08/26/2022
Hmmmmm.... this one hits home.
I was my own worst enemy growing up making perceived flaws or imperfections into the insecurities i punished myself with.
I look back at pictures... and can't believe how mean i was to her.... myself.
I've grown to accept myself including my flaws and imperfections... I'm not perfect. There still might be some lingering insecurities. But f**k...I think had i not, I wouldn't have grown so much in self awareness and spiritually and humility.... because that was big tests and lessons... to relearn how to accept and love myself in spite of what i used to believe about myself.
Sometimes I still don't always know how to receive compliments... even though they come more readily. I've learned to see beauty in myself.... where once upon a time, i only used to see ugly.
Interestingly, I remember sitting with Mother Aya medicine.... probably my 4th or 5th time.... when i had her lesson on insecurity.
Now it must be noted, that if you are unfamiliar with this plant medicine, it is very common to purge what is not serving you... meaning throwing up what your vessel has been holding onto energetically, this is known as "panema" (negative energy). So by this time sitting with her medicine, i was quite accustomed to purging...
However as she showed me her lesson for me... how I experienced it was visually and with downloaded "teachings"
She visually was showing me my beauty which was represented in these beautiful moving, colorfully bright fractals while eliciting feelings of such wonder at something so beautiful.... she was showing me this is me... my soul....
But then it started to morph into ugly shapes and patterns and disharmonious movements.... and was restricting smaller and getting icky.. she showed me this is what i do to myself when I punish myself with my ugly thoughts towards myself about myself.... focusing on flaws and growing them bigger in my mind.
Now this is where I'd anticipate purging... like yes please... get this s**t out of me... get rid of these insecurities.... but i never purged once during that ceremony. I felt jipped and cheated....like wtf!! All these purges I've done beforehand...(continued 👇👇👇)