If you want to build strength in your physical body, Dear One, you use it.
If you want to build strength in your emotional body, the same rule applies.
Use whatever it is you want to strengthen, Dear One, more.
The time to compromise for others, Dear One, is not when you are feeling compromised, weak, ill, needy, or out of sorts.
That is the time for you to practice radical self-love.
And while we understand that choosing to do so may feel like the selfish choice to you, especially because it means that you are potentially letting someone else down when they need you, we can assure you, that it most definitely is not.
Choosing to practice radical self-love when you are not functioning at full strength, is actually the most selfless thing that you can do to serve the greatest good.
Why?
Know, Dear One, that they are not better than you.
They are not more valuable, worthy, or important than you are either.
Their words, actions and beliefs are not more significant than yours.
The story of their life does not matter more than the story of yours, regardless of how they may act or what they may say.
And they are most definitely not, in any way, shape or form, more divine than you are.
They may have acquired more knowledge than you on a particular subject, they may be more practiced than you at a particular skill, they may be more educated, physically fit, or have a greater understanding of how to accumulate wealth than you do, but that just makes them different, Dear One — not better.
Remember that the next time you are feeling intimated.
Remember that in that moment instead of giving into your feelings of intimidation that you can choose to see the situation for what it really is; an opportunity for you to be inspired by or learn something new from someone who is in every way that matters– your equal.
Do you want to know what you can do to pay your respects to source today, Dear One, to honor spirit, prana, light, energy, God, consciousness, whatever you should choose to call it?
We’ll tell you.
Honor yourself and acknowledge your own divinity, with every choice, with every decision, with every word that you speak and action that you take.
We can think of no greater gesture that you could make.
Going back is not an option, Dear One, and standing still will get you nowhere.
So, it looks like your options really are limited after all.
Everyone makes mistakes, Dear One.
But not everyone is brave enough to take responsibility for them, learn from them, let them go, and continue on.
Are you?
Trust yourself, Dear One. Trust your heart. Always.
We know that sometimes that can be a difficult thing for you to do, especially when you feel as though you have sufficient evidence proving that doing so in the past has gotten you into trouble, has steered you in the wrong direction.
But what if we told you, that it just wasn’t true. What if we told you that all of those experiences that you have had trusting your heart, the ones that did not work out the way that you wanted them to, the way that you thought they would, had in fact turned out exactly the way that you needed them to.
What if we told you that?
Your heart always, always, always knows, Dear One.
Trusting it will always, always, always serve you better than not trusting it ever will.
Shine.
Right where you are.