Finding Your Way Back To You
Have you ever felt as if you have lost your way in your own life? Things, people, situation, circumstances have found their way into your life, where otherwise in a different setting they would not have been present in your life. You begin to experience certain issues that you never thought in a million years that YOU would be going through those things. The magnitude of those situations can take a toll on you mentally, emotionally, physically and psychologically. You begin to lament and beat up on yourself fiercely. Your sensibilities have been more than offended. They have been dragged through the mud, stripped and bared naked for the world to see. You begin to feel like you are a fraud and you are living a life that is not yours. You have lost your way and you don't know how to find your way back to YOU!
Does the previous paragraph describe you and what you have gone through or is going through? Don't despair, you are not the only one and you have NOTHING to be ashamed of. You feel as if you are to blame because you allowed the situation or the people to be present in your life. Now if it was as simple as that you would have just disallowed them from the get go. But that didn't happen. You know why? That's because you never allowed them in. They show based on our and their emotional issues. We all are mirrors of each other. We are spiritual beings having a physical experience. Therefore, your emotions, which is a part of your physical self will bring you into situations or attract you to others who share the same emotional issues as yourselves.
It doesn't matter how much you have lost your way, you can find your way back to you. It may take sometime depending on how long you have been away from your true self. We are all traveling on our individual path. However, there may be potholes along the way, deep ones that make it hard for you to climb out of once you have fallen in. The potholes maybe difficult to get out of, but not impossible. When you are feeling pain in your life and feel that you have lost your way, it means that you are not moving towards your authentic self.
What is your passion? What do you jump out of the bed and hop to first thing in the morning? (Please don't say the bathroom) J My passions are dancing, writing, reading and traveling. Those are my top passions and if I'm not doing any of those four, I feel like my life is just dragging along. I simply love dancing, especially anything that is Latin and Afro-rhythms. It gives me a natural high and it helps to transcend me to another plain where I can see my problems or issues in a new light. I'm at my happiest when I'm dancing, whether it's in the Dance Studio, the Club or at home in my Living Room.
However, believe me when I say I was not always this happy and contented. I know what it's like to not feel free to follow your heart's desires. I know what it's like to feel imprisoned and caged within your own mind. I also know what it's like to feel obligated to family, religion, and my gender and of course obligation is a natural precursor to feelings of guilt. It was during University that I was violently ill and upon visiting the Doctor, who was at his wits end trying to diagnose me, that he finally said to me, "you are doing too much in your life and if you don't drop some of your obligations they are going to be the death of you". Well, suffice to say that got my attention. It was a struggle to find my way to me since I never even knew there was a path in the first place. Was that the only time that I have lost my way? No, it's not. However, each time that I feel off balanced I know that somewhere within me I have forgotten the real me. Sometimes it's an uphill battle to get back to the essence of who I am and other times I simply do some fine-tweaking and I'm back on my path.
As human beings we tend to do too much for everyone and in the process we forget to do for ourselves. It is important that we learn to honour ourselves, our emotions and our bodies. Take the time to be still at times and just listen to the messages of your Soul. Don't think, just listen to you. Find a quiet place and get in touch with your Authentic Self. Spend some time alone and revisit that place of divinity and spirituality that exists within you. When you have begun to feel happiness, contentment and a feeling of oneness with yourself, know that you have found your way back to you.
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Trudy-Ann Ewan, Founder of Create Your Passion Spiritual Life Design Coaching, is a Relationship Coach. She specializes in assisting individuals who are seeking to bring more love into their lives, drama-proof their love relationships and at the same time remain true to their essential self and create their unique identity. To learn more, visit her website at: http://www.createyourpassion.com where you can sign up for her Free Newsletter, Free Assessment quizzes and where you can also join her Coaching Program. Feel free to join her Group on Facebook: Facebook / Create Your Passion Life Coaching
