Our spiritual life provides us with a clue. Many are those who like to stay in their comfort zone, a place where they feel safe and unthreatened. This is done through an identity acquired through beliefs and attachments to which they can relate and therefore feel safe.
Our beliefs about ourselves also contribute to our perception of who we are. If we tend to be easily angry, for example, it is a sign that we let ourselves believe that we are certain of what we think or say, as if we hold the whole truth about anything. Our beliefs get challenged and our identity bruised…..
One need to be aware that having an identity is nothing more than enclosing oneself in a box where two things might happen. Either, one becomes too big headed and thinks that he knows it all or else feel deluded and helpless. Both situations cut a person off from being open to growth and expansion.
To grow spiritually we need to strip ourselves from any attachments to let ourselves be open in receiving new insights. Having no particular identity gives one a great sense of freedom. There is no argument to win or lose and other aspects to a situation could be happily explored.
As a baby in his mother’s womb is nourished through the umbilical cord, we, likewise, get our inspiration to our ongoing needs from our higher universal powers that get tapped to us through our higher chakras that connect us to our divine source. But we need to let this route open for such reception. If we encase ourselves with a patina of ‘identity’ issues we are risking losing this spiritual nourishment from reaching us.
Like a child we need to be open to possibilities and viewpoints beyond any rigid thinking while still using our discretion.
It is a time of taking decisions boldly – rather than keep deliberating about them - with the understanding that in spite of the best of intentions our decisions might still be faulty (on hindsight) - and that is fine too provided we can learn to take home something out of the outcome – whatever it is.
Our actions need to be motivated by love but without the necessity for attachments to results that will hold us back in our spiritual growth.
We are free beings nourished by a higher source. That is what we are. Any acquired identity will only handicap us from moving forward.
Article and photo by Mary Attard
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