What are you Sacrificing?

Sacrifice is a loaded word, isn’t it?  Probably the vestiges of a Christian culture.  Sacrifice has become expected, resisted, and habitual all at the same time.

The more important question is:
 
WHAT are you sacrificing?  And why?

Because in this time/space reality, in a physical body you have a certain amount of time and energy.  It varies person to person, and by age and health.  And I do think we’re all programmed to believe we have less of all of it than we actually do.  Be that as it may, we live within certain parameters.  And that means you can’t do everything!  Try and desire as much as you might, it is simply not possible. You have to choose.

And that means letting some things go.  And if it’s something you love, that means sacrifice. 

So the question is:  are you letting go of something of a lower nature to get something of a higher nature?

When I first heard that from Bob Proctor I wasn’t sure what it meant.  I had an idea, but it wasn’t until I had experienced it that I really knew. 

Experience is like that, isn’t it?  It’s when you get it in your bones. All the way down in and it’s a knowing, no longer just a concept.

When I was teaching at Columbia I realized I was sacrificing my freedom and creativity out of desire to achieve, to be respected, to make a name for myself.  I did love my work, my students, I did. But I was still sacrificing way too much.

Have you ever done that?  Gotten good at something and then the next thing you know you’re in too deep, and you’re not sure you can get out.  So you keep going, even though there’s a price?

I had to let that job go in order to make space for something else to come in, even though I had no frigging idea what that would be at the time.  No idea.   Then I met Proctor, and he put words to this.  Still, it was when I actually resigned and turned my back on the career I had been building my entire life that I knew what it meant.

And when you’re building a business, you may have to sacrifice some of the things you love in order to do it.  In fact, I can pretty much guarantee it.  Because it takes your single-pointed focus, at least for periods of time.  I know in this last year, my world has become my business, and my family.  Other things come in and out as I have time and energy for them.  I dance, do yoga, see friends.  But launching and stabilizing Soul Signature Marketing has taken priority.  I learned how to do that when I went to graduate school and had to have single pointed focus then as well.  And the benefits are huge of that kind of concentration.  Achievement, growth, impact, prosperity. 

Then there comes another turning point where you have to re-assess and see what you’re sacrificing and why.  For me right now I am bringing back in more self care, more time for creativity and art, more time listening to the wind in the trees.  More space for something new to come in.  What will be the next sacrifice so that I can emerge into the next phase of my life, my business, my contribution?  Because I know there has to be one.

But I’m no longer afraid of sacrifice.  And I also no longer am willing to do it habitually, unconsciously, in order try to show I’m okay or skilled or smart or whatever.  Or least I’m working on it.  That is simply not necessary or helpful.

What are you sacrificing?  And why?

What are you willing to let go of in order to create and experience a deeper sense of why you are here, what you came to contribute, what you can receive, what your Soul is longing for?  Will you give up your unworthiness?  Your doubts about yourself?  About support being available for you?  Will you let go you habits of procrastination or blame?  Will you begin to focus, fully, on what’s possible?  Will you allow your perception to open, even more?  Even more still?