What actually interacting with people and listening to them and being with them versus spitting facts from a book AT them will show you, is that it’s the mind AND the body. It’s the higher consciousness AND the ego. It’s the light AND the dark.
What lived experience and actual integration will teach you is that you cannot simultaneously deny your physical experience and embrace the fullness of your spirituality.
“Concrete thinking” displays an unbalanced 3rd eye & crown chakra. Tap into both your right & your left eyes… Seeing things through the lens of both the masculine & feminine (yin & yang / intuition & logic) energetic aspects.
You open your mind to seeing other perspectives and accepting other viewpoints AND ALSO still advocate for what’s right and true for you without having to disrespect the other viewpoint.
Y’all… I know that when you’ve been taught that things are concrete that it’s hard to wrap your mind around two things at once but you gon have to expand your thinking. Life is “AND ALSO” not always “EITHER OR”
In order to elevate it requires you to separate from the parts of you that use your guilt and shame to punish yourself for what you think you’ve done wrong.
In order to elevate it requires you to separate from the parts of you that think your past dictates your future. You deserve. You deserve. You deserve.
In order to elevate it requires you to separate from the parts of yourself that think you don’t deserve space to be held for you and what you’re feeling.
In order to elevate it requires you to separate from the parts of yourself that shrink & hide in an effort not to make anyone else “think you’re better than…”
In order to elevate it requires you to separate from the parts of yourself that find community in speaking on another person’s life choices in a way that’s anything but uplifting