by Chris Cade
“There actually are great spiritual secrets. They exist.
The thing about spiritual secrets is that you can tell them openly.
Because the ability to understand something and then the power to integrate into your life are two very different things.”
– Guy Finley
As people on the path of conscious living, we almost always have a gap between what we know and how we live. That’s not a bad thing. It’s just that living 100% of what we believe to be true is difficult because there’s so many subconscious barriers to doing it.
We might live 75% of what we know on one day. Then life challenges shift us closer to 50%. Then we do some inner work, and it bounces up to 80%. And this process continues. This kind of “two steps forward one step back” is fundamental on the path of conscious living.
On one hand, we can punish ourselves emotionally for not doing what we “know” is right. That’s the Inner Critic taking its hold on us. Telling us we “know better” and “should do better.”
On the other hand, we can accept our humanity and recognize that each step “back” is an opportunity to learn. Learn what?
How to take those two steps forward! 🙂
This is the process of growth. It’s the choice we make when we no longer choose to allow other people and life circumstances decide everything for us. As you know, it’s not an easy path.
No more evident has this been to me than in the last couple of months. It’s not like my “Dark Night of the Soul” has suddenly disappeared. These times have been immensely difficult for me. Each day seems to be that struggle between steps forward and backward. Sometimes my Inner Critic counts the steps:
“Oh, Chris. You took THREE steps backward today and only one step forward. You could have done more. You should have done more.”
Yeah, that Inner Critic can be cunning (to put it “mildly”) at times. Fortunately, I don’t take it as seriously as I used to.
Sure it says things I may not appreciate. By not giving its words the weight and power that -it- wants to have, I don’t have to experience the pain that the Inner Critic tries to inflict.
I look beneath the words to see the scared little voice trying to control, limit, and diminish my life. I realize I don’t have to listen to it if I don’t want to.
And neither do you…
Your Partner In Transformation,
Chris Cade
Liberate Your Life
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