JG-Mary
When we do the powerful work that clears out our negative emotions, for example by removing fear, we create empty space within ourselves. Though we may not see it, the fear (or other negative emotion we wish to remove) takes up energetic space. For me, when I started getting at the roots of my fears, I envisioned my inner child (because most the roots of my fears started when I was a small child) standing in the vicinity of my solar plexus chakra. Given that this chakra is the one that represents personal power and our energy, it’s understandable that’s where she’d be. She stood, and in my mind’s eye I saw the dark miasma of my fears, her fears really, surrounding her. The “not good enough”s the “unwanted”s the picked on and bullied kid through most of her school years. When I cleared away the fear, embracing the inner child and telling her she was good enough, she was wanted, and those people who bullied her were just afraid of her or feared that she was different, I realized that my inner child basically stood in an empty bubble. There was space to fill. (I also reminded the inner child, that now, *cough* twenty five years later *cough* she actually did have friends back then, and discovered that through the magic of Facebook.)
Nature abhors a vacuum. Something was going to fill that emotional space, and I better act fast because the fears were hovering on the edge of my consciousness ready to pounce like a cat upon a mouse. What did I feel the space with? Well, drawing on the last blog entry, I filled it with love. Love for my inner child, who really did feel so lost and alone; love for the joy of living, for the miracles she has, and the fact that she’s good enough to move forward and achieve her dreams.
It’s a long term process. I won’t say that I did this once, and poof! all my problems have disappeared. Remember the nature not liking empty space aspect of science class? Yeah, it’s at play in our emotional and spiritual bodies, too. So as soon as we recognize that the fear has rolled in again, it’s up to us to clear things out, and put love back in.
But it’s something to think about. If you’re moving forward in creating good habits, recognize that there’s space left from the old. Whatever created those habits in the first place, it’s important to go back to the beginning, find the source, and make sure that we pack in lots of love and good things to take the place of the bad. That’s where our self-love practices come in, our affirmations, and our core beliefs.
Step by step, day by day, we’ll get that emotional space filled permanently. And then, we can move on to another.
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