18/11/2020
Why ‘love, light and gratitude’ is NOT the way to enlightenment.
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It sounds lovely doesn’t it - love and light, all the brightness and goodness of life and the absence of struggle or suffering.
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It can be tempting to believe the fairytale, that life will (and should) be like this ALL THE TIME if we sign up to a certain way of thinking.
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Yes, I recognise the power in the practice of gratitude. Mindset too - of course, there are amazing benefits to shifting the way we think about and perceive things.
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But by using *only* these practices and subscribing to the idea that all we need to do is “think positive”, “raise our vibe” and practice gratitude, affirmations or ‘manifesting’, we are setting ourselves up for a huge disconnect.
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Our human brains and bodies are designed to FEEL. To experience the ups and downs of life, and to process our emotional experiences.
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Yes, of course we want less struggle and more love, peace and connection.
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But we can’t THINK our way there with our conscious mind, and ignore our emotional selves, our survival selves and our bodies.
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The journey of ‘enlightenment’ - or becoming whole - is so much about ACCEPTING our humanness.
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The soft, tender, vulnerable parts of us.
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Offering them acknowledgement, validation, comfort, nurturing and support.
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And processing and resolving past and present pain, and all the emotions that get stuck in our systems through the challenges of life.
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Regardless of how many affirmations you do or how grateful you are for your life, if unaddressed this stuck and blocked emotional energy will cause problems for you, and stop you from moving forward.
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The journey to wholeness is about CONNECTING our conscious mind with our subconscious mind - allowing them to communicate freely and get on the same page.
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When this begins to happen, the barriers between you, and what feels good and right for you, will begin to dissolve.
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You won’t need to fight and struggle and experience ‘resistance’ around receiving and experiencing what you truly desire in your life.
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You’ll experience more flow, harmony and synchronicity.
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Funnily enough, all those things you may have expected from those other bright and shiny practices.
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PS I actually love rainbows 🌈 unicorns 🦄 and white light ✨, but I also believe integrating the ‘darker’ or more human aspects of ourselves is desperately needed and massively underrated, which is why I wanted to share this perspective with you.
