Relearning How To Be Ourselves Honestly

Images and Collage by Leigh Aschoff | OMAYARI

So much of healing and spiritual practices are remembering and relearning how to be ourselves honestly. ⁣
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As we do our spiritual healing work within our own willingness and time, we ignite a larger flame of our essence and tend to what this light reveals within us. These forgotten and dismembered parts seem to keep a line open to our body even though they found home in our subconscious. ⁣
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As we practice and do our spiritual work, it is natural to become attached to seeing the full picture of ourselves as we heal or perhaps a desire to be aware of it all as it is happening. Is it possible? ⁣
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Sometimes that type of contraction devolves into a surrendering expansion that dwells more in sentience than intellect or will. ⁣
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Staying with ourself throughout the process of being alive is truly an incredible path. It is actually very challenging to stay aligned with oneself constantly while also participating in being breathed by creative forces so much larger than us. And this is another aspect of the paradox: holding and letting go, both wedded by a “yes and”, as well as a willingness to receive along the way. ⁣
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I made this image for open eye meditation. The collage process involves a lot of what I describe here and it’s something I enjoy very much as running a strong parallel journey to spiritual, emotional and intellectual maturing (karmic lessons and soul learning). ⁣