Have you ever found yourself at the centre of a vicious storm of projection and betrayal? The wounding of being so devalued and delegitimized to the point of dehumanization results from the confrontation with the raw, brutal energy that has been split off from feeling or empathy. It's something that one never forgets if one has experienced it. It is part of the collective memory that lives in the bodies and psyches of those who have experienced genocides (at the collective level), and serious bullying (at the personal level). If you are a woman, it is often experienced as the energetic equivalent of being perceived as "the witch."
Owning our projections is the difficult work of a humanity seeking to embody soul values rather than keeping them out of life on a perfectionistic pedastal. Reclaiming our capacity for deep love is the healing journey that leads us into our frailties and wounds, and the ways in which these wounds prevent us from trusting new dimensions of life and love to flow through our bodies and psyches. It is not an easy journey, and it takes us right into the centre of our own fear and the tender bruises of our heart's frustrated efforts to connect and be received. It reminds us that our vocal chords may be 'choking' on the repressed expression of the truth of our experience, and our eyes are fearful of recognizing what they see as plainly as posssible.
While projections have real power when they are unleashed, they are equally powerful when they are reclaimed. Instead of that energy being placed out there on the "enemy", it can instead flow into creative possibilities and connections. With new eyes, we can see others in a fresh light.
In the reclaiming, we remember who we really are - and are humbled and healed by our own perfectly imperfect story, and our ability to honour it in the other.
Owning our projections is the difficult work of a humanity seeking to embody soul values rather than keeping them out of life on a perfectionistic pedastal. Reclaiming our capacity for deep love is the healing journey that leads us into our frailties and wounds, and the ways in which these wounds prevent us from trusting new dimensions of life and love to flow through our bodies and psyches. It is not an easy journey, and it takes us right into the centre of our own fear and the tender bruises of our heart's frustrated efforts to connect and be received. It reminds us that our vocal chords may be 'choking' on the repressed expression of the truth of our experience, and our eyes are fearful of recognizing what they see as plainly as posssible.
While projections have real power when they are unleashed, they are equally powerful when they are reclaimed. Instead of that energy being placed out there on the "enemy", it can instead flow into creative possibilities and connections. With new eyes, we can see others in a fresh light.
In the reclaiming, we remember who we really are - and are humbled and healed by our own perfectly imperfect story, and our ability to honour it in the other.
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