Learning to Unlearn

 As little children, before we learn to speak, we are completely authentic.  Our actions are guided by instinct and emotions – that is, we listen to the silent “voice of our integrity.”

Once we learn to speak, the people around us hook our attention and program us with knowledge.  The “voice of knowledge” comes alive inside our head, and it never stops talking, judging, gossiping, and abusing us.  That “voice” constantly sabotages our happiness and keeps us from enjoying a reality of truth and love.

The voice in our head doesn’t belong to us; we aren’t born with that voice.  Thinking comes after we learn – first a language, then all of the judgments and lies.  That “voice of knowledge” comes as we accumulate knowledge. 

If we learn this voice of knowledge then we have the ability to unlearn this knowledge.  The way to transform what you believe about yourself is to unlearn what you have learned.  Seek the truth that is your “voice of integrity.” 

When you unlearn, your faith returns to you, your personal power increases, and you can invest your faith in new beliefs.

Is the voice you are listening to the “voice of knowledge” or “voice of integrity?” Or maybe this makes more sense to you.  Is the voice you are listening to your belief or someone else’s belief?

What do you think?

The many faces of fear.

Let’s face it, fear can look a thousand different ways.  It does not show itself only with the terrified look of distress but can be masked in a joke or a smile too.  Fear is just that, fear.  An insecure feeling that is overriding your normal state of love.  It is a feeling of being threatened in some way.  That could be a belief system or a thought pattern that you hold dear to your sense of self.  It does not always show up the way that we typically would think of fear.  Being shy, arrogant, rude or even a Polly Anna are faces of fear. 

How is fear showing up in your life? 

 Stop to consider some of your actions to see if they are from a place of love or a place of fear. 

 Being an observer of ourselves and asking that question is a great way to recognize where fear is showing up for us and where we need to make ourselves more aware in understanding and learning why.

Happy observing.

Work in progress….

As a new business there is much to do and changes to be made or improved along the way.  That has been a very exciting  process to be apart of and seeing the evolution take place.

Not only with business but with everyone and everything, we are a work in progress.  It is   beautiful when we can spend all our life in a place of learning and growing.  Each stage seems to bring with it new challenges but also new blessings. And we have the  wonderful opportunity to grab those blessings and run! 

May we all take a moment today to count our blessing of being a work in progress and embrace the dance!

Trusting

Wow, this one is hard for everyone.  We think we have it all worked out in our mind on how our life is going to look.  When I’m going to graduate, move to my own place, get a ” real” job in the field that my degree is in, get married, have children, grow old with my loved ones beside me.  In our perfect world and all in our perfect plan. 

Life has it’s own plan though and most of the time it simply does not match up to what we had in mind.  Only a few ever live so contently in their plan, only a few ever have it turn out to way they imagined.  Are they the lucky ones?  Did the Universe shine more brightly on them than us? 

I don’t think so.  I think that there is a plan and one of greatness if we can just trust the process.  Learning from it’s teachings and even letting  go of our own ideas.  I believe that even the lucky few that had life turned out on schedule still did that exact thing.  Let life lead and embraced it.   I believe that everything happens for a reason and that everyone we encounter comes into our life to teach us.  The lessons that we can open ourselves up to and grow from helps us in understanding the need to trust.  To grow with life, to become life and to be one with life.  We all become the lucky ones then, not just the select few.

And the time we most need to trust the journey is the time when we don’t think we can.

Learning to listen

Are you open to learning?  To be open to learn one must be open to listening. 

I remember hearing the saying, “that is why God gave us two ears and one mouth.” 

 So much can be learned from another human being with this simple act.   It is one of the greatest gifts we can give to one another. 

Learning to be a great listener says to the other person I trust that you know what is best for yourself and I’m going to give you that space to talk it out. 

Learning to be a great listener also means stopping to be still with yourself, listening to the understanding already inside you.

Either way, listening to others or listening to yourself, is an incredible opportunity to learn. 

 See what the world has to say to you today!