WHERE IS "IT?"

Where is “it?”  “It” is where “it” has always been, and where it always will be: inside of you.  So why isn’t everyone living “it” out?  This is what psychologists (and little kids) refer to as a block.  We are born living out “it,” and “it” is a beautiful thing, this natural expression of our true selves.  It organically, naturally happens.  A busy father tells you, “there’s no time to dance around the house;” a mother scolds, “don’t touch yourself there;” a religion gives you a whole list of things that you “shalt not do.” Block after block is placed in your life and before long there’s this wall built around your true self, your “it,” and then more walls around those, and eventually whole buildings and cities are built with these blocks, and though your “it” exists, it is hidden somewhere inside.

Sounds bad, doesn’t it?  Never Fear!  The funny thing about all of those blocks is that you don’t have to tear them down because you are the one holding them together in the first place.  All you have to do is LET GO, and they’ll all fall down, dissipate (the blocks are all in your mind anyway) and what’s left is your true self. There “it” is!

Often the energy holding these blocks and walls together is the result of judgment, labeling things good or bad, right or wrong, true or false, deciding one thing is always better than another.  That energy, that tension, is what holds your block structure in place, your energy fuels and sustains the blocks.  When that energy ceases to exist, when you accept everything in the universe as beautiful and good and lovely, or better yet neither good or bad nor beautiful or ugly, but just accept things for what they are, that energy required to label and judge disappears and all that’s left is your “it."

Sometimes what keeps you from getting “it” is rooting your identity in other people or things outside of yourself, which is where your true self, your “it-ness,” resides.  We tend to diversify our identity to protect “it,” so we house parts of our identity in people, or in status, or careers, or physical appearance, and your life force, your power, is segmented into many compartments, taking away the ability to act singularly and holistically out of one big power source.  This is really just letting someone or something else define you and this is good and will work- and then it will stop working, and you’ll have a block.  This is a form of giving another person your key to yourself.  You are essentially giving them your power and letting them control that part of you, for you.  You are letting them control how you feel inside.  If that person who houses some of your identity feels good about you, then you will feel good about yourself.  When that person is not feeling good about you, you will feel a discomfort inside of you.  Your foundation will continue to be shaken by exterior forces as long as you are looking for meaning or definition from that exterior place.