There’s a profound truth woven into the tapestry of our emotional landscape: the willingness to feel everything, ultimately leads us back to experiencing the inherent wholeness that resides within our soul. This journey of self-discovery, however, often begins in the most unexpected of places – our wounds.
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” – Rumi
This is where the work always starts…dealing with our wounds. Bringing healing to the scared and wounded parts of ourselves, helps us understand how even our “worst” parts have always been fighting like hell to try and keep us alive. During this journey Rumi’s words can almost be felt physically, how those wounds become a place where the light enters.
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” – Rumi
If operating from our soul is so clearly a “better” way of being, what is it that keeps us from simply being in that soul connected space all the time? The answer is just the same as with the first quote… the scared parts inside of us. Whenever any scared part of us becomes activated, its voice inside of us grows incredibly loud, just the same as with anything that experiences fear. Our scared parts will always draw our attention away from our soul, until we heal their fears, and lower the volume.
“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.” – Rumi
“Be full of sorrow, that you may become a hill of joy; weep, so that you may break into laughter.” – Rumi
Have you overcome your fear of feeling yet? It’s a coping mechanism many of us have learned from an early age, to close our hearts to the feelings that scare us. Mostly from witnessing or experiencing trauma in our young environments it became clear that certain things were not safe to feel, so we closed up, but also became stuck.
You can learn to feel again. Everything you feel is a messenger that you can learn to interpret, and discover the freedom that lies on the other side of your willingness to be with it.
It is when you have overcome the fear of feeling that you experience how your willingness to feel EVERYTHING always leads you back to “feeling” the joy and the wholeness that IS your soul.
Consider these guiding mantras for feeling your way into wholeness:
- I allow myself to feel all emotions without judgment.
- My emotions are messengers; I will listen to their wisdom.
- Through the darkness of my wounds, light can enter.
- By embracing my wholeness, I connect with the joy of my soul.
True growth lies not in suppressing our emotions, but in embracing them as doorways to a more authentic and fulfilling life.
Today’s meditation is a very simple practice in allowing whatever the current experience is, to be fully felt.
Have yourself the BEST Saturday!
– pierre –
Today’s LIVE meditation is: Come to your senses.