I had an experience the other day that gave me pause to stop and ponder deeply my beliefs around expressing love to all, equally so. This experience exposed in me a long held belief that same sex couples are less. When I had this realisation, I felt such sadness.
“How is it possible to hold a belief for so long, that in no way feels true, loving and supportive in my life? How far away from my true self have I been living to not feel the hurt that comes with holding onto such beliefs?”
These simple questions led me to understand much about myself and have offered me great appreciation as to just how destructive a belief can be, helping me to identify the falseness in thinking that we are not equal simply as we are born to be.
I myself have lived so much of my life in comparison to others, constantly measuring if I am better or less than that person. My upbringing that saw same sex couples as somehow being less has offered me a moment where I can feel better than another person.
I know deeply inside that we are all equal and it doesn’t matter whether we choose a heterosexual or homosexual relationship. Yet the belief that I was not enough, and the push to prove that I am, has been my trigger to having the thoughts that same sex couples are less than I am.
How absolutely horrible the belief that I am better than another, as I have had an opportunity to know two beautiful women who in every way live their love for themselves, each other and all others equally. So to feel this arise in me, I know deeply that it is not who I truly am and that it is simply a belief that I have taken on from others. A belief that I can now completely let go of in how I live from this moment forward.
What this experience has brought forward for me to consider is how any comparison to others is so very debilitating. And that for this to enter, in a brief moment I in some way allowed myself to be less than or better than the other person, whether they be man or woman doesn’t matter.
What does matter is that a learned way of living that I have lived for much of my life, believing I was better than or less than another, created a constant tension to prove myself –making it impossible to fully love another equally.
I am so very grateful that I have had this experience and am also super grateful that I simply didn’t brush it off as being okay. I know deeply that my love inside of me is love for all, equally so, and I can feel the amazing potential of living in this way. Living every day deeply feeling just how beautiful, loving and supportive I am, without wavering or falling back into any old beliefs that do not support this truth that I have connected to.
I feel that I am living my life from a whole new platform: that I have accepted in full that we are all equal and feel an amazing sense of freedom in this.
There is a sense of coming home in my body that is palpable: a sense of finally allowing what my body has always known, to be the way that I live, with love for all, equally so.
Inspired by the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
By Leigh Strack
Further Reading:
Love – The Missing Link In Gender Equality
“The Highest Form of Intelligence is Love”
Comparing Myself To Others
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We have all fallen for the illusion of being better or lesser then another. Our whole world feeds this illusion – this kind of thinking keeps us separated from one and other and ultimately causes the war and disruption we too often see.
Highlighting the importance of coming back to the love that we are!
Love your point about not brushing the experience off. So often we do that. Probably more than we realise and this is one of the ways we avoid evolution.
We carry so many energetic patterns in our body from the believes we put on us. To unravel them by starting to give detail care to our own body is revealing all and knocks the lies out.
What is essential to understand here is that these hidden, or subconscious beliefs, are what actually drives us, that defines and dictates the way we live, and our behaviour in everyday life.
The honesty expressed here is astounding. Many people hold destructive beliefs without ever questioning them. Much of the time these beliefs are not expressed which makes them all the more poisonous. I appreciate your willingness to share what you have felt and the way you have refused to accept or justify this seperative belief.
A brilliant exposure for us all to ponder on, of the extent of ill-consciousness that love is measured, has owned us and the lives we live. Love is an absoluteness that when connected to it is known that love is equal in one and all.
To feel this and live this offers another so much as a reflection. The choice is then whether we choose to make this all of life or just part of life?
Leigh, thank you for your very honest article. This exposes that we often hold beliefs that are not true, such as same sex couples not being equal. I can feel that there are many other beliefs in society that hold some people as less and some as more, this can be linked with what work we do, where we live, where we are from and our age, the list can go on. Its great to be aware of these prejudices and to know that we are all equal and no one is less or more than other.
Love is love, so let love be love, so we can all return to love.
The way in which Leigh was able to declare strongly how she was no longer going to hold onto a negative belief about homosexual couples brought to my mind how we don’t need to spend so much time feeling bad or guilty about false beliefs or actions that we have taken that were harming to others, but that we can simply call them for what they are and renounce them as no longer being the truth or supportive for anyone, and letting them go forever. I can feel how I have held onto being hard on myself at times when I have realised I had lived in a way that was not true and this just brought me to a lower, more contracted place quickly, when I could have simply nominated it and moved on.
This is a very powerful comment Michael. It holds deeply the key to discovering our essence and allowing it to be our way of being in life.
Every experience is an opportunity for us to grow and evolve – it is a choice of what we let play out – do we see things as a reflection and learning, or do we react and shut down. Your sharing here shows the beauty that is delivered when we are open to learning and understanding more about ourselves and the world through each experience.
Leigh, this is really interesting; ‘What does matter is that a learned way of living that I have lived for much of my life, believing I was better than or less than another, created a constant tension to prove myself – making it impossible to fully love another equally.’ In the past I too felt this constant tension, generally of not feeling good enough, it feels very different to now being confident in myself and to see myself as equal, this has supported me to see everyone else as equal, no matter what race, culture, sex or needs we have, it is very lovely to feel like this and makes being with people much truer and more natural and enjoyable.
When that connection is made to your essence and you feel the joy in equalness to God the power is palpable. Surely reading this line should be enough to live The Truth and ‘own’ The Power however, this also comes with Responsibility and the order of how Gods holds them-selves in absolute love.