Lately it seems like everything I read
has been about revealing and healing our shadows. Globally we've
been watching the revealing on the news. Then there are the energies
of the eclipse, the 5 planetary line up, etc. all being touted as a
movement for personal and planetary revealers of shadows so the Truth
can shine forth.
Regardless who's telling us to do this,
the idea is a good one. Many of us have secrets hidden away in the
back rooms of our minds. Those secrets are taking up space that
could be filled with Light! Those secrets are keeping us thinking
we're not enough, that we're separate from the Truth of our being -
which is Divine.
For years I've taught and talked about
forgiveness. I have forgiven so many people ... lately I realized
that since I am the creator of my reality, the only one I really had
to forgive was myself. So I took a lot of deep breaths and did a
seven day self-forgiveness process. The first couple of days were
hard. I kept remembering things I hadn't thought about in years. I
was definitely cleaning those back rooms of my mind, and I was
getting depressed at the amount of work I had to do! I felt like
slamming the doors and abandoning the process.
However, I knew it would be beneficial.
Regardless of whether the doors were slammed shut or not, the stuff
was still there - and actively running in my memory banks, which
meant they popped out as behaviors and feelings I didn't necessarily
like. I recommitted to the self-forgiveness process. I didn't want
to quit. I prayed to make it easier.
I love the way the Universe shows up
for me! I read my astrological sign in a newsletter from Rob
Brezney:
"Don't pretend you can't see
the darkness. Admit to its presence. Accept its reality. And then,
dear Cancerian, walk nonchalantly away from it, refusing to fight it
or be afraid of it. In other words, face up to the difficulty without
becoming all tangled up in it. Gaze into the abyss so as to educate
yourself about its nature, but don't get stuck there or become
entranced by its supposedly hypnotic power. I think you'll be amazed
at how much safety and security you can generate for yourself simply
by being an objective, poised observer free of melodramatic
reactions."
I LIKE this -- I don't have to do
anything about the shadow -- I don't have to dwell in the yucky
feelings the memories bring up. Just acknowledge them and walk
away!! Dr. Holmes, author of the Science of Mind and founder of what
is now called Centers for Spiritual Living, basically said the same
thing: Acknowledge what you've created and change your mind.
The rest of my process was much easier.
I realized I'm not the same person who stored away that stuff in the
back rooms. The rooms are now cleaned, the windows are washed and
they are filled with Light. I FEEL lighter - and this is a good
thing!
SPIRITUAL MIND TREATMENT
There is one Life - God's. There is
one mind - God's. There is one heart - God's. Since God is
absolutely all there is, this one Life is my life. This one mind is
the mind I am using, and this one heart is where I live.
How grateful I am to know this as I
allow myself to release the shadows I had buried deep within me. As
I acknowledge them, I realize I am no longer affected by them in any
way. I let them go. I am free - the Truth has set me free! I have
forgiven myself - giving my Higher Self more room to live in, through
and as me.
I am standing in Divine Light, letting
it fill me up and spill out into my world. I celebrate my conscious
awareness of my Divinity. God and I are one.
I release these words, knowing they are
so and so it is.
