New Age Whipped Cream On Shit
By Brian
Self
This is a charged article! I had to get a bit angry at my own New Agey patterns that just don't do it for me anymore. I write this with the intention to help you look within. It just so happens that the New Age movement is a great example of this because of all the crap that is floating around about how our experience and life is supposed to be.
I invite you to feel into this for yourself and see where it takes you.
This whipped cream on shit metaphor has always been a favorite saying of mine to give humor and realness to all the New Age foof and fluff that tends to spiritually bypass what is real and what we are feeling inside. Whipped cream on shit is like hanging curtains in a house while the floor is rotting and caving in. Whipped cream on shit is simply covering up what may be painful or real underneath the surface (the shit) and putting flowers and affirmations (the whipped cream) on top of it.
Affirmations make a part of me want to kick some ass! I like to say whats real for me and then face it and embrace it!
We are often so quick to want to feel good, high and wonderful to get away from my humaness that is often hard to feel because it hurts. There is a part of us that will do almost anything to avoid our wounds and fear. It wants to feel good, be right and get out of suffering and vulnerability.
I so deeply hunger for heart resonance with myself and others, and the vulnerability that makes this possible when we share love with those in our lives. This is why I began deep, and sometimes rather painful, emotional healing work... to let the love that has been buried amidst the ruble of my emotional congestion come forth. And I'll be the first one to admit that it is not always easy.
I know that love is why many of us have come here, and love is what we all really want deep down inside. I am the first one to admit this because this has always been true for me. It is our fear of making ourselves vulnerable enough to share this with others that stands in the way.
I spent 12 years enmeshed with the New Age movement. This is where the beginning of my awakening all began back when I was about 16. I am grateful for that time and always will be, otherwise I would never have begun embracing these deeper truths and richness of the heart. Now it takes on a different form. One that minimizes the disillusionment with falsehood and fakeness.
The only way out is through... so going through those 12 years embracing the New Age movement served it's purpose!
There was no way I could ever see this for myself until I began to dig deeper into what is real for me and what I feel. Now so much of the new age paradigm doesn't fit for me anymore. It feels superficial... with no roots in feeling the pain and agony of our human experiences and our humanity. As Oriah Mountain Dreamer says in my favorite poem... The Invitation..."I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it."
The new age stuff tends to be centered around fixing, covering up, ascending, transcending, and moving away from whats real in our lives. I spent years doing affirmations to try to get away from the core unworthiness I feel at times, the hurt, the anxiety, the control, the rage... all of it. We are getting our minds so tuned to affirm our true heart felt reality away while what's real in our hearts withers and dies. And I hear the story over and over again that when people pass away they all say they wish they would have loved more and said what was real for them, told the truth and so on.
So let's cut the crap and get real ladies and gentlemen... future kings and queens! The time is now to take the next step forward with what is real for you and what lives in your heart. And I don't know about you... but I don't want to settle for anything less than the real thing anymore!
Can you imagine a world in which everyone is real and living their heart and soul purpose. I sure can... and God is it a beautiful and tear rolling vision to behold!
As James Taylor says in his song Like Everyone She Knows... "Hold tight to your heart's desire.... never ever let it go... let nobody fool you into giving up to soon... tend your own fire... lay low and be strong... wait it out... it'll come along."
Is it possible that it is coming along now?!
Let's bring back the truth, lets bring back the realness, lets bring back our feelings.... all of them. As Daniel Barron says in his book title "There's No Such Thing As A Negative Emotion". We don't have to affirmationize it away anymore or transcend it. Lets let it all dance in our lives now for true deep healing and rich heart food that will live on in our souls and on for the love of our children and generations to come!