Weaving and Mending the Fabric of Life
by Linda Heron Wind
I heard a quote once that said, "The universe is not made up of atoms, it is made up of stories." Something about that feels so true and the awareness tucked within its vibration has been unfolding within me. This is the information that has come to me about how stories are woven into our lives and how to free the stories to shift consciousness.
The third dimension, or physical world, is a tapestry woven on a loom
of polarities. The warp consists of stories that are strung between the
polar opposites of ends of this loom. For example, you have stories about
what is good and what is bad, whether you are good enough or not good
enough, what is success and what is failure, being loved or not loved,
connected or isolated. The many storylines that make up your experience
of life are the basis for the tapestry. The weft is the emotion that holds
the story tightly woven into the physical reality. The emotion might be
feeling good or bad, such as feeling elated at a "success" or
depressed about a "failure." As long as the emotion is connected
to the story, the tapestry is held in place on this Technicolor, 3-D map
of reality called the fabric of your life.
The mending of the fabric begins when you can identify a story, look at
the polarity upon which it is woven, and pull the thread of emotion from
the tapestry that holds that story in place. How do you identify a story?
This is a critical piece of information - wherever there is an emotion
there is also a story woven into your tapestry that is not true. Saying
that another way, the purpose of emotion is to make you aware that you
are living your life based on a false story.
Let me give an example. Suppose you have a story that was developed in
childhood that says success is approval from others while failure is disapproval.
This story is woven on the polarity of success and failure. You have variations
of this story that are held in place by emotions of joy when others approve
of you and shame when they disapprove. The joy and shame are there to
draw your attention to the fact that this is not a true story. When you
pull these emotions out of the tapestry and listen to their wisdom, they
free the story from the physical reality, allowing you to step out of
the story into the truth of the 5th dimension or unity consciousness.
What is the wisdom of these emotions? They teach that success and failure
really do not exist at all. Success for one person might be failure to
another. Looking for success and avoiding failure just engages us in moving
back and forth on the same polarity, firmly locked into the 3rd dimension.
Even the joy of success is short lived when there is the possibility of
failure. So if there is no success or failure, what is true?
Truth can be identified as a feeling - not an emotion -
that can be described as knowingness in your heart. Try to feel this -
"You are perfect just the way you are. Everything that happens in
your life is designed to move you into greater awareness of the perfection
that is already there." What does that feel like? Maybe a nice warm
peaceful feeling in your heart area? So, if a story does not bring about
that feeling, it simply is not true.
Let's take another example. Suppose that you
grew up feeling not good enough and you have a group of stories about
not being good enough that are strung on the polarity of "good enough
and not good enough." When the story talks about being "good
enough" you feel happy and when the story is about "not being
good enough" you feel depressed. Pulling out those two emotions and
listening to their wisdom, we hear them whisper, "Neither story is
true, you simply are and all you need to be is you." Does that feel
true? Perhaps your mind might want to argue with this since the mind does
not like to give up its stories, but put the mind on hold a minute and
just feel it.
So what happens when you have freed all your stories? Stories are about the past and future. When you step out of your stories you step into the present moment, the acceptance of what is, without grasping it or projecting it or interpreting it based on the past. What would it be like to live without stories? Viewing the tapestry of freed stories from unity consciousness reveals an amazing dance of light and dark, fullness and emptiness, sound and quiet. A sense of peace settles into my heart…… while my mind rushes in to construct a new story!
Stories live through me
Thoughts and feelings give them life
I feed them daily
All polarities
United within me today
I am unity
If you have comments on these articles or ideas for future topics, call Linda Heron Wind at (585) 924-5620 or send e-mail to LHWind@aol.com.
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