What if you could never be hurt again?

What if you could never be hurt again? What if you could tear down the walls of protection and “shields” others are teaching you to put up and just love? Are you saying you don’t care in order to protect yourself from not knowing how to care and not get hurt? How can somebody who is trying to help you tear down your walls and love again instruct you to put more up but just call them “shields” instead of walls and think it is going to help?

It is progress. A wall means you are defending yourself and afraid of an attack. The ancients built walls around their castles or villages to keep others out. The wall that you build around you is indeed keeping others out but it is also keeping you in. You can only grow within in constraints you have made for yourself within these walls of fear. You are growing in fear, perhaps not the way you want to grow at all. Would you expect a flower to grow if you hid it in the dark and kept it in a tiny box so it had no room to grow at all?

A shield is something that may be lighter to hold than a wall, and you have with you incase you need it. This means, like a warrior in battle, you need to carry it with you at all times. Shields, whether they are forged of steal or light are a heavy burden to carry. It means you are not sure if you are safe. It means you do not know if you can put it down. Try sitting here and holding your arms out at shoulder length for even 5 minutes and you will feel tired and strained. You are feeling this and you are not even carrying anything yet! Imagine that you are now carrying around a fear that somebody might attack you. You got uncomfortable after 5 minutes; imagine what you are doing to your mind and your body by doing it for years. It leaves you with anxiety and never knowing whom to trust. It does something even worse; it tells you that you cannot trust yourself to know whom to trust. Losing faith and trust in yourself? There is no shield big enough to stop the damage that is done from the inside out.

What if you never needed a wall or a shield? What if you understood that nobody could ever hurt you again in your life? You are the only person that can hurt you by believing their threats and their fears. They are going through their own journey and their own battles. The world tries to avoid World War Three because it means that the entire world suffers due to the arguments and indignities of a few. It does not mean that we turn in blindness to suffering but we do not need to suffer to be helpful and wise leaders. The world created The United Nations to help this. What do you have? You have the ability to have a united body, mind and spirit to help you understand that others can try to attack you, but when you know you are safe, you never feel threatened. 

When you never feel threatened and have compassion for the fact that they feel this way, you can actually lower defenses and embrace them with love. When somebody is afraid they are not loveable, when you put up a shield and stop giving yours to them, you are showing them this is true. When others are in fear of lack of love, this is when you should step up yours and give yours more freely, not protect your own. Self worth and self love is a Taurus of energy that provides you to create so much love that you can give it away at will and it not cost you a thing.

When somebody is trying to hurt you and you let them, you have hurt yourself by not having enough self-esteem and self worth to understand that they cannot take what is not theirs. Do we go around holding shields from ants? There are trillions of them living around us at all times. Do they affect our ability to love and feel safe? No they do not. We do not need to live in fear and many of you will lovingly go out of your way to not even step on one. Yes there are red ants that may bite but they bite because they think they are going to die and need to protect themselves. You avoid them and let them live in peace. Why are you running around thinking that every person has the ability to take away your right to love yourself? They are giving you a chance to love yourself and you should step up to the plate and do it. You will feel much better.

Love is weightless and kind. It needs no effort to carry and is unlimtless in its supply. When you give when others attack, you are showing them they are loveable even at their worse times. This in turn makes you a walking Buddha of love and compassion. When you love others that are in pain, you are truly loving yourself as well by knowing you are safe and loved…. ALWAYS.

Namaste,