Finding the Courage to be Different
Day 7: Embracing what makes you unique takes you further down the path
Developing courage and resilience to step out into the unknown is what my 100 day journey is all about. Each and every day for one hundred days I will be exploring the spiritual growth book: The Infinite Self by Stuart Wilde. This book has and will continue to be my guide as I grow spiritually for the rest of my life. Every day I will be sharing what I am learning with you in the hope that it helps you on your path as well.
Today’s leg of the journey is all about having courage and resolve. In order to grow, we need to have the resilience to move forward on our own. We must start to step into unknown territories. We must know that we will be going on a path few have traveled.
Agree with yourself, in a quiet moment of prayer and contemplation, that you do have the courage to be different. You will change, and you will fight the ego’s lack of energy by embracing a few new ideas. You may get some flak from people around you because you want to change, but so what? In a stagnant situation, anything is better than staying where you are. -Stuart Wilde
I am delving deeper and deeper into the inner unkown. Just over a year ago I decided to let go of a way of life I had held on to for many years. I started a new business and started over. I began to see that I could spread love, light and change for others through this new endevor. I have begun to let go of my old ideas and embrace new ways of thinking and new ways of being. Taking this route at first felt scary but now with each day of trust I am building up courage.
Just over a month ago, I left two groups I was a part of. Something in my heart broke wide open. At that instant I began to feel the need to free myself from any energy that didn’t feel right to me. I instantly knew what I needed to do and trusted more in my heart than what my mind was trying to hang on to. My mind wrestled with letting go of these groups, thinking that they were the only path to my desires. I struggled, with every step feeling like I was on shaky, uneven ground.
The more I began to trust in my inner guidance however, I was able to see that this was the true path for me. A path of courage. A path of silence. A path of going out on my own. A path of the unknown. A path of oneness. A path of stillness. A path of discipline. A path of learning and letting go.
Now I take things slow. I take things one day at a time. I plan one week at a time. I feel into that plan. I change the plan based on how I feel. I am tuning into the energy all around me and the energy deep in my heart. I am open to watching the signs from the universe all around me. They whisper to me about abundance. They tell me about oneness. They keep me grounded. They also keep me joyful and and elated to be able to walk this path every day.
As you change and grow, the ego will feel assailed and threatened. If you have little or no resistance, you’ll be fine; if you resist and fight, it will hurt a lot. So be courageous. Allow yourself to become vunerable. Put aside the macho, dogmatic, insistent psychology that most people suffer from. Enter, instead, into the intense spiritual beauty of moving and flowing without necessarily knowing which way to go or how you’ll get there. -Stuart Wilde
I have begun to see that having courage and going with the flow can truly be freedom. Many times the mind will come back to the surface and argue and fight. However, if I can gently guide my mind back into the flow, and know that things will work out even if I don’t know how they will, I am in the beautiful now.
Recently I have had some ideas of a project to work on. At this moment I am teaching an online course with a group. Instead of fretting about trying to get the new idea going and figuring out every detail about how it will work, I have decided to let myself daydream about the idea. I let it float in and out of my conciousness during my meditation and garden walks. Each day I gain a little bit of insight about how it might work, and then I let it go.
I focus on the beautiful moments right in front of me, knowing that the flow will take care of this idea and bring to me, piece by piece how it will come to be. I just need to trust.
My prayer and intention for you today is to have the courage to let go of the “how” of life. To carve out your own path. To sit in the silence. To go out on your own to discover something about yourself and your inner being. To be vulnerable and to trust. That is where the true magic of the universe happens.
What do you have the courage to do today?
I am tagging my fellow writers here who are following along on this journey so that I may share this path with them: Michele Thill, Chowa Sekai, Sumera Rizwan, Rasheed Hooda, Amy Marley, KeepingItRealWithAnnick, Charlotte Zobeir Ali, Typewriter, Dr John Rose, Gurpreet Dhariwal, Henery X (long), Terry Mansfield, Chirag, Aurora Eliam, CMP, Taha Abbas and many more! Thank you Illumination family!
Trista Signe Ainsworth is a professional organizer with Joyful Minimalism. She helps working women clear the clutter, overwhelm, and shame from their homes and lives so that they can truly live in joy.
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