Be who you want to be, now!

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Everyone has desires and needs to be filled but what do those things say about the person we want to be?

Life is a journey a winding path through the lessons we are here to learn and with each lesson comes a new set of needs and desires that we use to define the type of person we want to be. We have needs that are set in motion by the very fact that we are human; a need for food and water, some form of shelter and clothing based on societal norms. Our physical body that we decided to take requires nourishment to function and live, that is a need we must fill regularly to exist. Based on the exterior environment we require shelter to protect the physical form from natural elements that we couldn't survive otherwise, and what we use to cover our bodies is based on were we live and our cultural beliefs. These are the needs we have created for ourselves just by coming into this physical form. But there are other needs and desires we have and those are unique to ourselves in the sense that we allow those needs and desires to define the type of person we want to be, our future image of self so to speak. These things we need and desire is our unconscious self recognizing we are not the person we wish to become. There is a gap between who we are now and who we want to be and those things we want, those tangible items, are the markers of the journey we feel we must take to be that person we see ourselves as. So when we spot a need or desire we should be asking ourselves, "who is it I want to be at this time that requires me having this thing to fill its place? What is stopping me from being that person I want to be at this time?" When these questions can be peeled back to their basic core then we can recognize the things that are blocking us from being who we want to be.

What can I do to be that person I want to be?

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It is so simple yet one of the single hardest things we will ever learn about ourselves. We must unblock those central beliefs we have about ourselves and heal them. We are always going to be given exactly what we need to be who we are right now, so we must live like that person we want to be so we can create the abundance of that person in our lives. To do that we must stop telling ourselves we are not good enough to be that person, stop telling ourselves all those little stories we have created about ourselves over time and start telling the stories about who it is we desire to be. The key is to be thankful for whatever it is we have right now while projecting from within the energy needed to manifest the experience we want. For years I said, "I want to be a Reiki teacher. I want to show others how to use the energy of Reiki to help heal themselves and others." The problem with what I was saying is I was projecting into the universe the energy of someone not ready to be a teacher. When I changed my story from want to I am that's when I started being a teacher. By living the life of a Reiki teacher, and sending the message to the universe I am already that person, that's when people started asking me about how they themselves could us Reiki. I wasn't being thankful for the things I had already learned, the knowledge I contained that could bring forward the person I wanted to be.

Why do I have to heal to be the person I want to be?

We need to remove the narratives we all contain from past trauma. Those little ear worms "I'm not good enough" "I don't have anything to say on the subject". We need to heal the part of us that first come into contact with those stories so we can release them from our energy. There are many tools to bring about that healing with, the most important one is self. Current self needs to release past self so we can live fully in the present. This isn't easy, it be painful, insightful, you may even find that you have already reached a place that the story behind the narrative has no effect on you just that you got so set in the habit of telling it you didn't realize it was finished. It can be very helpful to journal our way through the process of learning to live as the person we want to be. Journaling allows us to extract the details and give voice to them, by seeing the words it allows us to see the places that need healing so we can move through them. Meditating on a particular story can help bring insight freeing us from blocks within the narrative preventing us from moving forward. The thing with meditating is we get hung up on how it should look, so my suggestion with it is, do you; if you can't sit to meditate then don't, do what works for you. This could mean going for a walk, cleaning the house, gardening, anything that allows you to calm the daily chatter both in our head and around us giving us space to work through the blocks of past trauma. However you chose to work through the things that are holding you back what you will find when you release those things will be well worth the work.