Human beings have a tendency to immediately think, “What is wrong with me?” if they have an emotion come up out of the blue, a wound surface, or experience a struggle of any sort. The moment you start to ask such a question, you create division and resistance within yourself. What if instead you asked, “What is coming up that is ready to be healed?” “What is feeling safe enough or brave enough to come up and ask for my love and attention?”
Do you see? Looking at it as an opportunity shifts you beyond the knee jerk reaction of rejection, judgement, and self abuse. It allows you to explore it from a space of calm support and willingness to heal. It is you stepping up as your own loving parent and guide as required from a space of inclusion and acceptance. It is you assuming the role of your own shepherd lovingly gathering up all the pieces of yourself as honoured and important pieces of the whole. ~Archangel Gabriel through Shelley Young