If youre an artist you know that the first place to go for inspiration is within yourself. If youre a yogi, you know that the first place to go for ignition of spiritual growth is through yourself. As a human being, we all have a darkness as well as a wellspring of light. The first thing to do accept your darkness, the next part of the equation is to figure out ways in which to explore that darkness and trasmute it into light. Here are some helpful ways on how to use the dark places we all have within ourselves to our advantage and evolution of growth. 1. Marianne Williamson says, “Until we have seen someones darkness, we dont really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someones darkness, we dont really know what love is.” Get into your darkness and acknowledge that it’s there. Without the polarity of dark and light, well, we wouldn’t be here. Acceptance and forgiveness is essentially the same thing. Once we learn how to accept ourselves -- every little piece, every little bit with love and without judgment or criticism, that’s when the shift begins to occur. Greet all darkness through radical acceptance and unconditional love. Watch it move towards the light. 2. Creativity is the essence to all life. At every moment, we are creating. What life is, is what we make of it. Our life’s manifestations are our own doing. The question is, how are we manifesting it? Consciously or unconsciously? Carl Jung says “In spite of its function as a reservoir for human darkness or perhaps because of this, the shadow is the seat of creativity.” Get into your darkness and make some great art, make some great life. All of my most prized pieces of work have risen from great moments of necessity. 3. Being on a treasure hunt is fun and exciting! Exploring your own inner domain of weakness and strengths will provide you with the understanding to see yourself as well as others, more clearly. The more you get to know yourself and engage in the game of hide and seek, the more you find, the more you can show up in the world as a well versed and experienced individual. Life becomes more flavorful with different textures and a certain type of richness. Isn’t that what we want anyway? A better relationship with ourselves to then have meaningful relationships with others? 4. You have to meet yourself in love. This is a prerequisite. Going into the darkness without light will just leave you there in the dark. Going into the darkness with light will make the light even brighter. Meeting yourself in a place of love means giving yourself a break and not being such a hard judge. Loving yourself means cutting yourself some slack in the realms of expectations of where you want to be versus where you are now. Loving yourself means being content and accepting where you are with the inner eye placed on where you want to go. Yes, walk towards something, but always remember to give yourself some credit. You are walking.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 05:49:06 +0000
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