your authentic self

hi mil, what's the topic for today?

"mindfullness.  awareness.  living your authentic life as your authentic self."

millie shows me a parade of human figures walking single-file, holding balloons that float above their heads.  the balloons are also human-shaped.  the walking figures seem heavy, empty, robotic.  the balloons are lighter than air, with painted smiles, but also seem empty.

"you are afraid to fully inhabit your body, your life.  many of you are simply skimming the surface of your life, afraid of the puzzle that is you, that you have come here to solve."

I have a strong sense that, while we normally trudge slowly up the steep steep slope of self-enlightenment, millie is here to build us a stairway.


"an escalator, if you let me."  (said with no trace of ego)

"you resist fully inhabiting yourself for the same reason you don't clean out the garage, or the basement, or the attic.  it looks like hard work.  it's a little dark and scary.  you might find something that upsets you.  you don't know how to start.  you aren't sure what to do with all that stuff.


it will be easier than you think.  when you hold your soul 'stuff' up to the light, it transforms.  you don't need to decide whether to keep it, toss it, give it away -- it's yours.  you don't need to re-box it and re-store it, it has changed into something much lighter, something that helps you rather than weighing you down.  it becomes an asset.  a treasure.


the best thing you can do for yourself is look at your 'stuff.'  make room for you inside your life. transform the dark corners into livable space.  climb into your body and engage with life.  move through your life with purpose and intention.  really feel what it's like to be you.  you are beautiful and wonderful and cool.  treat yourself, and every other being on the planet, with reverence and love."

yowza, millie.  if you're not careful, people are going to start making little gold figurines of you and praying to them!