Okayness

I discovered that being profoundly okay with the present moment, as it is, was a path to healing and mastery.

Hello Divine Reader,

For you today is a little excerpt from my book The She-Monk, chapter two ‘Finding Acceptance’

Fundamental to our sacred life journey is knowing who we are on the gross and subtle levels, learning to be ‘okay’ with the present, and no longer trying to manage, control, or run away from it.

Learning to lean into the present moment and let it be as it is to become the full expression of our divine nature is imperative.

This may be a little helpful while dealing with the holiday season. ;-)

Enjoy! If you have any queries please reach out and respond and grab yourself a copy of the She-Monk book on Amazon.

❤️

FINDING ACCEPTANCE

“One of the main reasons we don’t do the work to find out who we

really are is we are hesitant to accept what we have within us or

what has happened to us. But this is God-given and a part of our

divine setup. Maybe we want to be someone else or we are ashamed

or embarrassed. Whatever it is, we push who we are away rather than

embracing it and seeing what mystical alchemy takes place when we do

so. We want to reject; we’d rather be ignorant to it.

I discovered that being profoundly okay with the present moment, as

it is, was a path to healing and mastery. Sounds perfectly obvious, but

I needed the word ‘okay’ to really get it. Acceptance was something

really new for me. It wasn’t part of the tradition I’d come from so I’d

never had much to do with it. I could transcend beautifully but had no

idea how to integrate my personality and experience at such a basic and

compassionate level. When I adopted this practice as an experiment

and last resort, I saw that the path of freedom and least resistance was

to accept and be okay with my disability at that time, to allow myself

to be depressed and isolated and have different mystical experiences. I

suddenly understood this whole presence and healing thing on a totally

new level.

When we can be completely okay with everything about us and

everything that is happening to us we are, in fact, living in the eternal

moment. We are not fighting with the universe and exhausting ourselves

in the process.

Self-acceptance is an act of self-love, the greatest act of self-love.

When we sit down and say, “Okay, I’m not going to change this. I’m

not going to fight this. I’m not going to judge myself. I’m not going to

beat myself up for having this tendency or personality or illness.” This

creates the space for healing and divine intervention. It actually acts as

a circuit breaker for the story or the drama.

It brings in what I call a seluvial space. Seluvial is a word I created to

describe when I put a ring of consciousness around me. It’s like a buffer

that I hold as sacred and it protects me when I’m dealing with things like

time and people. I become more present and have healthier boundaries.

This means that I slow down more into that eternal moment and I gain

the ability to make better choices and better decisions; I think before

I act. I imagine this seluvial space as a doughnut of grace, or one of

those swimming rings we have as children. If I let the world into that

space by not being vigilant and present, then I usually suffer. I was one

of those kids with no boundaries; I wasn’t allowed to have them as a

child so I let everything in. Everything. Now I have something I can

feel and visualise. If that space was threatened, then I knew to say no.

Simple as that. Total game-changer.

Instead of being triggered we can now accept our situation, allowing us

to soften our reactions and enter a zone where we can say, “Okay, this

is what’s happening. How do I wish to react? What do I need to do?”

We get better at it and it changes with time. It actually plays with time,

bringing compassion, awareness and truth. When we accept who we

are and what we are going through, we reconnect with things like

our breath, our energy, our thoughts and our bodies. We start to pay

attention to what we do and how we do it. This is the path to integrating

and becoming whole, hence healing. Once we know what we do, why

we do it and what our triggers are we can move to acceptance and

gratitude. We can really, really, really see it all as one. We are the entire

play of the universe expressed a certain way.”

©Mata Kamaleshwari

Merry Christmas x

Jai Maa 🌺🌺🌺