So many of us at this stage in the world are going through spiritual connections emergencies emergence integration and awakenings. We have heard the clarion call of the soul of us to wake up to all of us now. For some this process has left us grieving of a past long gone, relationships crumbling, feelings crushed, loss of self, feeling lost lonely and nowhere to turn to. We no longer seek but somehow get sought and then then tide just takes us where it will. Our lives have been turned upside down. We feel more. Life cannot be avoided.
How can we move out of our caves full of tapestry and walls painted with shame guilt lack depression deprivation confusion and all else that we are facing with this sort of emergence together with the bliss that comes and goes? Our bodies ache with the memories. Our bones we can no longer feel support us, the pain is just too much to bear. We know our body is making space for a new whole to emerge but does it have to pain us so much? And nobody understands this to us at least. We long so much to feel supported and known but fear rejection abandonment, we speak to parts of us that were developmentally arrested to heal them so we can grow wholly, but it’s all so much. We look around and know we are all so connected yet the separation feels equally real. We watch how the rest of humanity unfolds and see those that were not jolted and forced into acknowledging this spirit self at micro and macro levels and wonder whether we might have been short changed. Surely to be so aware has got to feel better that this right?
Tear off all that surrounds you on a snapshot of your daily life. What happens when you have no roles to play, nothing to do, no aspiration at all, not even bills to pay? What is that which causes us to move? What brings the life force in us into action?
Walking through the backyard of us, we are bound to find so much there. What happens then when we find something we don’t like? Our shadow self? Our inner child? Maybe a word that injured you? Or you caused someone else pain?
Nothing in us can shift unless we get off our arses to shape our psyche through a process of active engaged present aware action. We must keep tabs of why we are; who we are; what our masks out and why we need any of these. Your presence and awareness will show you parts of the self that need your attention. This process is not about the “others”. Forget about fixing someone else. Let’s focus solely on getting you right in your version of you and how you enact that in daily life. Do your life values come through what you say and do? Do you behave in a way that is cognisant with your inner map?
Every day is an opportunity when explored with others in an active environment as opposed to sitting (there is a time for that too), to tune in to our own reaction response and triggering. We can use life as a workbook and ac active workshop on the go to look at yourself. Hiding away will give you the sensitivity you need but it won’t give you the practice to that spiritual awakening you have had until you get your arse in shape. You must mingle and commune. It is part of us. Have you ever witnessed the dawn chorus by the birds? They come together daily no matter what to sing. Who knows who had an affair with who or who fell out with who or who did this or that. They simply show up the next day for each other and the dawn chorus which cannot sound as lovely as it does unless they do it together and in tune with each other.
The cave can become very addictive. You can even hide behind the garb of spiritual emergence or knowledge to keep you from exploring your fears of acceptance rejection greatness failure and abandonment. We have felt the bliss of God and won’t leave that now despite all the rest of us telling us we need to get out of the cave.
Many many many of us face difficulty in how to bring this wisdom to the fore or how to live with this in the material world. Do they change careers? What job will they do? What career is their true path? All of these answers just come just as the awakening did. It all comes together the more we surrender to the process. It is the awareness to the process and to us our mind and other tools we have that will let us know what next.
Even up with yourself and really try and figure you out. Is there a reason you won’t get out of your cave? Your cave could be a job you are all too comfortable in but that does not make you feel good. It could be anything.
Some of us may think with so many out there bearing the same wisdom you couldn’t possibly have anything new to offer. Well, that’s right. Novelty is a misnomer when it comes to spiritual wisdom. Nothing there is original. The truth remains the truth. Our take on it might give it a slight hue and shade but that won’t change the essence. But, the way you paint the canvas of your new gained wisdom might be a way that someone else can relate to and access, and that’s where your magic lies.
This sort of thinking to want to better others out, or to suss out the competition to want to promote yourself or get on the social media wagon one time too many, is all a product of “lack” and the “competitive syndrome”.
Children at school are graded. They are at the behest of judgment day in day out whether it be from their parents at home other caregivers teachers and peers. How tough it might be to be a child right now? And what we ourselves might have had to endure even at the hands of the best caregivers. Back then emotional well-being was never at the fore. With all the mental health issues we are now aware of we know how to care for our infants in ways that can perhaps alleviate any anxiety and stress.
Many now hide behind the garb of “ we are too wise to mix with the masses”! This is a fallacy and again an oxymoron. It has to be right? One can never me spiritually awake to oneself and asleep to the rest of one in the rest of the world. Compassion must be there.
“For those of you who are struggling to get yourself out there, please check in and see whether you could have any of your fears stopping you. It could be that the various aches and pains are too much to bear. In which case get in touch with a professional. Have a support system handy.”
How do we bring our children up with an awareness of spirit and material world when we have only a part experience of either or both? Or do we think that it’s not necessary that they know more than we do or that we simply can’t be bothered to up our game plan for them?