Exhaustion
We all get exhausted from time to time.
It’s the body’s way of telling us that something’s up; the early warning system that all is not well in our psycho-spiritual world.
Guilt and shame lead us to exhaustion, hoping that it will be the death of us.
Yet, exhaustion can be a door to an awakening, a whole new look at what we’re about and where we’re going. Please let me explain.
Lurking behind exhaustion there often lies a dysfunctional relationship, one into which we’re pouring huge amounts of our psychic and physical energy. A Black-Hole of sorts, that will never be satisfied.
The result of such a flow of personal energy is a lack of Self-Awareness. We’ve decreased our Self in order to enhance the other. Disguised as devoted love, this promotion of the other to the detriment of our own psycho-spiritual well-being is a one way trip to a personal hell, one fired with confusion and despair.
Thankfully, Divine Love has other plans for us. Created as an energy spark of the Fire of Spirit, we have a most precious pedigree. WE are not slaves, either to our condemning ego nor the misperceptions of others. In the midst of mess we can hold our head high once we realise the Womb from which we sprang. We have divine blood running through the veins of our Being. We are only here because of Divine source, with our own scripted Divine Purpose.
Of course many of us, get waylaid at times, swamped by the sea of human demands that press for our attention, often in the guise of loving our neighbour. I’m afraid that those of us of a religious or spiritual bent are often the easiest targets for such misconceived interpretations of what it is to love. Egged on by the gurus of Self-sacrifice, often in an attempt to match the Love of the Nazarene, we take up our self-imposed cross, becoming door mats for our spouse, children or the psychic vampires drawn to our inner pol of life blood.
No, we’ve got it all wrong. We can only truly love others when we love our Self, recognising the priority that our Creator Source places on us his psycho-spiritual work of art. Exhausting ourselves in the frenzy of loving others is no love, but rather a form of Self-punishment and rejection.
Time perhaps to rediscover the sacred space within, where two become One. From this place of Union, this inner knowing that we matter,we set out once more to touch humanity, not as a Self-less slave but as a fellow traveller in the Divine Flow.
The energy for love comes from Love. It’s first-love is the one called You. Get this right and our physical, psychological and spiritual exhaustion will be a thing of the past.
Release the blocked energy of your Divine purpose today and show your Self some respect. Others will thank you for it.
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x Dylan
Writer Dylan Morrison 
Excellent. Bernard de Clairvaux insists that the highest form of love is love of SELF for the sake of GOD. I’m coming ever so slowly to understand why.
Thanks for dropping by Robert. Yes, Bernard, as monk and mystic had an insight that many contemporary Yeshua folk miss entirely. The preservation at all costs of religious rescue organisations, known as ‘churches’, may lie behind our programmed ignorance.
🙂 Dylan
Yup. If God acts like me, ‘god’ probably is me. If I love me first, I will not love a hazy and damaging projection of the God I actually hate. I become a “heretic” before ever getting to the bible.
This very morning my brain and heart were warring over what I was going to do today… the things my brain was telling me I should and the things my heart yearned for. My soul trumped all. Thanks for another synchronized writing subject.
Wonderful Cecilia.
As we make small decisions in favour of our own well being we begin to see and indeed feel a greater love for Self, something that we have been taught to put at the back of the queue since we were kids!
Rediscovering Self is, I believe, as exciting as discovering the One from whom it came.
🙂 Dylan
‘What if I should discover that the least of the brothers of Jesus, the one crying out most desperately for reconciliation, forgiveness, and acceptance, is myself? That I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be loved, what then? Will I do for myself what I do for others?’ ~ Carl Jung
Profound Debra.
Professor Jung came out with some gems and this is certainly one of the best.
Thanks for sharing it.
🙂 Dylan