This is My Story: What is Yours? Part VII
when you look into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung
This is Part VII of a twelve part blog. Part I begins on 09/03/07. In order to better understand what follows, it would be best to read the previous parts.
Life is a juxtaposition of opposites. The yin is looking for it’s yang to complete itself; the yang for it’s yin; the negative is looking for the positive; the positive for its negative; the feminine for the masculine; the masculine for the feminine; the ebb for the flow; the flow for the ebb; the in-breath for the out breath; the out-breath for the in-breath.
So, as we sort through all the dross of our beliefs, please understand that everything we unearth and experience is there solely to help us to climb higher upon our mountain of Self-Mastery. Our “opposites” are our “complements.”
Nothing is in our way! Everything is The Way! Your Way! The “High” Way!
So which way are you going? Which path are you taking—the High road or the low road?
One of the most valuable phrases and techniques that I have found on my path is: “Face, Embrace and Replace.”
Over twenty years ago, I had a spiritual reading with a man whose name I have lost and forgotten. In that reading he introduced me to this phrase and the “work” that goes along with actualizing it. I am eternally indebted to him for it. For it has given me the formula for how to look carefully at my belief systems and then how to transmute the dysfunctional ones into functional ones.
So, again, it all began with me not being comfortable in the roles my parents and friends were expecting me to play.
How about you, did you just accept the roles you were uncomfortable with anyhow and just try to make the “best of it?” Or did you totally deny that you had dreams and desires that were not being supported?
What roles are you presently playing that are not comfortable or true to who you are?
This is Part VII of a twelve part blog.