Freedom from Limiting Patterns: From Enslavement to Freedom and Empowerment

Sacred wounds are a pathway to peace, especially in our relationships with others. As we free ourselves from resentments and learn to forgive- and as a result gain peace- we find we have more inner space into which we can expand and flourish. The peace and freedom we earn through forgiveness is exhilarating and connects us with the joy of life.

After awhile though, we may notice that we are not as free as we hoped to be, that we are bound in other ways that require our attention. This can be discouraging, because we may have hoped we had already crossed through the worst of our inner terrain. However, bumping into our limits is cause for celebration, because it alerts us to the fact that we have both grown, and have room to grow. Any time we collide with internal walls and barriers we were unaware of, we can interpret this as a good sign. Such collisions are evidence that we are growing, expanding,and reaching into new territories of our being. The fact we still have some old, calcified structures within us in not really a problem. As we progress, we learn how to navigate these realms, pass through our personal difficulties, and press on toward new and uncharted possibilities. At this stage of our work, we stand at the threshold of profound personal liberation.

When we first step on the path, whether were rushing at it headlong or have been brought to it kick and screaming, we encounter a honeymoon phase. This period is categorized by countless synchronicity that capture our awareness, by amplified energy for everyday living, and by a sense of being immune from the grit of everyday life. Then as we progress and our awareness deepens, we observe that we are not exactly in the place we would like to be. We have ideals, a sense of potential, and transformed attitudes that we thought would surely guarantee our catapult over the stresses and strains of normal human existence. But disappointment and disillusionment take hold as we find it nearly impossible to live up to our ideals and potential.

We initially think there is something "out there" that is preventing us from expressing ourselves fully. It is easy for us to identify those external causes of our failures: parents, spouses, bosses, culture, our upbringing, our financial status, illness- anything really that just seems to be in our way. We then dedicate ourselves to clearing the way of obstruction to our own well-deserved good- often with positive results. But after some success, we find ourselves back at square one. That space where we come to face to face with the fact that our outer reality is but an expression of our inner world. That means every external villain is a karmic mirror of our personal reality.

Once we come to terms with this truth, we can abandon the game of rearranging our external world and get down to the business of permanent transformation.

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