It seems everyone I’ve ever encountered, including many members of my family, are narcissists. A lifetime of being gaslit, minimized, guilt tripped … mind-f-d.
It has indeed felt like a battle for the soul, standing firm for my personal heart-song while everyone around me wanted to squash it, rewrite it, and call it love … they know best for you. You’re broken, don’t you know?
3D relationships are personalities covered in various spirits. Probably ignorant of this, for the most part. They’ll insist we need fixing, that our understanding “isn’t real”.
As much as we love others, secretly, they are being used to destroy our personal, mental and emotional foundations.
It isn’t “personal”. It’s Divine. See bigger … it’s not the “person”. It’s the “spirits” attached to them. You’ll be called every fowl name in the book for standing up for yourself, your heart song.
You’ll be seen as thee most selfish human in the world. How dare you be autonomous!!!
I now believe those who had great potential to change this matrix were placed in narcissistic family situations and homes, facing a lot of mental manipulations, a lifetime of trauma, in an attempt to tangle their consciousness, so badly so, they wouldn’t ever rise.
Yes. This is a battle for the soul, the essence of the higher … those who have ability to generate powerful chakra energy. Batteries.
Powerful In love … or Pain.
This knowing changes everything.
“If you learn how to rule one single man’s soul, you can get the rest of mankind. It’s the soul, Peter, the soul. Not whips or swords or fire or guns. That’s why the Caesars, the Attilas, the Napoleons were fools and did not last. We will. The soul, Peter, is that which can’t be ruled. It must be broken. Drive a wedge in, get your fingers on it – and the man is yours. You won’t need a whip – he’ll bring it to you and ask to be whipped. Set him in reverse – and his own mechanism will do your work for you. Use him against himself. Want to know how it’s done? See if I ever lied to you. See if you haven’t heard all this for years, but didn’t want to hear, and the fault is yours, not mine.”
“This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men—go freely with powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and with the mothers of families—re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.”
I once asked a very successful woman to share her secret with me. She smiled and said to me..
“I started succeeding when I started leaving small fights for small fighters. I stopped fighting those who gossiped about me… I stopped fighting with my in laws… I stopped fighting for attention… I stopped fighting to meet peoples expectation of me… I stopped fighting for my rights with inconsiderate people.. I stopped fighting to please everyone… I stopped fighting to prove they were wrong about me…. I left such fights for those who have nothing else to fight…
And I started fighting for my vision, my dreams, my ideas and my destiny.
The day I gave up on small fights is the day I started becoming successful & so much more content.”
Some fights are not worth your time….. Choose what you fight for wisely.
My daughter handed me her school progress report. Although it displayed a steady stream of positive check marks, there was one check mark standing dejectedly alone from the rest.
“How am I doing, Mom?” my child asked with a level of maturity that did not match the small dishevelled person gazing up at me with smudged eyeglasses that teetered on the tip of her nose. With her small finger, she pointed to her teacher’s neatly printed words next to the lone check mark.
It read: “Distracted in large groups.” But I already knew this. I knew this long before it was written on an official report card. Since she was a toddler, this child has offered astute observations of the world around her.
After pointing out all the positives on the progress report, I told her what was written. Upon hearing the news, she gave a tiny, uncertain smile and shyly admitted, “I do look around a lot.”
But before my child could feel one ounce of shame, one iota of failure, I came down on bended knee and looked her straight in the eye. I didn’t want her to just hear these words, I wanted her to feel them. This is what I said:
“Yes. You do look around a lot. You noticed Sam sitting off by himself with a skinned knee on the field trip, and you comforted him.”
“You noticed Banjo had a running nose, and the vet said it was a good thing we brought him in when we did.”
“You noticed our waitress was working really hard and suggested we leave an extra good tip. You noticed Grandpa was walking slower than the rest of us so you waited for him.”
“You notice the beautiful view every time we cross the bridge to go to swim practice.”
“And you know what? I don’t ever want you to stop noticing because that is your gift. It is your gift that you give to the world.”
As I watched my daughter beam with the glow of acceptance, I realized her approach to life had the power to change the world.
You see, we are all just waiting for someone to notice—notice our pain, notice our scars, notice our fear, notice our joy, notice our triumphs, notice our courage.
And the one who notices is a rare and beautiful gift.
~Rachel Macy Stafford, author of “Hands Free Life.” Her author page is @TheHandsFreeRevolution on Facebook.
It’s what I had to do. I started 21 years ago. Unlearning everything taught and conditioned. Retraining myself, from a loving perspective, with my highest good in mind. @AmentiReAnkhet puts the process in words very well here.
“Re-parenting is the process of healing from childhood trauma & pain by intentionally making choices in your highest good.
In this thread are some tips to help re-parent yourself.
Discipline – Learn to say no to what doesn’t serve you Practice Letting Go Build a foundation of habits/rituals that help ground & stabilize your life Follow through on your plans & promises you make to yourself
Self-Care – Breathwork Meditation Journaling Proper Sleep Connect with Nature Conscious Awareness Practice Boundaries Focus on Nutrition Move your body
Joy – Listen to Music Help someone Do something spontaneous Get a New Hobby Create Human Connection Be more childlike
Tend to your hurts & wounds. Provide words of encouraging affirmations. Provide or not deprive yourself physical affection & touch. Hold self accountability. Be kind to yourself. Honor your feelings. Creating a structure, will make life easier & help you find your center.”