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Send That Baggage Packing

Posted in Wellbeing on Feb 9th, 2010

What does your recording say? What is your programming? What have you packed in your baggage?Why on earth am I asking you these seemingly ridiculous questions?

I am asking them because if I didn’t bring this up, someone else might, or worse- no one would at all. Then you end up as a failed rock star at an American Idol audition. That’s what happens when you don’t get the truth.

I used to date as a past-time. When the date didn’t turn into a nutritional consult, it often turned into a therapy session. I started to get the feeling that dating was an opportunity for two people to meet, for them to open up the baggage they dragged around with them, empty out the contents piece by piece, and leave it up to the person on the other side of the cafe table to decide whether any contents of this baggage were deal breakers or not. More often than not, I walked away from these dates/therapy sessions praying to baggage handlers the world over that these fine people would be blessed with the lightness that would come should their baggage be lost.

Often however, we don’t recognize this in ourselves. We just carry on, living with the agreements we have come to know as our truth, living and thinking (and often eating) in such a way because everyone else does it the same way and so it seems normal and okay…

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