We so often forget that we are here to love the self regardless of what has been and what is. It is an unconditional existence, this life–that is, it is given to us by God without strings attached. Our presence is its own justification for being. It isn’t something we have to earn or deserve.
But how seldom we are able to accept this. Our most frequent thought is that we are unworthy. If we don’t say it out loud, we think it, which is just as powerful a means of persuading ourselves we are right. We act as our own harshest critic most of the time. How often in a single day do we tell ourselves we are loved and have significance, no matter what is going on? How often do we dare to suggest to ourselves that we are precious evidence of God’s presence on earth? Our habit–and our choice–is to deny such things readily. Far easier, we seem to find, is it to declare we have done nothing to deserve God’s love and care.
What makes us deny our own validity? We hold on to more reasons perhaps than we can count, drawn from and influenced by family, society, culture, experience. There are people working with remarkable acuity in deciphering some of the reasons for us, people whose work is extraordinary, like Margaret Lynch, Eckhart Tolle, Mary Morrissey, and Anthony Robbins. There are such effective modalities, like Ho’oponopono with Dr. Hew Len, the work of Jane Roberts in the Seth books, and the energy healing of Donna Eden. They all continue a tradition through the ages of helping to empower others. In the early twentieth century another group of people appeared doing the same thing, including among them Ernest Holmes, Edgar Cayce, Emmett Fox, Napoleon Hill. The essential thought shared by these speakers and teachers is that we are inherently worthy. They seek to help us remove the blinders we have accepted to this truth and to know our own inner light, which is always and forever with us.
What about our mistakes, some of which could be egregious in our minds, or what about injustice done to us? Thoughts of both reinforce our feelings of inadequacy. It is just about impossible to let go of those thoughts–they stay clamped to us.
The thing is, letting go is actually very simple. We say out loud “I let go of this.” We say it every time the same thought appears. If we do this faithfully for a week, something amazing–something astonishing–happens. The thought loses power, may even become entirely powerless, and stays that way. At whatever level we want it to exist, or not exist, so it is.
The dragonfly lives in its nymph state for several years, but only a few days or weeks once it has emerged into the adult stage. During that time it has been known to migrate across oceans, and its flight patterns can move in all directions in the instant, if it needs to, as well as hover in one place observing what is going on. Like all non-human creatures on the earth, the dragonfly has a complete acceptance of its rightness of being. How long it exists is not in question. It goes around obstacles in the midst of flight. Realizing its full potential is a given, for whatever time it lives.
We are the same, whether we see this yet or not. We are living even now in the rightness of our being.
