Love Letter to My Soul
Dear Soul,
I hope all is well with you, and that you’ve been taking good care of yourself. Life’s responsibilities have been pulling me in different directions and leaving me with little energy left by the time my weeks were over. But I thought about you, your sincerity and your sweet poetry. I have been meaning to write this letter to you. I just needed some time to consult with the Universe first. So, I took many quiet walks under the moonlight to get my heart and mind together—something I do often when it comes to making big life decisions.
Here are some nuggets that came up from my recent reflection. I hope they help you better prepare your garden and your home for your next chapters with Love, to create room for more joy, happiness, stability, beauty, and abundance to arrive.
Let’s call this our Love agreement:
That winged thing you call Peace will only come and stay, after you remove the weeds and take out the rubbish that have been accumulated in your garden. The last time I checked, nothing healthy can blossom and flourish when there is a pile of mess still taking up all that space inside your home. It’s time to do some house cleaning, and make it a deep clean. Please remember that if your mindset doesn’t change, you will re-accumulate the same rubbish again.
Your social circle (both online and offline) of friends, influences, associates, or acquaintances, is a reflection of you and what you value. Choose wisely of those you keep around you and in your pocket, for they represent who you are. An old adage says, if you can count on one hand of all the people who consistently show up for you in your moments of crises and dis-eases, then you are truly a rich and blessed man.
Recognize when it’s time to bow out, step off the front stage, and close the final curtains of your performing for the applause of an audience that won’t ever show up at your sick bed. Perhaps, you have been doing that for far too long without realizing it—and it is not a good look on you. Let go of the constant need to please the crowd, and shed your burden to take care of the world and other people’s adult children, for they can take care of themselves. You can inspire people, but you cannot do the healing work for them. Do your diligence in your back stage and you will reap the fruits of your labor in due time.
Please remember, you cannot focus on your healing and your growth, or appreciate all the great things in front of you when there are many distractions available at your finger tips every moment. For certain distractions can be quite seductively toxic, and have the potential to derail you from your purpose and destroy everything that truly matters—your mental health, your wellbeing, your credibility, your character, your business, your marriage, and your family, especially in your moments of weakness and vulnerability. Learn to exercise healthy boundaries to protect your home and what is important to you.
Your next chapter will require that you leave certain people, habits, behaviors, belief systems, and messy situations behind. If you still have an attachment to certain mess, ask yourself what is behind that attachment? What unmet needs of yours does that serve? I hope you recognize that it is an unhealthy ego that plays the victim role, blames/shames others, and constantly craves admiration, attention, and validation from external sources, instead of looking within to face their own hurts and pains. These are all signs of unresolved grief and past trauma, which can further lead to challenges in intimacy and relationships.
To ascend to your next level of Soul growth, be willing to release everything, in order to gain everything. Or, hold onto everything, and lose everything. Take out the trash and empty your bag, so you can fill it up with the jewels that your heart desires and the things that nourish your Soul. For that is when your true Freedom reigns. And when the red sea parts, do your Freedom walk to the other side, but tell your sea turtle friends to pick up the pace and hurry up before the ship sets sail. Bring your best work of art to exchange for your key to the garden of bliss, where flowers bloom and Love awaits. Before you enter, please say goodbye to the chaos, the drama and the mess, for they belong in the last chapter.
Once you’ve learned that Peace is not easily served on a silver platter, but rather, a blessing granted after many hard battles won and many hurdles crossed, you won’t ever take it for granted. You must do what is necessary to protect your Peace and your sacred sanctuary. At all costs.
This agreement will be continually updated as we continue to grow together. Think carefully before you sign your life away. ;-)