Muriel Rukeyser wrote in the poem “The Speed of Darkness” that the universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
When you look at your life in this way, it becomes valuable to ask yourself which story you are telling about yourself, both to yourself and to others.
If it is true that the universe is manifested by the story of who you are, this means that you are literally a God or Goddess, the creator of “your” reality.
Most people did not grow up with the idea that they are the creator of their own universe and therefore stand in a disempowered place. Life happens to you, people do all kinds of things to you, and you have no control over or insight into the events in and around you.
When things do not go well, there seems to be no other option than to blame yourself or someone else for what is happening; you simply do not see your own role in the creation.
When you realize that it is in fact your own creation, the danger arises that you no longer blame someone else, but yourself.
It is not about blame, but about awareness
That is why it is so relevant and meaningful to ask yourself what it is within you that creates the reality in and around you.
Those who walk this path move from being an unconscious and unskilled creator to a more conscious and skilled creator.
Only a small part of what you create is truly conscious.
This is the part you claim, for which you are willing to take responsibility, and which you attribute to your free will and choice.
When you look more deeply, you see that this free will and choice are limited by unconscious conditioned reactions that arise from your individual and collective subconscious. Based on a complex
mix of factors, you respond largely automatically and unconsciously to an enormous range of energies to which you are exposed on a daily basis.
What is often overlooked is that these unconscious reactions have the same creative power as our more conscious reactions.
As long as you continue to create from an unconscious and disempowered place, the outcome of your creation will remain the same.
It is literally the energy you send into the universe, the quantum field, that you see reflected back to you through your outer world; the people around you, the work you do, and the situations
you find yourself in.
Life shows you in a masterful way where there is still work to be done, where you are not yet conscious, and where you still have shadow aspects to embrace.
Most people who want to make a new beginning with something or someone start from a polarized point of departure; the new choice always comes at the expense of something else. When you move from
this place, you give equal energy to both what you desire and what you no longer want. In doing so, you keep both extremes of the spectrum in place.
That is precisely why lasting change is so difficult
Instead of bringing your shadow sides into awareness, you turn away from them and focus on the light aspect of what you are seeking.
You invest your energy there, but what is denied, feared, or judged is pushed under the surface like a ball held underwater. The tension this creates must sooner or later be released and will
attempt to make itself known in every possible way, seeking recognition and taking on an increasingly larger role in your life.
All of this comes beautifully to life in the mind, the stage of creation where, as a human being, you take life personally, try to understand it, and attempt to solve it. As long as you try to make life work for you from there, the sense of separation and the tension between opposites only increase.
It is becoming increasingly clear that this is a dead end, an old paradigm that no longer works for you as a human being or for the life around you.
We live in a fascinating time in which we are moving out of an old story of separation into a new story of unity and integration. This is the domain of the compassionate heart. By granting yourself access to this space once again, you connect with a different, more natural intelligence that sees and experiences life as “all-inclusive.”
Here it is both–and instead of either–or
The key to your compassionate heart is the combination of conscious experiencing and allowing what is. This opens the door to a space where the undercurrent lives, an intelligence that offers direction, clarity, and energy. At the same time, everything that lived in the subconscious is brought into awareness and disempowered, so that it no longer plays an obstructive role in your creations.
❥ Having arrived at your ground of being, life is whole and flowing, and you move from flow rather than from resistance or stagnation.
What is logical and meaningful for you and for all that lives reveals itself effortlessly and can be trusted and followed without any doubt.
Here life is free, wild, and boundless, and every moment is a new beginning that unfolds perfectly.
Let it Be!
Juno Burger