Certainty + Intimacy = Fulfillment
I am presently seeking a publisher for a book I have written, tentatively entitled And So We Dance. It is a book of energetic, experiential, evolutionary love poems. That is, the poems were written and woven together in such a way that they are an energetic template of my personal, transformational journey to self-actualization. So, when you read the poems, they can support your own personal growth and evolution.
The final line of the poem that concludes my journey reads...
"But, I leave behind the truth of me - the sacred certainty of this intimacy.” (poem)
In its way, this single line sums up the essential truth of what creates, generates, and sustains a powerful, meaningful, fulfilling life.
So, exactly what does constitute a fulfilling life? Certainly, it is unique for each of us. However, I am willing to assert that what we are all truly seeking - amid the constant buzz and busy-ness of texting, tweeting, cell phones, cyber space, and social networks - is certainty, intimacy, and fulfillment.
We want more. Not more achieving or more stuff. Not more struggle or suffering. Instead, we want more enjoyment and more fulfillment. We want to experience enjoyment and fulfillment every day, in ways that are healthy, balanced, and meaningful.
Unfortunately, many of us are seeking "more" in ways that are often not beneficial, fulfilling, or truly sustainable. We are seeking enjoyment and fulfillment outside of ourselves, rather than from within ourselves.
The "more" so many of us are looking for is within us. And it begins with certainty.
How can anyone be certain of anything in our world today? There is so much fear and fantasy, power and greed, marketing and manipulation. We are constantly bombarded - everything from media and money, to sex and self-help - with messages and images that perpetuate outdated paradigms, limiting beliefs, and unevolved concepts that cause many of us to believe we must either pursue more power, run in fear, or just become numb to it all. Mostly, we think we need to pursue more power.
When you are truly "power-ful," you have no desire - no need - to prove your power. Proving you are powerful is about neediness. Neediness is about lack, imbalance, and fear.
Certainty comes from within. As is written in the introduction to these series of articles:
"Certainty requires knowing. True "knowing" for human beings is a function of complete experience. That is, you "know" something when you experience it - fully - through all aspects of your Self: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. Without experience, there is no knowing."
And therein lies the problem, we've stopped truly experiencing. We've become a society that believes our mind is our God. We've come to believe that information, science, or our brain can do it all for us. We've even trained ourselves to "think" our feelings, rather than truly experiencing them. However, we are all composed of four aspects - or bodies - physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. All four of these bodies must be tended to, in order for us to have complete experience.We have also become a society addicted to "not feeling." Sex and spending, cell phones and social networks, addictions and antidepressants have all been employed - or exploited - by us in an effort to inundate ourselves with so much energy we either become hyper-sensitized to the point that we cannot truly feel anything anymore, or we block our emotional bodies entirely.
The problem is, you cannot genuinely enjoy pleasurable experiences - like making love, intimacy, and joy - if you don't also allow yourself the full experience of feelings like pain, anger, and sorrow. It's a package deal.
All of this undermines our true "knowing" of our Self. This, in turn, undermines our ability to be intimate, to truly touch our Self and others. This, of course, obstructs our ability to be fulfilled. (poem)
Certainty + Intimacy = Fulfillment
So, how do you create certainty, intimacy, and fulfillment in your life? Do you need a program, a process, or a guru? Do you need a spiritual conversion, an exorcism, or a "secret?"
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