You Are Never Alone: Finding Your Center
YOU ARE NEVER ALONE
Finding Your Center
“You are comprised of: 84 Minerals, 23 Elements and 8 gallons of Water spread across 38 trillion cells.
You have been built up from nothing by the spare parts of the Earth you have consumed, according to a set of instructions hidden in a double helix and small enough to be carried by (an egg) and a sperm. You are recycled butterflies, plants, rocks, streams, firewood, wolf fur and shark teeth, broken down to their smallest parts and rebuilt into our planet’s most complex living thing.
You are not living on Earth. You are Earth.”
Aubrey Marcus
Hello Everyone,
I hope this email finds you and finds you well. As we move into the first week of November, I am struck by the amount of clients and friends that have reached out recently feeling alone and battling feelings of self-judgement and self-criticism. I know these subjects well as I can remember feeling lonely from a very early age and I have continued to work with self-judgement and self-criticism all my life. I think maybe, at our core, we all feel alone. However, the truth is we are all part of the cosmos, God, the everywhere spirit made manifest in physical form. We emerged from all of it and have never separated from the whole. But we think, look and feel separate from one another. Our eyes discern differences in appearance between us and the world around us and make the assessment that ‘I look different from you and from everything around me therefore I must be separate’. After all we look different from each other, the trees, the bears, the snakes and the dolphins. (Well, some of us look exactly like dolphins but that’s another story.) At any rate, we use our eyes to judge our differences. Then we make the judgement to ourselves that we are different and we grow up believing this. It’s a set up from the start and one that will never end in happiness, interconnectedness or even in the truth. Because the thing is, when we feel separate and lose our connection to the whole, we feel something is wrong. What do we do with this false feeling? We either turn it inward which manifests in the form of self-judgement and self-criticism or we turn it outward, which manifests as aggression and blame. Or perhaps we do a little of both. Sound familiar?
I think a lot about the ocean and the water and the forest and the tress. I can’t imagine one wave saying to another wave, “wow, you’re not at all like me, we’re completely different. I don’t like myself very much in comparison to you, you seem better than me, the way you lap gently on the shore is just pristine. Not me, I’m no good at being a wave.” Or one tree saying to another tree, “I’ve never seen your kind before, get away from me. You don’t belong here.” This is ridiculous! Yet, human beings still continue with this idea that we are somehow separate from everything around us. And it’s this feeling of separation that has caused wars, divorces, suicides and, I believe is at the base of most emotional imbalances we see in people today. As the old saying goes, if we pull a thread here, we find it connected to the rest of the universe. Julia Cameron states it plainly by saying, “Far from making me feel different and special, my [spiritual] experiences made me feel the same, ordinary, and interconnected. If I felt more spiritual, everyone else felt more spiritual as well.”
“I take solace in remembering my interconnectedness with all things. It helps me to not feel so alone. ”
I take solace in remembering my interconnectedness with all things. It helps me to not feel so alone. I look at the trees and how when a dead tree falls in the forest and lands on a live tree, the live tree holds up the dead tree forever or until the live tree also falls. No drama, it just is. The dead tree is part of the live tree and they are all part of the forest. One wave gently lapping on shore is not separate from the next. They are all part of the vast ocean of life. One human is not separate from another human. We are all simply recycled cells made into our planet’s most complex living thing. And complex we are! But we are never apart from any living thing. In fact, we are all living things. And in this feeling of interconnectedness we can take refuge and we will find peace.
So next time you feel judgmental of yourself or another, remember this is stemming from feeling separate and apart from the whole. Sit out in nature and reconnect. It’s vital for your well being and the well being of each and every life on earth that you do. Because we are not separate from each other, when one of us begins to feel interconnected, we all do. Then in this way, people can begin to heal this split. We can all encourage one another to drop the judgements of separation and move into our truth:
We are not living on Earth. We are Earth and we are each other.
Sweet Blessings to you this day and every day,
Angie