Outside my window, the dawn chorus of birds sing of their freedom, and the beauty of a new day has begun.
They fill the space with songs of celebration. The trees have completely leafed out, spreading out as far as possible, and the stream flows freely.
This expansive outreach of life is far from the condensed expression of living so commonly found within our own lives.
Once, many years ago, desperate for answers to why it felt as if I was always sacrificing one area of my life for happiness in another, I asked for help.
The answer I received was simple. I was told, “There is plenty of room in the world for you.”
It was the same concept and advice I heard in my dance lessons. “Take up space. Use the entire room. Use every level of the space given. Be seen!”
Or my art teachers' advice: “Use the whole paper!”
In other words, there is plenty of room in the world for you to live expansively as yourself.
Nature apparently needs no such advice; it simply provides an example of what living life fully looks like.
But how do we do this?
Our programming within the worldview is not to take up space, to not live life in celebration, to not live as the gift that we are, to learn lessons through suffering, to lose what we love, and to never be safe.
The worldview is about “never enough” and the fear that concept produces.
This programming invades every moment of our lives, and while we can sometimes experience a momentary release from it, we often feel as if we can never fully escape from it.
A few years ago, I had a virus problem on my websites.
I could fix the problem so it disappeared, but I couldn’t find the core of the issue to make it stop coming back. The virus was a script that had entwined itself through everything.
I asked for help and found it. An expert who wrote a good script that provided a simple, elegant, and effective solution. That good script crept through every page and “ate” the bad script.
The same solution can apply to our “bad script programming.”
Send a “good script” through it to dissolve it forever.
There is no need to waste time fixing it once and then having to fix it repeatedly.
There is no need to sacrifice one area of our lives to be happy in another.
There is no need to limit our expression of ourselves.
I have a script for you, but it is so easy you may think it won’t work.
But it will. Why?
Because it is based on universal principles of omnipresent good, and “what we perceive to be reality magnifies,” or, said differently:
”Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” Philippians 4:8
Say this: “I love my life.”
Four simple words: easy, elegant, and effective.
You may say, “But I don’t love my life.”
But that is part of that programming.
When the virus infected my websites, they became invisible. Once that script was cleared out, they were visible again. They were always present, just invisible.
In the same way, the life you love is always present.
Say, “I love my life,” with feeling, and discover the truth for yourself.
Say this “good script” every moment, no matter what happens.
I guarantee it works. Turn it on and keep it running.
It took a week for the good script to crawl through my websites to destroy the bad script, so be patient while these four words work in your life.
In the meantime, you can trust in the outcome and celebrate the joy of life as freely as the birds that call to you at dawn.
The sun always rises.
Love is always Life.
There is plenty of room in the world for you!
I Love My Life. There is room in the world for me. Rinse. Repeat.