the last full moon of this decade and the NUMBER 1 killer of dreams

full moons always bring up a lot of hidden deeply rooted truths. if you are connected with yourself (which you are if you are reading this) you can always feel a bit of a pull when the full moon comes around. full moons ask us to look at our lives and put an end to something and if not an end, then to change the way we relate to something. ⁣

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this is the final full moon of this decade. which for me, brings up a lot of emotions. it takes me back to when this decade started, i was 17 years young with really big dreams. and although the dreams i had haven’t panned out the way i thought they would, i still got the results i wanted. ⁣

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behind every big dream is a deep desire to get closer to ourselves. this is the reason we want anything that we want. and when you surrender your dreams to the universe, you may get what you want but it may not look like the way you thought it would. ⁣

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which makes me think about how many people block off their blessings because of the rigid rules they place upon themselves. if you want to enter a building and the front door won’t open but someone tells you the back door is open, are you going to refuse to go through the back door and wait for the front door to open?⁣

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a lot of people do this. ⁣

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pride is the number one killer of dreams. ⁣

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this expectation that what we ask for has to show up exactly as we ask for it, otherwise we can’t accept it. ⁣

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this causes serious misery and looking back throughout this decade, i have done this many times. ⁣

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that is until i realized something that changed my life…⁣

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you don’t get to dictate how things enter your life but you can choose to see the blessing in everything that shows up ⁣

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imagine being so busy looking for something when it’s right in front of your face. this energy has to be left behind in the 2010s.

this full moon set the intention to release anything that says what you have and where you are RIGHT NOW is not good enough. ⁣

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a couple of ways to do this⁣

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BE GRATEFUL -- Gratitude is a great tool that grounds you in this now moment. when you are grateful you are taking the time to acknowledge God's presence in your life. and whatever you choose to direct your focus and energy on, grows. so if you are looking at what is going right in your life, that’s what will grow.

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And [remember] when your Lord proclaimed, 'If you are grateful, I will surely increase you [in favor]. ⁣Surah Ibrahim [14:7]

DON’T DOWNPLAY THE PURPOSE OF WHERE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW -- understand that where you are right now is exactly where you are meant to be. you can’t escape the moment you are in. we waste a lot of time trying to do this. it doesn’t work. instead, look at the moment you are in and bring curiosity to it. ask why you are where you are in life right now. maybe you aren’t quite at the stage where your dream has manifested, you can ponder on what the moment you are in is trying to teach you. it serves a great purpose… why not recognize this before your dreams are manifested so that you can cherish the moment. all things pass. and we often don’t understand the purpose of certain stages in our lives until way after they have passed. but what if we rewired our thinking to bring more consciousness to the moments as we are in them? perhaps this would make life a lot more fulfilling and a lot less suffocating at times. ⁣

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whatever is happening in your life right now, however you are ending this decade, there is one thing i know for sure… it is all in divine wholeness. everything is exactly how it is meant to be. no matter how messy or how perfect, it is all how it is meant to be. ⁣

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things don’t have to make sense for us to appreciate them. life doesn’t have to look the way we think it should look in order for it to have value. this is a very old way of thinking and this causes so much suffering. give up how you think things should be and start accepting that things are how they are meant to be. this doesn’t mean you can’t change your life… it just means that you aren’t at war with life. and ironically, this is the only place you can begin to make changes. ⁣

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change." - Carl Rogers

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