We all have a story. This story may or may not accurately reflect our life path, but it is our story none the less. It is how we have come to think of ourselves, and how we choose to present ourselves to the world around us.
Our stories are our beliefs about our lives, about life in general. They are compilations of what we have learned along the way, the experiences that have shaped our minds, how we think, act and present ourselves to the world.
Many people firmly believe that they are their stories. We can become so attached to it that it defines us, and limits our experience of life. We forget that it is our past, not our present. This does not necessarily have to be so. We need not be bound by our past, or defined by our story.
We are what we believe ourselves to be. And we are free to be anything we choose.
I invite you to think about liberation from the story, the possibility that many of the beliefs that we have accumulate along the way are not in fact The Truth. Not our Truth and not God’s Truth. I believe this to be so, and I have spent more time unlearning than I have in accumulating new information. I have stepped out of my story, and into my present.
We each have the power to change our story at any time we choose. We have the choice to release our story completely, to free ourselves from our accumulated ideas of who and what we are, and what we can and cannot do with our lives. The fact is that the present moment represents our Truth much more accurately than our stories ever did, ever could, or ever will.
We are as free as we give ourselves permission to be.
I invite you to look at your story. I ask you to be more honest with yourself than you have ever been in your life. I ask you if your story is your Truth. I invite you to consider letting go of what you were, in order to step into what you are.
What if you were to release old thoughts and beliefs, old patterns and anxieties and fears that have limited your experience of life, indeed that continue to limit your experience of life today? What would it feel like to wake each day with a blank canvas before us, upon which we could create anything we choose? Can you even imagine the possibility?
Our ego likes things just the way they are. Even if we are miserable, there is a certain comfort in the familiar. We know how to be when we are how we have always been.
I invite you to step out of the familiar, to trust yourself and your God, so that you might come to know the real you as you are today, in the present moment, to see yourself apart from your story. This may bring up feelings of fear and resistance. Ego may even now be standing firm in your mind saying, "Of course I know who I am." I invite you to have the courage to look again.
You are, quite probably, different than you have come to believe. Perhaps it is your time to come to know who and what you truly are today. Perhaps it is your time to become liberated, free to be authentic, to embody your Truth, regardless of your story.
We all have a story. There may, however, be a significant difference between our story and our Truth. If you can get past the fear, past the sureness, if you can just for a few minutes ask yourselves if your story, and the old beliefs that go along with it is in any way limiting your experience of life today, the answers you find may surprise you.
We are what we believe ourselves to be. And we are free to be anything we choose.
Jeffrey R. Anderson
2 comments:
"We are what we believe ourselves to be. And we are free to be anything we choose."
Alas, but we still interact with those around us ... for some their little girl is still their little girl when she's 20 or 30 or even when she hits fifty. For most of us our brother is still our brother, no different from our brother 30 years afore
And our parents in most cases remain our parents unto death ...
And in the cold harsh world outside there are those who we can ignore or choose to avoid, and there are those who we'll drive into head on.
I used to think that achieving perfection or being 'in tune' one should be able to avoid accidents, clashes or crashes ...
but some appear inevitable
After all even the appearance of life, or the creation of new life is a 'cataclysmic' event.
But I agree with your sentiment, let it flow and see where the river goes - and never try to swim against the tide when caught by a rip-tide.
True, if one were to hang on to one's perception then one might be limiting one's self... to see one's self in the time warp of rose colored glasses.. would not be accurate.
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