Re-defining Self

Let us talk about re-defining the self.

Perhaps we come to a stage where we realise we aren’t happy. We do not want to be the rescuer, helper, villain, martyr or <insert another archetype here> person anymore. Cool, good realisation, now what?

In this world it seems that everything needs a box; you belong in that box, I belong in this box, and perhaps together there is another box we both fit in to.

Think about it… that box defines you, you are what it says on the side and there may even be detailed descriptions of exactly how you are supposed to behave on it too.

Being defined by the box you fit into is more like a prison, and there is not always a clear way to break free. Perhaps it is easier to understand if I say we are all robots in these boxes, and we are programmed by definition to think, feel and act in certain ways.

We are that person, who does that thing, and can be continually expected to behave a certain way.

So, if we do figure it out, and we decide to break free because it just is not working for us anymore and we have had enough. Then we step outside the box and start to wonder, well, who am I really without my box?

Maybe we start trying to find prettier boxes to fit into, or handsome ones….(not really the point, but you get what I mean!)

Here is the real question – why do we want to live in any kind of box?

Even the good ones?

If we all spent some time listening to our inner voice…

Connecting with that whisper that is inside all of us….

Acting within the alignment of our soul and with heart and compassion…

Then we could create and re-create ourselves every breath.

Expanding and contracting with the resonance of the Universe and the depth of our beings.

If we did not put ourselves and each other into our neat, little, and super-stackable boxes, and we felt into what it means be who we are, we would all be a lot happier. A lot more fulfilled. Free.

For me, it is tempting to say I am out of that slave-driver box, the illness box, the broken box… and that I have decided I am now in the happy box, teacher box, healer box…

But I have decided there is not a box that I want to live in.

I am who I am now.

What I have done until now is not important.

What I do tomorrow is not important.

My presence in the now, being who I am, right now is important.

Acting in alignment with my soul, and with the love for humanity in my heart, may I always act with compassion and grace.

To live in flow and dance with the waves of resonance.

To be free and inspire freedom.

To choose love that knows no bounds.

To be me.

Love,
Me

List all your boxes, go on, you know you want to. What labels do you carry? Is it time to let them go?
Maybe you would like to write them all down, how you feel about them and then burn the paper.
Bye bye boxes!