Ever feel insignificant? I didn’t know how insignificant I felt until I assisted at The Shadow Process last weekend. Debbie Ford has led thousands of people into the depths of their ego to emerge with a shadow significant enough to prevent them from living their Divine Purpose. I found mine… As I assisted the participants in everything from handing them tissues to mirroring their dark shadow back to them, I realized in a moment of clarity that I am insignificant. Insignificant! Me! In this moment of clarity–and horror–I saw how, in an attempt to push away the painful feeling of being insignificant, I behave in ways that alleviate my insignificance. Pushing away my insignificance birthed my need to be needed. I would take care of everyone else and leave myself last. I would be the last one to fall at night and the first one to rise in meeting the needs of others. I could be the first one to deliver a tissue in my attempt to mask my insignificance. Birthed from pushing away my insignificance is martyrdom.
Don’t think that this is all bleak. I have embraced my insignificance and in the embracing of this painful shadow aspect of myself, I can be significant unto myself and take care of myself. In my insignificance, I claim my Divine Purpose: I am Changing the World!
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That’s such an important insight… embracing the worst thing that we fear about ourselves, and discovering the gift within it. I, myself, am “incompetent”, and working to face it and discover its gifts to me. This should be much easier than doing so much work to cover up how incompetent I sometimes feel.
Thanks for the teaching about that!
Michelle,
I had an “awakening” of sorts in July. Part of that awakening was a sense of being insignificant. It was actually a wonderful relief for me. Here I was trying so hard to matter. The relief came from getting that I didn’t have to be significant to matter. Sounds like a paradox, doesn’t it? The more I can embrace my unimportance the less I end up trying to please people. At some level I’m just another human being, no more and no less than anyone else.
This attitude has really helped my life.
Drop me a line before you come to Santa Fe and I’ll be happy to show you around. It’s a great town!
Ho Sol, This post above was written by my co-facilitator CK, yet I think at some level we can all resonate.
See you in May!