Our Natural State

True spirituality is essentially being and expressing yourself. Like a child who is joyful, loving and spontaneous.

As natural and inherent as this state is our early experience and conditioning tend to make us shut it down.

So to awaken requires two things:

Firstly, we need to relax and allow our hearts to open again.

When the heart opens, you feel a close connection with your true Self. You are meeting your oldest, dearest friend again.

An open heart quietens the mind and is the door to your Self. But for it to open, you have to relax your defence mechanisms. Someone who has been deeply traumatized will struggle with this aspect, so good guidance, faith in the existence of the Self and perseverance is required.

Secondly, there is a need to work with courage on the unresolved factors that flow up as your heart opens. It is your choice to do this or not. You can remain trapped in the mind and suffer for lifetimes or awaken to the Self.

Awakening is simply letting go and allowing your natural state to emerge from within.

The presence of the Self permeates everything in existence, so you will feel and sense it in everything, when you are present. Our true Self is deep relaxation, peace and silence. It is spontaneous and flowing, though due to fears we tend to block it’s flow.

It resonates with beauty, truth and goodness and is love itself and oneness with all things. It will express itself through all levels of our human identity, if we surrender to it.

As we open to our natural state, everything that is not aligned with it is brought up to be healed. So to realize the Self you do need to manage your body, emotions, thoughts and identity.

You learn to love and manage each of these elements, as you recognize how they veil your true nature. The veils distract us from being present in the moment, due to physical pain, fears, desire and inhibitions, distracted thoughts and the urge for control and recognition.

It is the ego, that throws up all of these challenges and distractions, to see if you have fully realized your true nature as the Self. If you have, then you are left alone to dwell in the present moment.

By accepting and managing your conscious self, your true nature as the Self is realized and embodied in your everyday life.

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