Remembering Your Self

When sometimes what you see with your body's eyes does'nt please you, it can cause you much grief.  In that moment all that you have studied spiritually is forgotten and you start feeling the emotions of depression, self judgement, self criticism and self blame.  And there the fall downwards into the rut starts if we don't curb it in time. 

First of all, these emotions are just feelings.  They are temporary and have no solid ground.  It seems to me the reason we fall in a rut is because the spiritual knowledge we have gained so far is only theory which has not been processed and integrated into our consciousness.  Hence, the 'loss of memory' of who we actually are.  But when we have woven all these teachings into our lives so that we can authentically experience beauty and goodness, the remembrance of our true Identity will be stronger than the forgetfulness of it.

Its nice to have someone very reliable with whom we can share, exchange and discuss our spiritual life. It becomes easier to be brought back on track.  Our mirror reminds us of who we are and immediately a sense of relief floods us. We feel fresh motivation to start afresh.  Again, only feelings. But these feelings have the capability to build up, restore us and raise us up to the extent we allow them to help us.  Eventually, the whole idea is to be able to discern for ourselves automatically, like a habit, when we stray even a bit from our true thinking, that these dark thoughts are just illusions.  They are not the truth of who we are but an imagined one that comes from a place of non-existence or illusion.  There is only God.  One Power. One Presence. The spiritual life is not only about having perfect health, wealth and happiness.  Atleast not in this realm.  The spiritual life is about holding everything with the same  view.  And the view is: there is only One Power and One Presence. That Power and Presence is an unimaginable Source of Love,  and,  that Love is what sustains everything and beholds everything because it is holy.  It is all holy indeed.  This is the difference between resistance and surrender.  The choice defines our experience. 

Yesterday I was listening to an interview by Lilou Mace on Youtube.  Sonia Choquette was her guest and they discussed Sonia’s  recent journey, from death and divorce, to true authentic spiritual awakening.   You can view it here:  http://youtu.be/svnucsVYYu0

What struck me most of all about the whole interview was Sonia's complete honesty and humility in sharing her journey.  She has been teaching for 35 years and yet, here she was, 35 years later actually having a major awakening. However, in this world, spiritual people are judged rather harshly a lot of the times. "Non spiritual" people or, as I would like to say, people who have no interest in going beyond their noses, really expect those that have embarked on this path to become superhuman, and God forbid, if the person so much as experiences loss and pain or other 'negative' situations, then there is a big question mark.  What's more, they make darn sure you see the question mark on their faces and in their tones of questioning and judgment. Its what Sonia experienced and how she was able to move past it all.  It was a perfect reminder to me to never get phased out by the opinions, comments and beliefs of people. My journey is my very own personal one between God and me.  And that is how it should be.

I love Psalm 1. It gives me clear guidance as to how to navigate myself in this world in order to stay aligned with Spirit.

1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

How may I be of service?

~ Lavina ~