Becoming Who We Were Created To Be

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What if healing isn’t about becoming someone new?

And what if spiritual awakening is not about evolving the self, 'raising our vibration', ascending, ( or descending ), elevating our consciousness, or reaching for enlightenment.. etc.?

( there will be further blog explorations around these ).

What if it’s about uncovering who we’ve always been - beneath the fear, the trauma, the conditioning, the shame .. and all the innumerable ways we’ve learned to protect ourselves?

I think many of us spend years trying to fix ourselves.

We search for the next healing modality, energy technique, training, plant medicine..

The next retreat.

The next course.

The next breakthrough.

The next peak experience.

Always believing that if we could just find one more missing piece.. or feel a little more empowered..

Practice enough meditation, or yoga, or ecstatic breath-work.

Or afford to sign up to work with that perfect seeming coach or teacher, who seems to 'have it all' ~ then we’d finally become enough!!

Or - reach that place we think we are supposed to!

But what if that idea right there is the trap. What if there was never anything fundamentally wrong with us - at our core?

And what if theres actually nowhere that we ourselves can personally attain to?

What if our deepest Self & identity never disappeared at all?

Perhaps it’s simply been hidden beneath layers of survival. Or shame, or fear, or protection..

Healing, then, becomes less about creating a new empowered identity and more about softly remembering.

Awakening, becomes less about attainment, and more about surrender and listening.

Not remembering anything like affirmations or internal pep talks.

But the simple easy remembering of who we are. Who we were already uniquely created to be.

I’ve found that this remembering doesn’t happen through striving.

It happens through gently meeting the parts of ourselves we’ve spent years avoiding:

The frightened child

The perfectionist.

The people pleaser.

The protector.

And not to get rid of them.

To instead - understand them.

To love them.

I would boldly say that - ALL of us have "wounds of Love" - wounds created early on by love, or the lack of love.

All those wounds, and the self-protective patterns that arise from them, simply need one thing to heal - Love.

Not small 'l' love ( human conditional love), but the big Love with a capital 'L' ( Unconditional vaster Love - the stuff we are truly made from at our core ).

Little by little, as this Love reaches into all our wounded places we become less ruled by our wounded parts.

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Perhaps becoming who we were created to be isn’t a dramatic moment.

Perhaps it’s a lifelong journey of returning. And a sweet unveiling that teaches us - to become better humans.

Some questions to reflect on…

• Which are the parts of me that feel most authentic? Which feel parts of my authentic nature?

• Who do i remember being in my essence as a child?
  

• Which parts of me have developed simply to survive?

• What would it feel like to live from my deepest values rather than my deepest fears?

• If nothing needed fixing, what might healing actually look like?

• Who might I become if I stopped trying to be someone else?

• Who would i be, if i hadn't experienced the.. trauma / bullying / abuse / neglect / rejection / loss / abandonment / ______ <-- ( fill the blank) that led me to creating an identity and life based on survival ?

That last Q is one of my favourite. And can, understandably, bring a lot of grief with it.

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Maybe the journey home isn’t about becoming more impressive. or awakened, or unique.

Maybe it’s about becoming more fully ourselves again. 😊

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If anything about this post resonated with you, or the questions moved something in you and you'd like to explore these topics more deeply for yourself, - feel free to reach out with a message or enquire about working together. warmly

Laura - The Way Home

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