How often do you dim your light down for fear of shining too brightly?
In many ways, our society today is more accepting than ever. Yet there still remain aspects within it that point fingers and ostracize others for being different. Standing out, or expressing a point of view that may not be popular, can sometimes feel like dangerous territory.
Trauma from the past such as physical, sexual or emotional abuse, being picked on, or bullied creates protective mechanisms. Some forms of protection can lead you to shutting down the expression of your pure, essential nature.
The result of shutting down your essential nature is that it creates blockages in your body’s energetic systems. These blockages have a detrimental effect on your physical body, as well as mental and emotional states.
It actually takes a lot of energy to diminish the expression of the life force within you. Your natural state of being is designed to radiate, to be creative, to flow, to change and to grow. Stunting this natural outward movement of energy internalises it leading to stagnation and eventual suffering.
If you’ve continually received encouragement in your pursuits, and only encountered successful endeavours then this message is not for you.
This message is for those of you who have experienced self doubt that led to inner paralysis. Ridicule that led to crippling shame, or punishment for expressing yourself that led you to hiding your radiant light. So somewhere along the way, you decided that it wasn’t okay to be the most authentic, truest version of yourself.
The outcome may have led you to making life choices that didn’t reflect your true desires. These choices create deep feelings of dissatisfaction e.g. life-partner, career, health, home, social-circle and ultimately your passion for life.
Then, throughout the course of life, you forgot that you ever made this decision to stop being your truest self. A gradual feeling of unhappiness eventually crept in on you. The feeling that whatever you have, whatever you do, wherever you are, and whoever you’re with, is not enough. It’s the deeply uncomfortable feeling that something is missing and that something doesn’t quite fit.
At this stage, you can make the error of thinking and feeling that what doesn’t quite fit….is you. Left feeling like a victim of your own life, you externalise your power and project it onto others. Once you have externalised your power, you have abdicated responsibility for your own life. You therefore hold everyone and everything else accountable for your own happiness or your own misery.
Now, you feel REALLY powerless, because you’ve given away your inner authority. Perhaps you now need to numb the loss of your true self through alcohol, drugs, or food. Either that, or you distract yourself with work, work and more work to earn money to satisfy an unknown need? The need to avoid the emptiness inside. Like a boat without a rudder, you are tossed around by life’s storms. Your own body, mind and emotions are now rebelling against you because YOU FORGOT YOURSELF! The thing that you feel is missing…..is YOU!
Okay….take a breath, this can be a difficult realization to arrive at.
If you’ve come to this stage of awareness, how do you connect again with that long lost part of yourself. How turn up your inner light to let yourself shine again?
Get Really Still
Sit still in a chair with your feet on the ground, or sit /lay down on the ground. Connect with your breathing, feel your body rise and fall with your inhalation and exhalation. Feel the aliveness in your body, the subtle vibration tingling inside your skin, this is your life force energy.
Feel What you Feel
Ask yourself: What do you feel physically? Then “listen” to the sensations that your body may feed back to you. Become aware of any tension in your muscles, any pain, heat or cold. Notice any tingling or physical sensation that you may experience without resisting it.
Then ask yourself: What do you feel emotionally? “Listen” to any particular emotion that surfaces; joy, peace, love, excitement, anger, grief, regret, fear, shame. Just notice whatever emotion you are feeling without resisting it.
FORGIVE YOURSELF
No matter why you decided to dim your light down, forgive yourself. Whatever happened that caused you to hide the most authentic version of yourself, forgive yourself. You were responsible for choosing to diminish your light, therefore you are responsible for claiming back your true power. You do this by forgiving yourself.
Make a new decision to shine now
You’re still alive and there is no time like the present. Don’t waste a single moment more by regretting the time that you spent dimming your light down. Shine baby shine…..shine like the sun because that is what you were born to do. Shine in your unique way that only you can do!
Ask yourself:
What does the deepest part of me desire?
Pay attention to what arises in response to this question and make a commitment to follow to the answer. Give yourself permission to express your own unique light and let it shine brightly.
This is the way back home to yourself.
I’d like to share a poem written by Marianne Williamson that expresses this truth so beautifully.
OUR GREATEST FEAR Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory ofGod that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear,Our presence automatically liberates others. —Marianne Williamson
I wish you the courage to be your truest self and to let your essential nature radiate and shine brilliantly which is your ultimate purpose.
Written by Christine Diamond
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