Share what U choose

To travel to places unfamiliar or familiar is always an opportunity to raise new levels of awareness. This moment is a chance for you to share an experience that expands the way you view self and the world.  Share an expeience that initially distressed or scared you and how you chose to rise above it.  Which meaningful lessons to you gain about love?

Comments

[Jannie Funster]

traveling always reminds me how similar all humans are and how we should love each other.

[Liara Covert]

Jannie, humans are learning to appreciate each other in new ways. Travel does enable people to realize they have more in common than they realize. Some people would also like their suitcases to share stories after being lost in transit and later reunited with their owners.

[Bern]

Whatever scares us is an indication that we are not living life. True Life and Living is closed off from attaching one's view to fear. Therefore, when one becomes brave enough to challenge or to listen to fear, they can unwind it or detach from it, allowing for the moment to penetrate the mind, the heart, and the body more fully.

Some people watch scary movies. They are confronting their fears by purposely placing them selves along the path of their discomforts. However, some people are a slave to feeding such fears. So intent must be clear in every action that is conducted. Therefore, travel either physcially or mentally or spiritually to places that blockages occur. Know that the walls are an illusion and can be taken down. Approach them from as many angles as possible to get to know the fear or energy hog. Eventually you will know the face of fear and it will no longer be able to touch you.

I used to like learning about ghosts. At first one may have a fear of ghosts, but then as you study them through books, television shows, movies, and then eventually through first hand experience, one learns why ghosts exist in the first place. Fear is therefore transcended through the accumulation of knowledge gleamed from others and through personal experience. Ghosts then can be listened to and helped, instead of feared. Their personal tensions can be then relaxed allowing them to move on. This is an act of love. One then learns that any ignored issue can be labeled as a ghost waiting to be listened to and released back into the Light of Day.

[Liara Covert]

Bern, the ghost analogy is a fascinating one. This concept reminds people they often fear what they do not understand. To choose to step back and recognize feelings for what they are is very empowering. You may appreciate the following:
http://blog.dreambuilders.com.au/journal/2009/3/2/how-to-subjugate-a-ghost.html

[Lara Jane]

I was sexually abused from the age of 3 to 12 years old. My entire teenage to early adult life I lived with their secret, never understanding how it truly effected me through my behaviors and choices. Finally I escaped my home country and embarked on my world travels. It was the best thing I ever did. Eventually I was lead to met my "spiritual healer", who after giving me a big hug, simply said these words "I am so sorry that not every touch which has been given to you, has not been from love". He was a stranger, but somehow I knew that he knew, yet I had never told him. I broke down and cried...

It was a terrifying, yet magical experience. The next few weeks, for the first time in my life, I finally acknowledged to myself what had happened to me as a child, and through acknowledging it, I was able to start the process of understanding how I had become the person I had become, finally accept what had happened, and then embrace it as being part of my life journey.

Those few weeks changed the essence of who I was and ultimately my entire life. I shed all my destructive habits and defense mechanisms and finally confronted my abuser, which until then, had been my deepest, most terrifying thought in the world.

The entire experience made me a more compassionate and much stronger woman. I now am repowered with owning my sexuality and am capable of choosing much healthier, more loving and respectful partners.

It was a beautiful, yet tough experience, and I believe that it is impossible to live your very best life unless everyone has dealt with their past because really, no one escapes child abuse unharmed.

I wrote an article about dealing with your past on my own site which you may be interested in reading : http://ultimatelifestyleproject.com/2009/08/06/dealing/

Thank you for the opportunity to share my story. I hope it inspires you to look into your own path and deal with what is there too.

Peace and much love
Lara

[Liara Covert]

Lara Jane, to find inner courage is to open up to fearless being inside. This story reveals the healing power of true self-disclosure. Every choices helps awaken love.

You and others may appreciate Patricia Singleton's website. She candidly reflects on experience similar to your own childhood and how it can be viewed as meaningful part of a soul journey to empowerment:

http://patriciasingleton.blogspot.com/

[Patricia Singleton]

Liara, thanks for your comment alerting me to this post. Thank you for recommending me to your readers. I appreciate the link love.

Lara Jane, it sounds like you were lead to the right person at the right time to start your journey through your healing. Congratulations on the courage that you showed in facing your past.

Today, I thank God for my past. Without it I would be another person entirely. I like the person that I am today. I hope that you do as Liara suggested and visit my site. Let me know what you think.