11/04/2025
We know we can change ourselves when we realize that we are not dependent on how we feel, nor on how others feel about us, nor on what the situation is around us.
The values we hold, the choices we make within ourselves and for ourselves remain our prerogative.
In most situations, if we begin to change, to do our own inner work, to accept our own darkness and work toward consciousness, the situation will change.
We will begin to emanate a different energy, one that exudes a sense of autonomy and authenticity.This process of self-realization is the embodying of spirit in the fifth chakra.This is the throat chakra, and has to do with being able to speak one’s own truth.
Here one’s truth becomes the expression of a journey already undertaken, of facing the fear of aloneness, of refusing to listen to the voices of conformity that would smile and suck our lifeblood, and lay us in eiderdown to die.
This is an inward journey that usually begins on a wild, stormy night.
It takes great resolve to enter into the darkness of our own chaos, to give up the familiar path and begin to trust our own experience.The recognition and unconditional love of oneself is never a selfish journey.
Most people, if challenged to love themselves unconditionally for fifteen minutes, reel in embarrassment.
“What is love without judgment? How can I love myself so long as I am this assertive little prick? What does that mean—love unconditionally?”
Ultimately, that is what the journey is about....
Marion Woodman, Dancing In Flames
Art: Peter Birkhäuser
