12/15/08

sacred a$$hole

"You are comfortable with your guardian angel, but are you comfortable with your sacred asshole?!?"
Funny guidance that came through for a client recently, eh!?

"You've come far on being okay with what is...accepting yourself...being in the moment...but you still judge the asshole. Don't. Be real. Be honest. Be in your integrity. Be in the truth of your thoughts and feelings. Just allow your sacred asshole, Your Old Man Coyote Trickster, when the moment is right!"

Don't we all do this? Self judging behaviors we don't like in ourself or others. Over controlling our emotions. Over riding our gut with oughtas. For example, we intellectually know that being angry doesn't much serve us, so we disown it. But not dealing with the anger and repressing it is actually worse. We need to face it.

be aware of the anger, go into it. through is the way.
By digging into what is real, all parts of ourselves, our humanity, our ugliness, our beauty, our fear...embracing who we are...all of our selves...in this awareness, we can't help but naturally become more loving. Really. Sometimes tough love. But love.

confession of an anti-asshole
Someone told me a couple years to act Latin. He'd rather I walk across the room and smack him a good one than hold it in. I don't really think he wanted me to smack him (I tried it. It didn't work for either of us. Just saying.) He just wanted me to be in the moment, to be true. He was right. And, it was raw and ugly. But it was true. And that helped me be true in a smackless way. Though I had to go into it. It wasn't so bad.

your turn!
But like everything, don't take my word for it. Try it. Allow your sacred asshole when it comes up. And oh,
please share your stories to rid us all of our "too nice syndrome." Add a comment!



Motto: Embrace your sacred a$$hole.
How's that for spiritual guidance.

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1 Comments:

Blogger Patricia Taft said...

Hey Meredith,

Great to see that you are blogging again, your posts are so inspirational.

Yes, the "inner asshole" is one that I have been faced with again and again and think, "Where did SHE come from? I thought I was evolved or something?" Fortunately and unfortunately, I am Latin/Italian so I can blame it on that but I completely hear you about needing to balance being a spiritual being with also being a HUMAN being. Beating yourself up because you had a bad day and got curt with someone is useless even though you think, "I am normally NEVER like that...what has happened? Am I off the path?"

I always take comfort in my (Italian) mother's lesson on this topic:

"Even Jesus lost his temper sometimes. Remember when he threw the moneychangers out of the Temple? Clearly, he wasn't having a good day."

I think about that now everytime I sense my inner asshole about to take over for a few minutes or hours...not a carte blanche EVER to act like an asshole...but one to allow you to forgive yourself when you act human.

Thanks again for blogging, please keep up the good, and down-to-earth, messages!

December 18, 2008 5:09 PM  

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