We all experience what we allow ourselves to experience. We only see what we look at. Every day more things happen around us than we notice. And this is ok because we cannot absorb all that happens in all its varieties. That’s why we only see things from the state of consciousness we are at that moment. That is all it needs. Because everybody will find exactly what’s meant for them at that very moment. Isn’t it just amazing to think that even one single situation holds every little aspect for everyone who encounters it in its individual way? I am still mesmerized by that thought.
So whatever happens in a moment, in a day, in our lives, we will always see it from our personal point in life we are right then. If we believe we are lonely and no one cares then the helping hand will not say: “I am one of many hands who are there for you.” No, you will perceive it as: “That helping hand feels pity because I am lonely. Which proves my obvious loneliness.” That person is so focused on its pain and on the conviction of being lonely that they will not even see all the helping hands reached out to them. They often won’t even allow them to help them and rather push them away to confirm their loneliness.
The same happens with love. The more I feel worthy to be loved the more I will love myself, the more love I will send out, and the multiple times more love I will receive. Many years ago I had an amazingly good-hearted woman coming to my practice. She did everything for everyone. Really, everything. She was treated like second class by her husband and his family and that unfortunately infected the kids too and they got mean and difficult to handle for her. She began to suffer from anorexia and it was shocking to watch her falling more and more apart. After she finally decided to get help and went to therapy she left her husband but it was a horror for her. She got no support but instead got blamed for everything and cheated for every little cent she needed to feed her kids. I admired her for how she made it although she was close to breaking down due to the sorrows and the pressure. She accepted help and was more than happy about it. But she was full of guilty feelings at the same time. She said she could never give that back to me or the others who helped her. I often told her that she deserves the love and help she gets because she needs it right now. I told her that she was giving so much too in the way she could which was more than enough. What matters is that love and help are given where it is needed at the time when it is needed. But it doesn’t matter if this happens between the same people. We are all one big family, sitting in the same boat (or on the same planet). So what you do to my neighbor you do to me.
It is so important to give love but it is at least the same important to accept it or the love that wants to be given brings sadness instead of building up an unbreakable force. If we consider someone as worthy of love then you are the same worthy. There is no one more or less important or worthwhile. No one! Who is entitled to define who is worthy of love? Who is entitled to define if I am worthy in general? No one is. And I mean NO ONE… not even I!
We are all precious, light-filled, divine creations made by and of love. If you consider yourself or others less deserving then you simply forgot who you and we all are.
When you believe it, it will be it!
In Love and Light
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Empowering message and power booster for the spirit. We are all worthy, we need to recognize and accept our worthiness. We need not belittle ourselves.
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Oh, yes! We all are and I am happy for everyone who broke out of the opposite belief and feels the whole power how life can be once we allow us to enjoy life and ourselves!
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Yes, there is a life that is meant to be lived and enjoyed to the fullest!
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So so true!!
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Erika, your second banner speaks to what I witness in too many people. They have to denigrate themselves and cannot accept any compliments. I told one relative she needs to quit picking on herself. There is an old line that applies about this mindset – the person does not want to go to party where the host was stupid enough to invite him or her. That is an “Eeyore” attitude that is hard to remedy. Keith
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Yes, it is scary how strong that belief is implanted in some people! They are so convinced that everyone else is more deserving than they are and whatever you try to explain they will always find a “but”… at one point I stop talking to them because we are walking in circles!
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Nice post.
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Thank you, Jay!
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These words so encouraged me, Erika. As I told a grief counselor today I don’t know much about anything not even what I am feeling. Even though I don’t “feel” love for me, I “know” it’s still there however because I see the reception of my energy. Yes even under these extremely difficult circumstances, I am still creating and accepting LOVE. And as time moves on and this pain is not as acute, I’ll “feel” love again. Thanks so much for this post!! 💞
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Amy, that was a touching comment. You have become so aligned with love over the past years that even if you may not feel it right now, it is so present that it carries you through the difficult times until you can walk by yourself again. I am sending you the biggest bear hug, dear Amy 💖
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Yes, Erika, Love really is a constant in my life. Thank you for that bear hug! So appreciated! 💖
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That calls for another huge hug 💖💖💖
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Beautiful thoughts! I especially the ideas about accepting the love.
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Although it sounds paradox it can be so difficult to accept love. It has to do with our self-esteem. Thank you, Nico!!
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Peace. 🙂
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Thank you and to you too!
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The people we love make us what we are.
From our perspective:
The simpler the standard of living, the more people support themselves!
There, the community works with simple rules.
Everyone has a role and everyone needs the means to do so.
Just like the plants; they donate oxygen, shade, food, building material … they take nutrients, light and water => and that’s the same with us humans.
We are not only here to give and we are not only here to take!
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“The simpler the standard of living, the more people support themselves!” I love that line! The North of England is generally friendlier than the South. The North is industrialized, whereas the South is generally more affluent. Fundraising in Peterborough UK (my origins) was always concentrated on the lower income parts of town where homes were rented. Spending time in the more affluent areas was not very productive but, as somebody (perhaps Leo Buscaglia?) once said “The more you have…. the more you hold on to it, because the more you have… the more you have to lose!”
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Thanks and yes you’re right. In addition to that we all know: just owning more doesn’t make us more happy (mid- or longterme). Many peopel don’t know how to survive the upcoming days but there are smiling and are happy.
We are mostly already in mode: live to work instead of work to live.
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Exactly Bruno, and it was a pleasure chatting. Now, as we are both using Erika’s blog, it would be rather nice if she served refreshments don’t you think? 🙂
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😂👍, oh yes – too funny!
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Right, life is a constant giving and receiving. It needs both to keep the balance. That’s why we need to accept support, help, love as much as we are to give it!!
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Exactly – as in many things, the balance is important!
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Right!
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Love your inspiring thoughts sis. Xxx
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Thank you so much! I am happy you liked it, dear sis 💖
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💖💖💖
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Speaking directly to my heart
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I am thankful to hear that, Annette! And I understand. Lots of love to you 💖
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The “Self Fulfilling Prophecy” or “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t…. you are right.” (Henry Ford).
Great Post Erika… loved the details!
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I absolutely love that quote. It is so true! Thank you very much, Colin! I always appreciate your comments!
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I love this post, it’s a great message. But how does someone go from a non believer to a believer?
I hope you’re well 🙂
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I am still amazed that we are more likely to believe that things won’t work instead that they will. The chances are 50/50! But once we broke that spell we understand that it is only a decision we need to make!
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I understand that, to a greater degree I rely on my experience and knowledge to help with that rather than faith. ☺️
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The next question is: Why is our experience so negative? Because we only rely to the negative things which causes more negative experiences… guess how this continues…
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Hmmm… Let me guess. So why do we think negatively them if it’s bad for us?
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Good question! What’s the use?
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I don’t know… Only to imprison us.
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Exactly! And if we have the choice so why not deciding for the direction that liberates and makes us create empowering experiences…
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It’s a mystery… Maybe one we’ll never solve ☺️
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A little child is free of all judgement. It gets influenced over the time first of all by the point of view of its parents, how it is treated…. and so on. It is a breakthrough to realize that we are not obliged to think in a particular way. How would we ever experience a breakthrough if we had never been cadged…? And once we realized that it is always I myself who limits me the most it is in my responsibility to change my point of view!
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That’s all very true, we ruin our kids really.
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Then again, nothing happens accidentally. It is not about the ruining but about the rise of the Phoenix that comes from it!
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That sounds very poetic ☺️
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I just wrote a post that includes that subject!
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I’ll have a look ☺️
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It is scheduled for the 29th… Monday in a week.
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Ok, I’ll try and remember that ☺️
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You’ll see it, no worries!
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Ha! I hope so, I’m not in as much as I would like ☺️
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You can turn your email notifications on until it is published. You can delete the post-emails you are not interested in…. lol!
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I have you on daily email alert anyway ☺️
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Oh, cool…. lol!!
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I just need to keep track of it ☺️
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I will… I’ll make sure of it ☺️
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I would suggest that knowing we tend to be a negative thinker should give us the incentive not to be. Intuitive negative thinking is so often self-esteem based (nothing good ever happens to me/I’m not worth it/ some people get all the luck). It can also be a learned trait (parents were negative). It can also be societal based due to most of us having limited control over our lives, and then we have a mass media telling us all the time what we need to do/wear etc. The media news is generally preaching gloom and doom so we can be forgiven for thinking that everybody is corrupt. How do we change? Recognize our ability to make choices. I can choose to believe the whole world is corrupt, or I can (and do) choose to believe that while corruption is “alive and well”, the majority of people are simple, honest people making a life for themselves. We really are the result of our choices.
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Of course, we are influenced from all sides all life long. Once we understand that an attitude is nothing else than a choice we are free to believe what we want to believe. At the same time we take responsibility for our decisions, and stop blaming others for who we are and where we are!
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Exactly. I was once approached by a work colleague who complained that they never won the lottery. They explained that they spent $20.00 a week on tickets, but somebody else always wins… just not them. I suggested that they were presumably buying the tickets by choice, to which they replied they could really use some extra money. I asked if they would be interested in getting $1000.00 every year for basically doing nothing… and it would be guaranteed. They were skeptical but interested. I said to stop buying lottery tickets that have incredible odds against winning, and put the $20.00 a week into a bank savings account. The power of choice should never be under-rated. 🙂
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Haha… I was sure how this would conclude!! Did he follow your suggestion?
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I don’t think so. I think greed would rule over common sense. Such a shame.
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Yes, a shame indeed!!
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Beautiful Erika, thanks for sharing
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Thank you very much, Nahla! I appreciate your comments very much 💖
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These are wonderful inspiring thoughts that we need to repeat in “ things we say to ourselves” . We deserve every good thing we get and not let it slip away. 🙂
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Yes, that is a good point, Holly! This is an affirmation we should start and end every day with 💖
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Could not agree more Erika. ❤
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Lots of love to you, Holly!!
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Great post Erika and I needed this reminder today 🙂
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I am very thankful that it came at just the right time for you, Irene. You are such a wonderful, generous, and lovable person. Some people try to convince us with their words and actions that we are less deserving and that knife can leave a cut that is not healing for decades but it doesn’t change the fact that we all deserve the best! Lots of love to you, Irene! I am happy to have you in my life 💖
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Thank you Erika. I do my best to be kind, but sometimes it is not enough and then I find it might be necessary to show, that I’m not totally stupid, usually just kind.
I have had challenges with the electricity in my house since day 10 and Saturday I thought, that I came through with my message to the owner of the house, also kind but no doubt about, that I was serious.
An electrician should have been here today, but nothing happened and no messages at all. Then my patience is running out now.
When I wrote at your post earlier, I still thought the best.
I’m learning to act more straight here, otherwise I will regret, this by experience.
I hope your day has been great 🙂
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Oh, I see! Kindness is one thing but that doesn’t mean that others can treat us however they want. This is also a matter of respect, and we need respect for us in order to make others see that we deserve respect… btw. that’s part of the topic of my next Monday post!
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I wrote a post about the challenges with the electricity some days ago, but hoped for a solution fast.
I’m looking forward to your next Monday post 🙂
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At least it was inspirational… but I hope the problem is solved soon now!!
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