We All Are Souls in Growth

      

Be gentle with yourself. We are all souls in growth. What we know today, we didn’t know yesterday. What we will know in a year, we don’t yet know. We need to show ourselves love… always. There is never any need for self-criticism. Instead, go within and get to know yourself better. What positive purpose are your “short-comings” attempting to serve? How are they an attempt at self-love? How can you address those attempts in a more self-loving way? We don’t engage in negative actions because we want to hurt ourselves. We engage in them because we are already hurting. We are trying to regain a sense of control to alleviate the pain and feeling of powerlessness. 

The most powerful thing we can do for ourselves is to surrender. The past is the past. It’s over. Nothing we do today can change the events of yesterday. But we can acknowledge how much pain certain events caused us. We can soften to ourselves and know that, no matter what, we survived. We are still here so there are resources we accessed within ourselves that allowed us to get to this point. 

When we can acknowledge the pain and the unhealed wounds deep within us, we can call our attention to our behavior when we are about to do something that is in response to these wounds, as opposed to our desire for a better life in the present and future. We can make a decision to make the best decision possible for ourselves. And we can forgive ourselves when we fall into old patterns. We are at least recognizing these behaviors as “wrong” and harmful to ourselves if we are ready to criticize ourselves for them. That is a tremendous sign of growth right there. There was probably a time that we didn’t even see what we were doing and how we wanted to improve. 

Congratulate yourself when you are getting ready to be hard on yourself. It is a sign of growth that you are feeling remorse or regret or an inner urge to fo better. That is how we grow and how we learn to leave the past behind us in order to build a better, more beautiful future. ~Karin M. Keyes

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