How you have been treated you doesn't define who you are, neither do your life circumstances. Your self esteem and image is beyond form, beyond dictation from others.
What image have you created around how you think others see you? Is this really how they see you? Does how they see you matter?
What matters is your image of yourself, not who others see you as. The only way to truly understand who "I am" is, is by embracing the here and now. We can never know who "I am" is through our roles, identities and external form, we can only ever come to know ourselves through this moment. Our identity cannot be mentally constructed it must be felt.
The space of your core soul self is the space that you can always be living from, it's in this space that magic and mystery combine to create a life that is built upon ones purest self.
In the moment of now, all we ever have is stillness, yet stillness is enough; within stillness you will be able to be more creative, tap into the higher divine force, and manifest endlessly.
Stop judging yourself, overthinking and declaring that your life "must" be a certain way. Your "musts" are your ego.
Lets release some of your "musts" today, complete the below sentence:
What must you do?
Who must you be?
What must you have?
How must you live?
Do you notice any themes?
Were you the one who decided your "musts"?
Or were your musts imparted onto your from your family or spouse?
What has happened and what we have been taught are small rocks that we must clear out of our streams. After we have taken the small rocks out, we will notice that the stream flows smoothly, the water no longer needs to go on top or go around the rocks, it simply is what it is, water flowing through without anything in its way.
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