Pick your friends wisely: those that support your highest self
In reply to Protective/ over protective? by Soumya
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This is a very rich seam of inquiry Soumya - which holds many useful threads for others to contemplate. I'm sure many have similar dynamics going on in their journey of awakening. So let's look at the key aspects.
Being Judged By Family And Friends
Firstly: you said you'd received this judgment from a family member...
I'm doing nothing, even (though) I have all the calibre to achieve materially, I'm just copying my partner and being a shadow of him. A lot of anger came through as my initial response which was swept away by a lot of tears. I started questioning myself. It is true I came across this level of teaching through him. We are in a similar situations and we use the same tools, but we have different inquiries. Does that mean im copying him?
We are all unique and individual - we're each a fractal of the whole. But fractals do flow together in common streams as well. Hence you get big movements within spirituality. Also, it's a classic judgment by people in the mainstream, that you're "doing nothing". Absolutely! We're being something - which is what most on the planet are missing.
So the question is, why were you angry about it? Is there some aspect of truth in what was said? Are you fully exploring yourself? You said: "I have no problem copying others". Perhaps there's another way of seeing it - not exactly copying others, but being inspired by others. I'd say we are here to inspire each other.
Also, where two people are together in partnership, it's highly likely that one will have more ray 1 energy - that of creating and forging pathways. Whilst the other might have more to give in supporting a pathway - more ray 2. It's how teams come together. One is more willful, one is more surrendered. I don't see anything wrong in this, as long as each creates the space for the other to develop their own unique gifts. As long as each respects and honours the other's point of view.
Choosing the Right Fertile Soil for the Soul to Grow
Secondly: you ask about being self-protective, of your boundaries...
It's like I'm being protective / overprotective to myself. I don't have any connections/ communications with my friends in schools, colleges, places I worked before and with my sister's. When ever a message / call come from them , I feel irritated like ' why are these people calling me? They don't get me and I have nothing to say/ask. Later I feel bad about my response.
I'd say one of the greatest personal limitations to progression on the path is maintaining past relationships that don't actually serve you. Classically, where the other cannot see who you now truly are - one who often subtly tries to undermine or continually project you into the old identity of you, that they are comfortable with. This is highly limiting of our consciousness - because it doesn't provide the fertile soil for the soul to grow. Where instead, the soul requires an open and supportive space with positive feedback loops.
It's fine for someone to challenge you, and this can be highly helpful, providing they do it from the right place - from a loving space that wants the best for you and not filling your space with their judgments of you. Otherwise, the connection becomes highly toxic and limiting. What's the point in maintaining them? Why answer the texts that come in? Let them go. Become fearlessly courageous in who you are. What this will do, is create the space for new people to come into your life - those that truly support you. Let the toxicity go.
To be clear, there are plenty out there fighting for their degree of "normality" in the system. They are challenged by another emerging from it - because they recognise there's something in them that is wanting to do the same, but they're suppressing it, not willing to risk what they can truly become. And so they'll judge and even fight to keep the other suppressed. It's why we must step away in such situations.
If you feel the other could change toward you, then you could begin explaining why how they're being toward you is not serving you. And to say what you require instead. If they continually can't or won't fulfill that, then it's time to part.
Bright blessings
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