Who Might You Become?
What if you woke up tomorrow blessed with an amnesia concerning voluntary suffering? If, through some science fiction plot-line, you could step into — take over — your life as if it were new to you, what might you do with it? If you had no intellectual memory of who you have been, what you’ve done or haven’t done, what’s been done to you, or who you believe you are “supposed” to be, how might you proceed?
Look in the mirror, look around you, and take stock of what you really and truly have to work with. It’s a Serenity Prayer Breakdown:
- The things you cannot change
- The things you choose to continue
- The wisdom and insight to get real about the difference
What might you change if you didn’t know any better? What stories no longer serve you?
What part of Who You Are do you put on every day like clothes, like the same pair of jeans you wore yesterday?
- What if you didn’t know what’s “comfortable” and you could choose without history, rut, or just because?
- What if you could totally make it up?
- Which things about yourself could you reinvent?
What goes in the list that’s not set in stone?
Baggage
There’s a spaceship coming right now to take you to your new life, and you can bring three suitcases. You sort and pack:
- The things you cannot change
- The things you don’t want to change
- The things you really could change
At the last minute, before boarding, you’re told you can only bring two of your suitcases.
One we know you must.
The other is your choice — isn’t it an obvious one?
Would it help to be told you must leave the other — the choice is taken from you? You must take the things you cannot change and the things that you can — the things you don’t like about your life but must accept and the things you really like about yourself and choose to continue. Those you really could change but choose not to (or to choose to tell yourself you can’t), those that you don’t desire yet continue to bring forward — are taken out of the equation.
You do have a choice. Your old life is on fire — what are you going to grab?
Yesterday literally doesn’t exist. So, who might you choose to be today and tomorrow?
Contacting Your Spirit Guides - 101
Free resources for Shift Your Spirits readers:
- Read the ebook by Slade Roberson especially for beginners who want to know who/what spirit guides are and how to communicate with them
- Listen to the mp3 preview of the Spirit Guide Attunement portion of the Talking to Your Spirit Guides class by Slade Roberson
- Try the meditation to Meet a Guide contributed by Jeff Lilly of Druid Journal
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Hey Slade, this is super super timely for me! Amazing because I am in the middle of throwing out major things from my life that I am leaving behind- just leaving a whole part of me/ a paradigm behind. (btw I have a similar writing style to yours using pauses in sentences without breaking them up with periods. And I was wondering how do you type your long dash? I only see a small one on my keyboard like this: - . thanks! )
Listen, Slade -
I wish you would stop making me think so much.
I have enough to do already.
Fabulous article.
Ashwin,
I love it when these articles are super timely for you guys — that’s definitely The Big Goal here. (Technical note: the punctuation, the long dash, is called an emdash; WordPress is very kind to convert a double-hyphen into an emdash for us. Some word processors will do this automatically, just type two hyphens together without any spaces…)
Corinne,
Hilarious and totally original compliment — thanks for that!
In that metaphor, I’ve grabbed the things that I can change, am already in the cockpit, in Mr. Zulu’s seat, pushing forward the acceleration handle to warp speed (!)
I’m chomping at the bit of the things that I can change — I am excited to tackle each one in the moment that I am in!
Thanks for all you do Slade! - You played a key role in me finding Andrea Hess,
and now pursuing my passion, and the reason I am here on Earth!
Power on!
Jeremy
Awesome, Slade!
“Your old life is on fire”
When we think in this way, there can be no doubt as to what we want to keep. How often we keep packing around bags filled with burnt up ashes of our old life? Every moment, with every breath, we get to choose how we want our life to be.
Thanks for the yummy food for thought.
Jeremy,
You’re very welcome — congratulations on your warp speed trajectory. I’m happy to serve as Ship’s Counselor — Deanna Trio with a dash of Uhura — in a man’s body.
Sue,
I’m really struck by what fantastic big bright energy is coming through your comment — wow! Thanks for shining a lit bit my way.
I am working on walking away without as much baggage for the trip. Being able to let go brings so much freedom with it. Your articles are always fantastic and thought provoking. Thanks.
Ashwin–
(…and anyone else interested…)
In response to your comment:
The keyboard shortcut for an em dash (i.e. “—”) is “Alt” + “0151″ (so you hold down the Alt key then press “0, 1, 5, 1″ on the nubpad).
Likewise, an en dash (i.e. “–”) is “Alt” + “0150″, and an ellipsis—one that is a single character (i.e. “…”) instead of three periods (i.e. “…”) is “Alt” + “0133″.
To explain the idea behind an actual “ellipsis” keyboard character: from what I’ve read, and according to Wikipedia.com, “ellipsis at the end of a sentence with no sentence following should be followed by a period (for a total of four dots)” (i.e. “….”).
Obviously it’s up to you how choose to write, but I’ve found those above characters helpful in my writing adventures (especially helpful when writing Tweets for Twitter!). There’s something satisfying—empowering—about knowing how to produce a _real_ em dash (instead of “–”) anytime you want.
Happy writing.
– Bruce
Thanks Patricia!
(And thanks for the tips, Bruce)