What if a star can teach you a valuable life lesson?  

By Lori Hammond

Coach and Professional Hypnotist. Giving you simple tools to stop overwhelm and harness joyful forward momentum.

I'm sitting here in the backyard of my Hawaiian Airbnb…

Surrounded by adorable lizards...

 

Being eaten alive by bloodthirsty mosquitos...

 

Thinking about you. 

 

(Not because of the mosquitos. 🦟🤣)

 

Here's a post I shared in my "Adventures with Lori" Facebook group this week. 

 

I hope it sparks joy. 

Howas

My grand-baby, Zelda, calls stars “Howas."

 

Because…

 

“Twinkle twinkle little star

HOWA wonder what you are” 😆

 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

 

I told my sister that the first night I was in Hawaii I woke up at 1:00 a.m. because of the time change.

 

She said, “You should’ve looked at the sky! I bet it’s beautiful there!”

 

My sister has always geeked out about sparkly things in the sky.

 

So, this morning at 4:30 am Hawaii time (7:30 am Colorado time) I stepped quietly out onto the porch and looked up.

 

My mouth fell open (literally).

 

It took a few seconds to conceive of what I was looking at...

 

I held my hands over my mouth and began to silently laugh (because there are people sleeping on the top floor above my Airbnb).

 

It was a laugh that said,

 

“Are you kidding me? Something this beautiful exists?!!!”

 

They were bigger brighter stars than I'd ever seen in my life...

 

Plus layers and layers of dimmer, glimmering, shimmering stars.

 

Then… I kid you not… 3 seconds later I saw a shooting star light up the sky between 2 massive trees across the yard.

 

I lost it.

 

I just stood there and wept (really quietly) with my hands over my mouth.

 

I remembered that I’m supposed to make a wish when I see a shooting star.

 

I used to struggle to think of the best wish but this time I knew right away…

 

“I wish to always remember that I’m allowed to live a good life.

 

I’m allowed to experience joy. Life really can be this good.”

 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

 

When the plane approached the runway on Kauai, I thought,

 

“WOW! I actually did it!”

 

I booked this ticket months ago because I found a great deal on flights but it didn’t really sink in that the trip I’d been dreaming about was happening IN REAL LIFE.

 

For a decade I’ve been telling myself….

 

Over and over and over again…

 

“You’re allowed to feel good… you’re allowed to be happy…. You’re worthy of abundance.”

 

This was one of my keys to getting out of decades-long depression.

 

The more it sinks in that life doesn’t have to suck, the more adamantly I repeat to myself...

 

“You’re allowed to feel good. You’re worthy of every good thing."

 

(I grew up believing the opposite.)

 

It doesn’t feel true most of the time but I say it anyway.

 

And - with repetition - my BODY starts to believe it, and tells my brain and my feelings...

 

“Psst, it’s ok to feel good.”

 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

 

I looked to the right and saw the big dipper.

 

I could’ve reached out and stirred my dinner with it if I’d realized how close it was last night.

 

I thought, “I wish my sister could see this!”

 

“I wish Zelda could see ALL THESE HOWAS!”

 

And I realized my hands were pressed to my heart and my face was wet with tears of gratitude.

 

What if life really does get to be this good?

 

Will you hold your hands to your heart, close your eyes and say this to yourself right now (do it for real)....

 

“What if MY life can be good? What if I AM worthy of abundance?”

 

Because guess what?

 

It can be… and you are.

 

I love you my friend.

 

Now repeat those words to yourself a million times in the coming days, weeks, months and years.

 

Let it sink in and become your unconscious self talk.

 

“I’m allowed to feel good. I’m allowed to have a good life. I’m worthy of good things.”

 

I wish you the blessing of eyes that are open to the sparkly things you may have missed before you understood…

 

YOU are allowed to be happy.

 

Have a beautiful week.

 

Love,

Lori