These past weeks I’ve been receiving a lot of life teachings. In particular, there was someone in my same small town in Costa Rica that was publicly (online) trying to shame me, belittle my work and basically say that I was a fraud. This person has never met me, never worked with me, from their comments probably hasn’t done or received a lot of healing work themselves, and clearly has a particular view of the world and how things do and do not exist.
After responding with kindness, I quickly found out my words fell on deaf ears.
Realizing it would be pointless to try and debate with this person, nor did I have the time or energy. B O R I N G. Instead I reflected and contemplated the different lessons I was being gifted.
I’m not a victim. There was a time when someone verbally and publicly attacking me and my work would have really set me back. In the past, it may have caused me to believe less in myself and my gifts or fear what others might think of me.
This attack was good because from one point of view it allowed me to see how far I’ve come in loving, trusting and believing in myself. It gave me a deeper sense of gratitude for my work, how much I love and am grateful for the opportunity to share it and for all the beautiful soul family & community in my life that support and encourage me. Instead of identifying with all the things that could set me back, I felt grateful, chose to identify with my highest potential and keep going.
Be kind and compassionate. There is a saying that how you do one thing is how you do everything. And another that says, how we treat ourselves is often a reflection of how we treat others. So this interaction allowed a lot of love and compassion to arise in my heart because it was clear that they are most likely hurting the most, need the most healing and are so closed off that they don’t even realize how unconscious their thoughts and actions are.
The other day I saw a sign on the beach that read, “If trash you throw, trash you will become.” Of course the sign was referring to physical trash, but after this encounter it was another reminder to me not to throw trash at others; to be kind and loving with my thoughts, words and actions.
Kindness and compassion doesn’t mean you have to stay in a situation or relationship that is harmful to yourself and others. In this case, the person harassing me was someone online who I didn’t know whatsoever. Although we live in the same very small town, we haven’t met yet. So, it was easy for me not to engage with them anymore. But, many times we think we have to stay in a situation or relationship that is doing us a lot of harm. No, sometimes we need distance and we can still share love from afar.
Keep shining! Not everyone is going to like us. Not everyone is going to resonate with our work. When we shine our light, it might make some people REAL uncomfortable, but know that’s because it’s touching something in them that they probably know on a conscious or subconscious level they need to change or work on and it’s super scary for them. Know you’re on the right track! Don’t let anyone dim your light. Shine even brighter!
I love you!
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