CHOOSING VALUE INSTEAD OF CARNALITY
This week's affirmation reads - I Have A Devine Right to choose values over carnality. While at times I might feel lonely and lacking, it is always in my best interest to think and act with integrity from my values instead of my circumstances.
One of the hardest of journeys is that of self discovery.
In knowing both who we are and what best aligns with our core values, we are far better equipped through our relationships, to receive the attributes of the love and care we need, so that we may function in the world as our best selves or within our best capacity.
For whether we realize it or not, there is always an energy exchange happening within the relationships we foster with others, and when we don't enforce our boundaries or make ourselves a priority over the sacrificial tendencies of ensuring others needs at our demise, we have a higher proclivity to deplete ourselves and the best of who we are, leaving us largely unsatisfied and lacking.
Thing is, when we are empty, anybody can come along and give us, incumbent on our desire to receive where we lack thereof
Likewise, as dystrophic relationships haven't the structural attributes to imbue us with the qualities of affirmative values to be found in healthy relationships, we also have a higher proclivity to engage with people, places and things from circumstantial, and dare I say, surface or nominal connectedness based on the immediacy of pleasure over the value of worthy connections built on the dais of integrity.
When we accept lowly connections or act from vestiges of carnality, we deny ourselves the joy to be found in healthy relationships that mean is well.
Like a moth to a flame, there are so many unhealthy people with unhealthy attributes seeking those of us lacking the strength in our boundaries to reject all that doesn't align with our values, so as to oblige what we deserve, in their aim of wreaking havoc in our lives.
These prove the users, abusers, leeches and narcissistic personality types who project short term superficial relational qualities, having no substantive attributes to sustain the relationship long term.
As such, it is both our right and our duty to reject with unwavering fervour, these circumstances, so as to make way for relationships of value to be had, where we each of us are getting our needs met, instead of living out the painful reality of a tug-of-war within our closest circles of social networks.
We must say no to the things that dishonor us...no to the things that drag us down...no to the things that threaten our sense of wellness in the world...and best of all, no to anyone and anything that encroaches on the standards and values we've proclaimed for ourselves....always.
We are the light of our world...and are privy to utilize it whenever necessary to bring forth the vision we have for ourselves and our wellbeing.
We mustn't settle for nominal comforts, when we are worthy of the full menu of our right to engage in relationships of abundance over lack, health and wellness over dysfunction, devaluation, and deception.
We are each of us thrivers. May we reject what isn't, so as to receive the fullness of what is to be had in the vastness of healing, nurturing, affirmative relationships.
-OasisAgainstViolence