Just be yourself. You can't get it wrong

We spend a lot of time worrying if we are doing things right. We listen to the teachings of our churches and families. We know what our culture expects of us. We try to be good. We try to be loving. We try to be all sorts of things because we are taught that we should. In short, we perform.

Listening to outside influences
We listen to the teachings that we are taught. We try to fit within their framework. We put all sorts of restrictions on ourselves. We add pressure to perform in the right way and stress when we don't get it right. If when we go to our church and we don't follow all of their doctrines we are judged to be wanting. What ever way we look at it, we can never be good enough, loving enough, humble enough. We are never enough. You can't please everyone and sometimes, it seems, you can't please anyone. The information you receive from these outside sources is often times conflicting and results in us feeling confused and frustrated. Despite how well meaning they all are.

Listening to yourself
We posses an internal guidance system, it's called your feelings. Trust yourself, you will never steer yourself wrong. Listen to you. Pay attention to how you are feeling in any given moment. That is what will tell you if you are closer to source (God or whatever term you feel comfortable using) or further away. The better you feel the closer you are to your truth.

You are connected to everyone and everything
The universe runs through you and you through it. You are apart of everything there is. Source is not something that is separate from you, it is apart of who you are. I don't mean figuratively I mean literally. Jesus taught us this as well. You can not separate yourself from source. You can move further away but you can not be completely separated, any more than you can separate yourself from breathing.

Just be yourself
Trust yourself enough to be true to who you are. Honor yourself. I know that there is a lot of talk about the importance of positive thinking and removing negativity. And yes I am the first to teach these principles. But remember that we all think negative thoughts and feel negative feelings and behave in negative ways at times. This happens even though we try our very best not to. Which in itself can lead to feelings of fear and frustration. Don't be so hard on yourself. Recognize that this is normal. Remind yourself that you are human and everything is always alright. You can set the intention to think positively and be in an upbeat mood and with practice this will happen more and more often until it becomes your norm. As it becomes your norm you will see more and more evidence that you are achieving this by the people and things around you changing to be more representative of the way you want your world to be. Trust yourself because you can't get it wrong. It doesn't matter what happens, it is always alright. Everything is always unfolding the way it is supposed to. What ever you decide to do. However you decide to act. However you feel. What ever you want. It is always OK. Even if it is deemed to be negative or even wrong in some circles.  There are some that like being negative and that also is alright. No matter what it is, YOU CAN'T GET IT WRONG.