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Being Fully Human: The Final
Doorway to Divine Awareness
What!!???!?
As you read the title to this article, I can imagine
that some of you are sharply sucking in air, feeling a kick in your
solar plexus and/or feeling a slightly violent resistance to the idea
that being fully human could possibly help you achieve the ultimate
level of Divine Awareness. Yet every fiber of my being is crying out
that ‘being fully human’ is indeed the “final frontier” to be explored
on our current spiritual journey. (This idea recently floated to the
top of my awareness while planning the presentation schedule for the
upcoming Oneness Consciousness Conference. My guidance was quite
specific about the fact that the speaking would be done in shorter
segments with sound, music and body movement added at the end of each
segment to help people fully integrate the information just
received.)
My Body, My Self
Most paths of awareness teach that you must “tame” your
human emotions in order to be “spiritual;” That you must always find a
positive aspect to situations; that you must NOT let your emotions get
in the way; that you must not speak something that could be perceived
as judgmental. As a first step in practicing heightened awareness, I
found value in noticing my emotions enough to set them aside in
searching for spiritual solutions to my earthly challenges.
Now, however, after years of seeking, I’ve found the
true value of my human experience: that in order to be Spirit having a
human experience, I MUST learn how to UTILIZE my emotions as key
signposts for my life instead of suppressing, “rising above” or
denying them. One element that needs to be in place for this to happen
is for me to fully inhabit my body, head to toe, so that I can be
fully engaged enough on the physical plane to FEEL my emotions and
their impact on my body, mind and soul.
The question that keeps coming forward is, as spiritual
pioneers, how can we make friends with that most human (and sometimes
scary) part of us – our emotions?
A Resource for Context
Years ago I read “Conversations with God, Book 3”
by Neal Donald Walsch. I bookmarked the pages on which he explored the
purpose of emotions for our human experience and often I’ve used it as
a resource in working with my clients in helping them reframe
situations based on their emotional reaction to them.
Now these concepts come back to me in a new light –
that of partnering with my body for increasing my levels of awareness
as well as for health and well-being. I’m no longer willing to
suppress, ignore or “rise above” my emotions; I want to learn what
doorways these human feelings can unlock on my personal roadmap to
greater awareness.
In “Conversations with God, Book 3
(Pages 24-27),”
here is how God explained what was referred to as “the five natural
emotions”:
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“GRIEF is that
part of you which allows you to say goodbye when you don’t want to
say goodbye; to express – push out, propel – the sadness within you
at the experience of any loss.”
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“ANGER is the
tool you have which allows you to say, ‘No, thank you.’”
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“ENVY is the
emotion that makes you want to do [something] again; to try harder;
to continue striving until you succeed.”
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“The purpose of
natural FEAR is to build in a bit of caution. Caution is a tool that
helps keep the body alive. It is an outgrowth of love. Love of
Self.”
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“LOVE, when it
is allowed to be expressed and received…normally and naturally,
without limitation or condition, inhibition or embarrassment, does
not require anything more. For the joy of love expressed and
received in this way is sufficient unto itself.”
As Signposts, Emotions Can Be Very Useful Tools Indeed
Knowing these “natural” purposes of emotion, I then can
feel my emotions (or experience them coming at me from another person)
with the intention of recognizing what that emotion is trying to
signal to me. Is there a resistance to sadness or saying goodbye? Has
a personal boundary been breached? Is there an unfulfilled desire to
reach higher? Is Self being threatened in some way? Is an
insufficiency of heart-felt connection being spotlighted? Instead of
getting “hooked” into drama by emotions, these signposts help me see a
much broader spectrum of the energies at work and what is being asked
of me in the face of those energies so that I can continue to grow.
The Doorway to Freedom
Responding to emotions in this way, there is a doorway
to Center, where the Silent Witness can show the bigger picture and
where the pathway is more clearly marked on anyone’s personal roadmap.
There is also access to greater levels of compassion as well as
heightened awareness; unencumbered by the energies of suppression, the
‘natural emotions’ can emerge once more…the doorway to Divine
Consciousness swings wide.
Making the Invisible Visible
As each human learns to make friends with all emotions,
embracing and honoring being fully human, the New Earth is being
birthed. That New Earth will be fully formed as soon as we learn how
to express our emotions in their ‘natural’ forms. With that tool comes
not only freedom of being, but also joy, harmony and Oneness – heaven
on earth is achieved.
“Make
visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”
~ Robert Bresson
I invite you to join me in making the invisible (our
‘natural emotions’) visible – each of our experiences adds to the
richer tapestry of what it means to be a human being. We co-create,
with ease and grace, the perfect balance of our Divine Feminine with
our Divine Masculine…and we each contribute equally along the way by
sharing our stories with one another in love and compassion.
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