Victory Over Victimhood

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2010: The Year of Choices -Choosing courage over victimhood

Introduction:

Victory over Victimhood has been an inspiring theme

for me in the past year. As we go through the humanexperience we come across many situations that

trigger off our deeply held fears and insecurities. Insuch times, it is a natural instinct to assume the role of

a victim and attribute the pain or discomfort to anexternal source. However, in any situation, embracing

that role of a victim is ultimately a choice we make achoice that leaves us cornered into passivity.Victimhood is a dead end that has us holding on to ourfears and losing touch with our dreams. Our only way

out is to consciously choose to take responsibility asco-creators of our situation. While this seems like

adding insult to injury, it is indeed true that our ownpast choices and perceptions have brought us to where

we are at and to move out of the situation, once again

it will be our own free will that will rescue us.

And now begins our journey of moving forward by

releasing our unhappy patterns and working onrealizing our dreams. Thus we serve the true purpose

of our victimhood.

We are currently living through challenging times withmore than the usual dose of scenarios that leave us

feeling victimized. Let us rise up to the demands of ourlife and use the very situations that threaten to bring

us down, as opportunities for growth and upliftment.


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In the face of challenges, major or minor, let uschoose courage. Let us conquer the demon of fearwithin us like Durga, the Hindu Goddess and like Her,

let us destroy every form and expression of our innerdemons.

I invite you to observe the year 2010 as our Year ofChoices - choosing Courage every week, every day,

every moment. This journal has an exercise each weekto remind us to move from fear to faith. Let us do this

over and over again until we have removed the weedsof fear and planted blossoms of faith within our field.

Front Cover - Goddess Durga:

She was conceived by the light energy of all the otherGods in order to destroy some very powerful long

standing enemies of mankind. She came forth calmand confident, clear in her purpose. Larger than life,

her crown kissing the heavens, riding upon hervehicle, the king of the forest, the lion itself, her sight

had the demons running helter-skelter.

Durga is symbolic of our inner courage. When we lookfor it we bring it forth from within ourselves - a

strength so large, so tall, that its very presence wouldmake all our fears feel powerless. As she battles thedemon-king, he changes form constantly to hoodwinkher until, gathering all her strength, she destroys all

the faces of fear appearing in any form whatsoever.

Inner flap - Goddess Mahalakshmi:

Lakshmi comes from the Sanskrit word Lakshya or

purpose. The true purpose of our struggles is therealization of our dreams. Goddess Lakshmi, symbolic

of well being and abundance at all levels, is the end ofthe journey of victimhood. She is the fulfillment of ourwishes, the reward for our courageous choices.


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Why be human when you can be divine?


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About the author:

Ramaa Krishnan, teacher and healer was born and

raised in India where she studied Meditation andEastern spirituality before arriving in the US in 1998.

She has since embarked upon a project of integrating

the intellectual strengths of the West with the intuitivegifts of the East.

She now teaches at her Center for Self-awareness, Full

Bloomed Lotus (www.fullbloomedlotus.com) where herattempt is to teach people to embrace their divine

potential and move from fear to faith.
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This week.....

I refuse to be victimized by the

pessimism around me..I choose

to believe in and gratefully

acknowledge the many miracles

in my life.


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