Reset Your Life
Several year
ago while in Hawaii at a week-long retreat with wellness practitioners from
around the globe, I learned a most important lesson.
The
participants had all met early one morning for a baptismal ceremony lead by one
of the local teachers.
He told us a story about our lives.
He said that we were born like an empty bowel but every act of jealousy, envy
and strife added more and more stones to our bowel. The bowel becomes heavy
with grief and pain and change seems impossible.
He said that
we could try to take each stone out one by one, but when we do, it feels as if
another stone takes it place.
“The solution is simple,” he told us,
“just flip over and empty yourself out.”
After this
powerful teaching I swam out and did as I often do when I’m in the ocean; I
forgot myself and kept swimming further and further. I am accustomed to being
called back to shore, but this time, people were yelling to tell me that I was
being followed by a group of large sea turtles.
After I
reluctantly came back to shore, I learned that sea turtles brought a most
wonderful sign of good fortune.
Today, commit your heart and head to
renewal—just for today, then do it again tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. As
you change, so will your fortune.
Flip yourself over and be renewed.
Be you, be well, be
reset.
Bertice Berry, PhD.
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