The path of healing is not of getting rid of things.

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Or releasing different sides of ourselves.

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We are not here to remove unwanted aspects of ourselves.

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Something very different is needed.

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By desiring to get rid of some aspect of ourselves, we are still fighting against it.

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That does not serve us.

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The more we push against something the more it persists.

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So trying to get rid of some part of ourselves is a self defeating action.

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What we truly need and desire is something lese.

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Something very different.

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There is a different way to approach our healing that works much better.

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For what we really desire is not to delete some old pattern or way of being.

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What we really want is to be more whole.

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To be more at peace.

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In order to achieve that state we must learn to integrate all these unwanted sides of ourselves, not throw them away.

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We are here to learn to love ourselves more, not less.

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All the sides of ourselves.

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Not just the sides we like or feel good.

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But to integrate the sides that feel yucky, painful, guilty, and ashamed.

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Especially those sides.

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By integrating them they not longer control us.

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Our awareness and consciousness around them is increased.

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For the more we look for things within us to get rid of, the more we will find.

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The more we look to integrate and love about ourselves, the more we will feel whole and at peace.

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This process is not one that we get done all at once.

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Or in a few moments.

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It is a process that takes a life time and then some.

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For we can always find more ways to love ourselves.

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More ways to be compassionate with ourselves.

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And even more ways to accept all the sides of ourselves.

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This is what true healing looks like.

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What it feels like.

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The path to wholeness is paved with acceptance.

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So what have you been trying to get rid of in yourself?

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Can you find a way to integrate it and accept it instead?

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~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant

Host of The Conscious Consultant Hour