Giving your essence....

Take a breathe and give yourself some space to read this........

I can remember the moment I received this teaching- it created a huge AHA, as well as a grief with the resonant true feeling of it.

That as a young being, how our giving of love was treated often has the most lasting impact on us. Even more so than how we did or did not receive love.

This is because our LOVE is our ESSENCE. When we reach out in an act of love, we are actively expressing our essence. And if it is not received, seen, or met, if it is ridiculed or shamed, then we unconsciously internalize that our very ESSENCE is wrong. That something central and core to us should be rejected. And this causes a huge inner split as we try to distance ourselves, in our hearts, minds, emotions, or actions, from the very thing we can NEVER distance ourselves from. Ourselves. 

The hook of our dualistic plane is that none of us is able to give and receive love without sometimes causing pain. Those people who could not see you, meet you, receive you- they were in their own pain and problems, whether they acknowledged that or not. They did not reject you because of something wrong inside of YOU, but because of a wound inside of them. And they spread that wound and I am so sorry, For you, for me, for all of us. For all the ways we spread and receive wounds. 

Whether this has happened to you in a large or small way, whether it was from a caregiver, a peer, a teacher, or the culture, I want you to know; your expression of love, your ESSENCE is wanted and needed right here and right now.

Energy never dies, and your core essence and love is never gone. Your vibrant life and your shining heart is alive in this very moment- no matter what has happened before and no matter what happens later.

Open the space kindly for your own essence to flow back in, the current inside of you rises now. Your essence adding to the symphony of the world..

photo by: jill marie