This is a post from my sister, Maria.
Change has come to America.
This is the slogan of the platform of the new presidency and today I felt I had become part of this new energy. Today I did something totally different, a paradigm shift for me. As America is in the process of making this paradigm shift , I had decided to take the day off. Without even realizing nor planning it, it just happened
I did so
today, the day in which as a nation ,are all in the consciousness of entering a new era. I came to do this out of feeling totally burned out and exhausted from much stress past few months. The cause: ” Everyone else is more important than me”. I slept all morning, something I had not done in over 20 years. I realized it was something my body and mind were needing desperately but I had not
taken the time to do.
As I drank my coffee and read every inch of the paper about the Inaugural ceremonies I cried as I realized we as a nation ARE on a new journey, should we all choose to embrace this consciousness of change. Change has come to America. Change has come to my life as I took the time today out of physical need to restart and redirect my focus in where I have been and where I want to be. Some things have not been working in my life and something has got to ,change or I ,as America ,will find myself on a self destruct path. But change has come to America.
My mother happened to come over as I was watching the Oprah Winfrey show and she made the comment that Obama was being spoken of as if a God. I looked at her for a moment and thought, well it does seem that way. But here is a man who has inspired us and challenged us as a nation to do something different. Yes we are all desperate for change. He has spoken to the core of what all of us ,I believe ,want deep down in the core of our souls: Change. I want change in my life, to move beyond the things that limit me from feeling joy and being the individual that I was born to be.
I am a psychotherapist and am always telling people what they need to do in order to get their lives back on track and here I am way off track and not walking my own talk. The other day I told a patient that feeling joy was his birthright. As I said these words it hit me like a ton of bricks. I have not been experiencing this myself and thus the burn out. I have been worrying about working, doing for others and afraid that if I took a day off, I would not have enough money to pay the bills. My health has begun to be affected and needed to go to a doctor this week who basically scolded me for not taking care of myself. My body has been giving me signals that I chose to ignore.
Today I really began to realize possibly for the first time in my life my true value. So much attention I have put on so many other things that I really had not stopped to value myself. I had never really taken time for me. It jsut so happened that I did today and I can’t help but feel lucky in some way that as I did today and heard all the commentaries of the spirit and energy that people in Washington felt being there, I also began to feel.
It is not just about this one man. It is really about all of us, as a nation as a people, of who we are and who we can become if we pull together and put all the things that limit and hinder us aside. He said so beautifully in the inaugural speech, ” Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.”
Well it starts with me. I realized that today,
I need to pick myself out of this depression and self neglect, dust myself off and begin the remaking of me, and that means putting myself first because I am important and the value and wealth that is inside of me is worth millions, so being sick and hiding in layers of extra weight will not bring me what I really want, Joy.
Change has come to America!
Change has come to my life!
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