Whatever it is inside that we humans try to repress, deny, condemn, quickly fix, push away, judge, project, forget, make go away, force a solution for, double down in our addictions, etc. only grows stronger. These wise and tender quotes from Matt Licata remind us that all healing and awakening begins with opening to a process of embracing and accepting ourselves right where we're at. This is the beginning of befriending our fragmented selves and loving ourselves into wholeness, the spring board from which compassion, humility, understanding, tenderness, wisdom, and our capacity to love wholeheartedly emerges.
Bless us all on our journeys. — Molly
Co-emerging with a disturbing emotion or feeling-state is an invitation into the center, into the alchemical middle territory between the opposites of repression and fusion.
While the ways of self-abandonment are infinite, the most reliable is to disembody and begin thinking, to shift our awareness out of the surging, pregnant aliveness in the belly and the heart, and back into the numbing flatness of the conditioned storyline. It is believed to be safer here, more sure, and more certain, but there is nothing safe about disembodiment.
Yes, the voices can be relentless – sticky, loud, seductive, and claustrophobic. “Something is wrong.” “You are not enough.” “You have failed.” “You must escape.” “There is a horrible problem here that must urgently be handled.” “You must improve yourself… and quickly.”
These are the voices of the orphaned one who is longing to finally be seen, to be met, to be heard, to be felt. Spinning and scrambling to make sense of a misattuned world, she will do what she must to reach you. She wants you out of the fire and back into safety for this is all she knows, an earlier version of you without the capacity to turn into the somatic aliveness and offer the healing rains of loving presence. She is trying to care for you in the only ways she knows… but a new level of care is erupting underneath the surface.
When you find yourself pulled into the extremes of denying or repressing what has come, on the one hand, or fusing with it on the other, fueling the ancient story that something is wrong with you… the invitation is into slowness, into rest, into a primordial sort of opening into the middle. Nothing need be understood, shifted, transformed, or healed… for now.
The invitation is into holding, not healing…. for it is from the ground of this embodied, intimate, naked embrace with what you are that all healing will organically emerge.
— Matt Licata
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