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I’ve been reading over my original blog, Art & Clairvoyance, rewriting and reworking some of the ideas there. In the two and a half years since I began blogging, I’ve learned a lot, become a better writer, and found my voice. I know what I want to say, and why I want to blog. I’ve become clearer about my reasons for writing and posting my writing in public for anyone to see. Simply the act of writing frequently has helped me to find my way through my own changes. I have recently decided, for example, to commit to teaching again. I am scheduling classes and workshops, and even teaching one tonight to a group of women who want to learn to ground on the 4th of July.
You may already know that simply the act of deciding changes everything. It’s the wishy washy sitting on the fence stuff that creates more confusion. A clear decision will help you to head bravely into the next… place where you get to make another decision!
And so I’d like to share the following piece with you. I have written a few times on this same topic: Being Seen.
This was originally posted on Art & Clairvoyance in November 2007:
Many people I give readings to are looking for the same thing: permission to be seen, to shine. And to shine being who they are, doing what they want to do. No coincidence I moved to Los Angeles, which so many flock to for this reason.
“I want to be a star!” – How about being the star of your own life?
I read a book recently that illustrates this theme so beautifully, “Undercover”, by Beth Kephart. The heroine narrates the story, which follows her adventures as she is pursued by a number of young men in her high school, not because they want to romance her, but because she can write the magical verses that win for them the young women they are romancing. She is the school’s Cyrano, at the expense of her own happiness. There is the point in the story where she decides to have more:
“But the greatest tragedy of all is letting invisibility win. It’s choosing to give up the thing you want because you think you don’t deserve it.”
I love it when people reach conclusions like this! I cheer them on and wish them the best. They have decided to change, to grow. What was once good enough no longer is. How cool is that? That’s always the best part of the movie, when the hero or heroine changes like this. If everything begins and ends the same, how boring it would be.
The same is true with real life, and I am not talking so called reality TV. I mean my life, and yours, and his over there. Change is the norm, actually. Even if we don’t want it. Especially then.
So why not embrace it now, and have a say in how it happens? What is the change you’d like to become?
©Kris Cahill – Psychic Everyday
Website: www.KrisCahillPsychic.com
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