The commitment we make to comforting what we know and who we are builds walls. When we accept what we know and who we are while allowing for new experiences to flow into our lives, we then open ourselves up to learning and understanding.
S2E6 : How About Avoidance?
If you are avoiding anything, you are limiting the authentic expression of your truth.
It's Always New
The new year brings a level of awareness for those of you who were not so aware during the previous year. You share resolutions. You pledge changes. You proclaim a rebirth is at hand.
That newness is available in every moment you get to experience. Every moment is brand new. No moment has ever been before.
This means, you experience a new year in every moment!
What are you going to do with this moment?
Fear Is Not A Validation
People hear what you say. People see what you do. But people do not experience your life experiences as you do.
Furthermore, we often dial down or even hide our truth. The deep, core experience dancing in our souls and warming our hearts. For as real as it feels to us, we still try to make sense of it. We question it and doubt it. There are so many reasons why we do this and it all points back to fear.
How much do you reveal in your moment to moment?
We tell people what we think they will accept. We show people what we think they will accept. We surrender to fear. We tell ourselves we have difficult choices to make, but what that really mean is we have tradeoffs to make. The tradeoff is our authenticity for someone else's acceptance. Why? Because we allow fear to be a validation for how we choose to live.
Fear is NOT a validation.
words on image: Michael Barata / image: Jez Timms
Empty Yourself
What are you holding onto?
When you empty yourself of grudges, hidden pain, unsaid words, and suppressed fears, something happens. You free yourself of emotional weight.
This requires you to be stripped down, incredibly vulnerable, and completely truthful with yourself and others. Why with others? Well, we often lose sight of who we are because we hide ourselves from others.
To be seen is to empty ourselves of all conditioning, of all “should be’s”, of all fears, of all self-doubt, of all reservations about what others may think or say or do. Relationship with ourselves is the starting point, but we need to overcome hiding that precious relationship when engaging in relationships with others.
Emptying yourself creates space for truth, healing, love, and nurturing healthy, authentic relationships.
words on image: Michael Barata / image: Beata Ratusniak
Truth Is In The Present
The traditions of living can create a false sense of what is, for you. When you adopt a tradition, you walk a path already walked. Of course, there is joy to be experienced through tradition. But it’s a feeling of familiarity, of comfort, of security. The joy is not discovered or created.
Truth is ever available in each moment. When you let go of the past and unlearn your conditioning, truth is revealed. Your truth is rather than was. Lack of awareness welcomes tradition. Mindfulness is a relationship with truth.
words on image: Michael Barata / image: Samuel Silitoga