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Holding Up a Mirror
By: Carol Goddard
When I realize that everything is a mirror giving me feedback on my journey, any judgment or resentment of others becomes a gift from them allowing me to see and explore an aspect of me that I hadn't previously looked at. With this awareness that those
around me are reflecting back to me aspects of myself, I have the opportunity to dissolve judgment, resentment and fear, as I see the gift they are giving me. This allows my inner love, gratitude, ease and grace to shine.
I have come to realize that we are all amazingly creative, we are 'painters', painting on our canvas of life, and what ever we can comprehend and 'paint' becomes the experience of our lives.
Some of us paint with broad brush strokes and others bring the subtleties to life. Because we so wanted to fully experience the 'painting' we stepped into it. And in stepping into the painting, and fully experiencing it we forget that it was a painting and that we could step out at any time and see it all and appreciate its beauty.
We paint what ever we are next to experience, to see the fullness of the experience: the dark and light, night and day, once we see and then experience the wholeness, we have a sense of completeness of the experience.
If you are only seeing or experiencing one aspect eg. Seeing only the dark of the experience, the experience will feel incomplete. So in an ongoing effort to understand the experience fully we recreate similar experiences -- paint another painting and so give ourselves another opportunity to see and experience the wholeness of the experience, the dark and the light.
When we see the completeness, the positive and the negative extremes merge and we experience love. Then you no longer need to keep re creating that experience.
If you find yourself in repetitive situations where the same 'theme' keeps recurring over and over, and you want to 'get it' this time, then I invite you to step back and see that what you have been seeing is one aspect, one perspective and realize that no one perspective can hold the entire truth of the matter.
Stepping out of the picture is a metaphor it is really a stepping up to a higher vibration, you are still in a picture, one that is at a lighter, higher vibration, less dense, less solid. Awakening is this process, it is a remembering.
The gentleness and beauty of this process is that we start to rouse, start to awaken, it comes from within, and we start to bring people into our world to mirror to us so that we can see and understand what is happening.
It is not about throwing a bucket of ice water over someone to 'wake them up', what a shock that would be, it would be like plucking someone out of their 'painting', and how arrogant of us to think that we knew what was in someone else's best interests, it is their journey.
It is about allowing people to 'sleep', experiencing being in their 'painting' and as you notice someone waking up, starting to step out of their 'painting', and they start asking questions, guide them to find the answers within, it is their awakening.
Our awakening is our remembering that we are a painter and that to fully experience the 'painting' we stepped into it, our awakening is our stepping out seeing another perspective, if you are in the process of stepping out and seeing your 'painting' from a different perspective, realizing that you are the Painter on your canvas of life, welcome home!
Carol invites you to come and be with her and see reflected to you what lies within.
© Carol Goddard 2008 ABOUT THE AUTHOR
'Soul Whisperer'
Carol Goddard has the 'rare' ability to lead you to your essence. This allows you to be Free.
Carol is an Australian author and presenter, a reminder of who we are. Carol's offering is her Open Heart and the Deepening Remembrance of her own Essence, Carol offers programs both locally and globally. Please visit www.CarolGoddard.net
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