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Gratitude for it all





This little squiggle creature has a beautiful insight that speaks to a profound truth about the nature of self-awareness and true enlightenment. Enlightenment isn’t about escaping the darkness, or avoiding or denying the shadows within us; it’s about bringing it into the light of our awareness, fully integrating what we would rather keep hidden.

 





True transformation requires us to face our judgements—of ourselves and others—with accountability, to bring balance to our perceptions and recognize that every negative has its positive, every challenge its hidden blessing.

 

When we judge ourselves and others, we split our perceptions into good and bad, right and wrong, positive and negative. This split creates a divide between our conscious and subconscious mind, burying parts of ourselves in the shadows; the conscious mind labels, criticises, and condemns, while the subconscious holds these parts we’re unwilling to accept.

 



At that moment of judgement, with our fragmented awareness, we push the disowned parts of ourselves into the depths of our subconscious. These aspects remain hidden, unaddressed, yet they continue to influence our thoughts, emotions, and behaviours.

 

This split keeps us in a state of inner conflict, with our perceptions fragmented and biased. But when we consciously choose to transcend those judgments—when we actively seek to own what we see in others and to find the balance between what we see as positive and negative—we begin to reintegrate the disowned aspects of our psyche.


The true path to transformation, lies in bringing those hidden parts back into balance. By making the darkness conscious, by looking at the parts of ourselves we’d rather avoid, we begin the process of reintegration.

 

It’s about asking the deeper questions, seeking to understand how each perceived negative holds its hidden positive, how every challenge carries an unseen blessing. When we do this, when we integrate our perceptions, we dissolve the judgements that keep us trapped in a limited view of reality.

 

This reintegration is more than just a mental exercise; it’s a deeply neurological process. By balancing our perceptions and aligning our conscious and subconscious mind, we trigger a gamma burst in the brain and experience a moment of profound clarity that represents a moment of true enlightenment.

 

It’s the brain’s way of acknowledging that it has transcended the illusion of separation, bringing opposites into balance and has reached a state of integrated awareness. This is the light that Jung speaks of, the illumination that comes not from avoiding the darkness but from understanding and integrating it.

 

It’s a flash of insight where the mind sees beyond duality and embraces the whole – the order in the apparent chaos is revealed.

 

 

This process of integration, of bringing our disintegrated parts back into balance, allows us to see life as it truly is: a perfect balance of support and challenge, of joy and sorrow. This gamma burst represents enlightenment. It is the light that emerges not by imagining positivity, but by embracing the entirety of our experiences—the dark and the light together.

 

In these moments, we realize that nothing is missing, that everything has served our growth, even the most challenging experiences. The gratitude we feel for the darkness is genuine, for it has been the catalyst for our greatest insights and growth.

 

The light that emerges from this process is not the superficial glow of positivity but a profound illumination that comes from seeing the world without the distortions of judgement. It is the clarity that comes when we are grateful for the shadows and embrace our whole selves—both light and dark.

 

This balanced perspective allows us to transcend the limitations of judgement, bringing us into a state of presence and authenticity. It is here that we find the light, not despite the darkness, but because of it.

 

In this space of true balance, we are no longer bound by the illusions of good or bad, positive or negative. Instead, we find the freedom to live authentically, guided by a deeper, unwavering sense of purpose and self-awareness.

 

This is the essence of true self-mastery: to see the beauty in every aspect of life, to embrace the totality of our being, and to walk the path of enlightenment with clarity and presence. It’s the realization that the light we sought was always within us, waiting to be revealed by our willingness to face the dark.

 

The value of making the darkness conscious lies in this freedom—the freedom to see the world as it truly is, to experience life with presence, and to step into a moment of enlightenment where we are no longer divided within ourselves.

 

Until the next judgement..........

 

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