After a Journaling to Joy participant reads her response to the given prompt, the next reader says hers can’t compare, before she shares, which, naturally, is completely different, authentically hers, and just right.
Comparing.
Comparisons.
Oh, my…yes.
How many times have we belittled our own contribution before making it in a group? How many times have we held back from sharing in fear of how our ideas may be taken? How many times have we belittled ourselves for a thought?
In the journaling circle, we talk about it a bit, leading my mind and heart the next few days to muse about a deeper topic — that we are complex, unique souls who can’t be compared to or with one another in any way, shape, or form — punctuated by the wisdom of Wayne Dyer and Carolyn Myss through CDs in my car, and through recent, stellar movies we’ve seen, Philomena and Nebraska.
Here’s my re-telling of a poignant story Carolyn Myss relates in her audio, Sacred Contracts.
A young student in India is learning from his Master by shadowing him. One day he asks about his Master’s healing choices that pass over certain people and heal others.
Why didn’t you heal that suffering, crippled boy and his Mother?
His Master pauses to look at his student, saying he’ll answer only once.
In a former life, that boy was a harsh judge who meted out cruel punishments, and his Mother was the guard who enjoyed punishing prisoners. If I were to heal them, I would prevent their souls from learning what they need to learn.
I don’t know if you believe we have eternal souls that return to experience different lifetimes, or not, and I believe it with my whole heart, through personal experiences, and through reading, so the Sacred Contracts CD landed powerfully inside me.
As a little girl, I held on each night to a memory that I was here to write something that will add peace into the world.
There were times in my 30s and 40s that I wondered if I’d accomplished my purpose.
Was THAT article the one my soul was to write?
Feels silly to write that now, but that’s where my understanding was back then.
Nowadays, I know I’m on my soul’s path, and I’m grateful every day for serving as I am able.
I’m beyond comparing my life with another, for I believe we’re all ONE at the hub of a wheel, and we’re called to individuate along the spokes…to live our particular journeys.
How is your life coming along?
Are you burdened by expectations another places on you?
Are you tucking resentments inside?
Are you carrying childhood fears or wounds?
Are you living into your passion and purpose?
Are you grateful each day serving clients?
Are you being LOVE and bringing LOVE wherever you are?
We’re each here to heal into our whole, loving, wondrous selves to radiate God’s light wherever we wander.
Come along!
Do you sometimes feel bogged down with life?
Could you use a reminder that your deepest longing is to heal into the soulful person you are created to be?
Would you like to evolve into a version of yourself filled with peace and joy?
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