Instead of Being Woke, Awaken to Your Self
We are focused on the wrong thing to change the world.
Dear Empowered Wayers:
What if we are focused on the wrong thing?
Instead of being “woke” or fighting racism, why don’t we work on ourselves?
As Brene Brown said in her landmark book, “The Atlas of the Heart,”
Our connection with others can only be as deep as our connections with ourselves.
The relationship you have with yourself is the most important one in your life. If you are looking at the world and you see racism, you are projecting something that is blocked in you.
Most people don’t want to hear that – you probably immediately rejected the idea that the cause of what you see in the world starts with you.
But it’s true.
When you cry, “The world is racist!” you are really saying, “I am racist.” You cannot see what is in the world unless you also have it in yourself.
That is a truth of human existence.
The mind and ego create the experience of racism, and you identify with it as racism being you. It’s a neat trick and a way to avoid looking at your own beliefs, judgments, and pain. Going inside and feeling these emotions isn’t fun or pretty, but it’s the only way to dissolve the blocks you carry.
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