The power of you.
I stood looking out of my kitchen window.
There's a small,
Fenced area.
And beyond that,
Acres and acres of fields.
And I noticed a beautiful butterfly.
This butterfly was dancing and floating in the wind within this fenced area.
And then journeyed to the corner where the two edges met.
And for a period of time,
Kept flying towards the corner,
Trying to get beyond to the acres of land.
And the more it tried,
The more it couldn't escape.
I was willing the butterfly to just look up,
Go back a little,
Try a different angle,
See that it was only one inch of fencing that held it within its so-called prison.
After a few minutes,
The gentle wind came along and helped lift the butterfly,
Lifted it high enough that it could see that it was not really trapped.
And soon,
It flew and became one with the landscape.
I thanked nature for the lessons it gives daily and for this lesson.
So many of us are like that butterfly.
So many of us feel that there's no way out.
That we are in fact caught in the corner,
Just as the butterfly was.
We forget that we can shift our perspective.
Look from above,
Look from behind,
Look from all different angles to see a new way of thought process,
A new way to change our world,
Our perspective.
And it's only us that keeps us in these so-called chains and bonds.
We've allowed people to put us in that place of feeling stuck in a corner or trapped.
And even if we physically cannot change our reality,
We can change our mindset around the reality.
We can create ways of looking at our reality differently,
To allow that sense of peace to come back and growth and expansiveness.
What we focus on,
We give power.
If we focus on the fence corner just as the butterfly did,
Then we feel powerless.
We feel trapped.
If we focus on all the other possibilities,
We focus on all that can be and all the wonderment,
Then that is what we give power to.
If you consider the trees,
The trees are not the grand glorious things that they are on their own.
They synergistically become this with the rest of nature supporting their process and their system.
They synergistically coexist with earth,
Water,
Air and other areas of nature.
Just as we synergistically grow and become glorious beings as we are when we incorporate other areas,
Other thought processes,
Other viewpoints,
Other experiences.
When we broaden our perspective,
When we allow in curiosity and wonder,
We grow and expand.
We become our own glorious tree of life with branches and growth and beauty.
When we focus on what isn't,
We become small.
We feel insignificant.
We can feel lost and alone and trapped.
And in truth,
We are always a magnificent being.
We are always our own magnificent tree of life.
We are always a choice,
Even if it's just our thought processes.
Our superpower,
Our true power is that only we can control our mind and our thoughts and our emotions.
No one can take that from us.
We get to take our power back.
We get to focus on the joy,
The love,
The opportunity and the growth.
The power of you is your soul,
Your heart.
It is not your mind.
Your thoughts feed your soul and your heart.
And so,
Allow yourself to fly free in the landscape and the acres of the fields.
Allow yourself to blow in the breeze like the branches of the trees do.
Allow yourself to feel that expansiveness as you give that power back to yourself.
Allow yourself to grow.
Allow yourself the gift of new perspective.
Allow yourself the gift of love.
You are the power of you.
Wishing you a heartfelt day.
