Young Living: Meditation Change me

MEDITATION: Changed me

Last night, while I was having fun with my husband, my sister, and her husband, I thought about how our culture became us. My sister and I grew up in the Philippines, where our ways of doing things, behaving thinking, belief are so different than it is now. My husband grew up in San Diego, California, and my sister’s husband grew up in Washington State. Wow! What a great combination. Spending more time with my twin brings back good times, memories, and some weird experiences happened while we were growing up. We always have something fun to talk about. I kind of miss some of my culture, those I will keep with me. There are some parts of my culture that I no longer believe, do, practice, and enjoy. Those have to go.

My goal is to create a vision of wholeness. When I am whole , I feel so happy with myself, so I am connected with something bigger than my environment. I feel like I have everything. What I want to experience already happened. My vision to create my future is exciting. I have a vision, knowledge, and information about myself. To heal my frustration, resentment suffering, disappointment, and fear, I have to open my heart and let myself focus on today. Those thoughts are from my past, mostly don’t even exist. I just can’t entertain those thought. They still do pop up, though.

Culture is the environment of our family, the environment in which we live, our relationship built on experience. If we share the same experiences we share the same emotion, and we can relate with each other. Philippine culture is very different from Americans culture. Our custom, tradition, our beliefs, lifestyles, and faith are very different. Typically, culture is based on past experiences, beliefs, and lifestyles. Right now, everything changes so fast that it is hard to keep up. If I stick with my old ways of thinking, I can not move forward. I personally have to create and grow on my own to make sure I am not left behind. Meditation helped me to know more of myself. I asked myself, “Am I doing the same thing every day? Is my life a pattern of always doing the same thing?” If so, then I am not growing and creating. Living by the same emotion, thinking the same thoughts, reproducing the same thing, demonstrating the same behavior, making the same secretly expecting my life to change is not going to happen.

Being aware of my emotions, love, gratitude, joy, and thankfulness give me energy and make me look forward to my future.

PSALM 20:4

“May He grant you according to your heart desires and fulfill your purpose.”