will-and-determinism_17.html
2010/02/22 at 12:58 pm
Even in the most desolate of circumstances there is absolutely nothing that can rob you of your birth-given gift of free will. We can always choose how a situation affects us, and choose what actions to create from thereon and make it so that we move ourselves forward in life. The book The Secret does a great job of explaining how The Law of Attraction is interconnected with our attitudes and our ‘thinking and feeling’ but it does not really go into the next phase, which in my opinion is far more important, and that is something we might call The Law of Action or The Law of Creation. To change your situation and your perceived ‘luck’ you will actually have to DO something!
Being that I was born on a small island in the Atlantic ocean into an uneducated working class family and then grew up in a subsidized housing complex, I must say that I’ve tested this gift of free will and witnessed, as well as explored, the attitudes that create the distinction between ‘owners’ and ‘victims’. We can choose to take genuine ownership of our lives and consequently change everything for the better or we can choose to believe pre-programmed limiting beliefs and remain as ‘victims of circumstance’.
So far I am the only person in my family’s extended history that has graduated college and then grad school so I guess I definitely broke a pattern there and chose to do something different from what had been done before. I don’t know if I necessarily needed to go through all those years of hard work and struggle with a self-financed overseas study but at the time it felt like that would be my ‘way out’, so to speak. I consider myself to be very successful in life, and my sense of success is not based on the number of dollars I may or may not have in the bank but on the fact that I wake up every morning in love with my family, and in love with my life, and I get to do exactly what it is I want to be doing! And, all because of the choices I made and keep making each and every day. The point of power is always in the present moment… where you go from here has nothing to do with luck!
Thank you for your visit to my blog and for sharing your thoughts and for questioning and even challenging this newly popular ‘school of thought’, and hence creating this fun discussion☺