
Today I’ve been looking through my old creative writing files and I have been quite astonished at some of my material that I had recorded through-out my path of transformation which has moved me to continue healing psychologically in addition to inviting me to explore the world of spirit.
I have tended to be harsh and judging of my past innocence and my youth, full of ego, fear and arrogant will. Yet I am learning to be softer as I nurture myself and understand that I can not expect my past self to have the awareness that the self I am in the now has. Loving who we were in addition to who we are in the moment is important I am learning. Often we can hold feelings of embarrassment, foolishness, and anger at things we did or ideas we held in the past but these very moments were the material which offered us the crucial seeds to work with and go on to grow in ever-increasing ways.
In light of my continuing desire to love not just who I am in the unfolding moment, but who I was in innocence, brimming with will and well-meaning eagerness, I am sharing this un-edited entry below, which I wrote toward the beginning of my significant entry into the path of healing and seeking. As we love all aspects of ourselves we create greater love for ourselves in the Now.
Written early 2007
Spiritual Journeys
“If I was to say hello to you today, I would probably say it in a most apprehensive enclosed fashion, whilst shuffling my feet and swinging my body side to side with my head lolled forward so that my chin was resting on my chest. Like the wounded child within I would sulkily shrug my emotionless actions, forcing my adult self to unwillingly express herself in a resistant and forlorn greeting! Although of course this is the ideal, what I would do in reality would represent more of a bold jump into your space, with a gleaming smile, offering a big love filled “HI”!
I’ve had enough of putting on a brave face, thinking of the positives, doing the right thing, understanding the meaning behind it all, turning the situation round, taking the spiritual route, looking at the bigger picture, staying on the path and I want to say NO to the whole crappy lot.
Why can’t I hide from the truth? Settle into the illusions? Let my fear drive me? Live a facade? Have some earthly fun? Be a selfish? Ignore my intuition? Want material success? Opt for just what I can see not what my deepest unconscious suggests? Desire desire for desires sake? Be part of the tribal group again? Choose to fit in and be part of the bullshit?
I can’t because I can’t un-see it! I can’t deny the truth, I can’t re-invent oblivion, and I can’t ignore wrong choices or go against my soul. My spirit won’t let me get half way and give up; my higher self won’t allow the self harm of living a life of lie after lie. I would go more insane should I drop the battle mid fight then to struggle to the end through torturous awakenings.
In one of the salvation posing books I read, someone once said….”better not begin, once begun, better finish!” I couldn’t have summed it up better myself!
I have come to learn the spiritual path is not for the faint-hearted. Not indeed if you are fully committed. So we read bestsellers such as the Celestine Prophecy that allow us to focus lightly on the spiritual undertones behind the fiction and we dabble into writers such as Doreen Virtue for help about knowing our angels but where does it discuss the pain? Where does the warning label appear? It should read “Once you have begun you can’t turn back!” or “There are no half measures to God”. In truth, I guess we wouldn’t venture outside our box reality if this was the case. That is why we get there by a helping prod from a friend that seems to make too much sense to be crazy or a mystical happening that couldn’t be put down to coincidence. However we enter the path one thing is for sure it will lead to wonder, magic, ecstasy, sense, and completion. However what of the journey?
Well I arrived in pain! I would say I have been travelling the spiritual path for around two years now. Before then my eyes where open yet not seeing. I was walking around aimlessly not knowing any other way or reason for being. Filling my life with the unimportant, the trivial, illusionary matters that we all place so much importance on. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that the relationship you have, the job you do, money you earn or the house you own is unimportant. They are of great importance, but much like a teacher to a school, they are our way of learning, a place to live out all our lessons. If we give these tools too much power they control our health and our spirits. It is the greater power inside us that holds the key to our purpose, that answers those deep and searching questions you find hard to answer and in most cases dismiss.
By learning about who we are inside and strengthening our inner self we would have more happiness than the world’s richest person. To do this we need not travel the world or create a high-flying career, we could do all of this yet not understand why we keep meeting those awful men or why we can never hold onto our money long enough. We need to travel only our mind, our soul. In the comfort of your arm-chair you could find yourself just as easily as backpacking for years around Asia.
You just need to be prepared to go into the place you are most used to ignoring, the place where you hear that tiny voice trying to speak up above the bellow of the responsibilities, the holler of the unrealistic, the trill of the fear and listen for once. Clear your mind of the daily turmoil’s like what to make for dinner, what to feed the children, who to call and listen instead. Something will be guiding you but you’ve just become so used to covering your ears because you don’t necessarily want to do what it’s suggesting or you find it impossible to consider. Well I have one word of advice. If you don’t respond it will happen anyway, sooner or later.
You have no control, I have no control, and we just like to think we do! Once we let go of that realisation and prepare to be guided life can be simpler, not easier, and not more comfortable but you may find peace that you have always been searching for. I want to tell you though, because as a rule people don’t, of the pain. There is likely to be much fear and perhaps a sense of madness but what would you rather? A reality that is false and sustained by the afraid or a world where you felt highs like you didn’t know existed. You can experience the puzzle gradually piecing together quietly in front of your eyes, silently in an unspoken language you could make sense of that which you knew not where to start before, or you could continue to live in a place where oblivion will always be a stab in your side, the laughing face behind your problems. Lift the veil, look into yourself and don’t blame others, forgive all people and judge a lot less. When something goes unexpectedly or you find yourself in pain, ask why? What are you being shown? Reach out and ask for help. You will always be answered but you need to look in the right way to see it!”
Can we love our wounded inner child, our angry adolescent teenager, our fresh-faced and naive spiritual seeker, the times of being the zealot and the know-it-all and the times of being broken, bewildered and unaware? Loving all fragments of us and where we have been brings peace to us as we love our entire journey.