| Give yourself permission to shine
your light brightly From the editor | by Tim Miejan It's been said before in this column but it cannot be repeated too often: You are a most magnificent being who has the ability to create, imagine and produce more than you will ever give yourself permission to believe. It's that simple. If you'd like, re-read that first paragraph and then allow the significance of what was said to move through you. Pretend you are lying on the sand. The ocean tide begins to slide toward your feet. The moisture slides under your body. Let it continue to wash over your legs and then gradually envelope your body. Let the truth of your innate power wash over you completely. Now, rise and move toward the showers. Stand under the warmness and imagine that each particle of water coming from the showerhead is a magnificent gift from God, immersing you in the Truth of who you are. Allow yourself to be showered in this Love. And from now on, allow yourself to know that you are showered in this Love whenever you bathe. Many sources of the Light are telling us that the only thing that prevents us from experiencing life as we truly are is our limiting belief that we are not magnificent. Many people remind us of our power, but we do not believe them. Even when Marianne Williamson told us that our "deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure," that "it is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us," we sparkled with the insight, but we felt powerless to respond. When Nelson Mandela, in his 1994 inaugural address, repeated her powerful statement, that our "playing small doesn't serve the world" and that "we were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us," we praised him for his wisdom and power and knew that he was speaking about himself -- but surely not us. We knew when the day was done and Nelson was tucked into bed and falling asleep, that the vast magnificence of who he is was understood through in and throughout his being. We knew he was confident and able to manifest great things in his nation through his strength and fortitude and enduring faith. But when we fall into bed, do we lie in the grand magnificence of who we are, as well? Or do we repeat the lies of inadequacy that some small voice somewhere in our mind continues to whisper over and over and over again? Perhaps our greatest reminder of who we truly are comes each and every evening when we finally lie still enough and allow sleep to overtake us, when we allow ourselves to move out of our bodies and into the fluid existence where dreams are born. Here, we know our gifts and know the incredible freedom that exists outside of our limiting thoughts. Here, we remind ourselves that we can move beyond the walls of fear that separate us from our greatest inspiration. Here, each and every night, we remind ourselves that are free to be, because we feel the resonance of the indwelling Spirit, the source that propels us into life and continues to move us through it. And yet, when the dark curtain is closed and we awake once again in our bodies, we tell ourselves how grand that experience was, but what did we do? What were we told? What was it that we experienced and why was it so grand? We tell ourselves we never remember our dreams and we sleep walk into our morning as if nothing ever happened. But that can change in an instant. We can give ourselves permission to remember the grandness of our nightly return to the world of possibility. We can give ourselves permission to grab a handful of sparkly inspiration and put it in our pockets so that when we awake in the morning we have a reminder of what it is we leave behind each night. Even more so, we can give ourselves permission to know, to truly know, that the qualities we see in others are contained within us. When we admire the bravery and the wisdom and the sensitivity and the courage of others, whether they are directly in front of us or portrayed on the television, we are admiring qualities that we have direct access to within ourselves. For our ability to recognize such gifts is only possible because we have them ourselves. We must allow ourselves to believe that we are just as brave or wise or sensitive or courageous. Our challenge is often to do that without the support of others who are affirming our worth. But time and time again, it is accomplished. People from the worst of situations seemingly transform their lives miraculously. Stories are told, books are written and motion pictures are made. We love the underdog and enjoy seeing rags-to-riches stories, because we love to see a soul manifest gifts that no one even knew existed. If everyone had given up on the undersized, knobby horse known as the Biscuit, there wouldn't have been a glorious crowning of Seabiscuit as 1938 Horse of the Year, and we wouldn't be talking about this wonderful animal today. Fortunately, some people did recognize qualities in this thoroughbred and they gave the Biscuit opportunities to shine. We can all shine just as brightly. All it takes is the willingness to allow your light to be seen by others. And that takes the courage to acknowledge that you are a magnificent light-filled being with something grand and magnificent to share. Remind yourself of that daily. And remind others, especially children, of that as often as you can. Tim Miejan is editor of The EDGE. Contact him at (651) 578-8969 or e-mail editor@edgenews.com Copyright © 2003 Tim Miejan |
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