A bowl of you!

Imagine that your life is a bowl of soup, that what we put in each day is what our soup will taste like.  We can only expect our soup to taste like what it is we add, nothing more and nothing less! 

 

“What we put in comes out.”  That was the topic on the Dr. Robin Smith program yesterday.

 

During the show a woman calls in and states that she is unable to receive, that for so many years she has been the giver.  We learn that she and her four sisters were children of an alcoholic mom, and they had to take care of themselves, so we learn she was not taught to receive, for no one gave to her.

 

I was amazed that even such a simple thing as receiving is a taught behavior. 

 

If a mother is unable to give, the children are unable to receive, that is simply amazing to me! 

 

In order for a child to relax and be, they have to know that they will be taken care of, they have to have trust.  If not, they take care of themselves and it becomes a life long pattern.

 

I did not know that receiving and trust walked hand and hand. 

 

I did not know that when I was taking care of others, it was all I had to offer….I was taken care of soup!  If you needed things taken care of, call the taken care of soup girl, she will ladle out a bowl of it.

 

What else came up in the program was how if we are not treated as the gifts we are, we don’t know how to be a gift.  If we never received treatment of being a precious person, we are unable to see ourselves as that. 

 

We lose our giftedness.

 

Our soup has no gift inside, like a box of cracker jacks without the prize!

 

As I look back at my old soup recipe I see the ingredients to be lacking me, me, myself and I.

 

I was nowhere in that bowl of soup, yet I was forever giving of myself, perhaps I gave me all away!

 

We all have a soup starter, we all began somewhere, but it is now up to us to add or take it from here.

 

It is time to add the new ingredients that will make you you! It is time to add a dash of this and pinch of that, and little by little you will change the flavor of you. 

 

With understanding your starter kit, you can then make adjustments to balance out the flavors one item at a time.

 

We can only give out what we put in.

 

Put in lots of fun things, exciting things, new things, old things, passionate things, colorful, meaningful, artful, graceful, etc…..make your life a great big exciting bowl of you!