Saturday, April 9, 2016

For the Love of Self


How often have you visited a doctor or healer to fix a problem? It's a normal brand of thinking to say 'fix my sore spot so that I feel better'. Yet it doesn't address the creator of the sore spot - you. It's like replacing a broken glass window with a piece of plastic - soon enough the flimsy plastic solution will fail and we are left with the same gaping window space that caused us to seek help in the first place.

All maladies arise from some form of discontent, nonacceptance or lack of self-love. So when you have a 'sore spot' it is fundamental to deal with the underlying lack of self-love that cause it. Until you can find acceptance of all that you are, you will keep creating and recreating sore and broken aspects of your life.

We have been taught to love the 'good parts' of ourselves and life, and protect against the 'bad parts'. This means we continually disassociate from all that we are. The way to unity of self and of the whole is through embracing all, as it is.

I love that you are. I love that I am. No matter what. 

When certain aspects are unacceptable to this universal embrace it is impossible to unite within as a fully functioning human or as part of a fully functioning universal Whole. It becomes a 'less than universal embrace', with rejected flotsam hovering around chasing us, yearning to be held in unconditional love. This is what we do to ourselves when we try to Bandaid our sore spots - we create flotsam.

Instead of going into a healing session and asking for help to fix a sore spot, ask instead for help in accepting all that you are, of unequivocally embracing the very self-rejection that causes the malady. This is opening to grace. This is where all freedom and healing lies.