Looking beyond

For me the worst sort of emptiness (hardness really) is the refusal to look beyond yourself. Being in the process, rather than locked into a condition, is having it in your heart to look beyond all the time: looking beyond is the process. Of course this looking must spring from a place of power, and it is only by springing (exchanging energy) that we truly dwell. Then our root is the process – the creative process – and not the place. Spirit is released from earth and a peaceful death is possible. Always bringing spirit back to earth (earthing the current) will lead to depression and the inability to work from and with the heart.

Refusing to look beyond is an arrogance: being convinced that the world is as it appears to be, or worse still, as one would like it. People who are fearful, frightened, shy, timid, sensitive, are often so because there is some aspect of looking beyond that they cannot turn off, and so the world that comes in is always slightly too much. For such people there are two therapeutic paths to ease their discomfort. The first is the wrong one: allowing an external agency to convince that the answer is a desensititizing – cutting out the looking beyond (assertiveness training). The second is simply coming to the realisation that wholeness and healing are not only possible but inevitable and, what's more, your birthright. And the only real teacher is life itself, which teaches best when engaged whole-heartedly. Such engagement is possible when you realise you have nothing to lose. Such realisation is possible when spirit and humour (lightness) are allowed in. It is you that allows this.