By Keri-Lee, (Contributor, Culture of Awareness), A Better Way Broward, July 14, 2015 (Original post date: June 25, 2015)

What is Respect and Where Does it Start?

Respect is a direct reflection of the inner you. It reflects as your thoughts, feelings and tends to involve itself in your actions. Maybe you can identify respect as what you can see for someone else, or an authoritative figure, but do you feel that great regards, and reverence towards yourself first?

Respect starts from your personal views and perceptions about you…

…and the feelings that you hold inside. It is because of respect for yourself that you can stand up for you, family and friends, achieve amazing goals, and even transform your entire life.

You will always be the sole catalyst to situations in your life, because you may notice that your inactivity will simple show up as no interest, urge or passion to create a change. It’s the couch potato effect. It’s like you end up watching life, while it watches you right back.

If you think that life flies by; it doesn’t. It literally is the perception that you’ve held the entire time within your focus… No pizzazz? Ok, then so be it. There is life. Are you filled with overflowing joy, ready to smile and be active in your day? Well then there you go; -you’ve got a life with action.

How does respect reflect itself in our lives?

When we do not have respect for ourselves, it may reflect in situations such as allowing others to walk all over us, or as simple as not voicing your opinion about something which greatly effects you. It may seem minor then; but what this leads to, are moments where you emerge feelings of being powerless.

Day 3 addressed our Divine Birthright, and how to remain in power with your being. It is a great Responsibility to be the overseer of you, because you are the one who dictates when change is needed in your life. You will always know when you need to make an adjustment. When you allow outer influences to deter circumstances in your life, you will see opportunity dwindle away because your energy isn’t being utilized to its best potential.

You will be under the influence of those who have opinion over you, and what they say tends to sway what you do.

But if you take charge, take chance and steer the ultimate direction of your life, you will empower your entire consciousness to claim its power and you’ll produce a reality which starts to reflect more of who you are. This allows you to believe in who are you.

Respect may seem like a normal everyday task that we must exchange with one another, but what is respect, or great admiration, when we let ourselves fall short from this gift which we can first reward to ourselves and bestow upon others. We put up with tiring workforce conditions, other people who drain our precious love and energy, life plans which keep us enslaved to a “40-year-plus” work plan for greedy-visioned corporations, and a life which could use some extra freedom, peace and unity.

When you find value in your passions, interests and urges then we can let go off the old opinions and start to create the reality we’ve dreamed of. You don’t have to dream about the perfect job. You can live within a reality where you are the big boss of your own great ideas (a life vision).

Respecting yourself leads to empowered decisions and moments in life. If we’re running around senseless because of someone else’s vision, then we’ve got some adjusting to do. As long as you promote unity, then you are aligned with an amazing intention to become as creative as you desire with your life. It is creativity and unity which are catalyst to set us all free.

If we seek respect from others, we cannot just go around demanding it; -we then have to embody it. You are the living example of what you expect. Respect calls for the quality of leadership, and once you can identify yourself as a chief, then now you know that you’ve placed yourself in a position to admire your being.

If you’ve noticed that you could use some adjusting in your life, then it’s best to start with your thoughts. In previous details, we shared the importance of keeping your thoughts pure when dedicating to your life mission, because your actions will always reflect from that primary position.

As you continue to merge along this unselfish, lifelong mission you gain respect that you’ve been seeking all along. Within this reverence resides a peace, which allows you to not only respect you, but to extend this understanding to others you meet. From a metaphysical perspective, when we connect with our life purpose and offer service to others, we cause a ripple effect into their lives, and this is a direct reflection of the Universal Law of One, which states that we are all connected.

If you are interested in taking a glance of yourself, and conduct an intense overhaul, then remain conscious of how you feel. Your feelings tend to direct your day. If you wake up in a sulky feeling, then your day just may seem a bit; -or sometimes too much, off; but yet if…

…you wake up in a manner where you are ready to pursue, conquer, and create; then you are well-aligned to more of a productive day.

Your feelings will reveal how much respect that you have for yourself. It’s best to face it now because from this point forward you are conscious of the fact that you are the creator of your life. If you allow your life to remain under the control of others, then you are very much not reclaiming the power that you have over yourself, your right now and the rest of your forever.

Are you waiting for the rescuer in shining armor? You will be the one to step into your personal, individual, and unique position of authority. What do you see for yourself? Do you believe that society will judge you? Do you feel anxiety about what family and friends may think about you? It shouldn’t matter because it’s time for you to ultimately respect you.

These are the fearful objections the mind will reveal to you, but once again, you are the authoritative figure who determines the thought and actions which stem from inside of you. No longer can you blame others for things or events that don’t add up in your life. Right now is the time, with choice, that you can determine your next step.

What will you create? How will you allow your respect to create a shift that will catapult you into the depths of your true passions?

Remember this; -any thought produced from the mind, is a thought stemming from the quality of its creator. Who are you right now?

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This is Respect, Day 4 of The Inner Prosperity Foundation’s 12 Day Series of Delicate Guidance and Self-Redefinition. If you found this truth interesting, please share this kindness as a revelation to another.

Selamat Ja! (Sirian for Be in JOY!) ~Keri-Lee

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