May 2024 - Qualification

Sometimes, we can feel like we are not qualified.

This may be based on our own beliefs about our age, gender, sex, ethnicity, education, etc. This then becomes our measuring stick for our standards of qualification.

In my own healing journey, I had to discover what those false qualifications were. I had to get to the root of my own inaccurate beliefs that created this erroneous standard.

So I had to ask myself, "When did I first form a relationship with this qualification to protect myself?" Why? Because external qualifications are a protector revealing our own internal disqualifications.

This is our brain’s way of protecting us from the potential of pain. But what disqualification really provides is an opportunity for us to bring love into an area of our lives.

So, when I asked myself that question, I was shocked at the discovery. I had formed a false belief, a lie, in my younger years about my value.

This lie told me that unless I met the qualifications of my own fictitious measuring stick, I wouldn't be worthy. This was an important discovery to help me see how much I disqualified myself - and it was a lot!

I let the pain in my past tell me that I wasn't qualified for something greater in my future. So I had to break that measuring stick by renouncing that lie and replacing it with the truth.

And the truth is that I am not a victim of my past, therefore, it does not have to be a disqualifier for my future. Yes, I've walked through some things, but now I get to be a living, breathing testimony to others that there is hope on the other side and that there is freedom for those who feel stuck.

So my story isn't what disqualifies me, it's what qualifies me - and the same holds true for you! That’s why we mustn't let the shame of our past disqualify us from our future.

And no external qualification can change the fact that we are already qualified within to love others and serve them well.