Be Yourself

BE YOURSELF.  Freedom to be your authentic self and alignment with your personal integrity are among the greatest gifts you can give to yourself and those around you.  Authenticity and integrity means being who you are with balance and center, and without apologies.  If you are out of balance with your authentic self, do not worry.  You can change the behaviors to fully honor who you are by redirecting your energy and focus back to your full potential!  :)  Here are just some examples............

Deeply sensitive:

(Balance)  Expressing oneself and responding to life deeply, with an ability to sense beyond what is seen or said

(Out of balance)  Feeling wounded and victimized on a continuous basis, allowing negative emotions to dominate one's life, unable to move forward or take action due to fear, believing and putting value in the opinions and criticism from others about oneself

Vulnerable:

(Balance)  Leaving one's heart wide open with an understanding that others are imperfect and will act in imperfect ways

(Out of balance)  Closing oneself off to prevent the heart or ego from being hurt, putting up walls, becoming jaded, putting on a "tough act" to ward off others

Leader:

(Balance)  Being a way shower by personal example, confidence, acting with awareness and purpose

(Out of balance)  Ruling with fear, being forceful out of fear that one will not be listened to, refusing to look at other ways or other perspectives, anger due to not getting one's way

Romantic:

(Balance)  Seeing the poetry and beauty of life, believing in love, dancing in the flow with another

(Out of balance)  Looking to find oneself and own personal happiness within another

Innocence:

(Balance)  Experiencing life in awe and wonder through the eyes of a child, seeing the good in others despite surface appearances, enjoying the sweetness of life

(Out of balance)  Using inexperience and lack of knowledge as an excuse not to move forward and be the best one can be, allowing oneself to be a doormat

Witty/Humorous:

(Balance)  Being able to laugh at life and one's own experiences, diffusing tense situations by making others laugh

(Out of balance)  Using barbs and ill intended jokes to passive-aggressively point out the flaws of others, using self-deprecating words to devalue oneself

Nurturing:

(Balance)  Taking loving care of oneself and others, wanting to see everyone blossom to their fullest potential, loving, compassionate

(Out of balance)  Forgetting to tend to one's own needs in the midst of taking care of everyone else, not allowing others to grow and expand personally and spiritually by letting them make their own mistakes, smothering, enabling

Protector/Guardian:

(Balance)  Being the voice for those who are unable to find their own voice, helping those in need, ensuring the safety and well-being of others

(Out of balance)  Fighting with anger, enabling others to continue to feel weak or victimized, forgetting to take care of self in always trying to rescue others, taking the power away from others to stand up for themselves

Activist:

(Balance)  Being proactive, solution finder, decision maker, standing up for a cause that is near and dear, moving forward

(Out of balance)  Standing up in anger, refusal to look at all sides of an issue, being angry at those who do not share in the cause, taking up a fight without the intention of finding a workable solution, always looking for the wrong and injustices in everything, taking up new causes once one has been resolved in a need to fill a void (in other words, always needing to fight about something)

Pacifist:

(Balance)  Honoring all sides, center, peace, detached from drama

(Out of balance)  Unmotivated, passionless, withdrawn

Carefree:

(Balance)  Marching to the beat of one's own drum, willing to take risks, following one's heart, trust in the flow, stretching beyond limits and boundaries

(Out of balance)  Recklessness, never finishes what has been started, lack of focus, roaming aimlessly without direction