I have had a playful grapple with when and whether it was appropriate to express what was truly on my heart and mind over the years.
It is easier to just sit back and keep my thoughts and ideas to myself. It is certainly more peaceful.
However, it is also draining. It is the opposite of life-giving.
Drawing Energy
We draw energy when we allow ourselves to be vulnerable and seen, when we express the way we really feel about the world around us.
But we cannot truly accelerate our growth if we are afraid to share where we currently find ourselves. We slowly die when we fear how we will be received by others.
If we remain silent, we never get the feedback necessary to stimulate us into further development.
Willing to Be Wrong
We have to be willing and able to be flat out wrong.
Then we have to be willing to admit that we have taken in new data and come to a different conclusion.
It is okay to change our minds. We should be willing to do that often and without remorse. That is how we stay malleable.
Find Peace First
When I am present with what I am thinking and feeling and allow myself to find peace with that place and then express it, I grow, always.
The key for me has been learning to find peace with where I am at first, and only then expressing what that peace and place looks like.
Moaning and groaning does more of a disservice than service to all parties concerned. It is possible to find peace even within the most dire of situations and that peaceful place is when answers can flow forward.
Triggering as Love
We can each be vessels for light to flow into this world, but that does not mean we are supposed to walk on eggshells and make sure no one is offended by what we say or do.
Feeling offended is a personal choice one makes with themselves. It has nothing to do with another. External circumstance only reaches us via interpretation and thus, we always have the power to define the world around us in a way that supports and serves our selfish desires to feel empowered.
Ego does not have to be a bad thing when we align it with truth and love. Sometimes the most loving thing we can do is trigger those around us by living the full expression of our being.
Greatest Teachers
It is not our job to fix others. But often the catalyst for monumental change in one’s life comes from a trigger experience inspired by our truthful expression. There is nothing we can ever experience that is not perfectly matched to our own personal vibrational calling.
My greatest teachers and the ones who I find to be the most fun have always been the ones who triggered the hell out of me because they forced me to see where my labels were at.
Life only has meaning by our own assignment. Every scenario lives as neutral experience ready to be interpreted by a perceiver.
We are that perceiver and our power is in our ability to write a story that serves us.