Don't Be Afraid to Be...

What would be an appropriate subject for a posting that celebrates a year of writing these thoughts?  It was a year ago on June 16, 2011, that I started writing sparrowhawk speaks.
Would fear be an appropriate topic?  I’ve written about it a lot.  Those writings have helped me to define fear and even come to terms with it.  Fear is one of those sometimes quiet little destructive emotions that can disguise itself in so many other ways.  What if our greatest fear is that we are not good enough?
What if our greatest fear is that we really are not strong enough to live right, do right, be right.  Believe this:  You really are more than you have ever thought you are or could be.
Perhaps that is or should be everyones goal in life to learn who and what we really are.  Question everything, question yourself.  But don’t stop there.  Go looking for who you are, who you were created to be.  Don’t be afraid of looking down that rabbit hole of self.  I AM and so ARE YOU.  

Hear The Song of Spirit...

Across time and the universe
Hear the song of spirit
Your spirit
Calling
Calling
Calling you to your true being
Your true and honest self
Let go of past expression

Let go of karma

And listen to the spirit
Your spirit
Calling
Calling
Calling you to be your authentic self
Your spirit is calling you
To be the Divine you
The Angel you
The Human you
Listen to the spirit

Your spirit
Calling
Calling
Calling you

Sometimes that is the Point...

Take a look at yourself...
Have you ever felt you aren’t living up to your potential?
It is important to assess yourself.
It is important to know yourself.
What do you really love?
What do you really enjoy doing?
What makes your heart sing?
Who are you really?
If there are areas of your life you are afraid to look at.
Those are the areas that you need the most to look at.
Don’t be afraid to look at yourself.
You are an eternal spirit having a physical life on earth.
Physical life is difficult sometimes. 
Sometimes that is the point...

Selfhood... Making Choices...

Selfhood Pt. 3  Making choices 
Know yourself and know that you have choices.  It did not hit me until I was in middle age that I actually had choices.  I did not realize that I could make choices about my life that were not based on what I learned as a child.  And knowing myself allowed me to make better choices.   It may seem obvious that we make choices in our lives but what we need to realize is that those choices need to be conscious choices, that we make these choices about ourselves based on information about ourselves rather than allowing them to be made automatically by the programming we have received as a child. 

Selfhood...

An individual cannot reach their full potential without a strong sense of self. 
Getting a strong sense of self can be difficult because as children our sense of self is based on what we are taught, told and shown by parents, teachers, religious leaders, television and the environment around us.   Without proper guidance our entire sense of self is based on the ideas, opinions, and beliefs of others.  We grow up wondering who we are and feel defeated and without hope.   No matter your age you can develop your sense of self.   Start by taking an inventory.  Who are you?  What do you like?  What parts of your life give you joy and make you happy.  DON’T list your good and bad qualities.   List what you like, what you enjoy, what gives you joy.   Start looking at who YOU really are.    

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?

What do you see?...

The most difficult part of solving the problems in our lives is recognizing them in the first place.  Many of us like the feel of our own fear or worry or anxiety.  Often we have learned to live off of the energy of the drama we create in our lives.   These kinds of problems are easiest to deal with if we catch them when we are fairly young because they can become very set in our lives if we don't.  The older we are the harder it is to realize that often our problems are internal and we can't deal with them till we recognize them.     Look in a mirror.... what do you see?