Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet
Podcast releasing Tuesday July 14, 2020
Episode 40 Blog/ Let Go.
Really, Why?
Probably the hardest
challenge for any of us is embracing any perceived pain as useful. We tend to hold on to things and feelings and
if it doesn’t feel good, we don’t want to feel it. So, we decide to never feel
that way again and then we create often elaborate patterns of avoidance and
rules. We build huge powerful rule sets that we think will protect us from the
hurt again when in reality, the rules trap the energy dynamics into place and keep
us chasing our tails. We never are dealing with our part of our own set up, our
joint creation in honest ways and there is a failure to appreciate what our
lives are about.
We miss valuing our lessons about relating to our Selves and
others and our own creations.
We get stuck in continuous looping holding
patterns of pain. It can be challenging to be grateful for one’s pain. John J.
Murphy my guest this week mentions that Egos don’t understand appreciation. We
are in our wounds and can stay there. Unless something happens to bring
awareness. It takes honesty and intention to look at what we are creating and
making our reality. It takes us getting out of our blindness in perspective and
role playing. This is an act of love towards Self. To look.
Stuff happens in our
lives, all the times. Acceptance is useful here. It will bring us face to face
with what we value about life, as contrast, in gentle or most often, traumatic
ways. We might never have seen it coming but on reflection we can often see our
setups. Those times and spaces where we weren’t paying attention, where we
failed to stop and where we listened to what sounded convenient and took the
easy way out. Which is different than appreciating one’s own flow.
Most of us are not in strong
enough daily congruent states to build in a flood plane and then not be
surprised when the rain comes and the house floods. We might wonder sometimes
why a neighborhood can be decimated and one house is not. Perhaps there is
something different about the energy of the owners that keeps them safe in a
sense of higher ground. Why is it that some get a disease that can kill many
and it just dissipates in another?
Only when we realize what
our feelings are letting us explore, from within our non attached sense of
Consciousness, can we own our feelings and then shift gears, intentionally if
wanted. There is nothing wrong with being unhappy. It can be a useful state at
times. But who wants to be unhappy for more than a moment?
There is nothing wrong
with feeling like a warrior vanquishing the bullies and protecting the weak.
And felt, with righteousness and belligerence can wear a soul down. When it is
coming from within a rule set of victim/abuse/user etc. it may be a sense of
power/loss of power that is active. And it keeps creating realities of
happening again and again and the highs and lows of joy/misery. The pattern is set in place and the people and
circumstances may change over the years, but the same dynamic is playing out
for the lifetime.
Employing our ability to
manifest our love of Self and others takes maybe many different moments of
wanting to and choosing to BE Love. Is it Love betrayed you are feeling or is
it your ideas of what Love means to you, your illusions of what Love is, that you
are in resistance with? How is your pain helpful in supporting your wounded
beliefs of Love and what you think you deserve to experience? We can say we
want Love but if is with attachment it is not Love, only our illusion of Love.
Letting go means one can experience
something else without the poison of the past. It is how we transcend our
wounds into the gifts that they are if we are willing to unwrap them.
Janet Barrett
Podcast host Journeys Into
Enlightenment with Janet
