In the world of Love and Light, there are band aids we use continuously which often create patterns of guilt, self-judgment and fear of being wrong or in chaos and all of this ultimately creates separation of who we are.
Humans have been known to look at the world through Ego, which is how we were designed. Ego is there to keep us safe, keep us alive – when it is healthy. An unhealthy Ego, however, locks us into a sense of entitlement which, even to people who practise meditation, journaling etc., can lock us into an identity of spiritual superiority complex or forms of spiritual bypassing.
You see, we cannot escape the 3D. We live in a very real, very three-dimensional world and often I find we misuse our tools of awareness to attempt to manipulate the laws that govern us spiritually. It is said that, on the plains of America, the bison are known to walk INTO storms instead of trying to escape them. This is the wisdom of nature for us to witness and learn from. The bison understand that by going through the storm, the storm passes by faster, instead of trying to outrun the storm, which delays the inevitable hitting of the storm and therefore experiencing it anyway.
One of my favourite mentors, Michael B. Beckwith, had once asked the question, “If where you are, never changes, what quality of being would you have to learn in order to be okay with where you are?”. I have found this to be the most impactful and powerful question of my career. I have more healing modalities under the belt than I even often times remember I have and through each and every healing modality there is an incredible magical thread that they all bring to us… The ability to clear our slate.
Breathwork is there to assist us in clearing our nervous system of fragmented energy.
Meditation is there to help clear up our thoughts and intentions.
Various healing techniques allow us to clear limiting belief systems, personal experiences cluttering up our memory, being able to witness ancestral patterns etc.
As beings of duality with an internal and external reality, we often create these either/or scenarios for ourselves that end up separating us more from Source than walking through the storm. We forget we are here to experience what it is like being human.
Ask yourself these questions:
Where have I allowed myself no longer to experience life fully for all that it is?
What is my ‘storm’ that I am running from?
If I had to face my storm head on, what would I see?
Perhaps you’ll find what you’ve been running from is less scary than you originally thought and it would clear your pathway for a smoother existence more quickly. Many of us at some point or another try smother life with band aid after band aid of spiritual bypassing.
“It happens because of my life contract.”
“I chose this before I came here so this is how it is.”
“Oh, I’ve been meditating so much and all is so divine that I no longer see the flaws.”
All of this is perfect, when it comes from a place of knowingness, of wholeness, of oneness beyond the Ego, but I can tell you from years of working with clients, it is rarely their truth. Under all the words there is no deep-seated, heart-centred belief that all is well. It tends to be a scramble to keep all the so-called negative emotions, thoughts etc. under strict lock and key. Drowning them by doing affirmations, drinking turmeric milk and calling self-care bubble baths. All of this is running from the storm.
I invite you to truly sit with yourself. Take a deep breath and put on your pessimistic glasses. For perhaps the first time, do not run from the darker, shadow side of who you are and what being human is. Human being-ness allows you to feel overwhelmed for 90 seconds, where you truly see it for what it is and then you let it go. You go THROUGH the storm. Use the dual nature of who you are as a strength to experience life and from that experience you CHOOSE higher and higher paths, higher actions THROUGH using your tools of awareness, of healing to clean your slate. See these practices as your wipers on your windscreen DURING the storm so you can see the storm in every step and, once you pass the storm, you know to navigate it better and better until it no longer even phases you when it comes.
Trust me, your manifestations flow at Godspeed when there is no internal resistance and the best, purest way to do that is to go through the Shadow. We cannot be ONENESS when we are in separation of self, rejection of self. We see all of us, acknowledge all of us and then, with this acceptance, this deeper understanding of all our potential in perceived good or ‘evil’ are we able to be in wholeness/oneness/unity.
