Flipping your flaws and showing off your light
Renee Airya is a former fashion model.
She underwent a massive brain surgery at
age 29 for a life-threatening tumor that had been un-diagnosed for 15 years.
Only for her to wake up to what most people
would consider a nightmare - her facial nerves had been cut and her face 100%
paralyzed on the right-hand side.
There was no medical cure.
But somehow, she managed to get her face
muscles working again.
Her surgery was in 2004.
She started talking about her story in
2013. A story about how she tried to hide her
flaw…how she was ashamed of it…how she came out of hiding…and how energizing
that has made her feel about her life.
Today Renee gives talks on how to “Flip
Your Flaws”.
She talks about her personal, emotional,
spiritual, and physical journey from paralysis, and encourages people to flip
their flaws and use them as a gateway for expressing their sincerity and most
unique abilities.
How do you flip your flaws? Renee suggests that you follow the
following 6 steps:
First,
identify what you believe your flaw is. It might be something physical but more of the flaws are invisible
e.g. being stuck and stagnant in our relationships, financial flaws, flaws with
anger, flaws with time management etc.
Second,
recognize how you judge yourself for having this flaw, and how you judge the
flaw itself. Sometimes
people are judging themselves for being overweight, but they’re also judging
this idea of “overweight.”
Third,
recognize how you hide this flaw.
This reveals some of the most interesting insights. People will say, “I knew
that I did that every day, but I didn’t know I did it because I was trying to
hide.”
Fourth,
recognize how you feel when you hide this flaw. “For me, when I would hide my face, I
would feel really embarrassed. The mere act of hiding actually created more
embarrassment.”
Fifth,
identify what potential gifts or blessings could be coming through this flaw. This is where the real magic comes in with
the flipping of the flaw. Flaws are actually the gateway to your own sincerity.
Sixth,
get out of hiding and talk about it.
“Coming out of hiding means sharing. Sharing is an instantaneous remedy for
shame – that is, when you are sharing consciously, and not from a place of
victimhood. The sharing helps you to get ‘unstuck,’ and then you can see what the
next steps are.”
“When we are willing to talk about our
imperfections, and willing to see those imperfections as something that is beautiful
and mysterious, it stops its wounding cycle. It stops the cycle in humanity of, “I need
to be perfect in order to be okay”.
Some of the notable quotes by Renee
include:
“Flaws are just projected fears…”
“I have learned that if we feel internally
imprisoned, no amount of money or outside praise will ever make us feel free.
So shatter what no longer matters, get into your glory, share your story and
your true colors. True success lives in how we perceive ourselves.”
“When you hide, you create more shame. That
means that you are telling yourself that you are more and more unloveable. But
when you share, you do allow for the light to shine through the shame. And I
firmly believe that we can all become perfect through our flaws.”
“The way we choose to deal with our flaws
will actually lead to a life of success, power, and health… or
self-destruction, insecurity, and shame… Flaws are a part of human nature.”
“Could it be possible that flaws are the
gateways to our sincerity? Could it be possible that flaws are the access
points to recover your un-shakeable confidence? Could it be possible that flaws
are the golden key to discovering our uniqueness? If you can answer ‘Yes’ to
either of those questions, how can you begin today to start expressing yourself
with more sincerity in the world?”
“There is so much liberation and so much
freedom to be found in sharing your true colors with others, your light, and
your shadows.”
“You are not perfect in spite of your
flaws, but actually because of them. You don’t need to be pretty or good
looking to be beautiful. Beauty is only skin deep, but radiance is eternal.”
Check out her story and talks online. They
are many.
We hope this energizes you to flip whatever flaws you have been
hiding…and letting the world see your light.
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