What we truly are is untouchable, unchangeable, all expansive, all-encompassing and powerful, everything
and no-thing. It is our purpose to realise what that is, and experience it. It is a place where you, me, we and I
cease to exist as an individual.
So, from this perspective you can see that what we truly are is never lost or wounded, and we are always what we were intended to be, it’s just that we have overtime become unconscious of that fact.
For generations most of humanity has forgotten, fallen asleep and forsaken their connection with this aspect
of themselves. We feel disconnected and therefore we strive externally to find what it is we feel is missing. We
strive to be something or someone special, we seek fulfilment from wealth and possessions.
Greed can drive us, as can an assortment of addictions. We can disregard others in that pursuit, we do not hesitate to hurt or disrespect another to meet our desires of un-fulfillment when they arise.
We can have layers of unresolved issues related to what we personally experience, and what those who have been before us have experienced and not resolved. Which if identified with will enable the sense of a separate wounded self, who is unconscious of the truth.
This phenomenon occurs because we have forgotten who we and others are, and we do not treat others with the awareness that we are all one and the same, no matter our age, gender or nationality.
Those layers are like a prison, they limit our being, we are not the perceived wounds, or the experiences that we have identified with, nor are we the emotions that have not been expressed or resolved. We are not the patterns and the conditioning that create false beliefs from what we have encountered throughout our life.These aspects are only the illusions that veil us, they are not who we are, they are only that which separates us from the truth.
I suggest that we live our life with the true awareness of who we are, even if we appear to be layered by the past and with that awareness in mind we can work through those layers to free ourselves from them, so we no longer feel restricted and limited, it’s all baggage that we do not need to carry.
Recognising the attachment to the layers is the first action that allows them to be removed. Recognising what we react to, can expose the baggage. Triggers will always create an immediate reaction within us, they are usually instigated by other people or situations, the triggers need to be acknowledged to be transformed.
We need to ask ourselves why am I reacting the way I am? What is it that someone else or a situation is evoking in me? We sometimes find we are stuck at an age where we had a situation happen that we did not know how to handle at the time it occurred. Revisiting these periods in the moment they are triggered will allow us to deal with what happened as a conscious adult, which will free and heal the child within us.
We may not get all answers immediately, we may need to take time to reflect and let the answers arise, some situations are multi layered. Most people will act as a mirror so that what we see or believe about them that triggers us is the reflection of what we need to acknowledge we are limited by within ourselves? Once we pin point what it is, we can ask ourselves what belief, pattern or condition do I unconsciously have that relates to my reaction and what I perceive? Where does this stem from? where in my life have I felt like this before? look for the pattern to expose it.
Once we pinpoint it, just be with it and allow it to pass through us, (like liquid passes through a straw) without identifying with it and making it personal. This is how we can respond to a situation with awareness, rather than reacting to someone else’s behaviour or situations we are faced with in life.
This process slowly peels back the layers of our psyche, all that has been identified with, it’s better to do it gradually than have it all ripped away at once because the mind would not cope. It can be a painful process, because it strips everything away that has given us an identity. Although it is far more painful to continue life and remain unconscious of who we truly are.
Kerry Kirwan.