How many of us spend our lives searching for peace and trying to
find our own little piece of happiness? We look for healing, release and
resolution to pain, trauma and other facets of our life experiences as we seek
out wholeness and completion within; we focus on eradicating the pain as though
it is a layer of darkness within that obscures the light and keeps us from
living, breathing and being Truth.
Such a path feels right on so many levels, after all, we are
awakening and evolving with each passing moment; we are not the same as we were
this morning, let alone last week or last year. Yet, at the same time, it is
hard not to feel a sense of discomfort with the seemingly constant need to fix,
heal and repair ourselves and our souls as it keeps us focused on eradicating
the pain and misery rather than lifting up our heads to the sun and embracing
the joy instead. Of course, this is not to say that we should try to deny or
ignore the pain, but when we focus on this as a pathway to 'completion' we run
the risk of becoming lost in the emptiness because we have forgotten to leave a
door open for joy.
It is only natural for us to rationalise that once we have
eradicated all of the pain, the struggle, the trauma and the misery from our
lives, all will be well. After all, these can hang over us, sapping our energy
and diminishing the light within. We theorise that once we have stepped beyond
the pain then the floodgates of happiness and joy will burst open, filling our
hearts and souls with love and a joie de vivre so powerful that all is bright
and shiny once again. Yet, we quickly realise that the feelings of incompletion
remain as we have not, as yet, fully eradicated the darkness; so we never fully
connect to the ‘joy consciousness’ but tend to feel a deeper sense of emptiness
instead.
It seems that until we honour and celebrate ourselves for all
that we are, rather than for all that we are not, we can never find that
Utopian wonderland within. Until we realise that we are not incomplete until we
heal but are complete already, we can never truly be free of linear time or
conditional living and being. It is human nature to want to be fixed, but there
are aspects of life that we can never fix or eradicate, and why would we want
to as cumulatively they make us the vibrant and wondrous souls we are today?
Healing is not about fixing our faults; it is about loving
ourselves despite them. Healing is about living consciously and living
vibrantly. Each of us has different challenges and struggles, but these add to
the richness of the tapestry of life; without them, life somehow feels emptier
and less rich. Of course, there are those experiences that we can never
understand; we can spend our lives trying to make sense of what happened and
why, never truly moving beyond the experience and letting go. As a result, we
remain victims, stuck in linear time, feeling the weight of the pain or
confusion that has enveloped and consumed us for so long. This is not to say
that we should try to forget the past, but rather we need to find a way to no
longer allow it to define our present or, indeed, our future. Although we
cannot undo what went before, we can learn from it, evolve and reabsorb it into
our consciousness in order to become free and to live vibrantly as is our
birthright.
We often spend so long trying to resolve the past in order to
live fully in the present that we forget about the present completely. This
conditionality keeps us locked chasing perfection, completeness and healing
rather than realising that we are already perfect, whole and complete; this is
a state of being that is both achievable and realistic to embrace.
It seems important now to shift the focus and the vibration of
our lives in order to embrace a more enlightened way of living and being. Life
is not about striving for perfection, it about living joyfully and vibrantly.
This is a choice of course, and so many still seek out perfection, success and
material abundance as the true measures of a happy life, but there comes a
point when we step beyond this to open up our hearts and souls towards
something simpler, but richer, at the same time.
We can continue to chase healing and completion, and of course
healing itself is a wonderful and powerful gift to the world, but when the
shift of healing changes away from being fixed to being awake, aligned and in balance,
everything changes as we let go of conditional living to instead embrace a life
of conscious awareness, making each and every moment precious, valuable and
significant.
As with many things in life, this is a choice: we can choose to
stay as we are, waiting for the floodgates of joy and love to burst open once
we are 'fixed', or we can open them consciously now and dance freely in the
outpouring of love and joy that follows. We are vibrant, magnificent and
incredible beings and we have the universe within each of our millions upon
millions of cells; we are integral parts of the universal whole. Knowing this,
why limit ourselves? Why hold back, waiting for the moment when everything fits
together before we live our lives? Surely being the miracles that we all are,
we owe it to ourselves, one another and the universe to shine?