Recently, there's been shared with me by a few women of Shamanic traditions and beliefs a concept: This concept has been terrifying to me at times throughout the last few weeks, but I've lately warmed to it a bit. It sits somewhere within me that feels like it might be okay. The concept is that when we choose the lives that we do, we agree to a set period of time. We have free will, and are able to do what we will and what we can with that time, but we have a unique and personalized "deadline", dark humor unintended.
What I've come to recognize from this possibility is that we each have a unique gift to unwrap and share with the world. We're here to do what's ours, not anyone else's. We're creating a roadmap for others at all times -- when we run out of steam, we can look back to those people who hold the roadmap and can remind us of the path.
"Everything is food for everything else. The world is continually chewing itself up and nourishing itself. Everything is grist for the mill." // "Triumph and tragedy are the same: it just depends on which perspective you're looking at it from." --Colin Robison
Don't let your spectrum be limited: say yes. Say yes to everything (within reason, that is: if you've checked in with yourself and you know that an opportunity is in service of your higher good, you'll know -- you'll know because this means you're choosing to know your soul; you're listening to your heart's true song and singing along). Saying yes to a YES is in service of broadening your world and allowing your human experience to emerge more expansively. It's in service of emotion displaying to you its array of color, of texture and scent and feeling, and through this, to show you that it's NOT you (to be more clear, it's simply a part of you as long as you're in a body: but it's not you.) It affects you when you attach to it, and sometimes it feels beautiful. Glorious. It can feel like the sort of expansive sunlight you can revel in for hours and when your cheeks hurt from cheesing your face off, you smile wider because it's the best kind of hurt. And other times, perhaps you'll experience the feeling of the most unrelenting, hairy and foul-smelling creature to ever find its way into the darkness of your soul find its way there and settle in. Sometimes this creature takes residence for long stretches of time, and embracing that creature can feel like the the only choice you have in those instances -- but try to realize that that creature is not you. All of this, these experiences that feel so dualistic -- and yet aren't -- are all in service of a richness finding its way into you. Trust me, this richness is for you, and once you find it, you can never become poor. [Side-note: And if you'd like to meet people who embody this spectrum fully, who grow it from their land and live in it in each and every moment ... find your way to Jamaica. Open your heart to this land and it will open its heart to you and shower you with abundance that will infuse your soul and never leave.]
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