Self Realization
Posted on March 22, 2016 by Anna Horst, One of Thousands of Life Coaches on Noomii.
True security and safety reside only within. When we align with our authentic self & express from that we will start creating the life of our dreams!
The process of self realization starts to occur the moment we make the choice to follow our innermost desires towards healing, alignment, refinement and expansion of our awareness. When we are on the consciously aware path of self growth and alignment all experiences can be used to learn from, and then the lessons implemented, to enhance our everyday experience and day to day reality.
We move along the path like a dance; a dance with a rhythm, an ebb and a flow. Sometimes we may be progressing forward. At times we’re hibernating inwards. Other times it feels we are going backwards. All the while, just flowing in the energetic procession of an upward spiral, more and more closely aligning with the truest expressions of our most authentic self, which innately exists as the energies of absolute freedom, unconditional love and eternal beauty.
The dance can be felt as an unveiling, an uncovering and remembering of who we really are. We peel back the layers that are blocking us from our truest expressions of self; a gorgeous play of continuous rediscovery, experientially revealing our innermost being, ever aligning more fully with our true sense of self; perceiving the vastness of our infinitely divine nature more and more.
Awakening is the process of realizing our true nature and finding our place in the world. Awakening can be seen as a re-birth; the birth of our most authentic self, and therefore, expression of our inner truth.
The first step of awakening is usually one of disillusionment. We are disillusioned as we start seeing through the society-created systems of the world around us. We start to realize the ‘pursuit of happiness’ through financial security, career based success and material wealth holds little permanent value for our inner being. We realize the goals we’ve held for so long are only false illusions of external pleasures used to temporarily comfort our aching heart.
When we constantly look for outside gratification, external security and comfort it’s because we are living and expressing from a place of internal lack. We grasp for things which we feel we don’t have. We search, look and seek for that which we don’t already feel within. If we felt satisfied, whole and fulfilled within then there is nothing external that is necessary to make it so. When we feel a void within we seek to fill it with external pleasures while working to avoid all avenues of pain. We will seek to gain external security through money and the idea of financial security, career-based success, social standing, or the ideas of control, power and dominance. Some will look for external validation through sex, relationships or attention from others. And others will create external dependencies and attachments to drugs, alcohol, shopping, a person or relationship and even seemingly ‘healthy’ addictions like constant exercise. Some individuals seek external security and comfort through a combination of two or more of the above or other avenues just to feel okay, just to feel good enough.
All forms of external security, validation and dependencies are used to comfort us by covering up our deepest fears and insecurities by giving us an escape from our pain. Even if we seem temporarily satisfied, none of the external means of comfort and illusory securities will ever be enough. When we are living to fill ourselves by external means, we are living through our false identification of self (ego), which is always insatiable. External sources of pleasure or validation will never be enough to satisfy our deepest inner longings and desires.
Each of us has to go within for the true source of safety and security! We have to go within for the true source of inner comfort and peace. We have to go within the deepest recesses of our heart in order to find the eternal peace, comfort and security that bloom there. Inside each of us is an eternal wellspring of unconditional love which can be accessed at any time! To really feel unconditional love we must access the wellspring of absolute love from within our own authentic being and express that with ourselves. Any other means will simply not sustain or fulfill the seeming void within.
When we awaken to our infinite nature that resides within we have access to the force that breathes life into all of creation. By giving birth to our authentic self, we allow our innate connection to infinite divinity expression in physical form. To express from our inherently divine nature each moment is what the mystics term self actualization. We each have a connection to the force that creates worlds within our very own being. When we allow that alignment and express from that awareness, we will start to create the life beyond our wildest dreams!
