Determination or Allowance?
In spiritual communities, there are many debates about how one should express spirituality. Depending upon the influences you have been exposed to, you might lean toward living a life without demands, expectations, or requirements. You may think being spiritual is allowing life to happen and not driving the train.
But there is another side to this, influenced by western metaphysics. Western metaphysics can appear to be more intellectual and heart-centered. In western metaphysics, the practicing spiritual student who takes responsibility for their lives brings a sense of sheer determination. Often, this determination can draw to it a certain amount of criticism. This criticism comes in the form of criticizing the student as being too egotistical, too determined, and not trusting enough of the universe and its generosity.
You can understand the argument and confusion between these two points of view: determination or allowance.
What if both are acceptable? Why should we have to choose between the two? Allowing life to happen has a sweet vibration that is wonderful and gentle, like being lucky enough to stroll upon a bird’s nest as the baby bird is about to break free of its shell, or suddenly catch a flower in its moment of blossoming. Oh, the sweetness of living in right relationship with life in a way that places you in the right place at the right time to catch these precious moments of life. This is a picture of spiritual life for most people, and it is a good life.
But, there is another side; there is always another side because everything in life has its opposite reality. There is a rhyme and reason to being determined. Determination is described as firmness of purpose and resoluteness. With so much of our unconscious adoption of limited self-beliefs and influences of our worldview, unless we are absolutely determined to pull ourselves up and out of the conditioned experience, we will remain a victim of this conditioning.
To be free from years of limiting self-belief, we must determine that we are worthy, beautiful, strong, loveable, and whole. We must fight for our chosen reality. Fighting might not be a spiritual idea, but we have a determination if we take that energy and tone it down. You must determine your worth, speak into it, hold onto it, contemplate around it, and then start again and again and again. The perfect example is choosing to love yourself as you are and AS YOU ARE NOT. Remove any conditions that you usually require to love yourself. Love all of you, without exception, the way Spirit loves you.
