Wednesday, November 05, 2014

Integrity

Affirmations:
I am who I am.
I love myself just the way I am.
What is best for me is to be my authentic Self.
I clear fear and doubt and live, speak and act with integrity.

Responding to a question about me:
“I was up all night thinking and your personality was one of my subjects.  I don't deny that you are in your divine Self and doing divine work on earth, but why do you get to seem arrogant and have stomping energy and that's ok?  Sometimes I see you fighting or defending positions. Is that spiritual?  Please clarify.  I know I should be nice right now to you like a good little Miss Muffet, like I'm trained to be, but actually you are training me to be more forthright and honest when I am upset or angry as a woman by example.  Maybe I don't always have to be sweet and nice when I am angry, when I see something that needs to be corrected by the Holy Spirit.  But is this my ego saying this or my soul??  You seem to come from your soul.  I see miracles through you that seem to be honestly from the revealed wholeness, but your personality and arrogant energy always challenge me.  I am thankful because I feel I can share this with you in all its rawness and you'll explain it honestly and not in any intentional way that will hurt me or slap me down on purpose, but I do rather fear your energy in person. “

You are fun to challenge me with your thoughts and feelings.
I am a Leo, with Aries Rising.  (and Libra Moon)
I am a 0-4-22 which is an emperor-fool in numerology/symbology.
I am a 7 with a strong 8 wing on the Enneagram.
I am a promoter/producer (BE) and director/controller (Do) in Communication Styles.
I am a ENFP/INFP on the Myers-Briggs.
I am a Water Horse in Taoist Astrology.
I am a descendent of the Michigan Dickerson women who are independent, outspoken, direct and high functioning leaders in their families.
How could I not be who I am?

I have rarely been praised or criticized or questioned.
I have always been encouraged to speak my mind and share my truth.
I do not speak without being asked or invited.
Why would I not share the highest and best I know?

I wear no masks and have no pretenses.
I am who I am here to be.
I encourage everyone to be authentic in everything I teach.
I want people to be who they want to be, do what they want to do and live their lives authentically.

This world will be very different when everyone lives their truth and stands on what they believe.
The worldly path often teaches us to pretend, fit in, be nice, conform and don’t make waves.
The spiritual path invites us to be real, show up, tell the truth, be independent and be extraordinary.

You are Love and Love is trust and freedom.
Love is freeing and trusting you to be you.
Maryann Williamson said it well, but even then held back.
When you know who and whose you are, you will give all to all, all the time.

I invite you to show up authentically.
When you question or doubt you or judge me, it is our ego asking us withhold and play small.
When you admire, respect and value each unique personality, you learn to listen with your heart.

Every upset or irritation shows us we are off purpose and not living our own true purpose.
When I seem to bump you, it is because you are not yet fully being and appreciating being you.
Perhaps I am in your life to remind you there is more for you to fully be you.
I know there is more of the Real and authentic you waiting to be discovered.

Blessings for the joy of it all.
Betty Lue


Below is a great exercise for you to practice to set you free to be.

PS: FYI
The definition of arrogance may appear to be what I express.
1.  Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance.
2. Marked by or arising from a feeling or assumption of one's superiority toward others:
I do love, trust and free myself to fully be and express all I Am.
However, I never see anyone less than me.  
I see all of us need to be much greater than we allow ourselves to be.
When you totally love yourself, you are willing to be all that you are.

“Our Greatest Fear”

Our greatest fear
is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light,
not our darkness,
that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves,

“Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous,
talented and fabulous?”

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking

so that others won’t feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest
the glory of God within us.

It is not just in some of us,

it is in everyone,

and as we let our own light shine

we unconsciously give other people
permission
to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear

our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson, 1992


Getting Free
(By Setting Others Free)
It is not unusual for us human beings to secretly wish and hope that the people we’re close to don’t become too magnificent. We don’t really want these significant others to be too free or too powerful or too creative or too successful or to dream too wild a dream. We actually prefer that they stay small, “manageable”, non-threatening, tame. After all, we don’t want to be made to feel uncomfortable or inadequate or diminished or challenged by the boldness and joyfulness with which someone else lives his or her life.

But, until we are willing and actively desire that the key people in our lives be totally free and powerful, we cannot be free and powerful ourselves. So, here is an affirmation-prayer that may help us begin freeing others, so that we can begin to free ourselves.
 

I, _____(your name)_____ want you, _____(his or her name)_____, to be the highest, clearest, most powerful expression of God that you can be. I would not limit you in any way, knowing that only as I encourage you to expand, explore and grow, can I myself be free. So I fully support you in being and expressing all that you are.

I want you to go where you feel called to go, to speak and act as you feel guided, and to express yourself in whatever ways seem right. There is nothing I do not want you to do, for I know that all movement is contained within God and always leads us to Him.

I am at peace with whatever decisions and choices you make, no matter how they may seem to affect me. Since I know that God loves and supports me perfectly, I know that however you choose to be with me must be a manifestation of that divine love and support. Because I trust God, I trust you. And because I trust you, I trust myself.

So, be free, be powerful, be unlimited. And know that I, _________, want you, _________, to be the highest, clearest, most powerful expression of God that you can be. I fully support you in being all that you are.



Randall Keller 1990