Dracula is a monster who takes his victims lives away by draining their blood. In essence he is taking their life force from them. What is your Dracula? What are the things in your world that drain you of your energy? It may be a job, a relationship or another thing that takes your happiness away, exhausting you from your life force. Like Dracula who you have to let it in before it can harm you, you let in this monster to take your energy away. It comes into our world, let in by us, that we feel helpless about. We think we have no power to combat this thing that is taking our energy away. We have to stay in the job we hate, we have to stay in the relationship because we will not find love again, or we have to do something totally against who we are because we have to. We come up with serval reasons why we need to stay in the pain. This job is the only one I have, and it pays the bills. This relationship is the only one that I can find. This is the only way I know how. We tell ourselves it is the only way, and the fear of the unknown holds you stead fast in the pain. Dracula continues to feed on you because you let it. There are many factors that got you wrapped up in Dracula’s control. It might have been that it is the only job you have ever done, and you have been doing it since you were young. The relationship might have been filled with love in the beginning, but the red flags are finally showing up. You might have been programed as a child that this is the only way to live your life. Either way we fell into the trap and now we are stuck giving our lives away to things that do not support our journey forward. We battle with our Dracula every day and it always wins, stealing more and more of our life’s force. It drains us so much that we do not have the energy to even think about our abundant lives. We trudge through our lives thinking we have no way out. The monster has us in the grips of the fear of the unknown. The unknown fear of an abundant life. We stay in the safe world that drains us until we believe we are too old, and it is too late. It is never too late to fight off your Dracula. You will have the courage when you can see the present be something that it is not, when you can push away the fear of the unknown, when you can trust your strength, and you can believe that your new life begins now in a new light. You cannot see Dracula in your mirror so you must trust that he is there living in your fears. You can defeat the monster that controls your life by letting the sunshine on it, as your new day begins toward your abundant life.
What does your Dracula look like? It is hard to tell because you cannot see it in your mirror. For whatever reason you continue the current path because you believe it is the only way. It might have been parent programing or something you lack but, here you are. It is ok to question why you are where you are. No one told you, you cannot ask “Is where I am supporting my happiness”. So, take time to see what takes your energy away. The present moment you are in is the perfect time to ask the question, “Am I happy being here?” Afterall it is happiness where our abundant future lies. No one is going to wave a magic wand one day and poof you are there. I am sorry to tell you. You have to get away from your Dracula now in the present moment. Make plans of a new career or relationship. You are never too stuck, and it is not the only way. The closed off thinking of this is all I know, will let you stay with your monster as it drains your life away from you. When you can shine a light on it now, you will be able to see how you welcomed it into your life. At that time, it might have been what you needed but, you do not need it in the present. If Dracula is taking your energy away it has outlived its purpose in your life, and you must figure out a way to move into the unknown without fear for your happiness.
The fear of the unknown is the main reason why you allow Dracula to live with you. The fear of not having money, the fear of never finding love or the fear you are not good enough is what feeds the monster. That unknown keeps you in the lack of happiness. Why does the unknown have to be based in fear? It is always safer to stay in the unhappiness then to step into a world we are not familiar with. But familiar does not have to be sad. If you can start turning the unknown toward its abundance you can start seeing that the future holds a better career, a more loving relationship, and an abundant life. It takes you to walk through the programed mirror the shows you nothing. Something is on the other side of the Dracula’s curse, and it takes trusting you will be ok. It is a life of abundant happiness not failure and fear. The hardest step into releasing Dracula’s power over us is embracing the unknown. You must trust in your power to move forward head up and not with fear.
You are stronger that what you think. You can defeat Dracula. Trusting in your path and power will turn the fear into excitement. You may fail once or twice in your journey to your abundant life but, those are the lessons to learn, not the roadblocks to turn you around. You can know that you will be happier just trying to go toward your happiness than being in the torture that Dracula has on you. That happiness of just knowing you are on your way and not stuck will drive you toward your abundant life. Trusting that you are supposed to live a happy life. Your abundant life is not based in the Dracula’s care, it is based beyond the fear and in a place of purpose filled with happiness. You let Dracula in, in a time in your life you were not ready to move forward. To move forward now that it takes your life away, is for your happiness. Trust your power and the unknown is enough to let you move to that happiness. The light of your abundant life does not live in the darkness of the shadows of the world you are in.
To defeat the prince of darkness you must shine the morning light so he can disappear, never again to frighten you. When we think we are stuck in the shadows, we need to believe that there is a light ahead of us. If we concentrate on this is the only way and that we must suffer to survive, we will never reach our abundant life. The present is where we can see that we do not belong here. We shine the light on Dracula’s face, seeing we are here because of fear. You can change the story and be the hero of your journey by opening the curtains and visioning a bountiful future. You are the only one that can defeat the prince of darkness that lives in your life. You know what drives your soul, you know what makes you happy, and you know that you are worthy of that abundant life. Stop, Dracula’s control of your life and trust that the future without it is wonderful. I know it is scary, because it is all you know. Understand that when you set this path you are on, you were still learning lessons. You have learned them and now it is time to apply that knowledge to be in your happiness, away from the dead-end job, the bad relationship and the self-doubt. They served their purpose and now you need to serve yours. A life full of happy endeavors knowing you are heading in the direction you are meant to be on. Let your light shine and defeat Dracula’s hold on your fears.
Life is not meant to be set in stone at an early age in life, this is the job, this is how you love, this is who you are. We get stuck in the patterns and routines at those early ages. They turn into the Dracula that steals our lives force as we get older. We get stuck in the routines carving a rut in our lives path. Never understanding that we can move beyond these patterns. The lessons of our patterns have taught more about what we want, not about what we only know. The wants of life are not based in the patterns of the only way. Dracula’s power is based in the fear of the only. Dracula tells you, if we stray from the rut, you will not make money, you will not find love and you will not know what you are doing. But staying in the rut you will never have those things either. You have a better chance out of the rut to find your happiness than in it. The shadows of the rut is where he lives feeding on your life. Destroy his power over you by shining a light on him, embracing the unknown and trusting that your abundant life is beyond his control. Your happy abundant life is living in the light of the present and the future, not in the shadows of the rut aka Dracula’s control.