10/18/2021
Those of us in pain are the ones who have not allowed it to be expressed in the safe circle of our own company.
We feed into our pain by allowing it to fester through avoidance, denial, shame and suppression. Awakening happens as we evolve out of this pain… and therein lies the journey.
While the suppressed, repressed, distressed and abandoned parts of ourselves beg for emancipation we vacillate between the tyranny of the mind and trusting our heart to hold us. We experience moments of connection, basking in the love that we are then being pulled back into the identified mind, the programs, the fears.
Witnessing the patterns of behavior and lifetime of judgment against ourselves is quite challenging. The part of us that is identified to the false self does not let go easily. It is in recognizing our true self that we begin to release and unravel our attachments.
Cultivating Presence is a practice and prerequisite to this work. Allowing repressed emotions, dramas, traumas and vibrational injuries to be released requires our nurturing attention.
As long as we keep choosing to give loving attention to our inner world, we are doing what we can to transmute the shadow. This unfolding has its own pace and cannot be rushed.
Spiritual bypassing feeds into another ego, “the enlightened one”.
It’s helpful to have a guide in this journey...someone who can help keep us honest with ourselves. Ram Dass said, “we’re all just walking each other home”, helping each other remember the truth of who we are.
When pain gets our attention it’s time to surrender, get still and allow your body’s emotional intelligence to go to work. We must feel it to heal it. There’s no way around this process.
Seeing our unconscious ways; facing our fears; choosing not to turn away; feeling the waves of repressed emotion, triggers and vibrational injuries; learning to give yourself what was not given to you in times when you needed it most... this process is not easy.
We've been asleep to ourselves, disconnected from our inner world. When pain comes calling, the way out is through.