Daily Mystic Messages - Permission slips
When we were young, we needed permission. Depending on how you were raised, you needed more or less of this. But now, we look for permission from the authorities in our lives to say, “it's okay”.
Can I have another cookie? Can I watch a little bit more TV? Can I stay up a little bit later? And that's a habit that we often drag with us into our adult lives, where now you're the authority.
Yet we still look for permission from outside sources, from parents, from authority figures, from family or friends, or whatever we may give that power to grant permission.
Permission is interesting. I think one of the reasons that this becomes a habit is because permission feels safe. It gives us an out in case something goes wrong, and then we can say, well, so-and-so said it was okay. It kind of lets us off the hook from the decisions that we make for ourselves and it also adds that aspect of people-pleasing to us as well.
It feels safer to get permission to make sure that we're doing it the right way that people are going to approve of.
Or maybe we're trying to prove ourselves worthy or more deserving so that we can seek that permission. We might look for these answers in our day-to-day life, through our family, through our friends, through spiritual authorities, or religious texts.
What we're looking for is the right way to get the right answer to do the right thing; the right way so that we can...
- get the gold star
- be a good student
- get a good grade
Or as we said before, be loved, be accepted, be appreciated, be seen, and be heard.
Now you get to grant yourself permission. So if you need a permission slip, I'm happy to write you one. Better yet, you can write one for yourself. You get to give yourself permission and you do not have to justify that to anyone. You can decide.
So the big question for the day, the thing that I'd really like for you to consider throughout and especially as we move forward is, "What is it that you need to give yourself permission for today?"
You can click here to get a stack of beautiful permission slips by Loveleen to help remind you.