I am ___ ???
Hey family!
There’s a lot of attention surrounding affirmations nowadays. On social media, I’m seeing a lot of posts about “I am this” or “I am that.” Now don’t get me wrong, that definitely has its benefits and was a great way to reinforce certain attitudes about myself for a while. But I found that the more I peeled back the layers of myself and went deeper into my head space, I discovered a lot of what seemed to be contradictions.
Like yes, “I am” the well-being coach who literally gets paid to do therapeutic boxing to help kids in the system, but I am also the kid who was just one lucky break away from being in the system myself. “I am” hopeful and excited for whatever the future holds but at times scared out of my mind and fixated on the past. It seemed like for everything I said I was, there was still an opposite aspect of myself present.
After grappling with this for a while, I came to accept the truth that I’m everything all at once. And although initially this concept confused the living hell out of me, there was one constant that I found: I’m always me. I just am. That’s it, that’s all there is to it. I don’t have to fill in the blank that follows, I can just be.
Looking back on how things have unfolded in my life, the entire projection of my journey shifted for the better once I began to give myself the space to just be. I finally allowed myself to simply exist without feeling the need to assign words to my experience or character, and that gives me so much peace. I’m allowed to just be.
What if we didn’t view our duality as a contradiction? What if we accepted our duality as a freedom - to not be confined to any label or idea - and instead just focused our efforts on being the most authentic version of ourselves?
What if instead of THINKING we are this or that, we realized that we just are?
What if we accepted all parts of ourselves and recognized them as pieces that make us whole?
Sometimes it’s not the labels that society places on us that leaves us stuck, but the labels that we create for ourselves. We have to instead challenge ourselves to be fully us, embracing all aspects of our nature. We have to be bold enough to live as authentically as possible, without regard to any defining terms that we so often place on ourselves.
The quote of this week is by Neville Goddard:
“Be still and know that you are that which you desire to be, and you will never have to search for it.”
Reflection question: In what ways can you allow yourself to simply be, and how can you create space for yourself to be at peace with your total being?
