The lack of "Balance" in spirituality ~ This is one of my biggest pet peeves. This is one of those things, that as a conscious empath, with high intuition, being a minister of Divinity, a teacher of emotional insights and consciousness, sorry, had to do this, wording it this way, for having such an intense level of awareness to this part of life, it takes everything that I have not to overstep anyone's personal boundaries, when I see the seed of stupidity playing its hand.
I have been walking a very bizarre life. I would like to think it started when I was 27, but the truth is, I have been aware of this part of life, since I was a kid. In our house, we had to go to Sunday mass, every Sunday and then we would come home, have Sunday dinner and I would watch my parents have a go at their emotional imbalances.
I was a kid, remember thinking, what on earth is the point to Sunday mass, every Sunday, if this is what we are going to come home to anyway? Did I mention, that I was 5 and my siblings were each a year younger ~ that would be 2, 3, 4, and 5, me. When the drama would start, they looked to me for protection.
I was 25, when I finally found a good counselor to heal and understand my childhood life. In the meantime, my metaphysical and spiritual journey began. I admit, it had been awhile since I had witnessed or experienced imbalances, Spiritually or Religiously, from others.
It was while living in Florida, that I would eventually set myself up for witnessing Sunday churchgoers, after mass, in the supermarket. You see, as an empath, not only did it take me many years to learn how, when and where to be at certain times, I had to follow through with where I was and how crowded places would be. Being an empath is like being a chameleon and a sponge. It takes years to learn where personal boundaries begin and end.
In the meantime, I began witnessing the most bizarre and meanspirited behavior between parent and child and it threw me and it was like being transported back to my childhood with Sunday mass and then my parents going off on each other, with us in the background. The age old question of what is the point, if this is the way that it is.
Well, with many experiences and years under my belt, I now get what the imbalance in Spirituality, Religion is. As an empath, it is never my intention to hurt anyones feelings, but the imbalance is coming from our humanity, our human attitude, our human behavior. Not sure how or when this actually happened, but being spiritual or religious or psychic or metaphysical is not a free pass to our human life.
Somehow, on some level, and most likely a very logical level, society thinks that if they do any of the above, then nothing else is required of us. Not true! What will the sacred mean to any of us, if our human part, our humanity does not come along for the ride? We can't for one minute think that "well, I just went to church" did my deed for the week, but now my neighbor pissed me off and instead of us sitting down and working it out, I will just throw a punch, gotta work off some steam anyway.
Being spiritual or religious or anything that expands on who we are, is not our free pass to being ethical and authentic in our humanity. We have a responsibility to our life, to pay attention to our thoughts, feelings, actions and words, don't forget our emotions, too. These inner workings to our humanity, is the foundation of our life and without all the checks and balances in place, then nothing of importance has a cohesive connection to our life and our life becomes a faulty foundation and then when things begin falling a part, and producing negative results, which are in reality, life changes, that are demanding your attention, then what will be left and how will you feel?
When the sacred becomes a part of our life or is a part of our life, we so need to have a strong connection to our inner self. Society is being offered an opportunity to heal and become aware of the deeper meaning to our lives.
This is a new time for all of us. It is time for us to feel if what we are going to say or do is going to hurt or affect another. It is time for us to understand the foundation of the life we have built for ourselves or the foundation we will build for ourselves. Will we build with authentic and ethical awareness or will we shut ourselves off and bypass the sacred.
Our humanity is sacred and anything else that we bring to it, is meant to bring us to the best that we can be.