Belonging to yourself also means taking FULL responsibility for yourself. Complete ownership of you. Your thoughts, your feelings, your actions, your inactions; all of it is on you. This is a challenge for many. This is why we wander through life seeking a place at someone else fire. For me, it means to open myself up to feel the true experience of me. It means to allow myself to be and then notice what that allowance reveals.
Let yourself experience YOU. Without any judgment, expectations, fears and stories about who you are. Step into the reality of your own being and experience that. Others have spoken of this experience during meditation, prayer, yoga, silence, and sometimes in unexpected moments of tragedy and loss. You belong to you. Allow yourself entrance into the home of your heart.
We fear the weight of personal responsibility of belonging to ourselves. But that is a small price to pay for the rich rewards of self-belonging. You can become a source of belonging for others who are seeking refuge on their own journey of self-discovery. And that act of embracing others, creating a space of listening and unconditional acceptance of others is the truest expression of our self-belonging. I have joined a wonderful tribe of women who are teaching me to truly discovery and belong to ME. In turn, they are witnessing my experiences and possibly learning from them as well. The more I share, the more I realize my own potential, talents, and true worth.
Once you experience this joy, this sharing of your light you will know the fullness of belonging to yourself. You can practice it daily. Being the source of belonging for others means that you can never not belong, you are the sun that draws others to its light. You cannot be abandoned by the light of your own sun. You become the invitation for others to be warmed and comforted in your belonging as well as inspired to continue to open themselves up to their own source of light, to see that they are their own sun. This exchange allows us to experience true belonging both as the one offering acceptance and the one receiving it. To belong to yourself IS to belong to the whole of humanity.
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