Many people do not understand the term vulnerability. They need a symbol to explain it to them. When you are vulnerable, you allow exposure to your Soul. The only thing that can connect to your Soul is another Soul. Ego cannot connect to a Soul. Ego can only connect to ego. We will use the symbolism of a tortoise in its shell to illustrate vulnerability. The tortoise has the protection of its shell. When attacked or under any threat of any sort, the tortoise goes inside its shell which is impenetrable to most of its attackers. When the danger appears to have abated, the tortoise allows its head and feet to come out of the shell and then it may continue on its slow journey. A tortoise shell represents Ego with the protection of its "facade". If the tortoise is turned upside down it is now defenseless and vulnerable. Yes, there are people who are full of Ego, who are child-like, and animalistic, in their immature approach to life no matter how many years they have lived on earth. These people will attack the overturned, vulnerable, tortoise. It is their Ego which empowers them to take advantage of the vulnerability of the tortoise. Perhaps they may even destroy the tortoise in its vulnerable state of being turned upside down. However, when the tortoise is turned upside down it says I trust you to help me by picking me up and turning me the right side up. I am being vulnerable is the symbolism here as the tortoise is saying: I trust you; I trust you at Soul level to honour, respect, trust and love me at Soul level. What happens to the person to whom this vulnerability and trust is being shown? The person to whom the symbolism of the tortoise is shown. The person who says "Thank you for trusting me with your vulnerability. I am honoured that you think that I am worthy, at Soul level, to be trusted with your vulnerability, I respect you in your vulnerability, at Soul level, and I am proud that you respect me enough to trust me with your vulnerability. Thank you for seeing the worthiness inside of me that you can honour me, respect me, trust me and love me to show me your vulnerability. In turn I will honour you, respect you, trust you and love you at Soul level because you have honoured, respected, trusted and loved me." Inherently everyone wants to be loved, respected, honoured, admired and trusted. This is Who They Really Are at Soul level. This vulnerability has now created a loving friend, that loving friend will now stand by you and, more importantly, that loving friend having been exposed to your vulnerability will expose their vulnerability to you. This loving friend will now tell you their innermost secrets because you have allowed them into your sacred space through your vulnerability. They will now feel comfortable to reciprocate their vulnerability to you. They feel comfortable now to honour you, to respect you, to trust you and to love you by explaining their areas of vulnerability to you. From this is formed a very strong bond of friendship, a bond of love. So this vulnerability that you initiated cut through all the defenses - yours and theirs, like a knife through soft butter. All those years of building up defenses to protect you from your vulnerability, from your inner feelings. All those facades, all those secrets and lies, all those feelings of insecurity that you covered up with facades, all of that toughness, that exterior, that armour that you placed around yourself to protect you from exposing what you really feel about yourself, that you did not want to confess to other people, let alone yourself, has been sliced through like a knife through soft butter. You simply became vulnerable. In that vulnerability you trusted someone whose trust proved justifiable. Someone who said "Thank you for honouring me, thank you for respecting me, thank you for trusting me, thank you for loving me. Thank you for providing a bridge between our Souls so the vibration of love could travel along."
Posted on: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 06:13:56 +0000
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