Most people I’ve met in my life labor and suffer with the burden of some kind of label. These labels are a weapon of separation. The labels seem to separate us from each other, but they cannot succeed.
Here in Hawaii, where I live, there wasn’t any snow – just beautiful sunshine and occasional rain. One thing I’ve noticed is that here on Kauai there are a lot of men and boys with very long hair. Men of all ages, ethnicity and fashions have long hair. Sometimes I can’t easily tell the boys from the girls.
This weekend I noticed long haired boys and girls and the girls were dressed in what seemed like boys clothes and it was a little challenging to know what was what. Not that it matters, but it’s a sign of things changing and shifting.
Fashion and hair styles can definitely be a method of labeling and creating distance and a sense of separation. When people go to extremes it can seem as though sometimes they’re taunting people to label them and call them outcast.
I invite you to consider what are the labels you feel have been “stuck” on you? Would you be willing to let them completely go? Even a negative identification sometimes becomes a thing of comfort. Could that be true for you?
Sometimes we wear labels of “less than” and “wrong” and we can wear it like a badge that keeps us safe from having to interact with others and fully engage. Could that be true for you?
Labels often invite comparison and jealousy.
In my Masterful Living Course we’ve come to say “compare and despair,” because we recognize how egotistical it can be to compare ourselves in anyway. There’s simply no benefit to comparison.
Jealousy is a habit and it’s a thought pattern that takes one outside the flow of good. There’s simply no way to really be receptive to the good in life and be jealous of what anyone else has. It’s like trying to serve two masters. Jealousy often caries labels of “better than” or “worse than.” We’re all one, so how can those labels ever really apply? They can’t.
One thing I’ve learned is that our perfection and Wholeness are our true nature. Those aren’t labels, those are aspects of our very nature. Let’s focus on the these things that are true – so that we can see and feel and know the Truth that sets us free!
I’m learning to let all labels fall away. Our careful use of words is so important to enable us to do this important inner work. Instead of energizing fleeting thoughts such as “he’s a jerk,” we can shift it to something less damning and take a step back by replacing that thought with “his behavior seems foolish, and still, I don’t know what anything is for, so I don’t need to even describe it. Bless him. I’m one with him and for this I’m grateful.”
That might seem like a long way to go when people seem irritating, but it’s taking those extra steps that have helped me to change my mind a million times and I’m SO grateful for the benefits of those mind shifts!
Staying in the flow of Love requires attention until we’re willing to completely reside there in our minds. We’re on our way to remembering this completely. Thank heaven for that!
We’re waking up together and I’m so grateful for that! If you’re finding what I’m sharing to be helpful won’t you please share at facebook and twitter to let others know? Thank you!
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