Are You Entrenched?
Are you entrenched in your mind, in your thinking? Are you entrenched in your fear? In your anger at the world of circumstances?
Being a bit of a history and movie buff, I can easily visualize soldiers in the trenches of some war, sitting in mud and muck, scared out of their wits and praying they don’t have to climb out of that trench to face the enemy and possibly be killed.
Being entrenched in our fear invites all sorts of gremlins into the trench with us. Some of their names are Shame, Blame, Anger, Hopelessness. They come in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes even in broad daylight to attack us. We believe that these feelings or emotions are the enemy. And I would agree. I have been in that trench.
However, these emotions are of our own making. In Truth, we are battling ourselves, all the parts we don’t want to look at. The parts we keep pushed down in the muck of entrenched thinking, where we fight to keep them “safe”.
These are the demons we believe are waiting for us if we were to climb out of the trench and face them.
What we are really doing is projecting our greatest fears, shame, anger the outside world so we can blame someone else for having these feelings. “It’s those people who are following the rules or are not following the rules, wearing a mask or not wearing a mask, vaccinated or not vaccinated.” Etcetera! “They are the threat to my safety, my health, my business, my life. If every one else would just do (fill in the blank) then my life could go back to normal and those I care about would be safe.”
That way I don’t have to look. I don’t have to take responsibility for my own life, my own healing.
The more we project outside of ourselves, making it someone else’s fault, then the more we become entrenched in the muck of our mind. And then we have no where to go. We panic, trying to claw our way out and we end up attacking the ones we love. Distancing our selves from love ones to be “safe”. Again, it is not those out side who are the greater enemy. It is the unaddressed emotions that get pushed down into the muck. Imagine soldiers trampling their dead comrades as they try to climb out of the trench when they hear a bomb coming.
Why would you do that to your inner self? That beautiful soul inside you who holds all your wisdom, your dreams, your creativity and joy?
We have to be courageous enough to look over the top of the trench and see if the “enemy” is still there.
I get it. Facing fear, facing death is scary. But often these things have to be faced so that we can become aware of the Truth of our Being. We must dive deep within to face the “enemy”. All the pieces of ourselves that we have disowned, forgotten, pushed down to keep hidden from others, to keep hidden from yourself. Those shards of your being are what is in the trench, waiting for you to have the courage to look, to forgive, to love. Dive deep to find the light of your Being, to find the divine spark that you are and always have been. It all lies within you and you are the only one who can clean up the muck in the trench and climb out, whole and aligned with yourself. No one has put you in the trench but your own thinking.
Have courage to peek over the top of the trench. I believe you will find numerous people who have climbed out after finding the Truth of their Being. There is always Love and Light. You just have to seek it. And the many that have dived into the muck of their trenches and done the inner work, will hold the light and the door open for you.
Namaste. Susan