And here we are.
Let's take a breath together, shall we.
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The stars have been keeping me awake at night, whispering in the breeze,
"Choices made."
In deciding who we can trust,
what I have come to learn is, its less about discerning
who is a good person with good intentions versus a bad person with bad intentions.
We are layered, complex, and culturally conditioned by what we inherited through the generations.
We can be most trusted with the parts of ourselves that we have confronted, metabolized, integrated, taken responsibility for, and are conscious of.
The untrustworthy and raw parts of us that are not fully processed are protected by a defensive, egocentric-self that can act like a cornered animal.
These disconnected, denied, and undigested raw parts of us need to be held with clarity and healing love, until they are ready to be unfolded.
When space and fierce compassion gently approach off-limit topics, with this wounded part of ourselves, the hurt that is still so tightly wound up in us can be alchemized.
The energy of unhealed trauma is like an echo, keeping misaligned messages, unchallenged lessons, and role-modeling from parents, teachers, high school friends, love interests, bosses, partners, idols, and ancestors alive within our bodies and minds. They are like the little magnets that can mess with the compass of our True North needs.
Our devotion to our deepest truth fosters trust
in our relationships with others,
if
they do similar work, non-defensively, and have good self-awareness.
Our commitment to
re-naturing and grounding ourselves in our truth-body also develops self-trust; regardless of what others do or don’t do, because it’s so much easier to detect the islands within them that need work when we are intimately familiar with our own.
Sometimes in transition, you can feel crazy, damaged, and isolated.
But if you really want to feel crazy, damaged, and isolated, turn to family members or friends who may not understand your journey and ask them for support.
It’s a natural instinct to want certain people to be there for you.
But they may not know the ways OF going, thus distracting you, derailing you and discouraging you from what you innately know to be true.
If you want to save time, I suggest you do not knock-on doors that do not open to you.
You see, we have received a lifetime of positive reinforcement for "powering through" our body’s signals, our inner wisdom, and our better judgement. Our whole lives, we’ve been rewarded with praise, grades, reviews, raises, money, food, promotions, privileges, compliments, belonging, and promises by teachers, bosses, co-workers, politicians, partners, parents, friends, health providers, and famous people...
This has set us up for powering over ourselves and others in the name of productivity, righteousness, or success, and made us more likely to adamantly defend what we do...
even when it harms us and oppresses others.
In this, we are unable to see the difference between our own personal truth
and the larger - greater truth. And in terms of our Alignment to the Greater Good,
We have no idea, how on or off target we truly are.
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It’s hard to grasp that our own inner denial (of our emotions) and propensity to ignore personal warning signals (ie: ongoing resentment, anger, anxiety, decompensating health) are perpetuating continuous and ever-expanding cycles of denial, defensiveness, and oppression.
My friends,
we are presented with an important choice.
We can either complacently go along with mainstream trends, or we can learn to trust that the pain and suffering that this disharmony causes us is an invitation for us to correct the imbalances and return to our true nature and health.
I was told choices were made.
So, tell me... what have you chosen?
And… What will you do now?
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