Today I realized that I have created a habit of giving my power and inner authority over to others. This happens when I do not honor my feelings and set clear boundaries. I then become resentful when others display inner authority and set clear boundaries with me. The resentment is because I have not set up clear boundaries for myself. This behavior only works for the part of me that maintains the child like mentality to want to be loved at all costs. Today is the day of reconciliation. I reconcile the inner child that needs acceptance and praise with the woman I am now who has the wisdom and strength to reassure her through the power of the “I AM” presence that I am, that she is loved and accepted just as she is.
Often when we start to set boundaries and teach people how to treat us we assume that we are telling them what we will allow and that it is them that need to change. This is why we are met with resistance and just like athletes that have resistance training, we too must go through this to learn to exercise the muscle of our inner authority. The resistance trains the muscle to stretch and bear the new weight of authority in us. The boundaries we set are boundaries for our self not the other person. We set up a personal boundary to not allow our self to accept any behavior form anyone including ourselves that do not honor us. This has nothing to do with the other person or how people treat you yet it directly effects how you will be treated. Inner authority and integrity work as a rule in our life to build up and support the foundation of our inner being and wherever in our lives we make exceptions to a rule designed to support our inner authority we weaken the foundation of our presence and personal power over our lives. Then we can't understand why our life is out of order and why we feel as if we are not in control of our circumstances. Being out of control means out of alignment with God the presence of God moves through our inner authority which manifests as personal boundaries, self-fullness, integrity, gratitude, respect, compassion and personal dominion
Thought for today:
Sacrifice begins with me.
Affirmation:
I no longer sacrifice my inner authority for external validation or my self-worth for love.
