Does anyone else feel like things are really “heating up”? And while, yes, the days are indeed getting sunnier and warmer here in the Pacific Northwest, I’m of course speaking more in a metaphorical sense. This is really quite a time we’re living through. I’m finding it necessary to spend more time alone, just to be with the immense amount of energy that’s brewing these days. Days like today, digging in the garden, experiencing the beauty of Nature, and the grounding of Mother Earth, are, for me, hugely important to maintain balance and centeredness in the midst of some pretty crazy stuff.
Individually and collectively, it seems that whatever has been unresolved is now presenting itself, one way or another, for healing.
In my personal experience, the entire gamut of the emotional spectrum is getting more intense, as the Divine Presence orchestrates the deep healing work I continue to invite. When “clear me, heal me, use me” becomes a daily prayer/mantra, it gets to be quite a ride sometimes! (Know what I mean? I’ll bet many of you do!)
Yet, as I say in several of my more recent CDs, in order to experience true healing, we must “become large enough to embrace it all.” We must have the courage to go to those darkest, scariest, loneliest places; we must also have the courage to recognize, own, and act from the tremendous power of Love that is the true essence of who we are.
Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. -Marianne Williamson
So why is opening to Love, embracing who we really are, sometimes so scary?
Because it means giving up a whole lot of who we’ve always thought we were. And even if not all aspects of that limited self-definition are who we really want to be, it’s familiar. So letting go can be more than a bit challenging sometimes. It can feel downright life-threatening. So we don’t go there. We retreat to what we know.
By simply recognizing that this is the ego’s way of doing its best to protect us, we can experience a deeper level of compassion, and be gentler with ourselves as we learn to let go and remember who we really are. When you really get that all this old stuff is not “me”, then you can let it go. As we build a more solid knowing of our true essence, we are able, then to more easily let go of those limiting beliefs, the thought and behavior patterns which no longer serve us. We become large enough to embrace it all. We learn to see and celebrate the miraculous in the mundane. And life becomes a whole lot more fun!
I wish for you the heart-opening compassion and infinite joy that comes with remembering who You really are.
Namaste.
