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Would The Real Me Please Stand Up

Have you ever forgotten who you are? I’m not only sure that you have, I bet that you forget who you are quite regularly!! Lately I’ve been doing it so frequently that my head feels like it’s spinning.

We are all divine beings of light, souls having a human experience. Our true nature or our soul nature is that of peace, love and joy. We are connected to an unlimited source of love, abundance, good will and everything else that exists. We are one with the ultimate Creator and have been given it's wonderful gift - the ability to tap into it's endless potential and create anything we choose to be or have. With so much going for us how is it we keep forgetting who we really are?

Forgetting is the same thing as being in a state of detachment from All That Is. Even though I know that I am a part of God and that I am never separated from God; I still find that I go into separation consciousness or thinking. When I'm in this mind set I tend to come from a place of lack. The focal points in my life become my weight (my physical appearance in general), things that I want that I don't have, what I don’t feel I’m accomplishing, the fact that I don’t yet have a social circle in Red Deer, and that my income isn’t where I want it to be. The recognition of my abundance, in all areas of my life, becomes as invisible to me as the ethers. I feel lethargic, despite the fact that I’m pure energy. In short, I become lost to myself and disconnected from all the creative energy that God offers me.

I believe, with all my heart, that forgetting who we are is a necessity for two reasons.

Firstly, even though many spiritual practices put forth that our goal should be to transcend our humanity and be our divinity, I disagree. I don’t know about you, however, since I am foremost a soul or spirit, I believe that I am here to specifically have a human or physical experience. Between physical lives I believe that I know my pure divinity. It just makes sense to me that our goal in human form is to learn to make peace with and have compassion for our human foibles and frailties. We do this by working to see the divinity in absolutely everything and everyone around us, including ourselves. Thus bringing our divinity into our hearts and learning to see everything around us from a heart space, while thoroughly enjoying the physical aspects, which bring us pleasure. This is how I see our humanity and divinity meshing here on Earth.

Secondly, if were constantly in our natural states of love, peace and joy we could never truly know ourselves. We need to feel sad sometimes in order to recognize when we are happy. In other words, we need to forget who we are so we can experience the joy of remembering who we really are. Humanity is surrounded by duality for this purpose - up and down, back and front, good and bad, etc.

Not only is it a necessity that we forget who we are, we were given the ultimate tool to make sure that we do - an ego. In the book "The Power Of Intention" the author, Dr. Wayne Dyer, describes coming from our ego ("an idea we construct about who and what we are") as based on the following:

I am what I have.
My possessions define me.

I am what I do.
My achievements define me.

I am what others think of me.
My reputation defines me.

I am separate from everyone.
My body defines me as alone.

I am separate from all that is missing in my life.
My life space is disconnected from my desires.

I am separate from God.
My life depends on God's assessment of my worthiness.

Look at how closely these six statements are related with the things I said are my focal points when I am in the mindset of separation consciousness. Tells you something about my ego doesn't it!
 
After spending this past week frequently considering all of this, I have come to a conclusion. Though I may not be able to constantly remember the true nature of who I am, I can still work on having my periods of remembering last longer than my times of forgetfulness. I'm going to start with a simple affirmation: "I am now joyfully remembering the powerful energy of my true nature for longer periods of time." As well, I'm going to use my creative ability and tap into the ethereal energy network that connects all of us and pull some energy from people who embody the aspects of who I choose to be and what I choose to have. So for your information I am now Oprah, I would be more than pleased if you still call me Vicki though!

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