At the foot of worship’s mountain, we stumble upon prayers/contemplations/meditations and the energetic conflict of resistance.
As humans on this plane, armed with the knowledge that growth and change isn’t easy, we often unwittingly step into being avid disruptors of our own progress – who have the best intentions of course. The best disruptors usually do (raises hand here).
Determined to reflect within, we, pillagers of the heart of our own struggle, nod sage eyes at accountability, and sit in the cradle of what we want to change. Ensconced beneath the halo of this energy, we stare at our reflection and tumble toward rebirth.
It is with our highest intentions that we sit with what trips us up, accountable for and to our own selves. But bearing the brunt of reflection with resistance, can instead of resolve, promote a stagnation to the energy we’re trying to work through. Think of Carl Jung famously stating – “What you resist, persists.” This is a concept worth taking a hard look into.
If what we resist persists (and who are we to argue with Jung ;-), then consider that the longer we remain in the energy of what we want to change, the more the charge of the energy becomes one of languishing and lack. This is how prayers/contemplations/meditations can encourage an energetic stagnation as opposed to the change we seek. Here is where we unwittingly manifest what we don’t want by being in resistance, unhappy, or are overly specific with our expectations (just to name a few). Think of it as the stronger we desire something, the stronger its hold can become on the mind. The stronger the grip on the mind, the more pervasive the energy, and it’s the energy that projects into real world existence. Here it would be the energy of lacking what we most desire.
Take for instance, a financial struggle. If one cocoons in the energy of chaotic financial lack and stress, ones energy and call throughout the universe becomes one of chaos, financial lack and stress. A counterintuitive understanding at first, but the idea is that we are what we project. Or rather, we project where we are, not where we want to be. This is why presence becomes such a profound learning. Because despite life’s circumstances, of which we are each undoubtedly navigating, we still have the ability/choice to be peaceful moment to moment. We are equipped, each of us, with the strength of the mountain that cannot be moved.
We have only to decide, truly decide, to not be moved.
It sounds hard, and perhaps it is, but the question becomes: What would it require for us to not be moved by circumstance? Contemplate that, because this is the fundamental shift within the tone of our prayers/contemplations/meditations.
Deciding to not be moved evokes the understanding that we are the masters of our own minds, actions, interactions, reactions. Neither great nor devastating circumstances effects that autonomy. An inherent shift begins to happen with that awareness, one from victim-hood to empowerment. This is the shift that allows for bitterness and misfortune to fall away and steps us into the ability to release our grip on what we think we need. Her we stand at the precipice of one of our highest recognitions: we begin to realize that we will be okay with whatever happens. I challenge you to contemplate what you have to believe about yourself to accept that as truth.
You will be okay with whatever happens.
It may take time, but it’s truth.
Energetically speaking, resistance is us using our energy to oppose energy that is already happening. If we take away the story that goes with it (and they are legion), what we have left is the momentum. The momentum of us resisting what is.
We can be the sprinter training with the parachute behind us, or we can choose to hear the gun go off and run.
Energetically, that parachute is what we think we seek. Releasing it, allows us be present to our own existence. In accepting our own circumstance, we move toward that higher version of ourselves without the momentum of our resistance tethering us in place.
Releasing outcomes allows us to sweep into the flow of where we are now. It is only here, in the what is, that we find the profound energy of acceptance. It is acceptance that projects a higher vision for ourselves into energetic resonance; because acceptance is the fertile soil from which peace and gratitude grow. This is the law of attraction that calls into existence our higher self or holds us in stagnation. We project where we are not where we want to be. The heart of where we are is on the inside.
In the chaos, be the peace.
In our prayers/contemplations/meditations be the gratitude. After all, by some stroke of sometimes beautiful sometimes devastating fate – we are still here.
Remember that the more we each find peace within the what is, the more we’re collectively weaving that energy into the time space continuum on a global scale.
Here our momentum becomes a forward facing force for the world to reckon with.
We can choose to believe that life is a lesson for us all that isn’t personal – it just feels that way because we have no perspective other than our own. But lives fall apart- not just our own. We can be our best version and be violated anyway – any of us, not just me. We can get married or a diagnosis, be broken up with, or disregarded, we can succeed beyond our wildest imaginings, we can fail. It isn’t specific to us, it’s just the bumpy road of that which we each navigate.
Fearing it, resisting it, will not temper it. And why would we?
We can only be courageous when we are frightened, find the depth of our grace when faced with the difficulty. It is in the gorgeousness of every chafing moment that we determine for ourselves and proclaim to the world, who came here to be. And if we find the courage to bring peace for ourselves, then we can be the catalyst for bringing peace on a global scale.
It was Mahatma Ghandi who said, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” Perhaps this is what he meant. That we, each one of us, have the responsibility to hold space for peace, to fill it with gratitude and to understand that the smallest acts of intention for ourselves, weaves change throughout the world.
Being that change requires us to be within that change. So, may we sit in the cradle of our truths and may our energetic call be one of love.
