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Welcome Business & Professional Women
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February 2006 - Special Issue
Illumination of the Human Spirit
A Presentation by
Marcia Glenda Rosen
Please read the following excerpt from my forthcoming novel. It is a topic that comes from the heart and from many life experiences. If you would like a presentation to any women's organization you belong to, please contact me at:
Marciar101@aol.com
631-878-3506
www.womanbusinesstherapist.com
Do you believe there is a price to pay for wanting to live a life beyond the ordinary? Do you think that price is different for women and for men?
I think that sometimes it feels like the price to be paid seems to be beyond unbearable. You get to a place where you say, sometimes softly, silently, that you simply can't care anymore. It seems too much to wish and to want and to hope. Still, you know the truth is that you care so much, that the only way to survive is to sit for a moment with the unbearable and then move beyond it to a saner place where you can hear the whisper.
That is the whisper for all of us, you and I, of our deepest hopes and prayers. If we don't give into despair and disappointment, that whisper can become a louder, more illuminating inner voice helping us find our way through the maze of messages we received throughout our lives. We begin to see that self-illumination is possible through our own thoughts and actions. We see that we can gain freedom from the demands of others as well as those we place on ourselves. Freedom, indeed, what is the price of such freedom?
I have an even bigger question that needs an answer for each of us, for each of you. Why settle for an ordinary life, when you can lead an illuminated life, a fulfilled life that taps in into your own energy and desires?
Have you ever asked yourself just what price you are willing to pay for your own freedom? What price are you willing to pay to feel your soul has been illuminated? I've been told that it's too costly. I've been told, by others that the price is worth the reward. For many of us, we simply know that staying where we are, is not an option.
When you begin truly exploring these questions, when you realize you don't want to live in that dark place of sadness and loss, then begin to ask yourself even more provoking questions.
What is your own meaning and purpose? Do you really like yourself? And, if not, why not? What about love? Do you really know what love is? If someone truly loves us unconditionally, then why can't we love ourselves the same way? What in the world stops us from that?
Oh…there are more questions. I promised I would provoke you a bit today and hopefully stimulate your appetite for insights and illumination.
Are you living on automatic response in your behaviors? Do you concentrate more on what you consider your shortcomings instead of strengths? Can you forgive yourself?
Here is the thing. I can help you explore these issues and make you think about some of those you have put away in a hidden place in your heart and mind. I know it may feel safer to keep them hidden, the only problem with that is that you still own those secrets. You do have to forgive yourself. For all and anything. You do have to concentrate on your strengths.
I do not mean in anyway to suggest this is easy. It may not even be easy for you to know what questions to ask yourself. Those I'm asking you to explore can open those doors of insight for you. We are all caught between what we have heard and learned, what we have been taught by family, teachers and socialization. We all have moments where are ideas and attitudes that come from our history give voice to our behaviors even when we know that are not the behaviors we want to own ourselves.
Think about this, do you really know what makes you happy, sad, joyful, and angry?
I know I feel strongly myself about holding on to my good stuff, what I've accomplished. I don't want to hold on to other people's ideals and ideas for me. I want to win and not worry about being right. I want to always be able to face reality and truths around me and be comfortable with it. I don't want endings to be miserable or uncomfortable. I need to love who I am and who I am not. So do you! All of you here today, listening to me, all of these are also truths for you.
It is important to live an illuminated life if you want it to be filled with happiness, joy, love, friendships, success and a spirit of wellbeing. Trust me, I know that the vision of that is different for each of us. Simply put I would hope for you to find your own illumination.
Marcia Glenda Rosen
February, 2006
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