Take time to meditate

Let love be your guiding force

We are told repeatedly in spiritual circles that ‘love is what we are’ and I do believe this. However, we are all immersed in a reality that is, at best, inconsistently loving and more often than not painful or down right tragic.  Even if we miraculously managed to come together globally and love each other in our humanity as well as honour the planet as our Mother, we would still have serious challenges to contend with that stir up fear and shut down love.

The body, for instance, will deteriorate as we age and none of us will escape the truth of our physical mortality (well not in this life at any rate). The terror and beauty of the planet is another sobering reality, be it drought, flood, earthquake or other natural expressions - and no amount of denial, positive thinking or loving awareness will change those natural rhythms. So in a world of inevitable polarity, coloured by the hues of both love and fear, how does one transcend this polarity and open to love as our guide? It has been an interesting question to contemplate. 

We are indeed an expression of the God/Goddess and so are love in action, but we seem to have created an inordinately dense barrier to experiencing this love. The barrier is, of course, built from the raw material of our fears and is a deeply intimate construction – no two people make their prisons in quite the same way.  It makes sense therefore, that we ultimately have to walk alone through our own unique fears in order to dismantle our cages. Since no one can free us but ourselves, giving up ‘one size fits all’ spirituality and truly knowing your unique inner world (warts and all) is more important than ever. It seems that everything we desire is indeed on the other side of our fears, but their nature is rarely as straight forward as you suspect. Our course Your Beautiful Life www.yourbeautifullife.com.au facilitates opening to our real fears and so ignites inner knowing.

If we remain in the conceptual realm of spirituality rather than work on the embodiment of it, we merely tread water and even layer density. Similarly, if we wait for the world to be unfailingly safe and loving before we can hold it within ourselves, then we will be trapped in a reincarnation cycle until we understand that it is us that must change. In fact, I think that is the point of ascension; to be able to maintain our faith and love in mind and response, amid the chaos of the ego and natural world. No easy feat.

As I have been working with this affirmation, I have simultaneously been writing our latest workshop “moving beyond triggers”.  I shouldn’t have been surprised that this focus opened up deeper awareness in understanding triggers…for they are really all about clearing the way for our truth, that is love, to emerge. I have come to understand fear at a cellular level, or what others might refer to as ‘karmic patterning’. The first step to work with and clear fear at its karmic source is to be really, really present in your life in each moment – this is a difficult task for most of us. However, when you are present, you can sense, see or feel the fear ‘popping’ all over the body by way of tension, as well as infiltrating the mind, rising as judgement and our stories. I have learned that always seeking love as your guide is a little like trying to always tell the truth…it’s a genuine heartfelt intent, but in light of the challenging circumstances we manifest each day, is sometimes outside our ability to embody. 

So following on from being present as consistently as I can, I also have stopped resisting life as it is. This effectively means that I have noticed when loving awareness has not been my guide, which is often, and I accept the circumstances without resistance or justification. In doing so, I have noticed that some things have triggered me deeply at a feeling level even where my mental awareness rationalised the events as relatively benign. One incident, for example, was clearly an accident and no one was to blame and I clearly understood this, while simultaneously feeling a tsunami of feeling tension that I could only contain by a myriad of physical interventions. I sat in witness of the struggle between my rational mind and the feelings triggered and could not help but notice the feelings were far more persuasive. My mind was a forty something year old mother, while my feelings were of a six year old pouting child. It is mastering this struggle between our triggers and our response that will be the basis of our moving beyond triggers workshop and I hope some of you reading this will join us.

In the meantime, my next affirmation is:

Take time to meditate

Timely given the intense astrological period we are immersed in.

Until next time

Namaste

Sally