I would like to share a story that was shared with me recently. It speaks of the sacred journey of being born into our lives. From a human perspective, some of us realize this early on; some of us realize this later in life. No matter when it happens, the point is that it does happen. It’s never too late to love yourself, your life, and find your place in the world. The birth of self – knowing who you are, what you value, and what your purpose is – means that we have fulfilled the unique gift of life that we were blessed with.
It takes faith, hope and patience to get there but the difference is we are no longer trapped in a cocoon; rather, we are free to fly.

A woman found the cocoon of a butterfly and she set it on a table in her sunporch, to observe it. One day, she noticed that a small opening had appeared. She sat and watched the butterfly as it struggled to force it’s body through that little hole, but then it seemd to stop altogether. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it had and it could go no further.

The woman decided to help the butterfly, so she took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily, but it had a swollen body and small, shrivelled wings. The woman continued to watch the butterfly because she expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand in order to support it’s body, which would contract in time.

Neither happened. In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings and was never able to fly.

What the woman, in her kindness and haste, did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were God’s way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into it’s wings so that it would be ready for flight, once free from the cocoon.

Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If God allowed us to go through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as we could have been. And, we might never fly.

As I have moved along my journey to living the best life possible, there have been many pockets of self-doubt.  Basically, this is from old tapes/records that were cut into my subconscious mind and much of this programming was negative and fear based.  Here is a helpful video that animates it all…

Dr. Darryl explains this very well.  We can see what the old records are saying and how they are not working anymore.  Great!!  Now, we can burn a new and improved DVD to replace the old, outdated and unwanted tapes.  So, everytime you sit down and visualize what you do want, you are burning that onto your DVD (subconscious mind) and THAT will be the automatic stuff that will come up, but you have to imbed this over about a month.  This explanation has just clicked with me and I hope it helps you.  Let’s get a stack of blank dvd’s and get going!  We may not be able to change some painful elements of the past, but we certainly can toss out the old records and burn a new program – for success and happiness!