I learned a great lesson this past week. It was all about acceptance. There are people in my life I look up to, as I’m sure you do. I count them as mentors or friends. I expect they will play their role as that certain type of person to me.

Although when they do something that I would judge as not right or in line with my values, how do I react?

The truth is: There is no one else but just me. Now if you haven’t had a chance yet to watch the WTF program, then you may struggle with what I am about to share.

I truly believe that we are experiencing life moment by moment. We are just playing with other parts of ourselves, one energy moving through all things, one drop in the same ocean.

Now, this gets tricky when you forget and place power in something you create as you, and then say this is something separate. I experienced what happens when I forgot this over the past week.

If I believe that who I am is this body and that is my identity, then I am bound by all its limitations in the story of life. That means: Life can happen to me rather than life happening through me.

My identity, then, places expectations on how things work in my reality, based on the beliefs I choose to adopt in my thinking. Then and there, I have basically allowed for life to slap me around. I place power in those I look up to and forget that they are just me dressed in a different costume. That’s what happened this week. Life changed on me. Rather than accepting the change and being open, I allowed my thinking to take over. I started buying into my perceived reality and saw someone as separate.

This may all sound a little far out. But, for me, it’s not fun when I forget who I truly am. I become small and limited rather than being expansive and limitless.

I believe that I am free and always have been. The journey now is about truly living from that space. So, bring on life to show me where I don’t see myself, and rather, something or someone who is separate.

As long as I believe that who I am is limited by life itself, then that feeling that connects me to who I truly am will never become more real than my circumstances, good or bad. I will be left not living to the fullest expression of the love I came here to experience and share.

How accepting are you of yourself? Do you beat up on yourself when things don’t go according to plan? Or, do you stay open to limitless possibilities?

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