I recently realized that I had never really claimed my new home as mine.  I love this new home and am grateful for it, but never really felt like it was mine.  I'm sure this is partly due to it belonging to my fiancé before I came into his life among other reasons.  Either way, I realized I need to claim my share of it for me to feel more connected.  When I did, I became aware of my energetic imprint upon it mixing in with the rest of the families' imprints. I was then able to feel much more "at home" in my home.

We often have what we want right in front of us, however we can't seem to feel connected to it until we really claim it as ours.  I realized the same was true for my step-children.  I never really claimed either one of them as mine simply because I never realized I could.  Because there was a desire within me to be their step-mother, I followed through with that claim.  Upon doing so, a sense of responsibility mixed with fear surged through me.  I then understood why I never claimed them before.  This started a process of healing taking place within me.  The healing reached a place within me where I felt I didn't deserve them or that I wasn't "good enough".   I'm not really sure where this came from but it really didn't matter, it just mattered that I surrendered to the healing that was taking place.

If you pay attention, claiming what you want will bring up everything inside of you that is in the way of having it.   More often than not, beliefs of unworthiness are present as well as fear of responsibility.  The responsibility of having what we want brings up fears within us as to whether we can "do it right".  We don't want to make mistakes.  Sometimes the stakes seem higher when we believe we made similar mistakes in the past and believe we can't cope with making them again.  However we are much more resilient than that.  We can handle anything that comes our way - it's only in our minds that we can't.  When we take the time to really look within ourselves we will find out that we are much stronger and more capable than we ever thought we were.