Being Apprised of Your Deficits
I have been having coffee with Thedy and discussing the work of Caroline Myss. Thedy was lucky enough to obtain an apprenticeship with Caroline and his energized talk of it has catalyzed movement at home as we’ve packed videos for our impending house sale. I pulled out Caroline’s Energetics of Healing videos and have been watching them. Very enlightening. This is something I suggest you watch at one year intervals to see how much further up the chakra chain you’ve come. They scare some people. I have friends who absolutely won’t watch them - Caroline definitely nails you to the wall and kicks your butt to Boise and back. But she speaks a Truth and that is very attractive. After listening to her wax lyric about the upper three chakras, I began thinking about why those friends of mine won’t view these videos with me who will view everything from comedy to horror on other days of the week. Why was I initially unable to finish watching when I first got the videos. Because she was kicking my butt hard and having other things to worry about at the time, I didn’t want the extra reminders of my deficits. But it was exactly the thing I needed which is why I returned, at several year intervals to this set of teachings and have been pleased to see that I am actually progressing in life.
Being made aware of one’s deficits is an attack on the very existence of that organizing force which drives most us - the ego. When we choose to rage and suffer from the gift of increased awareness of our deficits, we are really choosing to live small. Everything in life sometimes, conspires to remind us of how we aren’t perfect and how much we have to improve. If we let this information crush us and make us resentful, we are narrowing our ability to grow and change into the awesome person you really want to be. If we do not put parameters on how much change and improvement we can take, we will continue to grow and such reminders of imperfection will not be a bother to us - they will merely be a thing to be grateful for like the pop-up alarms in our calendering software. When you get one of these coming into your sphere, in the form of a friend, fellow worker or family member “kicking your butt” about something you know deep down in your heart of hearts is something you need to improve on, consider it an opportunity to add another few feathers to your wings.
If you keep doing this, you will feel lighter and lighter as you make the changes that free who you really are. And one day, you will remember what it is like to fly. And then, you will…
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