Self-empowered or Victim?

"Our greatest wound is the source of our greatest gift."

I often hear people say that they need to be healed or need healing. I used to think that too. And one day I realized that somehow we think and accept that we are flawed. We seem to think that there is something wrong with us and others clearly should know more about our health and ourselves than we ourselves. I suppose we think that somehow we don’t posses the power to self-heal, self-maintain and self-regulate in this life and that WE ourselves CHOSE to come into this life and experience what it has to offer.

I have contemplated this for a while and wonder, what if there is nothing wrong with us and what if we don’t need to heal more than we already are in a healing state? What if we are exactly where we need to be in order to understand ourselves and learn more about ourselves.

Perhaps we are wanting to learn to understand why we are the way we are and also wanting to accept ourselves as we are. Understand that we are good enough, that we are worthy and here to do what only we can do because of our very specific gifts and talents. And as the writer Joseph Campbell and the author Artie Wu point out, “Our greatest wound is the source of our greatest gift.”

When we envy others and judge others, by default we doubt and dis-empower ourselves. If we are truly interested to feel confident and empowered, in order to live our life fully, we will need to let go of all the resistance to life we feel inside.

When you feel joy, FEEL that joy fully. When you feel disappointment, FEEL that disappointment fully. When you feel balance, FEEL that balance, when you feel imbalance, FEEL that imbalance - be present with your thoughts, emotions and sensations. Experience life as if this was your only chance to experience. Then gratitude sets in as a byproduct of your intent to live in present moment and curiously experience life.

That state of living (being in a state of gratitude) raises our energy, which essentially makes us feel empowered, whole and complete. When you are whole and complete, all you want to do is to give, because you feel you have and are not in lack. Then you may feel like you don’t want to give and are doubtful in state of resistance. Then you are not feeling wholeness, and are not in the state of loving life.

So ask yourself; “Do I dare to make a conscious choice not to resist what life brings to me and rather welcome it all, while extending faith and trust that what I am experiencing is exactly what I need to be experiencing?”