Coming to Terms With Your Own Power - Part Two
By JLee Davis

Imagine for a moment ... - You are laid off from your job because of
cut backs, with five years experience under your belt. You manage to
secure a great new job doing just the same thing, right up your
alley. But day after day your supervisor tells you that you must
conform to their format. You argue that you did it this way at your last job and it worked. The supervisor explains calmly that the format at this company uses a different base system. So could you please do it this way. 

You hesitate. This unnerves you.

You felt very competent at your last job. Very successful.

What causes you to hesitate with this new system is that you are not familiar with it. It is an unknown variable. You must stretch your current limits to incorporate the new knowledge.

Don't allow yourself to collapse into your own insecurities. It is
the Self, the force of your soul, this higher consciousness within
you that brought you to this point in the first place. The soul's
reason for being here in this physical world is to gain knowledge.
The sum total of it's reason for choosing this "now" and this "you".
To learn. To experience. To grow.

* * * Conclusion One - You just cannot bring yourself to adjust to
the new system and the company finds it must let you go.

* * * Conclusion Two - You plunge head-first into learning and
experiencing this new system and find that not only is it more
efficient for your job, but it also expands your resume skills for
future use.

hmmm...which would you choose?
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When you find that the old ideals or solutions just don't work
anymore, try a new path. We are not who we are right at this NOW
moment, * through * what has happened to us before this moment. We
are who we are because of the way we use the knowledge gained from
that experience.

For example, you almost drown when you were six. You remember the
sensation of fear distinctly. Like it was yesterday. Yet, now you
stand by a pool, your family having loads of fun in that cool clear
water. Everything in you is itching to feel that water on your
skin. But this old feeling cuts up your spine. That feeling of
fighting the water.

Rather than continue to use old methods, change course. Did you not
learn anything from that first experience? You look around and there
are lifeguards. Your family is right there, playing, wishing you
would join them. You know this moment will never happen again.

Are you willing to forfeit this moment for the sake of a memory from
so many years ago?

Use the experience of jumping into that pool, to wash that old
feeling away forever. Because that is what it will do. You will be
sitting by the pool later, soaked but cool and very proud of
yourself. And you will realize that you will NEVER remember that
incident so long ago with the same level of fear again. Not ever. A
freedom with which you want to become far more familiar.

That new plunge has washed the old fear away. You have a wonderful
day with your family. And come away from this day, knowing you are
changed. Knowing your courage was tested and you and Self took the
plunge and washed the old stuff away. You and Self won!!

You are your soul's best friend. You are the manifestation of your
soul's need for human experience as a means to knowledge. Your Self
chose you, just how you are, for its greatest lessons. Feel the
honor. Swell with pride. And let those old experience be filed in
the archives, where all old items belong.

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When you begin to imagine and use your full potentiality, the whole
cosmos listens. It will respond in kind. Help it along by working
to eliminate the negative "stuff" coming from outmoded ideals and old
hat experiences. Incorporate the lessons you gained from them into
your consciousness as lessons only. And move forward. Don't take
all that Carryon. This craft only has room for one small overhead
bag. In it should be your plans for TODAY, your fun for TODAY and
your gratitude for TODAY.

Travel light and Self will thank you. It has finished with all the
old stuff. It just needs to convince you that together you are
finished with it. Your Self wants a journey into the rest of your
life with nothing getting in the way of YOUR growth. There is
only "now". You and Now.

You and Now
It's that simple!

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About The Author
JL Davis has been writing for over 35 years and is published in many formats including in-print books, print articles, online publications and poetry and erotica collections. Her writing covers a wide variety of topics.

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