STRENGTHEN THE INTEGRITY OF OUR SOUL

I very much regret I did not make note of who wrote the following or where I even found it originally. I stumbled on it in my e-files yesterday when I was looking for a Goethe quote. I'm glad I saved it, I think it is excellent.

Having power is having integrity of the soul.
This requires that you regularly express your best self.

If something is getting in the way of that integrity, ask yourself, if I met my 17 year-old self

on the street today would s/he be proud of who I've become?  

We humans are the only species on the planet that can refuse to be who we are. The snake slithers,

the bird flies, but we humans can close off important aspects of ourselves. We must not allow

busy-ness, somebody else or the way we learned to manage stress,  hijack who we were meant to be.

 

If your teenage version of yourself is not proud of who your adult self has become,

keep digging, keep asking, and consider making adjustments to make that teenager proud.

This is one way to find who you are meant to be.

A client had an extensive work-up for unspecific, painful abdominal complaints

with no conclusive diagnosis. When he recognized that he was in a career his father wanted for

 him which did not suit him and he had no affection for, he leaned his ladder on a different

tree and began training for the career he always dreamed of. His abdominal complaints abated.  

So don't let the endless to-do list of life limit or confine who you are supposed to be.

Strengthen the integrity of your soul, check-in with your teenage self to deploy your best self

and make sure it is fully expressed.

Thank you.