Are you meeting your Self as you are, where you are, or are you speeding off towards an ‘imagined future self’?
Are you trying on different ‘self outfits’ in your mind, imagining that when all the pieces have fallen in to place just as you think you want, when you have changed in all of these imagined necessary ways, that then you will be so much happier, that then you will be so much freer, that then you will really be able to let go and enjoy.
It’s a bit like an imagined assault course that you have told yourself you need to go through, and standing at the finish line is this ‘better’, happier, freer, more accomplished version of yourself. First though there are various hoops to be jumped through, a few hurdles to overcome, a leap across a deep pond, and then a last minute sprint to the finish line . . And then, THEN you will be able to exhale and breath a deep sigh of relief. THEN you will be able to be you . . . but first the assault course!
Imagine now, meeting your Self AS YOU ARE.
We can spend our lives living for a tomorrow self, a self which never arrives as it is always placed somewhere out of reach. Or, we can choose to MEET our Selves right here, right now, as we are, in all of our unique fullness. You choose.
When we are constantly projecting outwards towards a ‘better’ self, we are essentially telling ourselves that we are not enough as we are. When we put off meeting ourselves as we are, we are never truly in relationship with ourselves . . . and we are therefore never truly in relationship with anyone else either. You may then ask, who is really meeting who?
As you EXPAND in to your fullness, you expand from the seed that is YOU. You come in to your unique fullness of expression, not by jumping outside to a ‘better changed place’, but by MEETING your Self as you are right now, living from the inside out.
You already ARE all that you will be, it’s only that some of it has shone through, and some of it is waiting in the wings for you to allow it through. Your job is not to sketch out a ‘future you’ that you think you want, that you think is best for you and everyone around you. Your job is to pause the thinking, and meet your SELF as you are. And that, that is available to you in every single moment.
Meet your Self AS YOU ARE, and give others the opportunity to really meet you. As meet your Self with open arms, you will not only expand from the inside out, but you will also unconsciously give others permission to meet themselves AS THEY ARE too.
Remember, YOU are available to you in every moment.