12/03/2024
Pain is not weakness. Feeling strong emotions is not weakness.
They are just signals of places that are calling for love and transformation - for where you can go deeper to transform and, maybe, where you have deeper gifts to offer the world.
All the old paradigm beliefs of faster being better, more numb and overriding being better than feeling and breaking, more orderly and controlled being better than messy and out of control are just value judgements - they are not inherently true.
Interestingly enough, these beliefs that have been quite strong in the collective also hold a strong masculine bias.
These beliefs are loveable and valid, as all beliefs are loveable and valid.
But, for me, as a collective many of us are more ready to receive and embody the gifts of feeling - even in inconvenient moments, that interrupt the schedule, that don’t fit the container, that may make us feel ‘messy’. That call us home to something inside us that wants to show us a deeper possibility of freedom, and authenticity, and power.
Because that’s where the old paradigm can break down and new waters can flow in. That’s one powerful way we can transform what we value in the world, and what gifts of embodiment we bring to it at this powerful time.
If we can love this process in ourselves, if we can turn towards it with love and curiosity and knowing and skilled capacity, then what is possible?
Much more than we previously had access to.
And, in my experience, once we can turn towards this pain with love and curiosity, that’s when we can start to find the resources to feel more grounded in its presence, to be able to love and transform it when we need, and crucially, to feel peaceful and enough no matter what we are feeling.
That old paradox - once we surrender to it, that’s when the answers and power of it, the ‘solution’ if you like, can more easily found.
If you’re in the fire right now, if it doesn’t feel neat, if you’re in pain, if it’s not making sense - you’re not weak, you’re a human with a gift for feeling, and you’re being called deeper home.