Over the last few days, I've been called or emailed by four friends whose gifts of light I have long respected. They all expressed that they were lately more tired and overloaded by the calls upon them for help with the same thing. Right now so many of us who see ourselves as givers are in overwhelm with much of the rest of humanity. Our intent to exercise our spiritual empowerment asks us to remember to allow time and space for our own nurturance.
With our orientation on giving, it is easy to forget that we have a responsibity to nourish ourselves, to do the things in which we find relaxation, a sense of Oneness, calm, and vibrant energy. We can forget meditation entirely, or trim the time that we devote to it.
Another way of saying that is that it's easy to forget the Self. If you are flying in a jet somewhere, and the oxygen gets depleted in the cabin in the cabin, we're told to get the oxygen for yourself first, before assisting others. It's good advice. If you run out of oxygen, your human self cannot serve others and cannot thrive.
"Be the change you want to see", is the saying. This is possible only when you serve the Self to the extent that you take time to meditate and do the Self-nurturing activities and passtimes that turn up your own vibration.
Following is my response to a friend last night who had just detailed her challenge in an email. You may find it useful. Click on your pause button after reading it and ask your heart to express its will and its calm. This is part of the way that we truly wake up.
....First, I think that it is wonderful that you give so much. For me, it is the healer's apparent dillema: Balancing our waking hours between nurturing of Self and focusing on the nurturing of apparent others. I am getting over just giving.
(Not a lecture; in writing this I am clarifying it for myself, kind of a different thing us creative types are wondrous about, and you just happen to be easy to share it with now, the catalyst for my creativity in this moment.)
For when we neglect the nurturing of the self, we cannot be in our full power to lovingly give and we cannot attain that which we came here to do: to fully unfold our loving natures. First responsibility, especially when you are close to the living ascended state, is to fully become that which you came here to become.
So if your intent is to be fully of service, an intent which I think you and I share, then you might choose to consider the possibility that you have a prioritized responsibility to nurture the deep Self so that you are as alive and vibrant as you can be for as many of your waking hours as possible, so that you are radiating maximum light to the world that includes and is You.
I see it often lately: Healers who are wonderful, spirited, loving beings in overwhelm, refusing to take time to nurture themselves.
I see it as my responsibility is to do everything in my power to ensure that the light I am sending to the world is of the highest frequency.
This is only possible to the extent that I am willing to take the time to do the things that nurture me, so that the vibration I emit is bright, spinning at high frequency.
The excuse some make, maybe a last vestige of ego, is that in serving others, they, themselves are served. And that is true, of course. Which doesn't make that a substitute for taking care of your own Self, building your own power, engaging in the activities which are chosen to nurture your own Spirit.
One thing that comes to me to reflect on: It has come out, in the last few years
I think, that Mother Theresa never knew who she was. In other peoples' reflections and in her own writings, we see someone totally disconnected from knowing what nurtured her. And I am betting she has or had a lifetime after that to get the lesson. Maybe the final lesson along the path for some is that, once we get the joy of dedicating ourselves to giving, we allow our selves to more gracefully receive and to give to the Self.
Blessings,
Carlo
