“I’m Different” but really you’re not

Many years, I let my differences define me. Yes, I am unique. Yes, I am my own special person. However, defining myself as different only invited isolation.

Who must you be if you always must be different? Finding community and connection because almost impossible because of the measuring tape one reaches for to check for difference.

Is there a way to accept others without ostracizing ourselves? Many times, we will feel connected to other another when they understand our journey, especially a past often challenging experience. In truth, no one experiences life in the same way you do. Even walking on a same path, the lenses we view the world are entirely and utterly different. Incomparable. We are all the same in that we are all different.

We exist as One. In essence, we exist collectively as a co-creative consciousness. Our spirits are individualized, personalized beings of light, however we are all One. Our differences are truly our likeness.

It is a bit frustrating to articulate how we are all different because we are all united. To overcome feeling different, is to applaud others differences. Ask questions of what that experience is like. Get curious. Because in listening to their answers, your heart knows the same feelings of woe, elation, frustration, deprivation.

Our choices to place another person’s experience above or below ours is simply a reflection of our inner contentment. “As within, so without.” Acceptance is infinite. There is no cap to the amount of souls allowed to be loved. Love is infinite.

We make choices every day to accept, applaud, and appreciate ourselves. How we treat our full selves, from our dark scars to beaming personality, is the template we provide to the world of how we are meant to be loved. How are you broadcasting to the universe the love you wish to receive? What unacceptable forms of attachment are you accepting? How can you be your best friend, best lover, best mother in your darkest hours?

Our daily actions are conscious choices we make to build the safe, prosperous, nurturing future we envision. From being kind to yourself when you sleep through an alarm to leaving a bit earlier to not get angry at traffic to appreciating victories as little as finding a shiny quarter on a sidewalk. These choices are daily manifestations of what you are asking from the universe. Watch what you give your energy to.

Affirmations: When I love myself fully, I receive love more deeply. I enjoy learning from others through their stories, words, and non-verbals. I choose to accept myself completely. What I give away, I receive. I honor the ebbs and flows of the universe.