Face Your Dust - It Will Set You Free
On a personal level our new
gratitude intentions suddenly have us confronting a barrage of
unexpected bills and a head full of fearful, lack-oriented thoughts. Our
commitment to deeper acceptance brings up a wealth of anger and
resentment that has been simmering under the surface for years. Our
decision to look for meaningful work is met by the offer of a promotion
at our current job and our resolution to open up to our soulmate often
invites phone calls from ex’s. Our desire for more creativity and
passion triggers a bout of self-doubt and depression.
This ‘dust’ that has been raised is
often misinterpreted by people as ‘My intentions aren’t working!
Everything is as bad as ever if not worse!’ Meanwhile our energy must
feel very frustrated, because here it is thinking it is helping us in
the greatest way possible and we are feeling like it is sabotaging us or
ignoring us!
Our energy helps us by shining a
spotlight into every nook and cranny of our being in direct response to
our new intentions. It highlights and magnifies every belief, every
thought pattern, every past experience, every cellular memory and every
personality aspect that is connected to our new intention including the
ways in which those parts of us are working against our new intention.
This spotlight is showing us: Look, this is what you believe, this is
how you think, this is the part of you that has been creating that old
reality, and here is the part of you that needs to awaken if you want to
create a different, new reality. Our energy holds up mirrors in front
of us: Look, this is how you see yourself, this is how you feel about
yourself, this is what you believe you are worth, this is what you’ve
been attracting and here is why.
This process happens to us
individually, and it is happening right now very intensely on a
collective level. As a society we are being called to a higher level of
intentions regarding how we want our world to look and feel. Thus, we
are being confronted with all the many ways in which the systems in our
world are working against those intentions. On the surface, a time of
great transformation looks and feels like we are standing in the middle
of a building that is coming down around us, choking us with dust. When
we look and feel from a space of greater consciousness we know that this
‘dust’ is a good thing, a positive sign that the old is leaving and the
new is awakening and rising up.
If you bring forth what is
within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring
forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. - Gospel of Thomas
Living in a more conscious way as
an individual, and as a society, takes strength and courage. It takes
strength and courage because the truths that get revealed as part of the
process are often easier in the short term to keep looking away from.
However in the long term that which we choose to continue to deny and
ignore has the ability to make us sick or feel trapped in a reality of
unfulfilled potential. On the other hand, that which we bravely choose
to confront holds the keys to help catapult us into a new way of living
and being.
Pay attention right now to what is
calling for your attention. As our intentions come from a higher place,
all that is not in alignment will feel louder, heavier and harder to
bear until confronted. You can be sure that whatever is feeling ‘loud’
and ‘heavy’ to you right now is the ‘dust’ you need to see, dust that is
a direct response to the intentions you have put out, or played a part
in putting out together with the collective. Don’t dismiss the dust or
ignore it or let it suffocate you into submission. Ask it what it is
wanting to tell you? What thoughts is it asking you to shift? What
emotions is it asking you to feel? What actions is it asking you to
take? What truths is it wanting you to face? What intentions is it
asking you to remember and re-commit to? Bless the dust, because the
dust is showing you truth and – yes I have to go there – the truth will
set you free. The truth will set us all free.
(c) Dana Mrkich 2012.
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