As we go through our day and from moment to moment, we have a constant and never ending stream of thoughts and desires that we feel called to act on. Depending on what we give our focus, energy and attention to, we can either experience greater union, joy and wholeness, or conversely our thoughts and desires can pull us away from our center to only feel more fragmented and lacking.
Pursuing fragmented thoughts or desires in order to complete ourselves or feel whole, will in practice never lead to wholeness. We are already whole and everything we seek is indeed within us, and through simply aligning with our Higher selves we can start with this deep sense of completion and peace. From here, we can also begin to transform our outer experience and release any beliefs that limit us.
When we can start with wholeness, we perceive clearly that no desire or outer circumstance will complete us or make up for any lack we perceive. Certainly not in a static or ongoing way, as every desire will lead to a new desire when fulfilled.
Although achieving our desires will not complete us, as souls and spiritual beings we are also here to experience desire and to unfold our highest path, through appropriate choice and discrimination. Our challenge can very often be in discriminating between desires that arise from the depths of our hearts and souls, and surface desires that arise from mistaken identification, egoic minding and craving.
In fact accurate discrimination is key to our enjoying, and wholly experiencing the greater life that is wanting to be lived through us, as well as to engaging with what is directly on our destiny paths and serves our wholeness.
From our intuition of wholeness, we can trust in whatever is present and in our ability to accurately discriminate between thoughts and desires that serve us and are divinely inspired, and ones that would increase our sense of fragmentation or of not having enough when acted on.
We do not need to constrict our innately pure life force, or beat up or judge ourselves for having feelings and desires that we know do not serve our higher good. We can embrace both the loving and the shadow aspects of our self as Whole, while releasing what does not serve us. This frees our energy to pursue our hearts dreaming and to engage wholeheartedly with our path and purpose, and our divinely inspired desires and goals.
Wholeness Practice –
You may wish to include one or more of the following approaches to remembering wholeness, in to your daily practice.
Intention - Having a strong intention to remember you are already whole can be helpful in itself, "I am whole and perfect as i am, I do not need any outer circumstance to complete me. I take inspired action to allow myself to receive, knowing that i am an already whole and coherent spark of the Divine."
Questioning – Simply asking a question “Does this thought or desire serve me and come from wholeness, or am i perceiving lack?”.
If there is fear, then I can assume that there is lack or limitation in my thinking, and can return to alignment with the place where I am connected with inspiration and wholeness.
Awareness and Vigilance - The normal thought stream when directed by the intellect, cannot intuit wholeness and is inherently based on perceptions of lack and separation. We therefore need to shift our consciousness and to become vigilant to where we may be misled by thoughts of lack. Cultivating a regular mindfulness or meditative practice is very helpful to overcome the normal patterns of mind.
Through quieting the mind, we can shift our thinking from the normal intellect to being guided by clear reason, intuition and inspiration. We can constantly redirect our thinking to wholeness.
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