If you don’t allow yourself to be or accept yourself as a diamond, you are robbing the world of your gift, your true nature and purpose. Everyone misses out on you because you are choosing your false end result which is resolving your psychological tension. (E.g. to be safe, validated, liked, comfortable etc.)
You are not serving anyone by playing small… especially not yourself.
And what if being the diamond is the truth? Just let that land, even if that’s the faintest possibility…. It’s just a glimmer…Let that be there.
Your Superconscious already knows who and what you are.
Secondly, what is key is to get out of your own way and allow whatever is here now your beliefs, identity, fears, failures, mistakes, everything you want and everything you don’t want… allow it all to be here.
The Creative orientation is a learning orientation and leads to success, via applying what you learn.
When you are ready to listen, learn and apply what you get from the intuition that comes to you, what jumps out at you that is obvious, even if you are faced with an adverse situation, you will create something beyond what you could have imagined.
Your beliefs are not based upon the reality of what is possible. They are fabrications based upon the perception of what conditions are required for your survival.
However your intuition, your genius, your Superconscious is based upon a reality that has infinite possibilities available to you that is driven by a limitless force of Nature that is Pure Creativity itself.
Here’s a story I’d like to share with you.
It’s about Allyson Felix.
She is an American track & field athlete who competed in 100, 200 and 400 meters events.
Allyson won her last 2 Olympic medals at the age of 35 at the 2020 Olympic games in Tokyo.
She competed in 5 consecutive Olympic Games: 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020.
She has won a total of 11 Olympic medals – 7 Gold, 3 Silver and 1 Bronze. She is the most successful American track & field athlete.
She is the most decorated female Olympian in track and field history.
She won her 20th medal in the World Athletics Championships in 2022 and is the Greatest Of All Time having out performed any other man or woman who has competed at Worlds.
What an incredibly illustrious career, but it wasn’t all smooth sailing.
“Here’s what I can tell you about that journey. There have been more tears than celebrations, more doubt than confidence, more prayer than trash talking. What I’ve learned is that you have to keep going. Just don’t quit. When you get knocked down, get back up. Ask for help because you’ll never do it alone. Take small steps toward your passion and you’ll end up in your purpose.
Be brave with your life because you’ll have an impact on people that you never thought was possible.” – Allyson Felix.
There are 2 ways we can deal with fear… forget everything and run… i.e.. forget your Creative orientation even exists and run headlong into your Egoic orientation to fulfill the conditions that you believe you need to fulfill or fix just to survive let alone before you can have what you love.
OR
Face everything and rise… allow it all to be there.
Here’s what happened:
For part of her career, Allyson was endorsed by Nike. In her contract were terms that greatly reduced her earnings if she were to fall pregnant.
When she became pregnant, Nike wanted to cut the terms of her endorsement by as much as 70% because of her pregnancy.
“I was told to know my place. That runners should just run, that it’s just business.”
When she first became pregnant she ran in the early hours of the morning to hide her pregnancy from her sponsor. She trained at 4 am. She didn’t want to be seen. (Forget everything and run)
Amid all of this, she was forced to have an emergency c-section seven months into her pregnancy because of a potentially life-threatening condition and her baby spent 29 days in the Neonatal ICU. She weighed only 3 pounds at the time.
10 months later Allyson won her 12th world championship gold medal, breaking legendary sprinter Usain Bolt’s record. Two years after her baby’s birth, she qualified for her fifth Olympics with her daughter watching. (Face everything and rise)
She dropped Nike and created her own brand of running shoes, the Saysh One. When she competed in the Tokyo Olympics, under the banner on her top read the slogan “I Know My Place”.
She said, “I know my place, it’s in my own shoes.”
She actually won her last 2 Olympic medals running in her own shoes.
The victory for Allyson Felix came after she helped lead a conversation about the way women in track, and sports more generally, are treated. A piece was featured in The New York Times in 2019 decrying her sponsor Nike for not offering enough maternity protections. She severed ties with Nike, as they wrote in pay reductions to women’s contracts if they became pregnant.
In May 2019 Nike updated its athlete contracts to protect female athletes’ pay during pregnancy.
Allyson credited her daughter as “motivation” in her fight against Nike. In an interview with CBS This Morning in 2019 she said,”
“My daughter really helped me to find my voice. You know, to speak out on these issues that I normally wouldn’t have. And really to try to create some change.”
This is where being of service to something greater than yourself comes into play. You realize that your gift is to serve others and by doing that you, automatically serve yourself by stepping into your Greatness.
Just prior to the Tokyo Olympics, she launched her own shoe company that would focus on designing and developing products for and by women.
“Like many women, I was afraid that starting a family would be a “death sentence” for my career. I did it anyway. During my pregnancy, I faced a gender injustice that I couldn’t run away from. My employer did not support my maternity and my colleague’s maternity in a way that I could be proud of.
When you see me run, know that I’m not running for medals, I’m running for change.”
She has become an incredible role model, a spokesperson. Instead of hiding she gave a Leviathan company a run for its money and followed her heart to incur change.
She has her own company, she has a net worth of $5 Million, she inspires and impacts the lives of women and men all around the world.
This is what happens when you allow everything to be there…. Face everything and rise.
