PATHWAY TO JOY AND HEALING

In the last few days, I have been contemplating why I have attracted people like my family members in the current relationships in my adult life.  I can identify every person in my life who I have conflicts with as my mother, my father, or my brother. What my higher self has told me is that my life lesson here, albeit very difficult, is to let them go.

I have felt their hold on me as I continue to heal my emotional wounds, and what I must tell myself is to let them go.  I have attempted to rescue each member of my own family in the hopes of saving them, although they have refused to do anything to help themselves.  It is not my responsibility nor do I have the power to save them.

Letting them go means, we within ourselves let go of the guilt and feelings of responsibility to rescue them from self destruction.   We let go of the feelings of hopelessness and despair when we cannot save them, and free ourselves by letting each person we love take responsibility for their own lives, decisions, and actions.  We cannot make others feel love for themselves, we cannot change others, and we certainly cannot force others to take the path we have chosen.

Letting go means to free ourselves from this bondage that we have convinced ourselves is our burden, when in actuality, it isn’t.  So free yourselves from the burdens of others, and allow that burden to remain with their rightful owners.  (Copyright 2014 Soul Awakening with All Rights Reserved)