omg, I printed out your post to read and re-read!! I've never heard a description of getting clear/doing one's work articulated quite so "clearly" lol and profoundly.

Getting to my core beliefs has been the major focus of my work this year....getting to them and then shattering them!! This has been challenging to say the least! Probably the hardest work I have even done...

In the past, I admit to having been one of those looking for ways/tools/books/workshops that would bring me to the next level. Like someone's else's experience was supposed to be mine, geez....all that did was set me up for comparisons, defeat, and perhaps adapting "their story".... I realize now that those things were just a way to perhaps validate and confirm what I already knew. They were pointers but not the answers.....I AM the answers....I am complete and one with all that is.... finally "remembering" that looking "out there" was separation thinking!! I knew better, but still got caught in the fragmentation.... Also, some of the books and workshops at least gave me the "words" for the knowing that I always had.... I often stumble over finding words for things I know, and found some value in hearing others' words describe my experiences and knowings. Like resonance....

Well these past few years have been a challenging time for shedding my collective agreements on all levels...social, religious, societal, relational, etc. It's amazing how much I was tapped into "their story". I am now focused to getting to a clean slate and just being me. I WILL NO LONGER ALLOW "them" to dictate to me what is MY truth!! at least if I am aware of it and I am working on that...

I hope to clear the remaining myst!!!

Thank you Lapis for your beautiful wisdom..... it speaks volumes about your own clarity and the work you have done to get there....