Step Towards Freedom!
You will free yourself when you learn to be neutral and follow the instructions of your heart without letting things perturb you. This is the way of MAAT.
A Kemetic Proverb
We’ve been talking about acceptance for a while now. The reason is that acceptance is so key to embodying the MAATian principle of TRUTH. And it is living our truth that gives us the capacity to live as a person who is spiritally free.
But sometimes it all feels so complicated!
Sometimes I need something simple and clear. The ancient Egyptian proverb above is simple and clear: be neutral, follow the instructions of your heart, don’t let things perturb you. Let me take some deep breaths, calm my mind to just do what it says, right?
But I know somebody’s thinking, ‘You don’t know what I’ve been through – what I’m going through right now!’ Somebody’s feeling like the title to the song, “I’m Glad I Don’t Look Like What I Been Through.”
It can be almost impossible to be neutral or follow the instructions of our hearts or not let things perturb us sometimes. I don’t know about you, but some days I need help!
HELP, Holy Spirit!
Help is always just a prayer away.
Calling on God for help IS a prayer!
Sometimes I need help to be neutral when I feel like I've been wronged by someone, or to hear the instructions of my heart more clearly, or to not get perturbed by stuff and people. There are days I need help to be able to really not react to the news, or the paper on the floor next to the trash can the person I live with left there instead of picking it up. These are times I need prayer and more! So in addition to my cry to God to help me move through my initial response which does not result in me feeling good about anybody -- myself or whatever other person or persons are involved -- these are a few other things that bring me back to neutrality, heart-centeredeness and inner peace:
Take a walk outside – even in the winter, if it’s not too cold
If it is too cold outside, dancing up a sweat inside is great
Journaling – writing down exactly how I’m feeling and why and what next steps are needed
Playing with colors – painting with water colors or coloring with pencils or markers in an adult coloring book
playing my violin
Lighting some incense or a candle, putting on some soothing music and reading something healing or just staring out the window
Doing a Sudoku puzzle
Taking a nap
Taking a healing bath with salt and essential oil
Talking with with a really good friend
All of the above!
There are things we can do to help ourselves continue to practice the ways of love and peace, even on the days that feel tough to do so.
The more we practice doing the things that help, the less time it takes to bounce back.
After a while we embody our truth --THE truth -- much more consistently – whatever else may being going on in the world, we are loved, we are loving, we are lovable – and we are FREE!
What are some of the things you do to move toward spiritual freedom?
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