***'You Can't Have One Without The Other'***

We are visiting another world. Are you ready? Ages away from now. Fasten your seatbelts. The flight takes off. Don't worry. It is safe to fly. Drop your luggage. Not needed. Just be you. As you are. Truly. The other world looks like our planet earth. There are shops. People. Walking around. Each with their unique desires. Dreams. Goals. In the shops they can buy all what they want and more. It is within reach. For everyone. Not just today. Always. Forever. This other world gave birth to a new breed of people. They can start from scratch. Live their own life. Exactly as who they were meant to be. Without the impact of others telling them how they should move forward. Life design owned.

There was a catch. It did not happen overnight. This paradise was not created just like that. It took effort and persistence. Most of all it was about having faith. That all was possible. Walt Disney could have created this paradise. Doing the so-called impossible brings joy indeed. People had to peel down their layers first. There were schools. Teaching the art of living. From within. There were prisons for the ones that could not let go of perfectionism. Society decided they were useless anyway. There was a deep truth in it. When you practice perfectionism, you create a prison within yourself. No need to prove that. With fear building large walls around your soul, it makes no sense to take a next step. All colored.

Children were allowed to be exactly as they are. Playing. Having fun. They could be creative. As much as they wanted to. They had space to grow. Grow into the beautiful beings they were meant to be. Enough for themselves. Enough for others. For the teenagers there were inspiring movie theatres. In these places of wonder every emotion was accepted and acknowledged. Both negative as positive ones. To become whole. The people believed that you cannot have one without the other. Feeling deep sadness also paves the way to allow the deepest love in their hearts. No fairy tales. The truth has spoken. The teenagers loved it. Once they managed to feel the negative emotions they could feel the positive ones.

It was all okay. It was fine. To embrace their human side. Feeling ashamed, fearful or guilty was a sign of being human. We all are. The teenagers learned that they could dive into these emotions. Like jumping into the waves. Visiting the ocean. They would feel the water touching their skin. In the evening when they left the ocean, they let it all go. Time to seek the comfort of a warm and cosy home. In the theatre they had learned to shift to the positive side of life. Tools and techniques were offered to all students. Gratitude was one of the ways to transform into another feeling. The rewards were fantastic. They were soaring once they could tap into their deepest positive emotions.

No need to say that the adults in this world were living meaningful lives. They were on a transformational journey. An ongoing process of shifting. Thousand and one books had been written about this. Everyone saw the beauty in the eyes of the other being. They had learned to accept and love themselves. The eyes of the people were shining. Special to watch. Someone referred to them as the 'shiny people'. Brilliant as stars can be. The only people who felt bad and remained in that emotional state were the perfectionists. They believed that they had to be perfect. Nobody could unlock them. They had to do that for themselves first. They say that true self-love is the golden key to open the doors to the world. From within.

By Liesbeth Leysen