Spirit: (Co)Existing
Sometimes it seems that it is getting challenging to coexist, as a vortex of human-made complexity that is beyond anything essential absorbs us. Crimes against our fellows are no longer justified by turf wars, at least not the physical ones, but by ignorance and fear. It’s hard to put in perspective what’s happening with a heightened state of stress affecting all of us.
Sometimes I feel like some weird bump. I may feel I could take on the world, but is this what everyone else is feeling too? And if that was the case, we end up suppressing each other because we are not at the same level. Sometimes it’s tough to feel so out of place, uncomfortable all the time, and although people around me seem to care, I may sometimes close myself even further.
Every corner of the universe seems increasingly amicable if we come to terms with fundamental reality. Are we listening to what we are supposed to be learning through our current experience, or are we, as is usual, making our minds before any sound is uttered?
What’s worse still is that this happens from a misconception of ownership and independence of the mind. We are but conduits, and the message should be our center of attention when we’re trying to communicate and engage. Things aren’t happening to anyone but through everyone and for everything.
There is no value in idly coming to terms with not resonating with wholesome energy. At the same time, this is not sustainable as there is only one source of energy, and we are all compatible with it ultimately.
But to be able to align ourselves to wholesome energy, we need to understand how coherent we are with ourselves, the environment, and our fellow beings. This coherence, from my perspective, con only be achieved if we start from a notion of acceptance at all three levels as opposed to judgment.
Acceptance of Self
With time, we have developed an unhealthy habit of always judging ourselves, letting mundane thoughts, and artificial notions of achievement highjack our freedom. If I am to accept myself, perhaps I need to embrace another lens through which to view reality-becoming aware of the fact that I am a witness of life as well, living it slowly, and grasping every second to endure connectedness. If I am carried by myself, I can come to peace with how we coexist and help each other.
No consequence is ever written upfront; indeed, for there is no real way of knowing for sure what an outcome will be. I can delve into immateriality or adapt for a while the blindfold that obscures the truth and raises physical planes over any other. As if there is an order. Yet, immersing into higher drifting, or even reasoning my way into letting go, my detachment only commences when I accept myself as this imperfect being.
Lightness is ever-growing if we understand that any sense of stress or pressure is based out of fears, judgments, and misdirected energy. The world outside just is what it is, so why not devote our energy towards what we may influence the most primarily? That is our connection from within.
Acceptance of Nature
We may well be aware that we create our surroundings, including our influence on nature, but more than by thought it is through our action (or inaction). We may well be facing the legacy of our past collective acts, yet we can only change reality by acknowledging and accepting what already is. Denial is not an act but passive incompetence. We judge nature through this denial, or when we blame how we perceive reality on our circumstances, creating frequency incoherences and energy blockages.
Why is it that we create those frequency misalignments and energy blockages? When we are young, especially, we are much more open to external factors and are usually limited, intentionally or not, by our environment. We also learn to judge and act out of those judgments. Our caregivers want to show us defense mechanisms but usually do so without understanding themselves how to help us reclaim our power and balance what a threat is or not.
There’s no denying that our environment influences our behaviors and can even shape them. In that case, it is up to us to recognize which aspects of our environment we cannot change (at least immediately) and which ones we can. Once we realize this, the best way of dealing with the former is to accept them and adapt. There’s no point in fighting a force of nature, by wishfully wanting to overpower it, it simply is not possible to be grander than the universe.
Once we change that which we can, we take more control of how we design ourselves to prime us. It’s not a simple chore by any means, but it is a worthwhile endeavor once we realize that it aligns us with a freedom path.
Matter is not material, we are still all interconnected, and by not letting go, we are trying to stop forces as strong, or even more potent, than gravity. Let go of your past; let go of faith, of any type of attachment.
Acceptance of fellow beings
Once we attune to the two previous levels, we need to focus on how we deal with accepting the level at which we have much less power, as we have no control over any other free being choosing the terms of their lives.
It’s puzzling that we may continuously be forgetting that by judging others, we are also judging ourselves, as we are all the same. We try to dictate how others live, think, or even feel, looking at reality with our narrow-minded-lens, dismissing the fact that there are never two same experiences.
Other living beings are after all part of the same ecosystem we are in; we are all functioning as cells in a body. A benign or malign cell doesn’t know it’s one. Even if we gave it reasoning capacity, it would naturally judge itself favorably; at least it will justify itself well enough. I guess it is our species the one that can judge itself negatively, so in that line, is this natural or is it a construct we have learned and should be as ready to unlearn.
I guess my positive language for myself needs to be directed towards others as well. To not criticize or judge since you’re a part of a universe that doesn’t judge at all. Through this behavior, we only hurt ourselves as we are all connected.
Vulnerable silence is always subject to the sudden interruptions surging from our fellow beings and objects. Our individuality is still intact, though fear may creep in. If love has already filled our core, and we embrace unity, peace will be unaltered. It is not as vulnerable, nor sporadic as silence and sensations of stillness.
There are such great heights and troughs from which to get a proper perspective of existence. The fact that we define and create it from our inexistence is so fulfilling. We can’t describe the unreal as we have not yet discovered or remembered the imagined world.
So how will I define my reality? Through unity, that’s what resonates now.
I’m aware, I see it’s all a matter of confidence and rising beyond the lethargy in which we sometimes fall as we drift aimlessly. We will still drift, but we will do so in a way that leads us somewhere. Our minds are powerful, but we cannot honestly know how much until we take our egos out of the pilot seat; until we decide to lead from within, unencumbered by the need to reason and bargain with an unreasonable reality.
It is when we understand that we are so much larger than our physical limits that we can push our boundaries beyond a myopic worldview, misguided by imaginary darkness left in the environment by those who succumbed to fear. Things will simply happen; every single thought is coming by itself, not by forcing it. We can create conditions and change the environment, but it will happen if and when meant to be. We are not anyone to try to find meaning; we are receptors that should let purpose find us; if meant to be.
Originally published at https://inmintality.com on July 1, 2020.
