The Way I See The Resurrection
I hope you enjoyed Easter weekend if you celebrate and if not, I still hope you had a wonderful weekend!
I love to see the events of Easter as a mirror for our own potential transformation and resurrection regarding healing any thought, idea and/or experience that keeps us from knowing our own worthiness and capacity to believe in our goodness and do good things from that sense of worthiness and goodness.
I believe life can “begin again” from a renewed (resurrected) state anytime we process and heal something that once held us back from feeling good about ourself and/or believing in our capacity to live out the desires of our hearts.
This is how we lighten our own burdens and move through life from a freer state, more connected to the truth of our being.
When we’re free to express from this lighter, more aligned state, we’re able to live in flow with what God intended for us.
We become more aligned expressions of God, since it’s the heavy burdens that restrict this flow.
Similar to what I shared last week, the core of this inner work revolves around forgiving ourself (and others where needed) for the ways in which we’ve interpreted the events in our lives that have left us feeling broken, not enough, unworthy, etc.
Forgiveness moves us from believing the old story somehow means there’s something wrong with us to releasing the old interpretation such that a new way of seeing can take root…one that comes from believing our ultimate nature is worthy simply because it is.
You don’t have to do something to be worthy.
You don’t have to earn your worthiness.
And you don’t become less worthy because of something you did or didn’t do.
It’s stories around the above ideas that stand in the way of simply knowing (and acting from) our worthiness.
It’s the convoluted stories around what’s required to be worthy and what takes away from one’s worthiness that create how we see ourselves.
And when we’ve concluded we’re unworthy based on these stories, it alters how we show up in the world.
We act in ways that are trying to compensate for a lack of worthiness, which can look a lot of different ways.
Some people contract and play small as to not stick their necks out and risk the world reflecting back a sense of unworthiness.
Some people act boldly in an attempt to gain attention and notoriety in order to secure a sense of worthiness.
Instead of pursuing something as an expression of God or love, the purity of our pursuit/expression is restricted based on the degree to which we’re seeking worthiness through the endeavor.
This mixed motive expression is natural as a part of our human experience. There’s no reason to feel bad about it (shame is never the intent as it does not serve). But it’s worth looking at from the standpoint of inner reflection.
Because as we begin to reflect on our motives, we gain a better understanding of them such that we’re able to make conscious adjustments (if that’s our desire).
It brings awareness to patterns that could otherwise drive us for the rest of our lives without understanding why we do what we do.
If it’s a pattern based in seeking worthiness, inner reflection has the potential to free up so much energy around this pursuit by coming to know (and live from) your worthiness directly.
Instead of being driven to have the world reflect a sense of worthiness to you, you’re driven to freely express however God/Source/your heart’s desires wants to flow and express through you.
You’re free from the burden of unworthiness.
This is a HUGE ENERGETIC freedom.
You’re free to know and express from your own goodness.
You’re free to know and express your heart’s desires.
You’re free to TRUST YOUR OWN GOODNESS.
To me, this is what Christ desires for us.
I personally don’t see how beliefs in being a sinner, unworthy, broken and/or having a deceitful heart serves us in expressing the highest goodness and potential that lives inside us.
It leaves us in quite a disempowered state, which seems to be the opposite of what Christ, God or any other being of light would want for us.
Our job is to forgive what stands in the way of us believing and knowing our own goodness, worthiness and enoughness.
It’s to understand our patterns and stories around ideas of unworthiness and not being good enough by bringing them to the surface (otherwise they’re still lurking in your energy having an affect on your experience).
And then forgive yourself from having concluded these things about yourself. It’s also to forgive where the ideas for these conclusions came from.
This is releasing energy that was once driving your perception, behavior and experience and creating space for new perceptions, behaviors and experiences.
This is reclaiming power that was temporarily usurped from disempowered beliefs about yourself that were conditioned through society (church, parents, general way the collective thinks, etc.).
Forgive yourself for the conclusions you drew about yourself and forgive the root source of the conditioning.
This will release the energy from having an impact on how you see yourself and what you’re capable of doing, being, having and expressing.
If you need to go through a process of being angry for drawing these conclusions or angry and frustrated for believing in the root source of the conditioning, let this be a part of your process, as well.
Do what you need to do to move and shift the energy. My advice is to not stop at the stage of anger and frustration.
Let it run it’s course, but then DECIDE to fully shift the energy by forgiving the impact the beliefs, ideas, perceptions, behaviors and experiences have had on your life.
This will create a new energetic space to create from going forward.
It’s an opportunity to harness your energy in order to direct it in a new way, in accordance with a belief in your goodness, worthiness and capacity to express your heart’s desires.
This processes is very similar to the steps I shared last week:
Accept what has occurred up until this point (the conclusions you’ve drawn based on the beliefs, ideas and perceptions you previously held as well as any anger or frustration this recognition brings to the surface).
Forgive (the conclusions you’ve drawn based on the beliefs, ideas and perceptions you previously held as well as any anger and frustration this recognition brings to the surface).
Release & Reposition (release the direction your energy was previously flowing in based on ideas of unworthiness and harness and align your energy in a new way).
Begin Again (by acting and expressing from beliefs in your worthiness, goodness, heart’s desires & trusting yourself)
Repeat as needed.
This is empowering yourself to shift energy that no longer serves you to energy that does.
To me, this is what Jesus did for us. He’s a way shower. He anchored in new levels of energy (he’s the lord of love) for humanity and taught us how to access it through forgiveness and grace, which offer direct paths to our individual worthiness.
Now it’s time for us to continually work with forgiveness and grace in our own lives in order to come more and more from the purest expression of love available to us.
This occurs as we come to know and act from our own worthiness.
I believe it’s what we came here to discover about ourselves and to begin expressing more and more from that beautiful discovery.
Always Shine Brightly,
Shanna
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