10/10/2024
Today, 10/10 is a portal of new cycles, new beginnings, and seeking and finding balance in relationships.
I woke up tuning into this portal and immediately I felt a deep gratitude for all the people that have loved me throughout my life, but especially I was thinking about my friends throughout my different decades. I was connecting the dots about all the times in which, as I was stretched in a very challenging way, my knee jerk reaction was to go inside and retreat into silence and I become unable to connect with my friends. All these friends patiently waited for me and every time, when I was ready to come out of my shell and reached out for them, I found them loving me as if time hadn't moved on.
I have also friends who couldn’t wait for me and moved on, and I am grateful to them too. I'm grateful for the friends that have been in my path when I was a person so different than who I am today. These people loved that version of me that I was then and helped me to keep going. I'm grateful for all the people that were in my path that have been an intrinsic part of my transmutation accompanying me during the transition times. To my teachers, to my family, to my friends, to my clients, to all of you and all of them, every single step of the way, led me to where I am today, and I'm grateful for YOU.
One of the common and biggest hardships of the spiritual seeker as shared by my clients and students of the School of Wisdom, is the process in which as they remember who they are, as they let go of the conditioned behaviors and beliefs, and they become more authentically who they are, people literally drop off from their lives. They struggle because many people they love leave their lives and that is painful.
What I have learned and what I have shared is that those people that leave your life are always going to be part of who you are. They're part of the weaving of your life. They're part of you, and they will never stop being that, because without them, you wouldn't be here now, being and doing who you are.
And as you grow, as you become more authentic, you begin meeting people with whom you connect authentically from the heart of YOU, and often these new people very fast become intimate with your heart and soul, bringing the medicine, nourishment and love that you need in the now. This doesn't take away from the space in your heart that your old friends always have had. New friends are new relationships for the new you, and it's okay to honor the whole journey.
A person you meet for a second, for a circumstance, for a season or forever is a person with whom you will have exchanged codes of love and light that you both needed.
Can you relate to this experience. Is this something that also happened to you?
As I was saying… this morning, as I was writing in my journal and doing my gratitude practice, I realized how very, very grateful I am for every single one of the people in my life, with the understanding that past, present, and future are just one moment in time.
With love and gratitude,
Shakti Bottazzi
