I've resisted putting today's post up, because I know once I write this, I will get to practice it and make positive changes in my life. This sounds like a good thing, but I must admit, it does make me a little uncomfortable. Sometimes, it feels like it's just "easier" to keep going on as we are, pretending to be unconscious of what's best for us.

During the Christmas Holidays I had an awareness come to me as I opened the fridge looking for something to eat. What if before we ate anything we had this thought..."Will this food make me feel and look beautiful?" When I say beautiful, I do not mean a surface beauty that is only skin deep. I'm referring to radiant and glowing health in ever cell of our Being...

Right now, there are things I am eating which do not have me feel beautiful. For instance, I've gotten in the habit of drinking Soy Milk and Chai every morning. However, the Chai I drink is from Starbucks and is full of sugar. When I drink it, I can feel the sugar having an affect on me and can even feel it in my skin. Though I enjoy it, I don't feel like I'm being healthy when I drink it. Yet the idea of letting this go is terrifying to me. At the same time, I know I must break my habit with it and so therefore, I am committing to letting go of this daily ritual. I'm freaking out as I write this because I know this will be a challenge. But, it's not really about just letting go of drinking this everyday, it's really about choosing a new level of health and wellness for myself and being committed to releasing those substances from my life which are not serving me. This is why it is so scary. Choosing health, wellness and beauty is us saying to ourselves...I embrace the radiant and beautiful light that I am.

“Our worst fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our Light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented
and fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God; your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that
other people won’t feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God/The Divine
within us.
It is not in just some of us. It is in everyone and as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence
automatically liberates others.” - Marianne Williamson

So, I encourage you, as I encourage myself, to choose the foods, the practices, and the forces in your life which are going to illuminate the light you are, allowing your radiant and beautiful light to shine through.

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