Honoring Another’s Path

This has been a huge year for me with regard to honoring the paths that others have chosen to take. I like to think of myself as being completely supportive and honoring of whatever someone else chooses to do. Some things that have come to light over the year have made me realize that I’ve been happy to support the path as long as it’s what I think they should do, when I think it should be done, and in the manner in which I think it should be done. Are you kidding me?

That sounds a lot more like trying to control the situation than it sounds like unconditional support, doesn’t it?

Herein lies the problem. When we honor another’s path, it means that we honor all of the parts of the path. We don’t even have to support it if we don’t want to. But what we do have to do is release all energetic attachment to it. If it bothers us, makes us mad, sad, resentful or feeling left out, those are indications that we are not really honoring someone else’s path. They are also indications that we’re trying to make someone else’s journey all about us. It’s not about us. It’s about them.

What I’ve found is that when I’m unable to honor another’s path, I generally have some things about my own path that I’m unwilling to look at or address. I never focus on what other people are doing when I feel comfortable with what I’m doing.

That’s not a reason to beat myself up, it’s simply a wake up call for me to look at where I’m out of alignment with myself. Yep, myself.

Can you relate to this, or am I the only one who does this?

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