Baggage
BAGGAGE = Personal belongings of travelers; intangible things that get in the way; unresolved feelings and issues from past experiences.
QUESTION: Do you have some heavy baggage?
STORY: We all are carrying baggage. Some of it we call memories or even mistakes or habits we can’t seem to control. Whatever it is - it weighs us down and prevents us from living our purpose. Thankfully there are tools that help us to let go of old patterns; to change how we look at old memories and to experience the release of a whole new insight that opens the door to a new and unpredictably good experience. Releasing the Hidden Splendour™ is a 5 step tool I have used to emotionally let go of some of my baggage. First I sit down alone in a safe quiet space with no one around me. Step 1: Recall a memory or a pattern that weighs you down. Bring to mind other people involved in this memory or pattern. Step 2: Relive the memory or pattern by feeling the emotions that are buried within you. Step 3: React and tell yourself and others exactly what you felt was done. Step 4: At some point you realize there is a purpose for you to learn something here. Release yourself and the others from the anger, blame, guilt, fear or whatever. Step 5: GIVE up the memory FOR the new understanding and the good that was hidden is now present. Learn more in my upcoming class: https://www.theprosperos.org/prosperos-events/rhs-live-class-2024-06
QUOTES
“We all have our baggage, and I think the trick is not resisting it but accepting it, understanding that the worst experience has a valuable gift wrapped inside if you're willing to receive it.” ~ Jeannette Walls
“I'm not a minority: I'm a majority of one. We all are. To call someone a minority, you give them baggage, of not being full, or not being seen as full. All of us need to be seen as full human beings.” ~ Jose Antonio Vargas
“If you can't handle the baggage, you'll have to get out of the baggage room.” ~ Laura Schlessinger
“If you continue to carry bricks from your past, you will end up building the same house.” – Unknown
EXERCISE
STOP.
Sit quietly. Assume an erect posture.
Sense the breath.
Sit calmly and feel yourself relaxing.
Say to yourself: I am willing to do some WORK to let go of old baggage and to release a whole new understanding of my life purpose.
Get your pen and paper and write words or draw lines expressing some baggage that begins to dissolve.
Move forward knowing your life purpose is guiding you to do some important work on yourself.