67 RealityBites #9 Coming Back Into "Holiness"

 

Welcome back to another episode of RealityBites! In this bite-sized episode we explore the idea of coming back to our wholeness or "holiness".

Below is a list of topics to consider and that are covered in this episode!

It’s no secret that mental health/wellness has become more and more prevalent as a topic of conversation - as we are bombarded by events playing out on the world stage and of course perpetuated by the media.

In these times as we navigate so many of the changes we see happening / shifts etc the stress and pressure seems to be heightened.

Is the huge dramas and conflicts playing out in the global arena, an opportunity to address our own traumas? As a collective the recycling of these traumas are being expressed through war, conflict, retribution, division, disharmony , anger, hate, separation etc.

Is this not just symptomatic of a world that is looking to transcend and evolve and ultimately heal those traumas, back to integration and wholeness and unity consciousness.

Those on their path of awakening / personal growth etc inevitably will have to address their shadow selves - the wounds and traumas of the past.

Karma or experiences of the past will need to be addressed , healed, integrated in order to be fully whole or what I call holiness.

So I wanted to discuss this topic of coming back to holiness - in some ways this is a continuation of the Seeing All Life As Sacred podcast.

“Holiness” as a new interpretation that transcends the religious context as perhaps it’s original intention of coming back into “wholeness”.

As Ram Dass said : “we’re all just walking each other home”

The greatest journey one can take in their lifetime is the journey back home, to self, to love. In the hero’s journey we are called to adventure from what is known into the unknown, to seek beyond ourselves.

But ultimately we return back to home, ourselves having finally found all we had been looking for within.

Home, healing, whole, holiness…the return back to our divine nature, our formless selves, our spirit our soul.

T.S Eliot quote “We shall cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time”

They say the hardest journey one can ever take is from the head to the heart. 

We construct and curate egoic identities to cope, manage and survive in a world that tells us who we are meant to be or supposed to be in order to feel worthy.

We become prisoners of the mind, living a life that is the illusory self. 

Meanwhile, the parts of our selves we have disconnected and disassociated from, the parts we have abandoned are crying out to be seen, heard, validated and loved. 

These orphaned parts, the aspects we have disowned, abandoned because of shame or guilt are the very parts we must call back to our selves with love, compassion and understanding.

So much of our mental suffering is caused by our attachment to our inner thought narratives, our conditioned mind, programmed in society that ultimately distract us and disembody us from our innate wisdom..we inhabit conditioned beliefs rather than seek the freedom from within, through traditional practices like yoga, meditation and other wellness practices - that lead us, guide us to self - realisation 

Our journey back home is the journey back to wholeness, oneness with all, with our true self, beyond the identity.

We as humans or as a person, a name are a continual process of change -

It’s no wonder we feel so lost, fearful, anxious, depressed when we are living from a fragmented self, constantly having to adhere to an ego construct that is not who we really are. We realise that we suffer in order to gain validation.

 We truly are our own worst inner critics. We carry the traumas of survival into adulthood and look for others to save and love us.

But more often than not, the very people we seek the love, the validation and answers from are operating from the exact space of lack, unworthiness and brokenness. How can they ever give you what they also “lack”?

But the ultimate truth is we are never lacking..we are whole and complete in the eyes of love, the divine, soul God.

That’s why the journey back home to self is to the heart. Your heart is the compass in life, to love. In love you are whole without condition. 

Love is understanding, compassionate, forgiving of all those parts of ourselves we have disowned or abandoned. 

Love is kind, warm and soft. Love is unity and oneness with all things. It’s eternal. It’s source. It’s home. It’s who you are. You are LOVE. 

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