We Are Not Our Circumstances

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It is really easy to get bogged down in what is happening right now. What is happening in the present takes up all our time and energy, and sometimes it’s all we are able to see.

We need to remember that we are greater than our circumstances. When we recognize this it is easier for us to take the action that will help us to more forward.

Let’s tap to see ourselves as we truly are: bigger than our circumstances.

We Are Not Our Circumstances
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It’s very easy for me…To mistake what is happening right now…For what will always be…To take my circumstance…And turn it into my identity…Because when I’m in the middle of something…It feels like it’s going to be that way forever…I give myself permission to recognize…That just because it’s like this right now…It doesn’t mean it’s always going to be like this…Just because it’s like this in the moment…Doesn’t mean it’s always going to be this way…My circumstances…Are not who I am…What is going on right now…Will not go on forever…Even though there’s a part of me…That doesn’t feel like it can see a way out…It feels like it’s always going to be like this…It feels like it’s always been like this…Just because I feel like I’m in the middle of it…Just because I feel like I’m stuck with it…Doesn’t mean it’s who I am…Doesn’t mean it’s who I’m always going to be…I give myself permission to recognize…My circumstance is not my identity…My identity exists outside of my circumstance…I give myself permission…To be easy with myself…And easy with the process…As I see that my circumstance…Is not my identity.

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5 responses to “We Are Not Our Circumstances”

May 22, 2019

caron

Big thumbs up on this one! I wish I had known the truth of this in the past, and it is worth tapping on it now, just to feel how true it is that our experiences are fleeting in time and space, no matter how permanent they feel in any given moment. Thank you!

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May 30, 2019

Lorna Engleman

This one is powerful! It is just what I needed. It is so true and yet we forget that we are not our circumstance. Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you! You have given me hope!🙏🏼

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1. June 3, 2019
  
  Marilynn Velpel
  
  I found this one really fit for me today ….however , I have to share that I felt it too hurried. Didn’t have time to repeat the phrase after you , and you were on to another one.
  
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November 2, 2020

Deborah Bartok

Powerful indeed… please give a bit more pause between sentences… hard for me to keep up!!! Thank you as always on target!!!

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March 2, 2021

Catherine O’Rorke

Yes!! The big I AM! And we are! And we are so much more than we know!!

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