There is a space within every single human being. A space that overflows with love and peace. A space where we are untouched by any circumstance of life. This is where our inspiration comes from, our creativity, our peace of mind.
We can tap into and live from this space at any time and at all times. When I say we, I mean everybody. No matter what.
The most common way of being in the world is to keep ourselves imprisoned with habitual thinking. I've noticed, first with myself and then others, that most of this thinking narration is towards ourselves and it's horrifyingly negative.
When pointed out, I mostly hear a variation of "Oh yeah, I know I shouldn't be so hard on myself". And then amazingly the person merrily carries on internally slamming themselves 24/7. If you really knew not to do it, then you wouldn't still be doing it.
When we constantly listen to and believe our own unworthiness, our bodies respond and over time degrade. Chronic pain is the most common outcome of this. Other diagnoses are common due to an inability of the body to heal and replace healthy cells with other healthy cells in a negative thought environment.
The good news is that changing how we relate to ourselves is simple. I was going to say easy but that's not always true. It is always simple.
You can completely disregard any and all ideas, thoughts, beliefs, limits, images, voices, feelings that have to do with you being a complete worthless piece of shit (or milder variations). I can tell you that this voice is lying to you. One hundred percent.
Treat it as you would a person yelling on a street corner that The End Is Nigh! They can rant on and on about all the terrible things they believe to be true and SOON! The business people passing by on the way to work carry on happily without being affected. This is because they don't believe that person knows what they are talking about.
The same is true with negative self-talk. That voice doesn’t know what it is talking about.
As human beings, we are all made of the same energy as everything else in existence. The energy of life, the energy of the Universe that beats your heart, flaps a butterfly’s wings, sprouts a tulip bulb, and creates a smile on a baby's face. The space of joy and bliss that a baby inhabits is who we all are. Connecting to the possibility and the sheer wonder of who you are is the most worthy activity I can think of. The most amazing thing about that is we are always already connected. To EVERYTHING!
This space of who we are within everyone is the space of our inspiration, the space of aliveness at the core of every human being, the space of love, the space of soulfulness, the space of vibrant energy that never runs out or dims, the space inside you where you are untouched by stress or trauma, the space of beautiful being, the space of beingness, the space of beauty, the space of a deep river of love, the space of healing where we are already healed and never needed to be healed, the space of wisdom, the space from which we can live fully present to life, the space of wholeness, the space of Mind, the space of joy, the space of peace, the easy space of ease, the space of forgiveness, the space of nature, the space of our true nature, the space from which babies live, the space of pure love, the space of innocence, the space of ecstasy, the space of being average, the space of ordinary, the space of divine laughter, the space of playfulness, the space of infinite expansion, the space of being limitless, the space of being, the space of just being, the space of doing in being, the space of being lived, the space of creation, the space of creating the world in doingness-beingness, the space of being unapologetically alive,
the space of ourselves.