Wake Up and Remember

It is time for us to wake up and remember the future that we came here to create: a future born of a distinct paradigm. Do you remember the future where you express your authentic unique self, and we are part of the same seamless Universe? A future where we are ONE yet each of us is an irreplaceable unique gift? A future where being our authentic gift provides the oxygen needed to heal humanity, and where we are undeniably connected to each other in mind, heart, body and spirit. If we are to heal our planet, our job is to uniquely shine and simultaneously love ALL of humanity.

From your Ego’s perspective, choosing authentic love is not smart or rational. I am not talking about mushy love or cordial hypocrisy. Authentic love is a commitment to suspend our Ego, and to give deeply to another for the sake of their higher good whatever that may be, regardless of fear or how it feels. The authentic self is willing to stay open to love even when it is dark, scary, or the tide of the drift’s negativity is strong.

 The Ego in Transformation’s Clothing

Waking up to your gorgeous authentic unique self is only a small piece in the puzzle. “Feeling good about yourself” an even smaller piece. If we are to truly transform this planet we need to wake up to our interconnectedness and be willing to be source for ALL of humanity.   On this journey, we need to stay mindful of the Ego’s games and manipulations. The Ego is a covert fellow who can come dressed in Transformation’s clothing, and may look good, smell good, and taste good, but the Ego is closed and separate. The Ego is not open to every living being, and has no desire or ability to come from interconnectedness. The Ego protects and makes wrong. At best, we find a tribe of similar people and separate ourselves from the others who we blame. Our tribe is right and the other tribe wrong, our team wins, and the other team loses. Our consciousness is better than your consciousness.

When Ego is involved, we can feel empathy and connection with our larger community but still isolate and slowly destroy outsiders. We do it to ourselves, our families, at work, at school, on the Internet, in the streets, in wars. Our need to protect our Ego has blinded us; even those of us who say we are transformed. When a tragedy happens do we look to ourselves for causality and compassion for all? Of course not, usually the engine of blame begins. Our relationship isn’t working, we kill it and make it wrong, to justify our choice to leave. Our job isn’t working, we kill it and make it wrong, to justify our choice to leave and find a new one. We righteously make our parents, institutions, teachers, and friends wrong, to justify our choices. We justify being negative and separate, while pretending to be the source of love; and we find others to agree with us.

The work of transformation takes discipline and persistence. If we want to go to the Olympics and win the gold, we need to be rigorous. Instead, some settle for hugs and good feelings and are deluded into believing they are transformed. If only it was that easy! Transformation does not live in a context of wrong making or separation. Hating yourself, blaming others or believing miracles do not exist punctures the seamless fabric of our Connectedness.

Expressing Your Authentic Unique Self

Remember the future that you came here create. The future that has you give your authentic unique self to everyone. The future that has you open your arms with love, compassion and empathy for ALL beings, for the sake of their higher good.

Have you forgotten that we will live or die on this adventure together? The past, present and future exist in our willingness to love through the pain. We get to look into the mirror of our fear of failure, ineffectiveness, need for approval and lack of perfection and see our unique gold and the gold of humanity. We get to forgive others and ourselves for being stupid at times and run by that covert Ego. We get to smile at the Ego that fights to preserve its identity and choose the undeniable love our future requires.

 What if our job during this brief journey in human form is to honor the wondrous seamless Universe we are all connected to, express our authentic unique self to the world and have others express theirs? What if this job is our most vital mission?

Dr. Lori Todd