Kids will put their hand on the hot stove even after being told repeatedly that they are sure to get burned. They want to try it for themselves…..test it out….see if it’s really true. They don’t want to be told that they can’t do something. If they can't, they want to know why not and you better have a good answer. I believe we are born curious. We want to try things, check out things. Why not? I don’t know where all the negative chatter in our head comes from, but I don’t think we come into this world with it. I don’t think I always believed I wasn’t good enough. I learned it. I have talked with "successful" people and they often say that it never occurred to them that they couldn't do whatever it was that they wanted to do….they just needed to find out how to go about it and do it. This is so foreign to me. I think too much so I have started trusting myself and acting quicker.
Why do we bother listening to anything other than, “you can do this, you are best at this” What purpose does anything else serve? I was told, “we don’t want you to get a big head”. I didn’t know exactly what a “big head” was but I knew I didn’t want one. “Big heads” were bad. “So and so has a big head”. Criticism creates a lot of chatter. I soaked it up like water to a sponge. However, now I move forward despite all of this chatter and I am even grateful for it in some ways. I wouldn’t necessarily trade it in. I no longer resent the past nor do I want to close the door on it. It has been my greatest teacher. Overcoming all of the noise in my head, rising above it, has taught me a great deal. The process of overcoming and then becoming has brought me home……home to the God within me....the voice in my heart.
I had to go wandering about, floundering about in order to reclaim that which I already had inside me. It had gotten buried deep underneath all of the scars I acquired along the way. Reclaiming and declaring who we are means more if we lost ourselves and we don’t know who we are anymore. This is what I think. Maybe some people always know who they are, I forgot. It is such a relief to see the light, to know……I’m getting out. I’m going to be free. I am free. I never could have known the truth of “I am that I am” in the way that I do today. I know that I will only be more of myself tomorrow than I am today. The manner in which I hit bottom and crawled back up and out of a deep well to find myself is not for everybody. I don’t necessarily recommend it. I had to lose everything……lose everything including myself. I had to sit on the edge of this life. Everyone has their own path to peace and to freedom.
When we are truly free, we can be. If we are able to be, then we are present with the doing, whatever it is…. however simple, however complex. More and more I see that anything I am inspired to do is possible. I need only to get started….to get into action. More is always revealed. If I follow my heart, the universe shows up to support me. If I am led in a completely different direction once I am in motion, it never seems to upset me. I am grateful. I landed in some unexpected place with some unexpected miracle that I never would have experienced if I had not been in motion. Dare to Dream it. Do it and see what happens, where it leads you. Be inspiration in action. Honor Your Truth!
Debra, I love this video. Even the pompoms on your hat hurl themselves toward the camera as if to emphasize your Big Yes, do it and make it happen.
Chickee
Dearest Debra,
You are so creative with your videos!! I simply adore you
Yes, I agree Everyone has their own path to peace and to freedom. Yet, not everyone has the courage to stay on their path long enough to remember the truth of who they are. You have! Because you truly are a courageous BraveHeart Woman!
YES! I Believe “If you can dream it, you can do it”
Thanks for sharing your truth. We all need to embrace all that we are in every moment and yes it can look differently to everyone.
Thanks for putting yourself out there. I am inspired.
Walk always in the light,
Melissa Sarazin
Debra,
Great post! I love your videos. And yes, I believe that if you can dream it, you can do it. Of course, once you dream it, you have to commit yourself to the dream and then begin it. Goethe said, "The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decisions, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man (woman, too) could have dreamed would come his (or her) way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now."
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