What does it look Like to be one with the universe and others?
If we look at our life on this physical plane, with our material things and our physical bodies, it appears that we are all separate. I get up in the morning in my own body and can’t feel other people’s bodies. I wake up in my own home and can’t see into other people’s homes. So everything in the physical, three dimensional world certainly points to me being separate. But if I look at my life through my spiritual lens, where I am spirit, I am one with everyone.
This is our biggest challenge in this physical world because being separate seems so real. So everyday I wake up and sit on my meditation pillow, for me a large beanbag, and I have a serious conversation with my Ego mind and God, i.e. Love. I acknowledge my willingness to see things differently, to see things from my higher self, which allows me to live in a space of love, not fear.
Most days I get the opportunity to witness the strength of my Ego mind and consciously make a decision to act out of my higher self. This is the beauty in self-development, you get many opportunities to practice being Love and training your Ego mind. Every time I act out of this higher place in me, it’s because I realize I am a part of much more than myself. My Ego is very selfish, judgmental, and totally believes in the illusion that this physical world is real and I am separate from everyone.
When I act from my Ego mind and judge and control, or I am needy, it always leaves me feeling crappy. The crappy feeling is because when I act from these places, I am not acting out of the best me I know I can be. And if I am judging someone else, I am truly judging myself as well. If my Ego is being needy, it’s coming from a place of lack instead of a giving space of Love.
The universe wants us to be right with ourselves, to heal that wounded part inside of us. This is why it gives us many opportunities through out the day to practice being in alignment. This is a daily meditation practice, starting in the morning, carrying through the day, paying attention to what you are thinking, and closing with a nightly check-in on how you did.
Remember everything we do to others, we are doing to ourselves. We are one!
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein
