Lavender

What do you think of a lavender bouquet? You examine its color, you examine its shape, you categorize it as a flower, and based on that you label it "lavender". From the moment you learn the name of that flower, if you see similar patterns, either a similar color or a similar flower shape, you will think it is a lavender. You will use the lavender token for it.

Imagine seeing a lavender with bright lemon yellow flowers. The question is, would you still call it lavender if its shape is the same as the lavender you know? And what if you saw a flower with the color of lavender, but a different shape. Would you also say lavender? How much change would have to happen for you to no longer attach a particular label to a particular living being or object?

The question is very interesting because you are like that with everything in the world. Determining the degree to which you think the individual properties are true for an event, living being or object is a matter of individual judgement. Whether you want it or not, you are automatically constantly labeling everything around you. The huge advantage of labeling is that it simplifies and makes the world around you understandable, but it has a very big disadvantage that if you use it for people, for example, you put those people in a box without consciously noticing it. If you recognize that this is a serious problem, you can make it a challenge by trying to catch yourself in the moments when you use these tags.

Realize that everything and everyone around you is constantly changing. You yourself are constantly changing, so your point of view is also constantly changing. So the labels that were once true for someone are not necessarily true today.

Based on my examples, you might think that you should primarily monitor and revise the labeling of the world around you, but perhaps even more important is to question the labels you attach to yourself and, if possible, let them go. If you put a label on yourself, that label will unwittingly limit you in your self-expression. You practically box yourself in. For the sake of fulfilling yourself, your experiences, and your life journey, I can suggest that you consciously remove these labels and allow yourself to expand, including broadening your perspective, increasing the group of people you accept unconditionally, and expanding the range of experiences you welcome. You will see that as you expand, grow, expand, your whole world will become a much more peaceful, accepting, and abundant world for you.

As a practice task, I suggest that you actually write down the labels you recognize, whether they are positive or negative labels, and write a grade between 1 and 5 next to how true you think they are to you. Once you have this list, read it back and decide what you want to change. Even before you make the final decision, think about whether positive labels might have a downside, and whether negative labels might have a positive endowment in your life.

If you reveal these as well, you will be able to make decisions about your future change that you will finally be able to implement. If you recognize exactly how those labels, those qualities, serve you or have served you in the past, you can significantly facilitate the process of letting go. To let go, choose a piece of tag, get into a meditative state, ask your Higher Self's opinion about it, and if you feel you can let it go without hesitation, then offer this tag to the Universe to pass on to someone who needs it more than you.

If you do this exercise persistently, you will notice how much more relaxed, easy, permissive and accepting you will be with yourself and thus with the world around you.

Let this be today's lesson.