EMBRACING WHO YOU ARE... The drama of life unfolds from the moment when we merge from our mothers womb. So enthralling is this amazing movie called MY LIFE that we very quickly get pulled away from our original innocence to become an active actor in this drama of life. And before we know, we are a so far away removed from the beauty of our essential nature, namely LOVE, PEACE, JOY, WISDOM and purity of intention to make a difference in life from that energy. Very soon and very far away from the TRUTH of who we really are, it become part of our conditioned nature and we search for security. And so we cling to MY body, MY intellect, MY happiness, MY success, MY wealth, or even to MY failure, MY weakness, MY unhappiness, MY mistakes and MY faults. Making something MINE gives us a sense of being somebody and having an identity as it seems much better to create a new definition of yourself if you have forgotten WHO YOU ARE in your true essence. Dear friends, in identifying with the world of inner and outer definitions, we allow ourselves to be defined by what we have, by what we do, by what we think and feel. In other words, we lose ourselves in the world of form and body consciousness and lose our connection with the soul and soul consciousness. The Journey of AWAKENING requires us to ask ourselves: WHO AM I? This one question has the power to propel us through the gateway of SELF and into the abyss of BEing where our Creator is waiting to catch us. In this realization and action, we come home to the FREEDOM of our true nature. This journey of AWAKENING means you need to make friends with yourself. We all have parts of the shadow and light within us. Part of the up journey of AWAKENING is to acknowledge your shadows and to FACE them and in the process to move closer to the LIGHT to become vessels of CHANGE in the world we live in. Each time you inquire WHO YOU are, you reveal another layer of yourself and have the opportunity to befriend these parts. The journey of awakening asks that you dive DEEP INSIDE into unchartered territory and embrace your totality, BOTH the light and the shadow parts of you. It means SEEING through the false layers of protection and security and baring your HEART to the world and to the Creator and showing, This is WHO I AM. It means making yourself vulnerable. It means accepting acknowledging each part of yourself. It means knowing you are more than these parts as behind the mask of personality, roles and responsibilities, you are the purity of perfect WHOLENESS. As children we live to express ourselves spontaneously. Then life happens and family, friends, school and society all have their own code of conduct. Then the phrases BE GOOD, BEHAVE, BE CALM and DONT MAKE A FOOL OF YOURSELF become part of the code of conduct of society we live in. Any display of anger or sadness is promptly squashed and crying is seen as a sign of weakness, and so we grew up unable to express our emotions authentically. Our dependency on our family units for physical well-being and for human love drive us to maintain this bond of ACCEPTANCE at all costs. And when we do not behave, are not good or are making a fool of ourselves, society labels the person as bad and feelings of unworthiness, shame and guilt awaken in us. The human mind then splits these unwanted parts and send them into the shadowlands where we cannot see them, and over time we forget that they were ever a part of us. In other words, we sacrifice our AUTHENTIC self for acceptance and conditional love. We forget the meaning of unconditional love we all we experience is conditions wherever we go. Banishing these parts of us does not mean they have gone away; those unwanted parts just go underground and develop a secret life of their own, however, it still needs to breathe to stay alive and to do so, it will surface every now and then to breathe in order to stay alive. Dear friends, one cannot kill a natural energy but it can destroy you if you ignore it. In having the COURAGE to make friends with your own shadow, they are restored to their true nature. They STOP being ugly gremlins waiting to pounce on you and to take away your LIGHT. Instead they become natural energies that informs you how you feel so that you can make appropriate choice to protect yourself in situations of Dante. Ultimately, it is a choice between LOVE and FEAR. By choosing LOVE over fear - even if it is scary and uncomfortable - your TRANSFORM your shadows into LIGHT and they become your allies with the clear boundary that that your shadow has a role in your life to protect you but the LIGHT is there to always lead. Embracing yourself just as you are means you can EMBRACE the world just AS IT IS. A peaceful world can arise when we are at PEACE with ourselves....with love, Christa Bonnet
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 15:59:24 +0000
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