My Lesson for 2012

Seth: "I bid you good evening, and remember this: you have a right to say "no." In the great affirmation of your being, you are conscious. You are therefore able to make a distinction. You can like something better than something else! Within the great affirmation of your being, you can deny. You can say "no" to a situation freely and joyfully and exuberantly — and feel free, and that you are using the abilities of your consciousness, your spirit, and your creaturehood. If you say "no," you say "no" for a reason. Find out what the reason is. You have a right to it." by Jane Roberts (C) L.Butts The Seth Audio Collection Excerpt 20 2012 provided me with the most important lesson - probably my life lesson. I remember my first experience where the lesson was handed to me on a platter was when I was 17 years old. I chose to not step in. I'm sure it came up for me again and again but I had two opportunities, big ones in 2012. The first one was with a real estate client. At this point in my life, I didn't even know that NO was an option, I had become such a YES girl. The yes I kept saying to this client brought me to a very uncomfortable edge, almost an edge of no return. I finally said NO but I didn't understand the lesson in it, better said I didn't understand that it was my lesson. Once I came aware of this feeling, this reason that might be possible, to have no be an option as Seth says above, I kept seeing the opportunity in the situation where before I would have just kept saying yes and continued to move forward and just "deal." Then of course, came the big one for me. That's another post. But a NO that had to be said and a reason that had to be identified. By far the hardest lesson to step into, and again as Seth references the chance for freedom, joy and exuberance in the decision. This is not saying that it was easy, but an opportunity to step into who I really am, for myself, and live in this space rather than in the space of others. And as always, in the words of Radical Forgiveness, look what I created. Sheez, I hate that part, but it is the truth and now that I see it, there is such freedom!