Awakening is Not What You Think
Aloha Gentle Reader,
It is from the West Maui mountains that I bring you this message. My prayer is that through these words you feel the “mana” of this ancient sacred place. “Mana” is the divine power or spiritual energy, an invisible force that flows through all things.
Hawaii is the land of ancient Lemuria. May this energy coming to you now help you to land deeply in your heart and carry to you this message below.
Spirit keeps bringing to my attention lately, the traps and pitfalls of awakening and transcendence.
It is my hope that through this message and the video (that I have made for you below) that you will feel guided and safeguarded on this journey, bringing you healing and understanding. It is my desire to support you in a deeper awakening to your true Self and to have emotional health and integration simultaneously.
Awakening is more than a concept to understand.
We can gain the understanding of what awakening is on a mental level, but until it is integrated and embodied, it is not complete. The integration process takes time. It took the Masters time.
Awakening and emotional health can exist simultaneously. Awakening is a path of inclusion. I have found all parts of the Self want to be liberated. There’s a deep longing for this. In this, there is room for feelings, crying, expressing and healing any wounding. The light of the true Self shines, burns, transmutes, and brings love to these places healing them.
Yet, it can be dangerous and harmful if we delude ourselves. If we come from the mind or in dogma there can be a subtle violence if we push away our emotions, symptoms, and challenges.
You can’t meditate away your emotions.
There’s a very subtle inner movement that is often needed, which is to move towards the emotion with loving awareness. This also could be a body sensation or a challenge that you’re moving towards.
In this way, you stay located in what I call “witnessing awareness”, which is the state of the true Self. You can think of it as "you", located in the background, able to witness and detach from what is occurring in the mind or in the world.
This does not mean that you are not compassionate. Allow compassion, kindness, and open heartedness to flow, and yet there is not attachment. This gives you great freedom to not be taken over by the emotion, but it also safeguards you so that you are not creating a split or re-traumatizing yourself by pushing your inner feelings and psyche parts away.
Awakening is about inclusion and integration.
I invite you to spend some time being in the silence and allowing all parts of you to be present, feel the tenderness and feel the love towards all of yourself. Gently welcome all sensations, emotions, and thoughts without being taken over. See the magic that can occur when you stay with this over time.
May all of you be welcomed home in the bliss of your true being, the Self.
All my love,
Isa Lara Marié
This is for all beings everywhere; may you know wholeness.