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Thursday 1 June 2018 – St Cyprien, Dordogne
Since my first reflective post early last month, we have moved around a lot, had some amazing and sometimes slightly scary experiences and been challenged by the distance away from family when some tough stuff has happened to folks we care about in the UK.
All these things have helped us look deeper within ourselves and grow our understanding of the way our thoughts latch on to events and drive our emotional responses, often leading us to reactive decisions which aren’t always the most helpful. It’s been really interesting as well as enlightening to think about and talk all this through in the context of our reading and research.
We are working with some particularly challenging, deep but very worthwhile material at the moment, including The Untethered Soul (Michael Singer); Conversations with God (Neale Donald Walsh); and May Cause Miracles (Gabrielle Bernstein). What is really interesting and hugely exciting to us is that these various sources, as well as over a dozen we have previously worked with, each contain core truths and paradigms which are essentially the same. This has allowed us to absorb, review and compare all this material as we slowly forge and grow our own joint and individual way of viewing the world we live and choose how we will respond to that world and who we want to be within it.
There is an inspirational film (available on Gaia) called ‘Finding Joe’ – highly recommended if you are a fellow searcher after Truth – which contains the message that each Warrior must find his or her own way through the Dark Forest. One of the truths Sam and I have become really clear about is that, in order to find our true selves and fulfill our true purpose, she and I must each find our own path, separate even from each other. We have realised that for us at least, walking a path already trodden will not serve, neither will a single path walked always hand in hand. This has been a difficult realisation for each of us because of the joy we have found in each other, but we reckon this will take us from a place of (some) codependency to complete interdependency – where we do not need each other, but we do choose to be together.
We have come across one particular message many times now, given in many forms, which essentially says that each of us is capable of doing anything we choose to do and of being anything we choose to be. What prevents us, over and over again, is our own lack of self-belief, our fear and our refusal to open the door when the Universe comes knocking.
So – we have decided that now is the time to start Getting Out Of Our Own Way
…. And we’ll let you know what happens next!
Namaste
Paul and Sam x
Finding the Elephant 