Who Cares What They Think! I Am Free To Be Me!

Let's begin our day with a little bit of happy talk and meditation in this short yet impactful podcast designed to infuse a little bit of positivity into each moment of every day.

Let's get in the flow.

I am so tired.

I've been hearing so many people that I care about.

Friends,

Students,

Pretty much anyone actually.

It's been a lot of people talking about how they change who they are to either be,

You know,

Change who they are because of a significant other or they change who they are because of a group of people that they want to sort of fit in.

To a certain crowd.

I'm so tired of hearing about people changing their life for other people,

Changing their beliefs,

Changing who they are,

Changing,

You know,

How they act and dress and all of that.

It's so frustrating.

And you know why it's so frustrating?

Because I was that girl.

When I was younger,

When I was younger,

I was the girl that knew I was different,

Right?

I knew I was different.

And I tried so,

So hard to fit in.

I really did.

I would get teased,

Not bullied actually,

But teased.

There's a difference,

Right?

I would get teased about the things I said and how I said it.

And,

You know,

And yeah,

A lot of things that I would that would come out of my mouth.

It was mostly the stuff that would come out of my mouth.

Right?

Because I kind of just speak,

Right?

You know,

It made me feel horrible because I would get teased by this,

By people I cared about,

Right?

So I changed how I spoke.

I changed how I thought.

And I thought that that would work.

I really did.

I mean,

Again,

I was a kid.

Well,

Okay,

I wasn't a kid.

I was like in my 20s or whatever,

You know,

Late teens,

Early 20s stuff,

Right?

I really thought that here's the,

This is the reality of it.

I really thought that if I would just stop talking,

I am so not lying when I say this.

If I would just stop talking and voicing my thoughts about this,

That or the other thing,

Right?

I would be accepted.

All right.

And that didn't happen.

I mean,

Okay,

So you guys must know me a little bit,

Right?

At least,

Right?

It didn't happen because I wouldn't do well with keeping my thoughts to myself,

Right?

I mean,

I would start out and I would be like trying really hard to fit in and I would feel like I was saying the right things.

And this still even followed me sort of into my adult life,

Right?

A little bit.

I mean,

I would,

You know,

Say things I would,

I would hold back,

Hold back and then I would say something and then boom,

Right back in.

And I would feel like I was getting the looks to the side,

You know,

Like what,

You know,

That sort of thing.

Mm hmm.

Back to not fitting in.

But here's the deal.

One day,

And I remember this day pretty darn specifically,

I suddenly had that aha moment,

That moment of clarity in my life,

Right?

It was that moment of me saying to myself,

Who cares what they think?

I mean,

Really,

I was actually having a conversation with somebody else and I remember thinking,

Oh my God,

Who cares what everybody thinks?

Who cares?

And then all of a sudden I felt this like,

I am not lying when I say all of a sudden it was like this weight lifted and I felt a freedom that I had never felt before.

Like,

Isn't that weird?

You know,

That's the day I realized that that was the day that I,

You know,

Forgive the term here because it's kind of silly,

But blossomed,

Right?

I blossomed.

How funny,

You know,

And I think back to who I was.

Oh my gosh.

But honestly,

This is the day when I started realizing this,

I started to transform.

My spirituality was growing.

Okay.

And I didn't necessarily know it back then to be full honest.

I didn't necessarily know it back then to be spiritually that way,

But I was transforming,

Right?

And I had a peace.

Seriously,

I had a peace that I didn't know.

I had never known before,

Right?

And what happened was,

Was that I sort of started to change the way I thought about stuff.

Like I,

I sort of pushed some of these people that,

You know,

That would say things to me that were like not the nicest thing.

I sort of let them go,

You know,

And other things like I changed who I was.

I changed my group of people.

Because guess what?

You need to be around the people that build you up,

You know,

You need to be around the people that make you feel full and loved and cared for and all of that and make you feel like a,

A valuable person.

My wish for you today for every single person listening to this is to find that same peace for you to know that you are exactly perfect just the way you are.

And that you were put on this earth as a spiritual being having a human experience.

And that is all perfect just the way it is.

You are perfect just the way you are.

Isn't that fantastic?

Like seriously,

I mean,

I can say that till I'm blue in the face,

But you need to like take that on.

Taking on I am perfect just the way I am.

Imagine if we all did that,

How much better this world would be.

Oh my gosh,

Right?

Love that.

When we become free and take on that we are who we're supposed to be,

You know,

As an aside,

What happened is that this group of people that would,

And it was all me.

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.

I get that.

Eleanor Roosevelt's very famous in something I live by.

Right.

So I changed who I was and I changed the group of people that I hang hung out with.

Right.

And then,

You know,

So all these years go by and I go back and I see these people again and it's like I find myself going right back into that place of like,

I don't like I don't like this.

I don't like how I feel when I'm with these people.

Right.

Isn't that crazy?

However,

I have a choice at this point.

I'm 56 years old.

Forget the rest of those people.

You know,

I'm going to be around the people that make me feel good.

My tribe.

Right.

You guys.

So today that is what we are meditating on.

Right.

So let's get ourselves comfy.

And let's get going.

So today that is what we are meditating on.

Right.

So let's get ourselves comfy.

And sit back,

Sit quietly.

We're going to sit in the stillness and start to love who we are.

Right.

Let's do that.

Feel free for who we are.

So close your eyes.

Let's take a deep breath.

And release it.

Perfect.

Perfect.

And now as the extra little cherry on top.

Let's consider three things that we are grateful for today.

What are you grateful for today?

What are you grateful for today?

I am grateful that I have found so many people that I feel free with.

I'm so grateful for the person I am now versus who I was then.

What are you grateful for?

So our mantra as we sit in the stillness just for a few minutes.

Our mantra for today is I allow myself to be free and my unique self.

I allow myself to be free and my unique self.

One more time.

I allow myself to be free and my unique self.

So as we sit in the stillness and repeat our mantra,

It's fine if you forget it or if it morphs into something else.

Just allow yourself to clear your mind and breathe.

I will keep the time.

Let's begin.

I allow myself to be free and my unique self.

I allow myself to be free and my unique self.

I allow myself to be free and my unique self.

I allow myself to be free and my unique self.

I allow myself to be free and my unique self.

I allow myself to be free and my unique self.

I allow myself to be free and my unique self.

I allow myself to be free and my unique self.

I allow myself to be free and my unique self.

I allow myself to be free and my unique self.

I allow myself to be free and my unique self.

I allow myself to be free and my unique self.

I allow myself to be free and my unique self.

I allow myself to be free and my unique self.

I allow myself to be free and my unique self.

I allow myself to be free and my unique self.

I allow myself to be free and my unique self.

We can start bringing our awareness back.

And allow yourself to take this mantra with you for the rest of the day.

Knowing that there is a freedom in that.

Namaste everybody.