Feeling the feelings of our child within IS the portal out of our suffering, out of being trapped, out of bondage, out of solitary confinement, out of an unrealised life. Feeling our feelings is what will make us again free.
On The Path to recovery, we are liberated beings having a human experience. This is not new information. But we feel like we tend to focus on the self part and ignore the human part. And in doing so, we forget that the whole point of this is not to just make us more liberated, but to make us more human, too.
Our feelings, when felt and inspected, are signposts that show us the stories we tell ourselves about our lives. When we feel our feelings instead of making other people wrong, becoming violent, blaming others or acting out, we take a GIANT step towards becoming both more recovered and more like our child within.
And what does becoming more recovered mean, anyway? To us, being more recovered simply means being more compassionate. The most spiritual people who have walked the Earth – from Jesus to Buddha to Mohammed to Moses – all had compassion as their bottom line. Being spiritual means becoming compassionate. And not just showing Loving kindness to people who are like you, but Loving kindness to ALL living beings, ESPECIALLY those who are not like you, who irritate you and who think differently than you.
The world is a diverse place and when we celebrate this diversity instead of condemning it, we become more recovered – that is to say, more compassionate. And we begin to hate others less when we hate ourselves less for feeling what we feel. The other way to say it is that we become compassionate to others MORE when we begin to become compassionate to ourselves and our feelings more.
Feeling your feelings and not judging ourself or others – this is a place of compassionate mastery. Can we do it? What feelings are we avoiding feeling? And why? What is it that keeps us from making contact with our perfect child within.
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