Today is the 28th `Nov 2018, a special day for me. I’ve just had a week’s break from writing here, partly as it’s been busy, and partly as I felt I needed a reboot and consolidate the MEDS protocols.
I’d like to talk to the parts of me that might be resistant:
- to clearing the decks, and
- to developing the habits of maximised ‘human potential’
This is the Part of you that is resistant to ‘clearing the decks’:
“I am Conservative Clare. I would have things stay the same as I can’t trust you not to sweep away the things we actually need to survive. I watched you let our livelihood go, so many times! You are a self-sabotager, who slaps away the hand that feeds you, out of your ridiculous sense of guilt and low self-worth.”
Woah… Well, thanks for letting me know that CC. What do you need to have in place to be able to trust me to let go of the old? By which I mean, first off, to let go of the old clothes, furniture, books, papers, knicknacks, ornaments, archives etc that clutter up our space and mind?
Conservative Clare: I need you to put a flag in the sand which states your vision for yourself, and allows people to know where to find you for your services. You can’t chuck away the goods if you will never let people in to bring you new goodness.
Is this my ‘brochure’ that you are referring to?
CC: It’s more than that. You can’t be trusted to hand out or circulate your brochures. You hang on to them, like everything else. You are the hanger-on-er, not me.
I am the hanger-on-er? Why do I do that then? I thought you were the conservative one, resistant to change?
CC: I try to conserve a basic status quo in the face of your cowardice.
Easy tiger. I can see you are angry. What would you have me do then?
CC: Own your own entity.
But doing so has not necessarily been a ‘safe’ step in the past.
CC: Because you didn’t own it. You gave it away. Which is precisely why we have to stop you clearing the decks. You constantly chuck the precious baby out with the bathwater, because you don’t believe you are worthy to hold the precious baby.
OK, Conservative Clare. Thank you for letting me know why you do what you do. I appreciate that. I take on board what you are saying. I need my flag in the sand. On a high enough pole that people can see it.
Dear Heart. What do I need to know, feel or do to be able to define my flag and raise it above the parapet?
This is the part of you resistant to ‘developing the habits of maximised ‘human potential”…
“I am Damp Daphne… I am the part of you which would remain pliable and soft, like a [say it]… damp cloth. I can be used by others and that way I feel ‘servicial’. My utilitarianism makes me feel its ok to take up space and be present. I can be used for all kinds of purposes – other people’s purposes.”
This is horrid.. 🙁 Guys. Be nice.
Damp Daphne: I am extremely nice. So nice, that I am known for my agreeableness. I am super-obliging and helpful.
Ok, Damp Daphne. What do you need from me for you to feel comfortable to take a step back from my arena of life?
DD: You don’t need an all-purpose cloth, if you have but one purpose.
One purpose…
DD: Can you hear that…?
Yep…. ://
DD: “Ooh, heaven is a place on earth…”
Ok, I get it… Let’s get the lyrics up…
Ooh, baby, do you know what that’s worth?
Ooh, heaven is a place on earth
They say in heaven love comes first
We’ll make heaven a place on earth
Ooh, heaven is a place on earth
I hear you. I know. I feel it too.
Time for a bit of meditation and prayer, dear soul.
Meditation and Prayer
Forgive me my sins, oh my God.
Forgiven. Calm down, slow down…
Recall, the days of your life which gave you wonder and joy. What was the common denominator?
People, creativity and nature.
Excellent. And what is your Personal Credo?
Everyone can be happy.
And what do they say about heaven?
Love comes first. 🙂
So, are you confident to hold up a flag that says this…? eg.:
“Love comes first – thanks to ‘people, creativity and nature’, everyone can be happy.”
No… Not quite. Are you coaching me?
Say it in your words.
“Everyone can be happy.
People, creativity and nature bring happiness.
And of all things that foster happiness, love comes first.”
There’s a last part to this though, isn’t there?
It’s the willingness to live by this credo, and share it, and teach it.
Don’t I?
Do you? What would today look like if ‘love came first’?
Is it about getting into the mode of ‘heaven is a place on earth’ according to our perception of such a notion?
Close. Very close. We are discerning heaven around us. Heaven is there; it is for us to bring it into focus.
Like the way a camera might stay in the same place but switch focus from foreground to background. Like, it might start focussed on a tiny piece of ‘scrap’ metal, and the camera pulls focus and you see the metal is part of an immense and beautiful iron sculpture.
Lovely.
So maybe, ‘love comes first’ is the larger fuller background. I get fixed on the scrap metal (tasks, work, emails..) forgetting the backdrop of it all: love. This is all about love. (Which I actually heard my Dad discuss…”Art is all about love relationships.” Mind-blowing.)
Beautiful. Yes, it is indeed ‘all for love’. So, as you settle the physiological ANS (autonomic nervous system) before you work, likewise you recall the backdrop of Love before you work.
How can I dedicate this year of my life to the notion of “They say in heaven love comes first; We’ll make heaven a place on earth”?
Softly. Just enjoy the remembrance of where you are. In heaven, there is nowhere to go, nothing to do. All simply is, and it is love. Recall the frequency of love. Can you download that frequency into your being?
Yes. Today, and this year, I am downloading the frequency of love. Thank you.
Today and this year, I am downloading the frequency of love
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MEDITATION? YES – 14 mins silent |
EXERCISE? YES – walking round town on special day#STEPS: 9253 |
DIET – BRAIN-MAKER DIET? NODRY today? NO… Morning: coffee and cream Lunch: GF pizza – amazing – and cider Evening: V&DCokes, Indian restaurant |
SLEEP – IN BED WITH MY BOOKS BY 10pm? NOScreens off: / Lights out: 12ish Wake up the next day: Virtually no sleep! Total sleep: 3? |