Carol Creel Speaks on “Falling in Love With Life”
When was the last time you had the feeling of falling in love with life…or have you ever experienced that feeling? The majority of us know what it feels like to fall in love with a person, but to have the experience of ‘feeling in love with life’ is rare to a lot of us!
I had that experience last night driving home from spending time with some friends that I had met for dinner and then we all went to a movie, called the ‘Ultimate Gift’, which is based on Jim Stovall’s best selling novel by the same name. It is available at Blockbusters and I highly recommend it. It is inspiring, heartwarming and laced with many of life’s gifts in work, money, friends, family dreams and love.
As I was driving home in the comfort of the car of my dreams, I began to feel the gratitude of the great sounding music that was playing and next thing I knew I was singing from my heart with Ray Charles. As my heart opened, I began to really ‘feel’ that my life as it had been, has transformed into what my new life is now. I had a deep sense of an emerging part of me that I had hidden away or put on the shelf. I felt the gratitude of meeting new interesting friends, as well as those treasured long time friends. I felt a sense of freedom in my new way of being in the world, a confidence of the powerful woman that I have become and the love for the life that is now being created for me. You see, I am very clear that I am in control of no-thing, now, did I say nothing? Yes, I did and I mean just that NOTHING!
For the past six months I have been surrendering to who I thought I was and to the life I thought ‘I’ [the small me]wanted . Life basically forced me to walk my talk. If I had not, I would have been out of integrity with myself and I knew I could not live with myself if I did that. Yes, I could have chosen not to step up, instead sinking into depression or despair; however, that was not an option for me as my intention and passionate commitment to my personal higher growth remains my guiding rudder to all that I have come here to be, have and do. In 1998, I made a 100% commitment to the transformation of our planet through forgiveness and abundance. I was very clear that this was part of my journey and knew that with every cell of my being. My life had to reflect what I teach in my forgiveness work, “nothing bad happens to us, but that life is purposeful, and things happen for us….for our spiritual growth.”
So it went without saying that I choose to walk through my pain, sit with my pain, ask for help from my dearest of friends, in doing the work, to staying conscious of who I truly am, surrendering and releasing patterns of doing and thinking, not to be fooled by outer appearances and to TRUST. My intent was to walk through this situation with love and grace. Oh yes, sometimes screaming and yelling and being a Ego-manic, I allowed my human side to surface and learned to love all aspects of my shadow side and by doing so, healed and transformed those parts of me that no longer served me. In time, I saw the beautiful and wonderful gifts in this experience and now I am so very grateful for that opportunity to heal and love myself, in all my emotions and human-ness. I was able to heal not only the current relationship but all my many past relationships. Shifting old patterns and healing those parts of me have now freed me to experience what I call falling in love with the ALL-ness of life. I know there is, no-other and part of that feeling of love is all encompassing. I continue to practice letting go and letting God, fully realizing ‘Life is not ‘doing me’ and that I am ‘doing Life.’
In order to change your world, you must come to believe that life doesn’t happen to you, you happen to life. If you can become the witness to life, it is so freeing. It is so simple that most people cannot grasp it; as a society we tend to make life complicated. Try it for a day…or a week, become the witness to life, get out of your way, do not take things personal, just watch life in your world. There is an old saying, “fake it til you make it”. We can only change the world when we change. I challenge you to be willing to give it a try and I look forward to having you share your success story, by writing to me, Carol Creel, at carolcreel@lifeworks-marketing.com.
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