In the holidays I finished reading the book, 'Dying To Be Me' by Anita Moorjani. It is a beautiful book with such a powerful message and I would recommend it to everyone. In fact if I had it my way, it would be a compulsory school read for Life Skills. Oh wow - that would be magical. Anita had a Near Death Experience (NDE) after going into a coma and experiencing organ failure from advanced stages of cancer. When she came out of her coma she experienced a complete miraculous healing that baffled doctors and oncologists all over.
"I saw my life intricately woven into everything I had known so far. My experience was like a single thread woven through the huge and complexly colorful images of an infinite tapestry. All the other threads and colors represented my relationships, including every life I had touched ... whether they had related to me in a positive or negative way. Every single encounter was woven together to create the fabric that was the sum of my life up to this point. I may have been only one thread, yet I was integral to the overall finished picture.
Seeing this I understood that I owed it to myself, to everyone I met, and to life itself to always be an expression of my own unique essence. Trying to be anything or anyone else didn't make me better - it just deprived me of my true self! It kept others experiencing me for who I am and it deprived me of interacting authentically with them. Being inauthentic also deprives the universe of who I came here to be and what I came to express."
I really sat with that for a while because we hear so much about living authentically, but her last sentence really stood out for me as I had never thought of it that way; by not being true to ourselves, we deprive the universe, not just ourselves. That held a big weight for me. "Each one of us is a gift to those around us, helping each other be who we are, weaving a perfect picture together."
She also goes on to say, "You may frown or cringe at the thought, but I can't stress how important it is to cultivate a deep love affair with yourself. I don't recall ever being encouraged to cherish myself - in fact, it would never even have occurred to me to do so. It's commonly thought of as being selfish. But my NDE allowed me to realise that this was the key to my healing ... I understood that to be me is to be love. This is the lesson that saved my life"
How powerful is that? As a parent, I think that that is the most important lesson you can show your children. By just being yourself, giving yourself permission to be who you truly are, you are loving yourself and automatically loving those around you.
"I knew that was really the only purpose of life: to be our self, live our truth, and be the love that we are."
Okay, no need to say any more! I strongly recommend you get yourself a copy of this amazing book and share it with as many people as possible.
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