One thing that strikes me in my life is witnessing the unfolding awakening of a friend. In essence it comes from completely relating to what the person is going through, remembering my own walk and struggle through "it" and the realization that "this is what it was for", when there didn't seem to be any good reason at the time! It is exciting as the one observing to know that the opportunity for expansion and healing is happening but it is also humbling remembering how scary it was to walk through and how everything felt as though it were falling apart and breaking down into oblivion. Finding someone to share the experience with in a safe way feels like coming up for air when the tidal wave of emotion has seemingly taken you under. We wrestle in our minds to understand our emotions but our intellect has no place there, our hearts do. We open to ourselves, our authenticity here. To cope we stayed on the surface but now we are being pulled to dive to the depths where we fear losing ourselves, when really we are being guided to be found. The degree to which we resist this change is the magnitude of our struggle and we must let go. Let go of "out there", "what if", "they", the stories we've woven over time....observe, accept, forgive, love. Most importantly - LOVE - every part of ourselves that we have hidden away, shunned, ostracized. FORGIVE ourselves for carrying the pain around so long. We play old internalized tapes that we picked up from parents, peers, society that still run the show. Let them go. It is not your job to hold and harbor these, they truly only scar yourself. Leave them to play on the beach somewhere without a care in the world, let them go so they can heal. This is YOUR journey, take a deep breath in and say THANK YOU for awakening to this realization. Allow the illusion that what is "out there" has power over you... to dissolve. Allow your focus to feel the pulse of your own existence, guiding it away from what others have done to you or the disappointment of how things haven't turned out the way you would have liked. Allow yourself to be SEEN, nurture and become present with those places longing for attention. We can hide away parts of ourselves and then place huge expectations on others to find them for us...when with courage we can pull those parts forward, accept them ourselves and share them as part of who we are. Value yourself, you're worth it, and we want to see you shine! <3
