On a Night of a Genius Moon
There are generational traumas being healed in my family, by the matriarchs that were once presently being hurt by those same traumas. It’s like a chain undoing its corroded knots and regaining its strength. My mom is taking action everyday to heal herself and her social environment to protect her peace and sanity. She’s having to look at her past to understand her present patterns and learn how to transform them into boundless intuitive action- owning her own narrative.
I’m proud of her and I appreciate having her in my life. I don’t tell her that enough and she needs to know it. She deserves to know it.
Today, I was reminded of how important it is to take the focus off of you for a second- and watch your ego unfold. It can be painfully shocking how self absorbed one can come to be when life seems to be gracefully unfolding for you. The blessings, moments, opportunities I receive can sometimes led me to forget how important it is to sometimes step out of your own narrative and hear others. Get inspired by someone else’s blessings, thank someone else’s beauty. I believe there can be healthy ways of coping with ego-self led mechanisms.
What I mean by this is, ‘how do I heal the ego to not let it affect my choice of action?’
Thing is, it probably will in some way. Ego is another expression of the Over-Soul (more on that later).
The more loving way of approaching it for me would be asking, “How can I use ego to serve others too?” - One answer could be to follow your Dharmic desires to heal the ego and thus, transform those desires and passions to serve others and ether.
Something I have started practicing is saying words of kindness to others without expectations. Look past superficialities and into the essence of someone.
I think of superficiality like an invisibility cloak (HP reference, cause we know what’s up) that unfolds around all of us, and we can enter it and be covered by it, but never really get to be wrapped around by it. We can feel it, but we can’t grab it. Superficiality is like wanting to hold all of the other person in your arms, but never even really getting close to touching them. It’s like two beings feeling the electricity between them and never acting on it.
Superficiality it’s negating the embrace of authenticity that wants to be wrapped around all of us. I like being hugged with authenticity. I love embracing people - both physically and metaphysically - and I don’t do it enough. It’s a great practice to bring ego down back to earth, and remind yourself how important the ground is for stability and balance after too much solo flying.
This whole thought came to be as I watched tonight’s genius moon. I hope you can see it from where you are. If you missed it, here is a picture of my grandma’s centrepiece cause, damn, I fell in love with it too.
ps. (here’s a pretty Guatemalan plant for you, Mads)
With all the Love I Am
♥,
la lejana