We are the sum total of all our vibrations ~ positive and negative. And, chances are very good that you are holding on to some hurt from past broken promises that brings your overall vibration down and consequently degrades your field of attraction.

We always have the choice to let go.

Over the past few days, I’ve been doing a lot of letting go over broken promises – specifically the covert unspoken broken promises. See if any of these strike a chord with you:

• Get a good education and you will be set for life.
• Get a good job and you will be happy.
• Be a good person and it will all work out.
• That it will all work out (in the big picture it does but certainly not always in the shorter picture).
• The broken promise that your parents are supposed to love and protect you – when they got lost in their own emotions.
• If you do the right things, you will be successful.
• That the world is supposed to be a stable place.
• That life is supposed to be comfortable.
• That success is supposed to be easy and inevitable.
• The broken promises in relationships because the person you started that relationship with is not the same person you are in relationship with now.
• Achieving SMART goals brings fulfillment and happiness.
• That doing the right thing is always richly rewarded.
• And . . .

Then, of course, there are the overt broken promises ~ lied to, cheated, etc.

Here’s the thing, hanging on to the hurt produces a downward spiral. We become scared to trust, scared to risk, scared to put ourselves out there, scared to try again. And, our lives get smaller and smaller. We become Thoreau’s quote, “Most men live lives of quiet desperation.”

The alternative (opening again, trusting again, going for it again, loving again) isn’t easy. However, it is worth it. It is called living. That other thing is dying while still alive.

Much love,