Saturday, July 18, 2009

Dark Night of the Soul (and a cup o joe)

I think its the simple things in life that get us through the hard times. Part of my spiritual development is when I get accelerated or go through changes with my antenna (psychic gifts or as I like to call them spidey senses) I experience what has been know by spiritual folk from time immemorial as "The Dark Night of the Soul". To put this into very basic terms its what ever you have deemed not ok about yourself (family members who are stuck themselves or society at large may have told you as well some behavior or gift was inappropriate) or quality you might have that you were shamed about. As humans we relegate this to the unconscious. The only problem; it is usually those qualities we have learned not to like about ourselves and to subjugate, that are a more authentic expression of who we are.

If we are growing spiritually, developing our soul, and living our life's purpose here on Earth we must go through these times of cleansing in order to excavate the old outworn ways of being, heal, die to those beliefs and bring in the new. Sometimes if we have been holding back our growth, this can feel very unpleasant and create a great deal of havoc in our lives.

That is why I like to focus on the simple things in life to get through those times. Like for example a good cup of Joe. What you see here in the photo is a cup of coffee in a fav mug and my construction worker's thermos I got for fifty cents at a garage sale. Just seeing these items in the morning and brewing my organic fair trade coffee helps me to get through the worst of the ugly meanies that seem to surface at this time, in order that I can break through and be the beautiful butterfly that I am really meant to be.

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