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Who Sleeps in Your Skin?

Who Sleeps in Your Skin?

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Who Sleeps in Your Skin?

Who Sleeps in Your Skin?

Have you ever considered that perhaps you are not yourself? You are not whom you think you are?

By this I mean, have you ever considered all the messages you’ve received while you were growing up that you simply couldn’t understand? Subliminal messages as you were growing up but could not realize? How about all the messages you’ve received from your parents, teachers, athletic coaches, your preacher or Priest, conscious and subliminal messages?

And, the subliminal messages continue today because you are not aware of them nor do you know how to turn them off or reject them? New messages that reinforce those messages from long ago that plague your consciousness today.

You behave in a certain manner and struggle as to why! Conflicts abound as you struggle to understand your own behavior. Confusion sets in. Why?

Consider that, all the influencers in your life have given you demands to think in a certain manner, behave in a certain way, in a manner perhaps different than you would like to respond. Perhaps you aren’t aware of the conflicts that have risen within you because these influencers placed their demands upon you. How can you be aware of something that is below your consciousness?

Or, you may not have considered any of this at all.

And, you continue in life struggling to understand the many conflicts that rise up each day and you pretend to know the reasons why but, these conflicts continue because you do not have the true answer to the conflicts. You continue to be confused but not aware enough to investigate as to the reason why you are confused and suffering.

I would like you to give consideration to the fact that you have simply accepted as fact or true the messages given to you over time. You weren’t old enough in thought to challenge these messages or, more likely, you are not aware of the messages effect on you to have any connection as to how you should respond. This is perhaps what is referred to as faith, the blind acceptance of a doctrine or ideal not fully understood.

You’ve been going along in life feeling a bit distressed but have given no thought as to why. Or, perhaps you have given a false reason to a conflict because you simply did not have the true reason for the conflict. You struggle to find an answer to your conflict but, because you have accepted these messages as true, you have no bases for challenging the reason for your conflicts.

A time must come for you to challenge what you have accepted as true!

When that time comes for you, you will give thought to those messages and challenge the truthfulness of them for you, today. When you challenge those messages, using the standards for yourself today, the meaning of those messages will have a different effect for you. You will decide which messages to discard and which to keep.

When you decide to change your behavior and, change your thinking processes, only then will you allow yourself to look at those messages and the effect they have had on you and your desire to empower yourself will come about. You will experience the freedom from the constraints of those messages and move forward in your life, positively and courageously.

You must summon the courage from within you to challenge these messages, see them in today’s light, decide what to keep and what not to keep. You will free yourself to be the person you wish to be and make the decisions for you consciously and positively at which time, you will have empowered yourself with the power and courage to be whom you want to be!

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