Do you have a mind of your own?

Do you have a mind of your own?  According to THE FIFTH AGREEMENT by father and son Ruiz:
"Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself is because you learned it.  You learned the opinions from Mom, Dad, siblings, and society.  .....  And now you think so many things about what you are, but are they the truth?"
When we are little everything we are become comes from someone else and we take that into our adulthood and beyond.   Often we don't even know that.  So do you have a mind of your own?

Take your place...

All our lives we have given away little bits, sometimes large amounts, of ourselves to get along in the world.   Our family, church, school, tell us do this, do that, don't do this, don't do that.   And so our life becomes a lot of what we hear and only a little of what we choose and feel.    It is okay to claim those little and big bits.   Its okay to claim our coping skills, our relationships, our love and our spirituality.  
Take your place,  look at all the places where you have given away your power, make your choices and stake your claim.   Stake your claim for what is already yours.    Espavo... I see you claiming that which is yours.