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How to Unblock Your Light
The challenge we face, when committed to healing, is embracing the giant paradox at the heart of all healing: we are both the lifeguard on shore and the one who is drowning in the waves.
In other words, we are the only ones who can pull ourselves out of our own suffering.
Other people can love us and support us and hold a vision of healing alongside us. But we are the only ones who can transform our pain into empowerment. We do it through our thinking. We do it through our beliefs.
When we believe it’s possible to live differently, to live with less darkness and less hurt, we are inspired to take steps toward improving our circumstances. We pay closer attention to our inner voice — which is often an internalized soundtrack of all the voices we grew up listening to.
How familiar are you with the tone of your inner voice?
Personally, one of the reasons meditation is so important in my life is because it generates enough silence inside of me that I can hear the tone of my inner voice. I can get a better sense of which tapes are rolling.
If I don’t tune inward regularly to listen, it feels like I’m driving with a blindfold on. I become a victim of my own unconscious programming. This is a deeply disempowered way of living.