Look into yourself through a golden thread veil at who you really are. No need to avoid anything – no need to hide from the truth, or lie to yourself. Look in at yourself through the goodness veil with curiosity not judgement. Who am I?

Be Yourself – accomplish your dreams! – sounds obvious, but not really. How often do you think, “I’m not as good as…they won’t like me…or accept me…? Then the merry-go-round of “who do I need to be to be with you? It’s exhausting. Just be yourself. Think of Mahatma Gandhi. When he was asked what he would wear if invited to visit the British Prime Minister, he replied that he would wear what he always did, his dhoti. He said that to wear a suit would be thoroughly inauthentic. Hmm. He did attend that meeting in his dhoti and we all know what he accomplished being himself.

“The Habit of Everything” – The reason I say this is because habit is pervasive and it keeps us from making mindful choices. It is about unconscious, automatic reactions to life, rather than conscious, deliberate actions based on how we define our highest self. Habit is not right/wrong; good/bad – it just is. And it can keep us stuck believing that it is “just who I am”, when actually you are infinitely variable. How much does habit rule your life? dictate your behavior under stress? limit your potential to risk, stretch and grow? Pay attention and ask yourself, is this who you want to be – or are you willing to challenge yourself to try something new?

There is so much more to who we are than our physical form. It’s sometimes difficult to remember that when our culture promotes so much attention on our outward appearance. However, paying attention to our inner selves and all the non-physical aspects within – subtle shifts and changes that we perceive when we focus on self – is the highest work we can do. Take time today to look within “with great joy” and notice your non-physical reality. By paying close attention to the life force within, we can feel more peace, more calm and understand the meaning of true beauty.

It’s a fact that we don’t recognize our Greatness enough. Instead, we are conditioned to think negatively of ourselves – see our faults, what we do wrong, why others couldn’t possibly like us. When our body aches, we immediately think something terrible is going on, rather than understand that the wisdom of healing is in progress.
Let’s change that – let’s chose to focus on greatness instead – not in a narcissistic way, but rather in a wholesome and welcoming way. After all, Creator and creation are never separate, so let’s remember to honour the beautiful creation that we are.