You Can't Change Yourself
The New Year is often accompanied by a notion of needing to fundamentally change...
that there is someone else we need to become.
Someone else we think we should be.
And as we reflect on the past year there's temptation to become overwhelmed with guilt and shame about what we didn’t do,
what we wish we would have done,
who we intended to become, but didn't.
We fall short of this idealized “other” version ourself
and are faced with the gut-wrenching feeling that we "failed" because we didn’t change.
We never became the person that we thought we should be.
But the truth is, it’s impossible to become anybody else.
All that internal pressure to change…
that's just your ego talking.
Trying to keep you under its spell that you're not enough.
Trying to to keep you stuck in loops of thinking that your actions, behaviors, status and success is your identity.
Trying to keep you from realizing who you are.
Hear me out though, I’m not saying we can’t set goals and grow...
actually, quite the opposite.
I’m saying that in order to really grow we need to
realize
embody
and activate
the person God has already made us to be.
So today I’m here as a herald of good news:
You cannot change your identity.
You must awaken to your identity.
And when that really marinates in your Being
everything in life finds alignment.
Because now you're in flow.
Now you're in tune.
Now you're functioning from the powerful place of
I AM
instead of the powerless place of I need to be.
Then, the effect is that your life changes
but only beCAUSE your inner world awakened.
Don't get hung up on making effects a virtue, like so many do at the New Year.
Give your energy and vision to align with the cause of the effect.
This will keep you free and clear from the lies of the Ego.
This will keep you in tune with God expressing Godself in you, through you, and AS YOU.
This will enable you not to simply change, but TRANSFORM.
So, don’t seek to "change" yourself...
seek to more fully realize and activate the raw goods of who God already made you to be.
And witness how 2023 will be the best year yet...
Be blessed, friends!
- Luke
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