Charge into Spring 🌷 and Take Charge of Your Beliefs 💪🏼
It's Aries season - embrace the Charge!
Hey there, Beautiful Soul! Over the course of the upcoming Zodiac year, I will be guiding you along a journey of discovery with the intention of soothing the soul and making room for comfort, ease and grace. I hope you join me and invite your loved ones to join us, too!
With spring being a time of fresh starts, new beginnings and rebirths, I encourage you to tap into this energy and explore the beliefs you hold in your mind and heart, with the intention of releasing and realigning anything that’s not working for you.
It’s quite common for beliefs to slip into our subconscious and unconscious minds. Beliefs so simple you don’t even detect them. Beliefs that are validated each day in the world around us. I like to use the example of my own favorite belief: that people should act right.
Sit with that one for a minute.
Define: act right. And…we just opened up the can of beliefs. I believe acting right is defined in a specific way. Full of adjectives and adverbs dictating a way of expression that allows me to feel comfort and ease. And awareness of that means I now have awareness that other folk have a definition of “act right” that makes them feel comfort and ease…
Damn, I honestly thought it was just what you were supposed to do in “civilized society.” But there it is. A belief formulated by my cultural and religious upbringing. “Act right” was defined for me. And as I look at it now, I mean, for the most part it’s not a belief that’s causing me or anyone else harm. Unless I’m projecting that onto others… am I projecting my “act right” onto others? Probably. Let’s talk it out…
My belief system goes to the core of human DNA around survival. If I “act right,” I will be accepted by the group and therefore will have safety within that group. I will not be rejected and need to survive outside of the cave all alone where a saber tooth tiger can come eat me. (I wasn’t joking about survival.) So, my belief around “acting right” coupled with my need to survive at all costs leads me to project my personal version of “act right” onto others, which they may or may not resonate with. If they don’t act in the way I believe they should be acting, then my anxiety over my own possible rejection is now projected onto them. Regardless of their personal experience. And I am uncomfortable in that space.
This is also a version of what has been called the love letter from mother to daughter: criticism.
Sit with it. Turn it over. Chew on it. Spit it back out…
In the spirit of spring, I invite you to take a look at the way you think, and check in to see if your thoughts are rooted in a belief.
More on that later, you Beautiful Soul!
Happy Aries Season 🐏 ♈️
With Love,
Tarah