What’s The Point?

It’s a valid question. What is the point to this work? I have the belief that we are only here to do one thing, use our personal light to expand the greater light in the world. This sounds all well and good, but how does that actually work, right?

It starts with the simplicity of being who we are. We are all at varying degrees of discovering, understanding, and embracing the self. We have all been born into a life of disconnection, with self, others, God, the Universe. In myriad ways we have been working to reestablish these vital connections. Ultimately, it is all relationship. Your relationship to yourself, others, life, God. It starts, however, with the self.

Who am I? It is the question that we’ve all been on the path to uncover. For many people, decades later, they are still wrestling with this very inquiry, and that’s OK. When we stop learning, we stop growing. Although we participate in all those previously mentioned relationships simultaneously, everything begins and ends with the self. For that reason, it is the starting place of comprehension. How do I work? What are my tools, talents, gifts? What are my challenges? Who is my family? What is my purpose? These are questions that we all ponder. It is easy to look at a person on TV and think, “Boy he or she has it all together”, but many times we are witnessing a facade, and illusion. We compare our life and feel less than. We forget that where personal struggle is concerned, none of us have been spared.

We desire respect, compassion, and recognition for our self-worth, while not always bestowing it on those around us. We long for love but we are not free to honestly express it to the very people we have the most purpose with.

So it is time to really connect, to shed the insecurities of the past and claim the beauty and power that is our divinity, our reality. The fears of yesterday that kept our light hidden are an illusion. They have power only if and when we chose for them to. As Richard Bach wrote, “Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they’re yours”.

If you rely on all your beliefs to fit into your mental paradigm, you’re limiting yourself. The mind is a critical part of us, but, as Sting so deftly put it, “Let your Soul be your Pilot”. We will connect to so much more by accepting without having to mentally account for all that data. It is akin to jamming a large object in a small box, so, forget the box. This implies that we learn to trust in a deeper way. When we are confronted with energy, in whatever form, it is for us to determine how we resonate (or don’t) with it. If we hear something that is outside of our paradigm, we have no context for it, so how can we measure it against our empirical knowledge to determine its’ validity.

By trusting ourselves, we allow our intuition, kinesthetic ability, third eye, and all our power centers, to work in harmony. These parts of self, allow a much more powerful assessment of life than what just the mind can fathom. They are like muscles that need to be exercised to be strong and effective. In doing so, we will make mistakes as the ego learns how to step aside. The end result, however, is a much more thorough you.

A beautiful byproduct of this, is that our personal relationships will strengthen as a result. This starts with our relationship with self. So much of our personal confusion is a matter of ascribing to ways of thinking, feeling, and acting, that aren’t in alignment with our highest beliefs, not truly derived from who we are. These schisms generate some of our most fundamental disconnections, therefore veiling us from our truth. When we begin re-forging these alignments, we exude clarity, honesty, and ease. We act from our highest self.

These attributes are obviously felt by those in our environment. In feeling your energy, they are more relaxed and free to express. The lack of self judgement you’ve cultivated, allows others to feel open and safe in your presence. This last point should not be overlooked. Whatever we accept and utilize about ourselves, will set the stage for how another interacts with us. People are people, they are where they are. But a person will feel, think and act very differently if they enter a room with loud dissonant music versus, say, Mozart. When we are in our flow, we are a symphony. All of self is coordinated into a clear and beautiful expression of where we are right now.

The work I am to share includes a fundamental blueprint for reconnecting with self and life. It embraces an expanded understanding of who we are, how we work, and what our purpose is as individuals, and as a people.