Greetings, Spiritual Seeker!
This week, I invite you to explore the concept of having space for yourself.
What does that mean exactly and why is it important?
Having and owning your own space means giving yourself permission to be. Permission to have all of the parts of you. Permission to own your intuitions, your gut feelings, your inner knowing.
I just recently watched the Pixar movie Inside Out, a very touching look at the inner emotional workings of a young girl. There are both positive and negative emotions and states depicted in the movie. As we are wont to do from time to time, the positive emotion is given the lead and generally tries to contain and control the other states, especially the classically negative ones.
I noticed while watching the movie that as the negative emotions were repressed, contained, hidden, or pushed aside, the girl’s interior landscape started to fall apart. Core parts started to crumble due to the imbalance created by only allowing one part to rule.
We all want the good things in life – and at the most basic level, that means being happy. So it’s pretty natural to not want to be present to our other emotions and states. But here’s the deal – and it’s a pretty cool cosmic paradox – when we stop fighting and resisting anything other than happiness, a really wonderful thing happens.
When we are present and allow our energies to flow, we become an integrated, whole person, with access to all the information that each of these emotions provides. Emotions, after all, are a reaction. They are not the source of whatever issue is going on – so fighting them doesn’t solve anything. But if we can sit with them and allow them to be, we get space from them. We become neutral – and our answers start to come.
If we are constantly fighting ourselves, it’s very hard to get to that place of calm, peaceful awareness where we can hear our truth. And also in another paradox – we are usually fighting those emotions so that we don’t get overwhelmed or stuck in them. But by fighting whatever is going on within us, we create what we were fighting to begin with – being stuck.
So – allow yourself permission to have everything within yourself, and watch the magic of an integrated personality start to emerge! From that point, you are able to choose neutrally what is in your best interest, rather than being a victim to the endless reactions that we usually throw up.
So what’s next?
Join me on a Periscope meditation (Sundays at 7pm mountain) and practice getting to know yourself. It will change your universe!
Peace and all love,
Kelly
