Choose empowerment
In order to heal, you must commit yourself to the possibility of living free of fear, anxiety, anger, pain and illness. No matter how difficult your situation, you must decide inwardly that you want to and will head in the direction of what is empowering for you.
Just as a sailor must steer his boat toward his destination by establishing a firm grip on the rudder of his boat, so too you must decide that instead of focusing your attention on what you fear or dislike, or on the pain you feel, you will focus your attention on moving toward what you want. You must have a goal that inspires you, a North Star that guides you.
And just as the sailor recognizes that he will encounter contrary winds that he has to deal with in order to get where he wants to go, you also must know that when you feel fear, anger, disappointment, pain and so on, that does not mean you are defeated.
It means you are being challenged to get clearer in your determination to follow your unique path in life, the path of freedom from fear and pain. This challenge of committing to a path of empowerment and of finding what tools will help you get there will confront you in different forms throughout your life, because life is a school whose lesson is empowerment, and you are meant to learn that lesson.
Ingrid Bacci
How true! So very well stated!
Karen
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I love this (even if it is a challenge…)
No matter how difficult your situation, you must decide inwardly that you want to and will head in the direction of what is empowering for you.
Thanks for sharing another great post!
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Anybody with whom this quote resonates will get a lot out of ‘A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual lessons for surrendering your weight forever’ by Marianne Williamson (she of ‘A Course in Miracles’ fame). Although it uses the word ‘weight’ in its title, it is really a tool to help us become comfortable in our own bodies, and to break down the wall that most of us have built around ourselves, for whatever reason, brick by brick.
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When you lose the person with whom you have dreamed and planned of all the things you would do together in the remaining years….when there is now nothing you want or hope for….when you absolutely lose that guiding star, how do you ever find your way back?
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Oh, Nancy, your comment broke my heart. I don’t know if it’s possible to find your way back. It can never be the way it was. You are on a completely new path that you didn’t want, but I hope you can find a measure of peace and hopefully moments of joy. You are helping others by speaking out the way you do, I hope that brings you some comfort.
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Nancy, i am so sorry that you are still hurting from your loss so much
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Marie,
This was lovely, thank you. It gave me so much to think about. And what refreshing use of the term “empowerment.” Some people toss the “empowered patient” term around like it’s a grenade. This is empowerment in its truest sense.
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You are so right Jackie – I hadn’t thought of it like that before 🙂
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