Sunday, June 3, 2012

THE IMPORTANCE OF KNOWING WHO YOU ARE


I have just had a days-long experience of being locked out of my Facebook page. I have never had an experience like that before, where I was asked repeatedly to prove who I am. It was like I was on a never-ending cycle or treadmill, all leading back to a statement that my account was temporarily locked. When I was just about to attempt to reach them by phone, I decided to try yet again to resolve the issue myself with fresh, rested eyes.  

At that point I remembered my recently adopted mantra, "IT IS WHAT IT IS." With that fresh perspective, in very few minutes I had the issue resolved and my account was "unlocked."

After many hours over the last few days, trying to prove my own identity, I thought of how we many times lose contact with who we are. Each one of us is a unique individual, with unique talents and abilities. We - each one of us - has the ability to be the creator of our lives. And if we don't take charge, then our lives will be like a ship at sea without an engine. That was exactly how I felt until I realized that I had temporarily forgotten my mantra, "IT IS WHAT IT IS."

I remembered anew that I needed to give up the fight, and almost instantly the issue was resolved.  I was reminded of the correlation to my physical healing journey.  When I was first diagnosed with Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis.  I literally lived in the disease.  when I gave up the fight and tuned into my body's innate and unique healing ability, things began to turn around.  

To me healing is synonymous with change.  Perhaps what you need to heal is a sick relationship, or perhaps you are in a career that you need to change.  Incidentally, many times having a sick body is intertwined with an unhealthy relationship or a job that is unfulfilling.

Steps to healing anything:

1)         Accept what is.

2)         Give up the fight.

3)         Remember who you are.

4)         Believe in your own uniqueness

I know that you can heal whatever in your life needs to be healed.

                                         I did it and you can too! 

I invite you to visit my main website to read my personal story.

Betty Iams

1 comment:

  1. "Give up the fight" how close to home does that hit? It's a funny thing for the last 15 years of my life with MS that's all I've done is fight. I am obsessed with curing my MS believing everyone has this dis-ease for a different reason. Their is nothing on the Internet or in the world that I have heard about that I haven't tried. I have spent a fortune. My Husband stands by me because he wants his wife back. So you might say those 15 years of my life were lost because I was fighting. Not unusual for me to have 3-5 weird cures going on at one time. Going to another state for CCSVI, see the top Neurologist in South Fl using Shaminism, Accupuncture, atlas alignment, vibrational therapy, and then the western therapies, all going on at the same time and possibly in another state doing Hippotherapy. Fight, fight fight....all consuming. Getting angry because I get no instantaneous healing. That's all I want to do, give up the fight. Let it be what it is. I don't know how. I feel like that means I'm giving up but at the same time I can't live because it consumes me 24 hours a day. That's what mt mmantra needs to be "give up the fight"

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