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New Age Whipped Cream On Shit
By Brian
Self
Hello everyone (:
I am feeling very bold and grounded this month, and I must say that this is a very charged article for me to write because I had to get a bit pissed off and angry at my own New Agey patterns that just don't do it for me anymore. I write this with the intention to help ourselves look within. It just so happens that the New Age community tends to be a great example because of all the downright crap, in my opinion, 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 me want to kick some ass! I like to say whats real for me and then dance, sing, face it and embrace it!
I myself have been so quick to want to feel good, high and wonderful to get away from humanness and the hurt in my life that is hard to feel because it can be so painful. This is that part of us that will do almost anything to avoid our pain, wounded parts and fear. It longs 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 have begun 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 I have come here at this time and love is what I always really want deep down inside. Even underneath all the work I do with nutrition and nature is a hunger for love. I have always wanted to connect with nature because I had so much pain and unhealed wounding around really connecting in human relationship. In my own painful truth... I find it much harder and more challenging to connect with my own than the plants. (But this is getting much easier and more rich as I do my own emotional healing work.) Again... I am the first one to admit this right now, because this has been true for me for quite sometime, it was just the fear of making myself vulnerable enough to share this with others that stood in the way.
Up until now I have spent over 12 years deeply embedded into the New Age movement. This is where the beginning of my awakening all began back when I was about 16. I am very thankful for all this time and always will be, otherwise I would never have begun embracing my now unfolding deeper truths and richness of the heart. It is now taking on a different form. One that is less disillusioned 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 beautifully indeed!
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 Oriah says in my favorite poem... "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, in my opinion, 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. My heart and soul can't wait to meet you in this field of truth and love. 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 say 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. 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!
Big hug and love to all of you,
Brian