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Turning
your Life into a Masterpiece
by Rita Rivera
When you learn to create from the Authentic Self, your life becomes a masterpiece of art.
We are all masters because we have the power to create. We are creating in every moment, and the magic tool we use for our creation is the word - the words we use with ourselves and with other people, and the words we use to describe ourselves and the rest of the world. Our power to create is so strong that whatever we believe comes true. We are masters of creating from our beliefs, but what is it we have created? What is it we have mastered? This question is very easy to answer by simply looking at our lives. What is present in your life right now is the result of what you have mastered. Is your life filled with happiness, friendship, and abundance, or have you limited your creation with beliefs and concepts that limit the flow of these qualities?
When we awaken and have the courage to see our lives as what we have created, we can reclaim our power to be the creator of a life full of beautiful expression. This new creation starts with being honest and looking closely at the beliefs we have about ourselves. Once we do this, we begin to notice that the words we use silently within our own minds are the most powerful words of all, for everything we believe about ourselves we have manifested.
Through the course of life we can see we have done a lot to get love and approval, all the way from childhood up to the present moment. These actions can result in painful emotions of self-rejection. With each of these emotional reactions, we judge and reject the (continued from front page) natural emotional response and we lose a little piece of our integrity. We lose integrity each time we believe something someone else says about us - what we should be, what we should do - and we judge ourselves as not good enough, until one day, we wake up to ask "what do I want?" This question begins the most incredible journey of all, the journey to your Authentic Self. Recovering the Authentic Self is a process of unlearning the beliefs and habits that define who you think you are in order to become who you truly are. We are what we believe we are, and it is possible to transform the false beliefs that we create by bringing the truth forward to transform the painful emotions that accompany those beliefs.
The Authentic Self creates from true feelings, which are the basis of our integrity. To live from our integrity is to know that we are choosing the beliefs we will create from, and that we will use emotions as the barometer for these choices. Our emotions are messages from the Authentic Self. They are ever-present and always speaking to us, but we interpret our emotions through our beliefs and often judge and reject them.
When we become aware, we can see that every thought and belief has an emotional response. If we find our emotions to be uncomfortable or out of balance, we simply need to look at what we believe about ourselves in order to bring our emotions into a new light. There is no such thing as a "negative" emotion; it is simply our judgment about having the emotion that creates this reaction. We can learn to master our emotions by mastering our thoughts and the words we create to come to a new respect for the emotional body. Mastering new words of self-love will cause the emotional body to feel wonderful!
It is your true nature to express from love because you are Love. When you learn how to do this, you become the creator of a masterpiece; you become a master of choice. When you live this truth, then every action can only produce happiness, abundance and the absolute fulfillment of who you are.
Rita Rivera is a hypnotherapist, trauma counselor, Native American ceremonial leader and Toltec teacher. Over the past ten years, she has co-facilitated workshops and power journeys designed to bring the emotional body into balanced harmony with the mental and physical bodies. By synthesizing ancient wisdom with modern techniques, she inspires her students to achieve greater personal power and freedom through the integration of all aspects of human perception, and the actualization of love, our human essence.