Meet ourselves with compassion, Love, and kindness
Happy Monday and early, early morning Loves. It’s a little after 3 am where I am, and I have been up for a bit meditating, and since some thoughts are coming through to offer to you, there’s no time like the present to be present and share with you.
Matt Kahn had his retreat this weekend, and I attended virtually this time instead of live in person. I am grateful to him for offering his teachings and resonate with what he is bringing forth. One concept that he discussed that I have also had awareness around and have shared with you is that joy is our natural state. Any time that we are not in this flow of happiness is because it is our old conditioning that we are still perpetuating. No judgement with this of course. Matt languaged it as “There’s no excuse for feeling bad, only reasons for feeling good.” Any time negative emotions arise it is because of our conditioning from karmic patterns, our family of origins, and our life experiences up until this point.
Feel into this. JOY IS YOUR NATURAL STATE. Take this in. Breathe it in. Whenever negative emotions arise and ego wants to protect you, this is contrary to how your soul wants to move. What if you still have some emotional density around that previous relationship that ended whether it ended last month or three years ago. What if it was just time for it to be completed and you learned and experienced what you needed to and nothing was anyone’s fault? What if this ending was just a way for you to move into a beautiful new experience? But if you’re still holding on to blame or shame or disappointment or lack, this is just the old patterns rising until you offer it a new awareness.
Awareness is how we move into higher levels of consciousness. Have you ever had experiences where you have heard something before but it never resonated? And then one day you hear a teaching again and you go “Ahhh, now I get it!” This is why we can never judge ourselves on our path. When you are ready to receive the next level of learning, you will be able to be open to it, it can drop in and resonate with you, and this next level of awareness will help you to shift. When you are struggling with something in your life, this is your marker that it’s most likely an old pattern keeping you stuck and you are not surrendering. The relationship that you know you shouldn’t be in but you stay out of fear because you don’t want to be alone or don’t know what’s on the other side? That is just ego trying to keep you safe from the unknown. So we love that part of ourselves, meet ourselves at the Heart level, and then move into action and leave the relationship. This is conscious action. Otherwise, life will create scenarios for you that will cause the relationship to end as it is for your highest and best to keep moving forward, and this is where we can sometimes feel like victims. But if you had taken the action when the awareness arose, then you would have moved from empowered action. Scary sometimes of course. But this is where trust and surrender come in to living out our highest destinies and into this state of exquisite co-creation, flow and joy.
This is why nothing is ever anyone else’s fault. People and situations and encounters all occur to help you grow and move forward into higher and higher states of consciousness. So the people around you will act like a certain Character, as Matt likes to call them, to play out the role in order for this new level of awareness to arise for you. Then that is your opportunity to meet that new level of awareness within yourself with love, compassion and empathy, move from inspired action no matter the perceived pain you may endure, and your state of joy that is always your true nature can come forth. Notice how I worded this – we meet ourselves with compassion, Love, and kindness. Any other way of speaking to ourselves, or others for that mater, is just conditioning. “There is no excuse for feeling bad, only reasons to feel good.”
This photo is of a sunset when I was in Hawaii, and couldn’t it also be a sunrise? It’s now after 4 am so I may not be thinking clearly, but I love this view of Mother Nature and it brings me joy. So today, let go of any judgement you may have around what is right or wrong, whether it is person, place or thing, and know you are exactly where you need to be. Spirit is up under you, loving you and guiding you, so take it in and be your joy.
We are Love. xo