We are not any of the thoughts we might have about ourselves. They are just ideas that we form an image and identity around and that we attach to for a time.
We are the quiet space in which a thought can come into. We are there before any thought comes. We are there after an idea changes or has gone.
No thought is original to your essential being.
Feel your own presence. You are there whether you are thinking or not. This is learning to know the truth of who/what you are.
I always come back to my heart,
whether I realise or not.
Nothing can ever separate me,
from my being,
from my being.
Everybody needs to listen inwardly to what resonates for them on the spiritual path.
The heart of all good teachings from all religions have wonderful gifts. And yet true spirituality is a path of discernment, not blind following. It’s a path of listening, not rigid thinking. It’s a path of love, not fear driven behaviour.
After a relaxing experience have you heard anyone say..
‘Oh well, back to reality now’, as though being relaxed was a holiday from real life.
Actually in truth, when we realise who and what we truely are, reality is then where we will naturally come to rest.
If you want effortless peace, how could it be other than a natural, un-contrived experience of being?
We might experience highs or lows or altered states of consciousness, through different experiences, drugs or meditation, but at the end of the day, here we are again. Just here. Just ourselves in reality.
Ultimately speaking, in personal growth, once we have met our basic needs for safety, shelter and connection, there is no ‘better’ reality to find, other than deepening into our awareness of who we are already, naturally, no matter what is happening.
Learning to rest in being, synonymous with reality.
Do what you need to do to find clarity within.
This might mean doing less. This might mean taking action.
Take the next step with what you are needing to help yourself.
Set a clear, open intention.
When you allow your energy to become clear this is also what helps other people the most.
It’s important to have aspirations and goals, but perhaps even more important to be where you are first.
Healing doesn’t mean we don’t ever feel stress, anger or anxiety. It is more that we know we are safe enough to regain ourselves and come back to more ease in our body.
When relaxation and presence happens in the body, we know it is real, connected, true.
We come home.
Sometimes we do some earnest self growth work on ourselves around an issue, and can come to a place where we think we’ve dealt with it; done and dusted.
Only then to have it resurface or become triggered at a later date.
It can be very hard not to go into a horrid hole around it in our thinking, as it is so much harder to accept that it’s still in us, when we’d felt we had sorted it.
It’s useful to recognise that there are layers to our processes.
The work you have done, was a definite and necessary layer; valid, valuable and still there.
It is more that if something re-presents, it is that we are perhaps ready for the next layer.
Becoming deeper and deeper connected with our own core truth, heart and a more complete healing.
You are definitely making progress. Even if it’s hard to see at times.
Nothing is wasted.
I know that I don’t know
There’s nothing that I can see
In truth ahead of me
And all true knowing can only be
Available and ready, ready
In this moment, in this moment, in this moment, in this.
In this moment, in this moment, in this moment.
And I pray that my heart remains,
Listening listening listening.
Listening.
Drop in, drop in, drop in, drop in.
Healing is a gradual seeing, identifying, clearing and falling away of all falsehood that might shroud the truth of who you are. That might keep you small and rob you of your clarity, kindness, inner authority and power.
It takes commitment and trust and practice and self compassion.
And it takes someone to help us at times. We all need guidance, support and to be seen and heard.
RATNA DYER 