PowerLiving with Kimberlee Langford
PowerLiving with Kimberlee Langford
The Power of Becoming
A life-changing philosophy from beyond the grave sparked a profound transformation in my darkest hour. As a teenager contemplating whether life was worth continuing, I discovered a collection of sayings that belonged to my grandfather—a man I never had the chance to meet. Among these treasured words was a simple yet powerful statement that altered the course of my existence: "We are the person we are now becoming."
This concept contains remarkable power in its simplicity. It reminds us that we have agency in our own evolution, that we can choose which aspects of ourselves to nurture, refine, or release entirely. Throughout my life, I've reinvented myself multiple times, each transformation bringing me closer to a more authentic and fulfilled version of myself. This journey of becoming isn't about abandoning who we are, but consciously directing who we will be.
When examining our emotional landscape, we often encounter low-energy states like anger and fear. Though we recognize these emotions don't serve our highest good, releasing them can be challenging. I share a transformative approach to emotional alchemy—acknowledging these feelings with gratitude for their protective function before gently releasing them. This allows us to transmute anger into forgiveness, fear into faith, and resentment into gratitude. The key lies in understanding that letting go becomes easier when done with grace rather than force.
What aspects of yourself are you ready to release? What relationships nurture your growth, and which ones hinder it? How might you step into the next upgraded version of yourself? These questions guide our intentional evolution. Remember, you are actively becoming someone every single day—you might as well choose who that someone will be. Join me on this journey of infinite progression toward becoming our most authentic, loving, and powerful selves.
Power. Living with Kimberly Langford where inspiration meets empowerment. Kimberly is a nurse, executive leadership coach, reiki master and your guide on this journey to whole person wellness. Hey, hey, friends, kimberly here, so I have a new thought for you today.
Speaker 1:Many years ago, I was at just a really dark place in my life. This was before I graduated high school. I was, I really had a hard time and I came to a place where, you know, I just wasn't sure, if you know, life was worth continuing with. It was a really dark chapter in my life and I came across something that had belonged to my grandfather, who I never met. He died before I was born, so I never got to meet him, but I found a collection of sayings and quotes that he had kept and to this day it's affected me profoundly.
Speaker 1:So, even though I've never met my grandfather, I credit him with truly changing the course of my life as a teenager and one of my favorite sayings that has really risen to the top of my life in terms of who I am, who I want to be and what I choose to do with the time that I'm given, and that saying is we are, you are. We are the person that we are now becoming. So if you think about that just for a minute, let's personalize that. I am the person I am now becoming, the person I am now becoming. There's so much power in that sentence. There's the I am. There's great power in the I am. Who are you and who do you want to be, and the process of becoming. I love that To me when I think about this whole process of becoming, and that we are who we are becoming. This says that I can choose for myself who I'm going to be each and every day, and I have reinvented, recreated myself a few times in my life and each time I really think I've evolved into a better version of myself. That doesn't mean that we have to give up who we are, but it means we choose what aspects of ourselves and our personality we want to keep, what aspects we want to refine. Maybe there are some things about us that we'd like to change and get rid of all together. So here's the question what about your personality, or your situation, your life, your relationships? What do are you willing to? What do you need to get rid of or to let go of, and what are you willing to let go of? Sometimes there are things that hold us back that we know we need to get rid of, but we're not quite ready to, for whatever reason. You know, sometimes these things that we know don't serve us very well.
Speaker 1:A quick and easy one to talk about is anger. So sometimes in our lives we are angry. I mean, if you're past the age of 13, you've probably been lied to, you've been taken advantage of, maybe you've had things stolen from you, maybe you've been divorced, maybe you know you have been cheated out of something that you either earned or that you thought you earned, whatever the case may be, and we can harbor that as anger and fear. Now, keep in mind, anger and fear are two sides of the same coin. Fear is a very weak emotion and it leaves us vulnerable, and it's not good for us to be in a place of fear. It's a very low energy state. Anger is also a very low energy state, however, is also a very low energy state. However, anger does have a certain gift. Anger can give us the energy to either fight, push back or to do the hard work of change, and then, in that case, anger can morph into forgiveness, grace, beauty, love, right, charity, and so you can transmute fear into anger and then anger into something that is a very high energy state. Even love and belonging and faith and trust and hope those are very high energy states.
Speaker 1:Even gratitude can come from anger, if you let it. So when we think of it we go back to that statement. I am the person who I am now becoming. We can choose for ourselves what we're ready to let go of. And I will say, when you look at things like that emotional states that you know don't serve you very well it's really important not to push it out with I don't want this anymore but to allow it to leave with grace and gratitude. Right, so we recognize that. Say, for instance, if we go back to an earlier example anger, for instance we can acknowledge with gratitude hey, I need to let go of this anger. I'm ready to let go of this anger and I thank this anger for protecting me. Thank you for what you've done to me and how you've protected me and you've helped me do this hard work. I'm okay now. It's okay for you to leave me anger, because I'm ready to step up. I can do this. There is a certain amount of grace and security and it makes that process of letting go much easier when we can't do that.
Speaker 1:Anger basically, if you took anger as a personality says, oh, she's not ready, I'm not going to let her go because I got to protect her, and that can make that process of letting go very difficult and it can stretch on and it can surface in ways that you don't want it to surface, whether that's anger, grief, despair, victimhood, right, powerlessness, all those low energy states. When you recognize them in your life and you recognize that I really do need to let go of this, the first thing you want to ask yourself am I need to let go of this? The first thing you want to ask yourself am I ready to let go of this? And the only way that you're really going to become ready for that is to give gratitude for what those lower emotional states have provided to you and that way you're able to let that go with grace and step up into these higher energy states and in so doing, you choose who you are. You are in the process of becoming your best self.
Speaker 1:I believe that this is an eternal and infinite progression, right? I think the scriptures talk about that. We're expected to become like our father in heaven. Well, he's perfect. I think that's going to take us an infinite amount of time to step up and to be anywhere near. I can't imagine becoming a creature like my father in heaven or whoever it is that you worship in such a way. I would think that would take an infinite amount of time and certainly grace, and it's not something that I could do on my own. But that's the challenge. Right Is to continue to progress and grow, learn to love yourself and love others. So I'm going to challenge you today. What do you need to let go of? What do you need to embrace? What do you need to bring into your life? What are the relationships that you might need to bring in or let go of so that you can step up into the next upgraded version of the beautiful and magnificent creature you are? You are the beautiful person that you are now becoming, and that's my thought for you today.