I can choose the thoughts that occupy my mind when a feeling of irritation occurs. I place a boundary between myself and those things that might frustrate me. I bound within; they bound without. When the air brings them toward me, I acknowledge them and let them pass by. I maintain that within my boundary I am love. Within and without of any boundary, my soul is free.
I can choose to be an active participant in my state of being. I do not fall as a victim to any consciousness that aims to lower my vibration. I am confident in my existence; I am confident in my joyful eternity.
I serve all by witnessing. The act is not passive, though it does not consist of judgment. My emotional body relays a message from an event or person. I receive the message – I listen, and then I decide on a high-vibration response. The response may be fully within, as choosing thoughts. The response may reach without, as an outlet will always be revealed if I seek it. In both cases, I receive more now moments that match my chosen vibration.
But those future now moments don’t matter. Because the true reward is the knowing that even if I encounter negativity in any form, I can choose not succumb to lowering my vibration in its presence or its aftermath. I love and respect myself so that I can easily opt-out of perpetuating frustration, anger or other unwanted consciousnesses in my field.
I’m not going to say this process is easy for anyone. Humans are conditioned to question their decisions, which is why it’s so important to learn self love first. When self love becomes the goal, the decision to disallow its disruption from the outside world is paramount and does become easier. Actively supporting that decision is harder.
When love is allowed to grow within my boundary, love also grows without. As a practice I actively seek lovable qualities outside of myself – by seeing potentially judge-able elements as precious. And so the growing love within and the growing love without support each other.
In learning to create love without, I’ve utilized a term proprietary to the clan I married into, which is the word “shamey.” It originated to describe something that is naughty but cute, like a misbehaving puppy, which is shameful yet adorable. Loosely adapted, this term can describe anyone, in any state of being, doing almost anything. I want to tell you that their act should be something that requires extra love, but who or what does not benefit from more love? Can we prioritize the lovable qualities of everyone and everything even as we witness their obvious imperfections? Can we forgive instantly instead of defaulting to judgment?
Crystal Spirited 