by Astara
All of us have a glitch in our matrix created by the mind. The mind’s urgent need to know everything generates certainty. It’s fabulous at analyzing the past, measuring, strategizing for the future, planning routes of safety, defining roles, and sorting functional from non-functional. That’s the protective personality’s job. Your mind can do many amazing tasks, but mostly it is trying to love you best by helping you survive. We measure the world from our level of consciousness. Oftentimes the mind concocts rigid notions of right and wrong, good and bad, in its attempts to protect and simplify.
This urge for certainty creates contraction in your body and field, which limits your perception and your expression. Be loving towards the underlying root of your certainty: your body is telling you that your soul is evolving and your personality needs to anchor as soon as possible. The contraction itself is biofeedback that you are facing into expansion you may not have the circuitry for. And the body will help you build more capacity.
If you find a better way to anchor, turn to the body, and do it on-purpose — your life changes.
Gently squeeze all your muscles. Walk briskly. Breathe deep. Claim your truth out loud. Run your energy through your body in a positive way. The certainty symptom will dissolve in short order and be replaced by a more effective embodied means of contraction. If you try to contract through the mind or anchor through certainty, your field of existence narrows. It blocks your inherent magnificence and everyone else’s for that matter. If held long enough, such intractability eventually affects your overall health. Thank your mind for doing its job, then give the rigid urgency a metaphorical coloring book.
Take a moment and try a juicier approach to your day and every day. Choose curiosity instead.
Being curious softens you. Curiosity converts narrow into wide open. Being interested is the antidote to a closed mind. Suddenly you embrace the miracle you are, able to contract and expand at the same time, just like a tree that sends its roots down while growing toward the sun.
Put your hand on your heart as if to say “here.” Breathe a little slower and deeper. Gently tug the corners of your lips up. Blink your eyes a few times to see the world in a new dimensional reality. Notice the beauty around you and inside everything. Be okay not knowing (your heart knows though). Or as Mary Oliver says “Pay attention. Be astonished.” Ask more questions. Your energetic field begins to expand again. Your inner pharmacy starts to throw a party. A gentler inner peace starts to flow. Joy eventually shows up.
You just might bump into your own magnificence.
Thank you Elizabeth Gilbert for the reminder.
