Sunday, January 24, 2010

(Another) New Start

One great thing about life is that we have repeated opportunities to "start over". I'm ready for a New Start on loving myself and taking care of myself. I know what my issues are, but part of me just can't seem to let go of sabotaging myself. I am ready for that to change. I am ready to accept that a higher power loves me and can and will help me love myself. Wow! Can't believe how hard that sentence was to write!!! I have a real resistance to the "higher power" concept. All those years of religious mind washing that I have tried to obliterate have left me stunted in the belief area.

I wrote the paragraph above back in August, and am now re-reading it and thinking that I want to delete the sentence about a higher power.  Is it that I find it so hard to believe I am lovable?  Or is it so hard to believe there is a higher power?

I had a very powerful shamanic healing experience last summer, which correlated well with things I have learned about myself during years of therapy and self-analysis.  I think it is time to listen again to the recording of that session and be empowered by it to embrace the changes I want for myself.