Obedience is Better than Sacrifice.
You shoulda.
You coulda
You woulda.
But you didn’t.
And then you find yourself grappling with feelings of regret once again reminding you of the importance of listening to your “first mind” as my mom likes to call it.
See, you knew better. Whether the “better” meant staying or going, holding on or releasing, yes or no. Whether the choice ultimately changed the entire trajectory of your life, or just the spiraling of events in a single hour.
Either way, hindsight is gnawing at you.
“Maybe I should have gone the other way. Better yet, I know I should have.”
Obedience, to our Truth, in every instance , is often better than sacrifice in the long run. When we repeatedly trust our instincts we not only hone or discernment, we empower our energetic field to send out signals of attraction to what we actually do desire.
Every moment in time is an invitation. And how we respond shapes the form of our experiences. When we develop a habit of going left, when we know right is, more often that not, the more aligned option, we find ourselves in places we did not have to be.
Interacting with people we otherwise may not have.
Building momentum on pathways that snowball us further from wholeness and closer to fragmentation.
And potentially re-traumatizing ourselves in ways we’ll have to learn how to heal from again.
We always have a choice. Even when we don’t see it. Or worse yet, when we don’t want to believe it because it inconveniences our preconceived notions and belief around what, or how, we “should” be, thus forcing us to examine the reality of ourselves.
When you delegate your power outside of yourself, when you consistently choose the comfort and smallness of fear, lack and stagnation over the discomfort of obedience, discipline and evolution, regret haunts you. You find yourself trying to double back to a roadway that’s now blocked. You may find yourself unsure of what YOU believe in, in what YOU truly resonate with, because you chose to sacrifice your sovereignty for conformity.
Cognitive dissonance is in direct opposition to intuition. "No man can serve two masters.” To know thy self, is to know how to manage your life force energy to work in your favor.
What are you obedient to?
How are you delegating your most valuable resource, your attention?
What is your return on investment for the spaces, places and ideas you give your energy to on a moment to moment basis?
If your response to these inquiries reflects anything other than what you desire for your life, herein lies the key to true freedom.
While you can’t go back, you can be here now. You can be honest with yourself about what you’re choosing and why, and how you want to move forward. With a little bit of audacity, and a whole lot of surrender, you can flip the entire script.
When what we are obedient to is synced up with our TRUTH, we encounter expansion, synchronicity and divine flow.
We are the sum of our decisions, day in and day out.
Choose wisely.
