Continuing on the theme of what’s holding us back: there is such a shedding of weight when we release the fears we keep inside.  It can be very literal or it can be a feeling we have, a constant refrain or thought we carry about who we are.  It’s the false beliefs we’ve trained ourselves to believe are real.  Even those false beliefs can be classified as traumas because the brain continually repeats something, even something destructive, and it integrates that thought into what we believe we are capable of.  That negativity is pervasive and it can take over our minds and energy.  As we spoke about yesterday, we often think that is what’s protecting us but it gets to be a burden.  As soon as we release the shield we’ve created, there is room to breathe, there is room to flex and move freely in our own skin.  It is in learning to move in that state where we really develop our gifts and talents.  It’s there where the things we are meant to have flow to us because we are in the energy we were always meant to be—our own. 

As we continue to develop and evolve, as we resonate with our own frequency and energy, one more question develops: What is there to fear in a life that is bound to end?  There is no other outcome possible in this universe: death is inevitable and assured.  I know this can be distressing to fully consider—it freaked me out for years and it only reinforced my neurosis of doing things perfectly the first time around.  If I wasn’t perfect I wouldn’t do it, if I didn’t get it right I punished myself.  The reality is that the more time we spend trying to be perfect, the further we get from being who we are.  I’ve said it before: the goal isn’t to be perfect, it’s to be perfectly who we are.  There is a transition that happens as we near certain points in our lives and we learn to understand that there is no reason to be anything other than who we are, that time is precious and that we devoted far too much time to being something/someone else anyway. 

While there is this finality in death, it is also a great motivator.  After a certain amount of time we will literally be nothing more than bone and ash so what do we need to worry about in the grand scheme of things?  What is the point in fearing stepping into what we want to do.  Yes, there are certain actions with very real consequences, but if we are only following our calling then we can never be steered wrong and we will always prevail.  We are most definitely meant to succeed in our own skin, whatever form that metaphor takes for us—swimming or flying.  The bottom line is that there are both kinds of skin and one isn’t any better than the other.  But when we judge a fish by it’s ability to fly or when we think we are wrong because we know how to fly and not swim, that’s when we lose sight of that uniqueness and we allow our true purpose to either become a burden or something to hide.  Release the burden and allow the inherent greatness of who we are to shine through, no matter where we are.  The world needs us in our highest form—and that is the core of who we are.