Honouring the sacred self

“Honour the sacred self and the rest will follow”

I received this message one afternoon after a profoundly beautiful healing session I did for a dear soul-sister. The message came in (or through) as these kinds of messages usually do - like a feather falling from the sky, into the heart’s mind.

What does it mean for you?

I’ve allowed the words to land playfully, speaking them aloud often. I use them to remind myself to take a step back from what I’m doing in certain moments, to check in with my body and ask quietly, “is this thing I’m doing right now aligned with who I truly am?”. This is especially helpful in situations when my stomach is churning and my energy body is fizzing rather than humming and flowing. The sacred self will always tell us when something is out of alignment.

But because we are so deeply conditioned and programmed, we often ignore the messages, the whispers, the guidance. From such a young age, we’re often told what the ‘good life’ should look like. What success is. What’s important. Who we are, what’s possible, what our limitations are. It can feel dangerous to follow what the heart and soul truly longs for because it doesn’t fit the mould. It’s a path that lacks certainty, stability, status quo. It lacks data. It raises eyebrows. It challenges - on just about every level.

And then we can get caught in the fear that if we let ourselves fully go, if we free ourselves, if we let our Big Cat creativity out of the cage and set her loose in the jungle, things might get out of hand. We’ll lose everything and everyone else. We are threatened of being cast out. We become fearful of our own true power. So, we hide in the smallness and “safety” of structures that somebody else built - even though it goes against our own grain. Even though sticking to the rules feels like swimming upstream. Even though that sense of safety and security is complete illusion.

See, here’s the thing…

The sacred self is a power beyond the ordinary, beyond the I, the me. It’s the very essence of our wholeness, our oneness with all. And for that reason, it will lead you into the realm of the extraordinary. When we honour the sacred self and walk our life path in alignment with who we truly are, the rest follows.

Can you trust that?

Can you trust that if each day, each moment, every choice, every door you walk through honours the sacred self, then everything will be ok? That if you live your life by feeling into each moment, sensing your way through…trusting your inner compass more than anything else - then things will actually be more than ok, because you will actually flourish beyond your wildest imagination. The illusion shatters and you see reality for what it is. Everything falls into place. You work with the flow of the universe, instead of against it.

On the surface of things, following the path of the sacred self is not easy. It requires tenacity, unwavering trust, and a willingness to hear the language of the soul. It means following a golden thread of possibilities that don’t make sense to anybody else except you. You have to be prepared to forge on in spite of the doubt others will try to create for you. It also requires acceptance that things change. Disruption happens. Peace walks beside chaos. Life and death exist in equal measure. Yet even though we might be tempted to take the well-trodden path rather than hold the challenge of paradox, when we honour the sacred self there is a deep sense of ease in knowing that we are not compromising our truth, our integrity. We are not handing our power over to somebody else. I can say without a shadow of a doubt that I have not once regretted following the sacred self, even when it’s meant I’ve had to say goodbye to something or someone that I love.

I am still learning this path. I still get caught in the traps of my own conditioning. But as I grow, stumble, make a mess, learn, fall, rise again, reassemble, I find it easier and easier to hear and trust that voice within that guides me, ushering me through the doorways to my own sacred truth. Over time, I become more in tune with the rhythm of the heart. We realise that our only limitation is the illusion that there are limitations in the first place. And that is something to celebrate.

And what do you want to be able to say to your grandchildren, or great-grandchildren at the end of this life? That you got the game right…you played by the rules, ticked all the boxes, never put up a fight? Or do you want to impart a mythic tale of courage and adventure, a soul fulfilled, a life well-lived?

I know which one I choose…