We all have our own baggage we carry with ourselves. I am not going to dwell in all the areas these negative feelings, ideas and thoughts can stem from. What we do about that baggage is the important part.

 You have choices to make when dealing with our emotional baggage:

1. Carry it. It is your baggage so you can do what you want with it. Carry it with you everywhere you go. This will allow it to open up and surprise you in all sorts of locations such as family events, dates, and evenings with friends. It also gets very tiring carrying the baggage around because as we add more and more the heavier the load becomes. It drags us back in life, so we achieve less and less. The heavy baggage load holds us back from our hopes and dreams.

2. Wrap it up. We could always make it look pretty in a nice Gucci bag. The handles help us carry it and it looks good when it is with us. Of course, that beautiful bag just covers up a whole lot of ugly inside. In time, people are going to want to know what is inside all these nice bags we carry and what will they say when they see it? Dressing it up nice doesn’t make it much better.

3. Leave it with the porter. Sometimes you need to look at your baggage as what it is, heavy baggage! Do we really need to bring all this with us everywhere we go? Can we not learn from it and move on? Sometimes you need to open your bags, see what is inside and let it go with the porter. This will lessen your load and let you begin healing. I know it is scary when you get hurt but the only way to truly move on and heal, is to open yourself up again for possibilities.

Look at the baggage in your life? Are you tired of carrying it? Are you ready to see it for what it is worth and stop ignoring it? Are you ready to let it go so you can learn, heal and open yourself up again?

It only takes the first step…

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