By María Murillo
Have you ever wondered what separates you from what you call fulfillment? What separates you from happiness? What keeps you from manifesting your dreams? What makes you feel desperate, frustrated, or stuck? Many factors today keep you distracted from yourself, occupied with external things that seem to offer those longed-for states of lasting satisfaction, which in reality become moments of immediate gratification that come and go… It is that inner voice, which directs your thoughts and emotions, that dictates how your day, your weeks, your month, and the years of your life unfold and are lived, if you don’t become aware of your true capacity to recognize who you really are.
It is the “ego” that interprets your daily experiences and, through judgments, so often negative, fills you with limiting beliefs about yourself and the world. “It’s not possible at my age,” “I’m stupid,” “How could I have made such a mistake,” “I’m not even capable of it,” “It was too good to be true,” “This is what happens when you’re so good,” “People are getting more inept every day,” “Nobody understands anything here,” “Things are getting worse and worse”… the list goes on and on. The obstacles you may encounter on your path, which you will have to overcome to reconnect with your true nature—fullness, health, well-being, peace, harmony, prosperity, joy, happiness—are all related to those judgments made by yourself or by people who have influenced you. It is your “ego” that unleashes this long list of destructive criticism within you, which becomes your worst enemy. In other words, you are the one who builds or destroys, first internally and then externally, a dream or more drama through your judgments. You are the one who allows the judgments of others to affect you. Therefore, the good news is that you don’t have to wait for anything or anyone to start consciously transforming your life towards LOVE TODAY.
By consciously stopping when that voice appears, by setting boundaries with those who judge you. So, given all of the above, what is the most powerful antidote? It is in UNCONDITIONAL LOVE where all the answers, the solutions, the best medicine and antidote against doubt, uncertainty, fear, anger, frustration, and any other emotion that distances you from your true essence lie. It is through forgiveness and reconciliation with your history and all its characters, including the roles you have played until now, that you open a space for the LOVE that lives within you. Practicing forgiveness, or rather self-forgiveness, means letting go of all those ties that still hold you back in one or more areas of your life. Forgiving others also means forgiving yourself for allowing what happened to affect you in one way or another. It is through self-recognition of the value of your life as a unique and irreplaceable being that this feeling is nurtured.
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE means learning to love yourself WITHOUT CONDITIONS, regardless of your physical appearance, intellectual knowledge, annual income, marital status, zip code, religion, popularity, job hierarchical position, number of divorces, houses, cars, professional titles, education level, surname, vocabulary, or travel history—NOTHING matters, absolutely NOTHING. Your UNCONDITIONAL LOVE means accepting and appreciating yourself exactly as you are TODAY, IN THIS MOMENT, whatever your life circumstances. You love and respect every cell of your body in such a way that you feel truly in tune with life, animals, nature, other human beings, and the entire Universe. You wouldn’t trade yourself for anything or anyone; you feel in perfect harmony with your body, your thoughts, and your spiritual being.
It is in that UNCONDITIONAL LOVE where everything blossoms, where everything unfolds, where an energy radiates from within you, impacting everything around you. In this love, nothing else has a place, because hate and love cannot coexist, because fear and love cannot share the same space, because drama disappears, control vanishes, and the expectation that things have to happen the way you say simply doesn’t exist. In love, joy is experienced; life becomes a celebration with every breath. You allow yourself to be surprised by how the paths unfold, allowing what you desire to come to you. Miracles or “my-achievements” appear, and everything takes on a new and wonderful meaning. Would you like to experience it?
Start practicing it TODAY!
