Change your thinking to knowing that your life matters and
that you are important.
It can be easy
sometimes to buy into the illusion of our own insignificance. We may see large
corporations or institutions, celebrities or successful people in our
community, and compare ourselves to them, thinking that their fame or material
power affirm how little our own lives amount to. But nothing could be further
from the truth. Every single one of us matters—tremendously. Our very existence
affects countless people in countless ways. And because we are each essentially
a microcosm of the larger universe, our internal experiences affect the whole
of life more than we could ever imagine. The world simply could not exist as it
does now if you, or any one of us, were not in it.
Perhaps you are aware
that on some level you believe your life does not matter. If this thought
resonates within you, maybe it is time to explore why you feel this way. You
may have formed self-rejecting or belittling beliefs as a child to keep
yourself safe or to help you make sense of confusing situations. You may have
felt unseen or unheard and decided that there was something wrong with you,
rather than with the attention span of the people around you. Spend some time
looking into where these feelings of insignificance first took root, and see
what changes you might be able to make in your life and in your heart.
This one belief in
your own unimportance could be limiting you and impacting your life in enormous
ways. When you shift your perceptions around your own ability to affect your
life and impact the world, you may discover wonderful parts of yourself that you
had long ago forgotten. There may even be exciting new parts that you never
even knew existed. When you gain awareness of how much your life really does
matter, new sources of energy can emerge and your sense of connection with the
world is renewed.
