Find Your Power and Strength

We are approaching the end of the first month of 2010, a time when most of the resolutions we set in the hope of the new year have faded and we succumb to the gravitational pull of the past.

Can you see already what the shadow spoilers in your life this year are going to be? There are always a few patterns, behaviors or impulses that lurk beneath the surface of your consciousness, waiting to whittle away at your self-esteem and veer you off into those dead-end cycles. Maybe you think you can just have one drink, one cupcake, one Coca Cola, or one day off from your exercise program. The problem with these shadow impulses is that you think you should listen to them, that they're the truth, that you have to obey their orders.

When did you give the shadow power over your life? How old were you when you decided that some urge, impulse or feeling could direct the level of success and achievement you experience in your future? These are the questions that you have to use to challenge the urges, the impulses, and the destructive repetitive patterns that keep you wound up tight inside and stuck in your robotic predictable past.

This is the year, this is the time, this is the day to reclaim your power.

Your Weekly Shadow Work

(1) Fess up to whatever it is that you listen to -- the voice, the internal conversation, the feelings, the fear -- that can suck you into the rat hole of self-despair.

(2) After you've admitted to it, go inside yourself and ask, “What is my inner need? What would I have to do or say to myself that would empower me to make a higher choice? Who could I call? What could I read or commit to that would support me in this instant, in this hour, to follow my dream?”

(3) Take the actions to reclaim your power.

It's not too late to arrive at the end of this year feeling accomplished, inspired and in awe of who you've become. Having the best year of your life is a one-hour-at-a-time process. Trust me. You have the power and the strength to win the war over your dark side -- one choice at a time. You can do it!

With love and blessings,
Debbie

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