Published by Bob on 15 May 2008 at 05:00 am
Where You Born With A Clean Slate?
Or were you born already burdened with baggage that determines how your life is going to turn out?
There is no escaping the fact that the family you were born into has baggage. That baggage becomes your baggage… Attitudes, opinions and beliefs were “put into you”. You became the perfect clone of the best and worst of your family… Then something started to happen:
You began to think for yourself… at least some did.
Looking around at the state of things in the world today, it’s obvious that the vast majority of humans fail to achieve the critical mass, in their lives, which causes them to question what they believe and why they believe it.
You see, if you are one of the few who have taken the best of what your upbringing gave you and worked to unload the baggage, you’re in a surprising minority. You actually questioned the reality of your conditioning and then took action to bring your attitudes, opinions and beliefs into balance with what you consciously choose to accept as your reality. Not what was given to you (as a child) when you had no possibility to know or understand the “truth” of it… if there was any truth to it.
To you who have struggled to grow beyond your childhood conditioning and the effects of your environment… I say two things:
1. You are the true light giver! You have, without realizing it, given inspiration to those around you that so much more is possible. Rather than wallowing in the excuse of victimization, you have proven you have the power to determine the outcome of your life.
2. Never give up! As you expand the self imposed barriers of your imagination into new areas of what is possible, you move all of mankind along with you. Your personal spiritual journey benefits us all. Never let the momentary feelings of being overwhelmed or discouraged become the dead-end of your journey.
There are billions who are a few steps behind you.
One day some of them will take the same steps you have taken and find themselves in the same place you now find yourself. The good your life has created will benefit those who, like you, have found the courage to step into a life they choose to create… not a life that was chosen for them.
In the end, your life’s journey will be a gift to mankind.
“Anything is possible. Your life is a Master Class on deciding how you prove it”.
Debora Torkington on 21 May 2008 at 1:36 am #
Hi Bob,
I would say that I came from an dysfunctional family. I at a young age took the role of the responsible child and the peace maker. I know it is my nature to be nurturing and respectful to my parents. However, my other older siblings turned out to be the complete opposite of getting their life together and went down the wrong road of drugs and we came from the same family.
People always ask me, how did I turned out the way I did. I tell them that I had other family relatives for an example on how they were a parents to my cousins. I also had my godmother and godfather that love me and show me love. We also had a family doctor that I admired and I wanted to be like him. A doctor and I was told that girls are not doctors, they become Nurses. I would play house with my cousins and I played the doctor and I was great at the Operation game. I became a willful child and I also had teachers that told me to take out I can’t from my vocabulary. And if i wanted to do sports and run track, to say no to drugs. My high was being a runner, bicycles, Volleyball player, on a bowling team and what ever sports that was in season. In high school I was on a team of seven kids that put the first Health Club in the school. We got certified in CPR and taught it to students who wanted to learn it for free. Really I was there because I liked this handsome boy name Randy. He was going steady with a Japanese girl name Joselem. She became a Surgeon and they married. Randy dropped out of Medical school because it was difficult to work and study.
I only went to one semester of College and stopped also. Too difficult, I left home at 17 1/2 yr. old and became a Nurse Orderly and said whoops, should of stay home to continue with College.
I fell into my field of work and I have learn so much about myself and boundaries and I have continue with the path of my spiritual Journey.
I know there is layers of healing and changing patterns and beliefs that don’t work for me, I continue to work on it and wonder. Does it ever all clear. One day at a time or one year at a time, depending on what I am working on to clear.
Thanks for the topic, not sure if I started with a clean slate. I think instead, I have become a Warrior to clear the slate and learn to come from Love, but at the same time I have to see what is coming up under the true issues of what I had learned or believed as a child and to really seek the truth and not to blame the folks or anyone else that I am in relationship with and to own what is my my truth.
Debora