| I want to talk about humility. Recently, Jeremy (my | | | | and our intents do have an effect on physical reality! |
| son) sent out a recent article that created a lot of | | | | Now think about the fact that our bodies are 60% |
| controversy in which he had a great deal to say | | | | to 70% water, and then think about what all that |
| about humility. The general consensus seems to be | | | | self criticism is really doing to you! Not only is it |
| that it is necessary for us to be humble, but I | | | | completely tearing down your image of yourself, but |
| wonder why people feel that way. Let's break it | | | | it is doing physical damage to you, and creating |
| down, shall we. Most people feel like if a person is | | | | stress induced disease. I think that maybe it is time |
| not humble, then they are arrogant, or conceited, or | | | | to give up all of this self destruction, and learn to |
| both. It is possible for a person to be both of those | | | | love ourselves! I think that it is time to forgive |
| things, but is it necessary to be humble to not be | | | | ourselves! One of my favorite quotes from the |
| either of them? We think that we cannot build | | | | Buddha is, "You can look through the entire universe |
| ourselves up, and we spend a lot of time in self | | | | for someone more deserving of your forgiveness |
| criticism, thinking that we are not as good as others | | | | than yourself, and you will not find that person." |
| at something we do. | | | | So let's get back to humility. Is it really necessary to |
| I say that this attitude about yourself is self | | | | humble and diminish ourselves? Or should we better |
| destructive, and holds us back from realizing our full | | | | learn to love ourselves, and be confident in our |
| potential. I can't tell you how many times I have | | | | abilities, and our gifts, that were given to us by our |
| personally held myself back from fully reaching a goal, | | | | Creator. Should we have respect and gratitude for |
| because I did not believe in my own ability! I think we | | | | those gifts, and stop trying to diminish both our gifts |
| have all heard the saying that we are our own worst | | | | and ourselves. I have another favorite quote, which is |
| enemy, and this is very true! I think that my favorite | | | | quite lengthy, but here goes, |
| books that bring this message home to me are | | | | "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our |
| Esauro Emoto's books, "The Hidden messages in | | | | deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond |
| Water." Dr. Emoto describes his experiments in which | | | | measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most |
| he put water in bottles, and taped messages on the | | | | frightens us.' We ask ourselves, who am I to be |
| outside of the bottles. Some of the messages were | | | | brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who |
| very positive, like,"I love you!" Some of the | | | | are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your |
| messages were very negative, like, "I hate you, you | | | | playing small does not serve the world. There's |
| fool!" He then took some of the water out of each | | | | nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other |
| bottle, and put it in petri dishes, then froze the | | | | people won't feel insecure around you. We are all |
| water, and looked at it under a microscope after it | | | | meant to shine, as children do. We were born to |
| was frozen. | | | | make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's |
| Water, when frozen is supposed to form crystals. | | | | not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we |
| The water from the bottles with the positive | | | | let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other |
| messages formed beautiful crystals. The water from | | | | people permission to do the same. As we're liberated |
| the bottles with the negative messages either could | | | | from our own fear, our presence automatically |
| not form a crystal, or it formed something that | | | | liberates others." |
| looked like a nightmare! Dr. Emoto took photos of | | | | (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A |
| the results, and they are in his books. They are | | | | Course in Miracles", Harper Collins, 1992. |
| amazing, and they clearly show that our thoughts, | | | | |