WHiP It! The Wisdom of Wholeness

How many of us feel empty, disconnected from our work, perhaps even from our significant others, but still maintain 'status quo' living? Many of us can even feel disconnected from ourself. There is a sort of apathy, a sense of sleepwalking putting one foot in front of the other, yet not living, existing. We become entrained as a society whereby many become victims to other modes of 'perceived power vs.  own Life experience.  Take for example, arbitrary rules, advertising, the news that pours into your living environment or handed down mandates from the government, other people, systems, their ideas and opinions or even, expectations -- conscious or not. All THAT somehow subconsciously designs our choices, our priorities and preferences- ultimately, our lives.  This puts us in the default mode of living -meaning just passing time on the planet as a human without a conscious choosing to 'live-life-by-design' approach. 

The gift of being human, in every possible and probable way -- physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually -- is ours to pull forth from child to aging adult. The opportunity to evolve, expand and emerge our life's experience is based on the sense of choice which invites us to become the latest, greatest version of our pure-hearted most truest garnered self.  

Many of us have felt disempowered, displaced, discounted and deeply insecure as youngin's so much so that we have recapitulated a state of separation that we take deep into our adulthood. It may show itself in who we choose for a partner, what and how we do business and who we bow to as our god/s.. This is all a symptom of feeling as well as being separated from our connection to something much larger than ourselves. The gift is we get to CHOOSE our life. We get to co-participate on this journey here, in this time...in this space, now.

In my life it has been so difficult to define myself by one thing vs. another. In fact, I thought I HAD to do so this creating a separation from the "real" me.  I, somehow from a very early age, intuited that we are all pieces of a reflected whole, an interweaving so to speak.

"The sense that there was something more than what met the eye. I felt it. The prismatic, the fractal pieces of one divine presence or life force, such as the notion 'the ocean is inside the drop and the drop is inside the ocean" is what gives us this wisdom. Who knew that an ocean drop is a zip file to something ever greater and even more universal?  Can we take this metaphor and apply it to how we, as humans, use our gift of being alive in this time and space?"

Take this universal view of interconnectedness and apply it to all the current events of politicking, social behaviors, diseases, ethical practices of medicine, business -- to the challenge of accepting alternative medicine and it's practices as a viable accepted options -- and just the drive of mass media and it's influence on how we prioritize, work and think. 

We still think there is a box, so whether you step into it, out of it or even on it, the real question is, why a box? Who needs a box? Those who wish to separate want a box and need one to speak from. What possibilities of an expanded awareness of potential would that open up?

We have lost connection to our interconnectedness.

If we take the premise, as the Tantrikas do, that life is to be affirmed, woven and stretched. Meaning we embrace how life unfolds and expresses itself -- from the sweetest to the most profane- to the whole spectrum of human experience.  Then, 'the good, the bad and the ugly' phenomenon invites us to see that all people, events, places and things are interconnected, coming out of a life wishing to express itself - as itself.

This philosophy is not Pollyana-ish in thinking that we should have fairytales with 'happily ever afters' that look and feel like "happily ever afters," but mostly what we are given and what is created is often better than what we thought we wanted. We rise above, over and through to this new evolved version of ourselves. We are the very idea, the purpose, the gift -- in manifest form -- of what the universe was trying to give to us. We are the gift seeking itself. We are the diversifications, individually, of the "One," connecting to and fro -- from the universal to the individual.- and back again. 

We are the ever-greater individual drop of a universal ocean.

So when we remember and see ourselves as whole beings, much like jigsaw puzzle pieces sitting in a box, waiting to put together, we can then return back to the "Whole Life" we were meant to live in this new year of 2023 and beyond. When we wake up, awaken to the truth that we are a part of a grand play then we make choices that continually and recursively affirm life's desire to live, to create and to express the more-ness we all so desire, from a place of an integrated inherency of the whole. We are all little oak trees disguised as acorns, dancing in the cool fall. Underground we are all in the same experience of the darkness, rooting and trusting that what magically transforms acorns to trees, does in fact, happen to us, if we just allow life to be life with love. Ah. 

With that said, in the technological world of curation, the process of filtering information on a topic, we are all curators of our own lives. We get to be a part of the filtering process of what life shows us -- we get to pick, choose, and apply discernment of HOW we wish to roll. Will it be the "old" way -- to live with the "love of power" and linear thinking, boxes of separation --- or, my choice,- will we get to embrace the age-old premise of the 'power of love,' with it's interconnectedness creating whole living inside our lives and all the potentials and possibilities that offers. We can choose to align to the power and forces of the 'One' who expresses itself as US, whose creator is made of the power of love. 

My earning power, or the way I do business, the way I relate to anyone -- no matter color, class or creed, no matter starlet or pauper -- is infused with love worn as my power pack, always was, and always will be. 

This is my dream -- to serve fully, engage with those who choose love, connection and humility in a time of great opportunity. Just imagine.