Good Friday
I have the title ‘Inner Transformation Coach’ - I don’t really like the label. Sounds a bit wanky.
A slightly awkward feeling arises - “bit arrogant that, who do you think you are” - I know this stems from the pain of seeing how inflated my ego was, I was sooo arrogant, pride and all…without substance.
And I hated myself for this when I began to see it.
But even now after 15 years of committed inner work - where I can see and feel tangible shifts in my character and my way of being due to intense effort, having supported hundreds of people to work with thru mental health challenges, worked up to guiding group meditations 4x per week for people around the world, lived in London, NYC & Mexico City, been married and soon to be divorced, started my business and…
…I still have that come up - “who do you think you are to call yourself a transformation coach” - I don’t call myself it - just need a label so people can see I serve in this way.
Anyways, back my original point - you can’t talk ‘transformation’ without talking about the King.
Good Friday is when Jesus was put to the cross. You may switch off here, or read on for my interpretation.
My heart belongs to Christ because of what He showed us - man can die to the world and be re-born, renewed - cleansed. Just requires a crucfixion.
He showed us in the most loving & sacraficial way, so we could see symbolically & spiritually, today represents the death of the false self personality.
He didn’t resist the cross, he chose to face it. He showed us that true power is born not in resistance, but in radical surrender.
He showed us that the death of one’s accumulated worldy identity is not the end, but the beginning. The preparation for transformation.
We must be willing to
die to who we think we are,
in order to
become who we truly are.
There is no glorious blooming without first, letting yourself be buried. The darkest hours preceed the illumined rebirth.
The fears, doubts, the self-limiting beliefs, worry and wounding and the trauma, the guilt, shame and sin. These are the things that need be crucified.
This is excruciating - but not as much as what was done to Him.
It’s painful because it’s all we’ve ever known, it makes up our identity in the world - it’s who we are, or at least have conditioned ourselves to believe we are over the years.
But we are far greater than this.
Good Friday is the invitation and the initiation for man’s transformation.
He showed us that we shall prevail, He asks us to surrender….to let go of all the attachments, to be free of that which weighs us down and stops us from expressing our heart.
Here’s to the willingess to let go of that which no longer serves us.
With love.x