by Joel L (Australia)
In the last article – The Six Stages of ‘Becoming Me’ (so far anyway): Part 1 – I was exploring the first three stages of the process of ‘becoming me’. This next article explores stages four to six and flows on from that…
4) Realising that my intention affected everything:
So things were changing – I was taking more responsibility for my life. My energy levels were picking up, I was needing less sleep but becoming more productive, the quality of my relationships was improving. So I must have been about ‘there’, right? Wrong….
While most other modalities I have gone to in the past offered to ‘help me’, the esoteric modalities got to a point where their benefits were limited by my own willingness or unwillingness to be responsible for my own healing.
I still went to different practitioners, but the benefits I received from each treatment were in direct relationship with what I was going to the practitioner for in the first place. For example: if I was going to have my life choices ‘cleaned up’, the treatment was less effective, but if I was going to ‘build a body of love’, then each session would be as amazing as I allowed it to be.
So I realised that my intention affected my level of healing (and everything else)… If I wanted someone to fix me, I got momentary relief: if I wanted to more fully connect to myself, to learn to live as me, then I got just that.
5) Realising that no workshop, book or other person makes my choices:
This was a confronting phase: I spent lots of time here being frustrated at how hard the world was making it for me to be me… yes, I was blaming others!
Surely if I was doing all this work, building all this awareness, it should be getting easier… Yes, I was wanting a reward, and to a degree wanting an excuse to give up.
In truth, life was getting easier, but I was more committed to finding something to fix – and to believing that I was not the one able to fix it.
Whenever I connected to me, the message was ‘you are enough’, but despite that, I would keep looking for the noise outside that place of connection.
I was convinced that everyone who was saying ‘it’s inside you’, was wrong. I was convinced that if I could get my wife, my kids, and the world around me to be more loving, I could then be love.
Eventually I had nowhere else to turn but to the humble reality that it did all come back to me…
6) Becoming a student of myself:
One day I stopped fighting, stopped looking outside myself. I wish I could say this occurred by a parting of the clouds and a bright light, but it didn’t.
This change came about by a willingness to take responsibility for the frustration, the desire to give up and any other emotion. Eventually, by taking responsibility for what I was feeling, there was not as much emotion in the way and what was left was… me.
The learning about taking energetic responsibility continues: it’s not something I expect to get right all the time but I live with me, the real me, more than at any other time in my life. There are still choices to be made every day – like what to eat, work to be done, kids to be looked after, and chores to be completed. I beat myself up less for my choices (past and present) and I feel more vitality than ever before, but I know I am far from the end.
In most stories this is the moment of epiphany…. but not in this case. The epiphany occurred back at stage two with Universal Medicine’s invitation to consider that while some people might be energetically aware, we are not all energetically discerning.
Love is not looking for a happy ending, it just wants me to be me (the real me)… more and more every day.
If this is what love might be, I can’t wait for the next step.
Part 1: The Six Stages of ‘Becoming Me’ (so far anyway): Part 1
The Truth about Serge Benhayon 
It is very loving to understand the power of intention. Is what you are doing support and benefit just you or benefit many? You can reach both outcomes but there is a significant difference in what shapes our world. It’s also important to not confuse this with ‘good’ because self-gratification and self-recognition is for self. It’s a big one and great to be aware of.
Joel its very interesting what you share about your intention especially in the case of going for a healing session. I know I have often gone for a session hoping to be ‘fixed.’ I agree that we do in fact limit what we can connect to and heal if our intentions are about relinquishing responsibility.
‘Love is not looking for a happy ending, it just wants me to be me (the real me)… more and more every day.’ Beautiful and simple wisdom Joel, the more steps we take towards love we find an endless supply of love continually waiting for us to connect to and embrace.
By virtue of the nature of love, there can be no ‘end’ can there Joel… For love has no fixed outcome, no fixed point to reach – there is always a deeper level, a more expanded knowing and experience.
Not to seek any point of perfection whatsoever, but actually to appreciate that in knowing love, we are communing with the divine, with the part of ourselves that IS love, and has awaited our returning and listening to its promptings for so very long (for the most of us, I would say…).
I love your step 4 that intention is everything – ultimately something I have found is that so much of what I do is essentially for self gain and self preservation and not truly for humanity.There is such a difference when we let the self go and do what is needed to be done. There is no call or seeking for recognition and no reward needed. Suddenly you find yourself in the moment not worrying or thinking about the outcome or what may be because you know the quality of what you are doing will take care of that. I have felt and sensed that feeling and the more I live it the more natural it becomes. Saying that it is our natural way of being we have just strayed so far away from it it seems hard to sustain it whereas it actually takes a lot of energy to sustain the other, that is the constant drive and search for recognition and approval.
‘Realising that no workshop, book or other person makes my choices..’
Ain’t that the truth! I’ve found workshops, books and sessions from Universal Medicine modality practitioners a HUGE support that always offer another level to go to with myself, but, no matter how many sessions I have or workshops I go to, the choice to go there with myself is always my own.
I agree as well Rachael – no one can do it for us and we always have a choice. After all we live with ourselves 24/7 and so it makes sense. To think or want a person or a course to make things better for us is giving our power away – ultimately whatever is before us is for us to learn something and so we should embrace it rather than fear or contract away from it.
Joel you have a way of expressing that is for all – is universal. The support your blogs bring as a result is immense. You are a torch-bearer for those of us choosing to stumble around in the dark whilst holding our own unlit torch.
“Intention”, it is but a word, yet it holds the key to unlocking the grandness that lies with in all of us. For how can we begin to explore what is within unless we intend to do so.
I love that through all the stages you have woken up to or developed, that you now find yourself at a place of greater understanding for yourself and the world and move forward without expectation of getting it right all the time but rather just choose to be with you as much as possible with every choice, knowing that is the best guide you can have through life.
Number 5 – two-fold wisdom here. Realising that you cannot blame another for your own choices is the first step. The second is realising that all our choices accumulate and form the platform we found our next choice upon. So as we lift the quality of our past choices with our present choices it founds a more loving quality to expand from and seeds forth a magnetic pull that allows the opportunity for even more loving choices to come to us. Accepting we are enough exactly as we are imperfections and all is the major contributor to this foundation.
Number 4 – I love the wisdom here. Cleaning up a mess is great but if you just replace it with the same mess nothing has changed so I totally agree with you Joel, it’s much more effective to replace what you need to cleared away by filling that same space will love.
I love the way you share your unfolding and the steps that you had to take Joel, this shows how there is always a next step to take as we forever expand and evolve in this universe.
I used to believe that the only reason I felt different after a healing session was because the practitioner was so amazing (which they were!). I very much saw myself in the passenger seat, as a passive receiver of healing. It was Esoteric Yoga that broke this belief, as there was no one placing needles or their hands on me. The significant changes I felt in my body over the session could only be down to my choices.
Never have I felt so clearly the power of my intention to affect the way my body feels, as when I started to attend Esoteric Yoga. I could lay down for relief, comfort or to check out or I could lay down to deeply connect with me. The difference in the way my body responded to this was astounding, even though the movement was the same. This was another confirmation that everything is energy.
The ever expanding art of ‘being’ love is well captured here Joel. It is a moment to moment choice. It is a moment to moment responsibility and opportunity, the look more deeply at our intentions, to deepen our connection and commitment to life, our self and others and to take more responsibility in the broader scheme of things.
“Love is not looking for a happy ending, it just wants me to be me (the real me)… more and more every day.” To understand love like this Joel is wonderful as it offer the possibility that it is never about solutions but about choices we can make in every second of our lives.
“I was convinced that if I could get my wife, my kids, and the world around me to be more loving, I could then be love.” I fell for this one too Joel. We have to stop holding the world to ransom and instead be the love that we are and only then will that be reflected back to us.
Becoming the real me has been a time of initially being alone and discovering my inner most feelings. Removing myself from the noise of life and questioning who I really was and how I really felt. Having a deeper relationship with my feelings and how to honour them and staying connected with my body and myself I was then ready to start to take this out to the world. The stronger my relationship with myself, my body, my feelings and honoring me the less I looked to the outside. In fact it took me many years of trying to stop reacting to everything around me or trying to stop taking it on to realise that you can’t just stop doing these things without replacing it with something else – which was a connection to and relationship with our inner-most self.
I am really appreciating the no. 6 – being a student of ourselves – this is another level of unfoldment that keeps deepening in itself, so I guess we never grow out of that as the subject of our study keeps evolving and expanding.
“Love is not looking for a happy ending, it just wants me to be me (the real me)… more and more every day.” Thus there is a forever deepening of our love and being the real me. It is indeed a journey that never ends, but a journey that becomes richer with every step we take to be more in our fullness.
“Eventually I had nowhere else to turn but to the humble reality that it did all come back to me…” and when we realise that our inner ‘me’ is love we take the first steps back to the love that we are all from.
I had the impression from reading this blog that we may think things happen sequentially but really they come back around in cycles over and over again. This can trigger frustration in thinking we are getting nowhere or even going backwards but ultimately it can lead to a very loving way of learning as we see life as recurring opportunities and not missed ones. Discerning energy is definitely a process of getting it wrong and if choosing awareness and honesty, having the opportunity to become ever more discerning.
So true Amanda, my learning of late has been to stop waiting for that deepening to stop…it doesn’t! sometimes I pull the ripcord to slow thing down when I let myself think the next step is scary but in reality it is wonderful and only the exposing of my own pride that I find scary!
Great clarification about our individual responsibility for discerning energy, for the choices we make and for our intention when making those choices. This can all seem like a monumental ask, but the point is to choose to start.
love it Cathy, There is no better place to start than the place you chose to start! It is the only way we can start 🙂
Awesome Joel. I just read part 1 and I felt to follow on to read part 2 because it was absolutely brilliant. I found it so inspiring and deeply honest with everything you’ve presented. I love your style of writing and expression.
Great sharing Joel – “I was convinced that everyone who was saying ‘it’s inside you’, was wrong. I was convinced that if I could get my wife, my kids, and the world around me to be more loving, I could then be love.” I got stuck here for a while – it’s quite lovely knowing we all do indeed tread the same path home.
I can so relate to this too Shelleyjones44, I got stuck here for a very long time, waiting for others to be more loving so I could be loving back. If I kept on waiting I would have been waiting for the rest of my life but since I was introduced to Universal Medicine, I had stopped playing the waiting game and started to be loving more and more.
The misleading belief I carry that I can be love only when the people around me are more loving is a lie. I can be love at any time.
Joel I love reading how your path is unfolding, great sharing for us to read, thank you.
Bubble blow!, “Love doesn’t want me to be happy, it wants me to be me”.
Blows most heart throb movies out of the water 😉
This is a powerful point you’ve made Joel in relation to attending healing sessions – are we going there to have our life choices cleaned up or with an intention to build a body of love.
‘I was convinced that everyone who was saying ‘it’s inside you’, was wrong. I was convinced that if I could get my wife, my kids, and the world around me to be more loving, I could then be love.’ I can relate to this one and it has taken some time to really let this go and in that I can choose the path of living me and love myself anyway. I would say this is still a challenge in my life, to observe the choices others make and to not absorb and try to change them so I can feel better. A bit of an ‘ouch’ here.
it’s interested to reflect back on this article…and feel that this is still an unfolding allowing…
‘Whenever I connected to me, the message was ‘you are enough’, but despite that, I would keep looking for the noise outside that place of connection.’ How this noise can distract us and get in the way of looking ourself in the eyes and saying that there is no escape here, it is up to us and no one else.
How to get to the real essence of a person underneath the piles and piles of distractions and at times what feel like thick layers of concrete, definitely isn’t taught in other modalities, which as you point out Joel, are based on fixing a problem. It took me a while to shift my expectations around to self ownership when I first started to attend Universal Medicine presentations. But I am now having a moment of appreciation for myself as I realise that these days I take it as a given that I have made the choices that has lead to the situation I find myself in and that despite any mess, what remains consistent is that I am love at my core and this is what I am constantly moving to.
What I feel more and more is that personal development is nothing that we achieve. It`s just an alignment to true energy. I often read blogs and think „Wow! This person is so strong and has changed so much!“ But the person has just chosen energy that was passing through him or her and is also passing through me.
You raise a great point here Joel – do we go to a practitioner to clear out the excess so that we can revert back to putting it back in (the old detox/retox loop) or do we go to build/deepen the love that is already there?
I love part 2 Joel, particularly how it feels that it is not the grand finale but yet another humble ‘first step’. It’s a funny concept isn’t it – ‘getting there’ – for it implies that when we do indeed ‘get there’, we stop, job done. Although this bubble is soon popped when we ‘get there’ and realise that the landscape has shifted somewhat but we are not ‘there’ at all but simply at another point in which to choose how to move. And so the journey begins again but at a deeper level. In this way we live in accordance to the breath of the Universe; we breathe in to deepen, we breathe out to expand. There is no end because love is not a happy ending – it is a joyous beginning.
Love it Liane, the life of the forever student can only be a humble one. Just when I think I nail it, I get shown the vastness of what else there is to learn. The gift is that I don’t feel less for still having more to learn, I am confirmed that I am all that there is to learn.
Brilliant comment Liane, I love it. ‘There is no end because love is not a happy ending – it is a joyous beginning.’ It is certainly worth embracing, as love forever expands, we can choose to expand with it and release the tension of going against it.
Going from energetic awareness too energetic discernment was the big one for me too Joel.. I have witnessed that not everyone likes to make the shift from energetic awareness to energetic discernment as it is the beginning of becoming energetically responsible.
The realisation of intention was a big one for me too, realising that intention in itself is energy. I got first hand experience with this intention energy with food; I was eating yoghurt, knowing I had always been allergic to cows milk, my skin often reacting in a rash. It got to the point that I didn’t even need to eat the yoghurt for a rash to become itchy, just walking towards the kitchen and fridge was enough to trigger my body to react – my rash became itchy before I even held the tub of yoghurt in my hand. It was a great lesson in intention to learn, with me realising deeply how energy cannot be tricked and cannot ever lie.
I love this Carmin, the relief of knowing we are already there. We just have to clean up the mess we made looking for ‘ourselves’ everywhere else but within.
This is awesome Joel and I can really relate to your stages of ‘becoming me’ and particularly that ‘Love … just wants me to be me (the real me)… more and more every day’ and that the more I embrace this journey the more love unfolds and supports me to become more of me. Thank you for expressing it so eloquently.
Interesting stages of awareness Joel. Lately I have been feeling the inward motion much more clearly, a knowing that it is about my relationship with God that informs my choices. Interestingly, I am way less reactive and blaming of others and finding a consistency in the way I am with myself. I am really enjoying exploring and deepening this.
I found reading this that I could really relate to number 5 at the moment. My life has ‘improved’ and gotten ‘better’ but instead of trying to pull myself from a dark space ‘into a better life/light’ as I used to believe was the way to go it is now more of a case of allowing the feelings of who I am out from within. This can feel like I am 12ft tall, warm, solid in what I know and feel and a sense if being at ease in myself and in life, to be in my focus more throughout my day is something that I am building and like you Joel I get this sense of always being on the tip of the iceberg of whats yet to be felt. Knowing a way through life that is about discovering how amazing it can be feels more simple and less tense than trying to struggle and try for ‘a better life’.
Thanks Leigh this sums it up so well ‘Knowing a way through life that is about discovering how amazing it can be feels more simple and less tense than trying to struggle and try for ‘a better life’.’
“Love is not looking for a happy ending, it just wants me to be me (the real me)… more and more every day” – a beautiful reminder, thank you. I can very much relate to having the conditions we put on ourselves before we feel like we can actually claim ‘I am love’ while we have that as knowledge, and it was so liberating to realise that that thought itself was already not coming from love, and love indeed was always right here just waiting patiently to be expressed and shared.
Yes agree Joel, how can there be one real epiphany when the knowing of oneself and is end-less, and the depth of us infinite.
I loved reading 4,5 and 6 Joel. Intention was a great point. It’s like once you start with something tangible and pure it can just all roll on from there and develope from that. Like a seed- with an intention to grow.
Realising that no one was going to fix me, that it was up to me to do my own fixing, and that began with self love, self responsibility and the understanding that everything I needed was inside me, was the biggest “aha” moment for me – and that’s when my healing began.
By constantly looking outside ourselves for everything from recognition to blaming others for how our life has unfolded we are actually just fighting ourselves by ignoring our own innate qualities that are for each of us our own true foundations for our own flavour of awesomeness.
‘Love is not looking for a happy ending, it just wants me to be me (the real me)… more and more every day.’ Wise words indeed. Love just wants me to be the real me. I’ll take that into my day.
Joel’s part 2 really does bring home to me that it is always my responsibility for my own healing. ”…the esoteric modalities got to a point where their benefits were limited by my own willingness or unwillingness to be responsible for my own healing”.
For me too Caroline… Taking responsibility for all of my choices is often something I have wanted to avoid (ie I’m willing to accept some choices, but not all…), however I have also come to understand, accept and experience that it is the only thing that provides true freedom and true healing, and also the only thing that truly offers another that same opportunity to be responsible for their choices and therefore the opportunity for their own healing.
This is massive really, choosing to take responsibility for our own healing, ultimately no healing can take place if we are not willing to go there. But when we do start to take responsibility and start healing it expands out to others too.
Thank you Joel for the next steps in your story, I will be looking more deeply at my intentions, as sometimes I know I am looking for a fix when going for a healing session, not wanting to take responsibility. What a beautiful intention it is “to build a body of love”
Hi Joel I was again curious to read your second blog and I have to admit that I love the stages you describe. Your way to write is easy to understand and for me it is an invitation to ponder on how I live my life so thank you for being so inspirational.
Love is not about a happy ending, so true, as there is no end to love. I am also a student of myself and therefore a student of love, learning every day.
I enjoyed reading your account of your unfolding path. “Love is not looking for a happy ending, it just wants me to be me ( the real me ) ..more and more every day.” What a beautiful way to finish. Thanks Joel.
These are deep learnings. I cannot stop being amazed at how much we change the way we see the world and life and how natural becomes something that was previously so far away from anything we considered real or desirable. And, of course, all this is possible because we can deeply feel the truth in what Universal Medicine offers.
There is so much joy, beauty and light in this piece Joel – thank you. The truth you have shared is inspiring. I love how you have ended with – ‘Love is not looking for a happy ending, it just wants me to be me (the real me)… more and more every day.’ As with true love there is no ending, only a forever deepening and an infinite expansion.
Thank you very much Joel for writing this. Many students can relate to what you have written so honestly. We all go through different stages, don’t we?
I loved what you shared about feeling like you are enough when connected to yourself and yet still finding yourself looking outside that place of connection. It’s like we have a default program to not believe this about ourselves unless the world outside confirms we are. It is ridiculous. Thank you for the beautiful reminder that we are enough and that connection is where the truth can be found.
Awesome Joel. From my own experience I know that there is no ‘end’ to this forever unfolding evolution. I really love how you wrote about that ‘need for reward’ after ‘working so hard’ It is amazing how we put up such a fight against coming back to the love we naturally are and it really helps to be aware of those thoughts.
“love….just wants me to be me” says it all Joel, that we are everything we always wanted to be and more when we allow that. No goal to arrive at, no rules, no finish point, just a moment by moment choice to be love or not. Beautiful!
Thanks Joel, I know I certainly still find myself looking for the fairy tale ending, which is really just a seeking of comfort. I love your honesty and where you have come to in yourself, very inspiring.
Loved this Joel as it was honest, deeply revealing and so relatable. I can feel how much our development back to love comes down to how honest we are with ourselves. Thanks for all you have shared.
I absolutely love Step 4: ‘The esoteric modalities got to a point where their benefits were limited
by my own willingness or unwillingness to be responsible for my own healing’. So amazing.
In fact what am I saying….I LOVE all the steps…as I work my way through all of them myself!!
I really liked how you explained with what intention you can go to a practitioner. Made me ponder..Thank you !
Your words above Joel stuck out for me:
“Whenever I connected to me, the message was ‘you are enough’, but despite that, I would keep looking for the noise outside that place of connection”.
I feel in your appreciation of what energetic discernment meant to you, that you open up an exploration of why we may choose to leave that place of connection. It may not be answerable in words, but I appreciate how you allow people to explore it in their own ways, with your open ended way of writing in this bog.
Thank you Joel for sharing your stages, It is very inspiring and a big reflection.
“In truth, life was getting easier, but I was more committed to finding something to fix”
I can relate to this Joel, I was looking at my life from a point of view of fixing it, thinking that I would get to an end and be all fixed. But now realising that it is never about fixing, me or any one else. It is just a beautiful unfolding and taking responsibility for
all the choices I make without judgement.
This is truly such a gorgeous blog, Joel, I simply love it. I related to stage 4 where you point out that the benefits of healing are limited to our own intention, Self-responsibility. In stage 5 I had to giggle when reading “I was convinced that if I could get my wife, my kids, and the world around me to be more loving, I could then be love.” How ridiculous is that? I’ve fallen for similar thinking myself, Self-irresponsibility. And then stage 6 where you stop looking outside of yourself. That’s what it all comes down to. Thank you for the inspiration.
Reading stage 5 has been a powerful reminder for me of the importance of my connection with myself.
Joel, I was inspired by the wisdom you shared in stage 4, on the importance of our intentions. I will now bring more awareness to what my intentions are, when I next go for a healing session.
I loved both part 1 and part 2.
They were laid out amazingly.
I look forward to reading about the ‘next step’ another deepening step of commitment to yourself.
Maybe that will be the title?
Next step…has to be about responsibility not just to myself but everyone…still nailing it but nice to think about
Great Joel, the beauty of what you share and what the esoteric modalities support, is to connect to and empower ourselves. They do not pander, and often I’ve wished they did, but they do not; it’s truly about us taking responsibility for ourselves and choosing each and every moment to make loving choices. I relate to so much of what you share – wanting to give up, yet wanting to get there… and wanting that epiphany, that moment, and yet the more I commit to me, the more I surrender and stop trying, and the more I see that it’s taking each step, confirming it and taking that next step – this is both ordinary and extraordinary, and real.
I can very much relate to your article Joel, it makes a lot of sense, and humorous too.
What you’ve said Joel about taking personal energetic responsibility for our choices seems key to me in as you say, not just making life about the next quick fix but making it about building love in our every day.
Great point here Joel that many of us are energetically aware (in fact we can all feel energy easily if we allow it) but most of us need some work when it comes to energetically discerning what is the quality of the energy that we are allowing to flow in our bodies. This is the crucial bit that many complementary health modalities leave out.
Hi Joel,
It’s great to read the processes you have been going through, and the little stuck point where you were blaming others. It really made me smile as I found it quite amazing how much I wanted to hang onto making it about how other people were, how they treated me and how they needed to be loving to me first. I had a real need for everything to be perfect around me. With the support of Universal Medicine and the amazing presentations by Serge Benhayon, I have firstly been able to admit that I do this and secondly, been able to actually stop it in many situations and look at what that attitude I have brings and let it go by making a loving choice instead and letting everything and everyone around me get to experience that – without needing them to be a certain way. I’m still noticing more subtle ways that I want to avoid taking responsibility in my life, but in understanding what I’m doing, I’m much more willing and able to get over it and choose love, which feels great. In doing this, my life becomes more simple, relationships are improving and there are more smiles. I’m no longer looking for life to bring me love, I’m actually bringing love to it.
Dear Joel, this is beautiful. As you say, taking responsibility for our emotions day to day clears the way to just simply being ourselves, and that is when the ‘real me’ starts to grow and build a life of love.
Thank you Joel and Janet, I agree, ‘building a body of love’ to be of service to self-first, benefits all of humanity.
Joel, thank-you so much for putting in words a process that I too, am living. I could actually feel my heart in my chest expanding with each and every word….it still is now as I write and it feels so true. Discerning energy and allowing myself to fully feel it all is the key – as you say, love just wants me to be me, more and more, just like my heart is expressing now. And I loved how you clarified approaching your own healing with a practitioner not to clear-up anymore but to continue building the body of love. Isn’t this what we are all returning to? The relief isn’t sustaining but the foundation of more loving choices is.
Another gripping article Joel, with great realisations along the way.
‘This change came about by a willingness to take responsibility for the frustration, the desire to give up and any other emotions. Eventually, by taking responsibility for what I was feeling, there was not as much emotion in the way and what was left was… me.’ So relatable and real Joel. Very timely for me. Thank you.
Joel once again your words of truth, ring like a bell in the darkness that bring us all back home.
Just wow, I can relate to this on so many levels, it feels like I am reading a personal account of myself! The part that has stuck with me the most is “if I was going to ‘build a body of love’, then each session would be as amazing as I allowed it to be.” And the fact that it is my choice to beat myself up/become frustrated or simply admit that I feel this way and be open to seeing how to choose to not be so negative. Thank you.
Joel, thanks for spelling this out so thoroughly – I could see me in so much of this. It really helps reading this and I learned much from it. I can recognise some of the pitfalls I have also experienced along the way, and I agree there is no epiphany, simply more connection and love to claim!
Joel, I loved reading your post and I can so much relate to some of your experiences. Thank you for sharing.
That was a real ‘page turner’ – I like the way you write. It is very simple and funny as well. Thanks for sharing your experiences.
This is so inspiring and supportive Joel. Thank you for your eloquence in describing the desire to give up – how creating hard times as an excuse to give up and blame, – but when there is a willingness to take responsibility for all of that, what is left is – just, us. Great stuff Joel, thanks so much.
Lovely Joel, I love the chapter on becoming a student of yourself and look froward to hearing what you discover as you deepen your Love. Thanks Joel.
I am really enjoying reading and feeling your unfolding stages. Thank you for your sharing Joel.
Thank you Joel – this has really helped me to feel the depth of my commitment to me and how it is deepening.
A great article Joel with many lessons I could draw from. I look forward to the next installment!
Joel, such a joyful account of your unfolding path and very healing for myself & others to read. Thanks for sharing.
Joel, I really enjoyed the stages of your commitment to you. Something I can completely relate to.