Is there's a difference between a human-being and a human-doing?
Of course there is. Anybody aware of a sense of self will be able to tap into the knowing that we are spiritual beings having a human experience. Yet so many of us, knowingly or unknowingly live life mindlessly doing things and these 'things' become the sum-total of our lives. We do not live from the truth that our physical existence is a vehicle and our earthly life is the route our souls have chosen to travel along.
What happens when we are disconnected from our inner world and live life on the exterior only, is that we become separated from our inner world because we are out of touch with this larger, richer part of ourselves. We drift between feeling nothing, cutting out the world so that we can't feel, for the fear of getting hurt again, or we feel too much, so much so that it overwhelms us. We are torn between these opposing poles, instead of being centered in the essence of our being.
Using the knowing that I am a spiritual being having a human experience, instead of being overwhelmed by my feelings or trying to cut the feelings from my awareness, I can experience my feelings – my emotions – as guides. When I feel angry, I feel the emotion fully, but instead of reacting in ways that are negative and don’t work for me, I can choose to respond to my emotions in creative ways that bring me closer to others and closer to myself.
Of course there is. Anybody aware of a sense of self will be able to tap into the knowing that we are spiritual beings having a human experience. Yet so many of us, knowingly or unknowingly live life mindlessly doing things and these 'things' become the sum-total of our lives. We do not live from the truth that our physical existence is a vehicle and our earthly life is the route our souls have chosen to travel along.
What happens when we are disconnected from our inner world and live life on the exterior only, is that we become separated from our inner world because we are out of touch with this larger, richer part of ourselves. We drift between feeling nothing, cutting out the world so that we can't feel, for the fear of getting hurt again, or we feel too much, so much so that it overwhelms us. We are torn between these opposing poles, instead of being centered in the essence of our being.
Using the knowing that I am a spiritual being having a human experience, instead of being overwhelmed by my feelings or trying to cut the feelings from my awareness, I can experience my feelings – my emotions – as guides. When I feel angry, I feel the emotion fully, but instead of reacting in ways that are negative and don’t work for me, I can choose to respond to my emotions in creative ways that bring me closer to others and closer to myself.
Every choice, no matter how big or small, has an impact on our lives. Viewing myself as a spiritual being having a human experience also helped me when I was so deeply depressed that I had thoughts of suicide. I told myself that I wanted to ‘move on’, stop the pain of this life, but then I had a thought that made me rethink it: If being human was so bad, then why does the soul choose it so gladly and if I didn’t embrace the lessons my soul wanted me to learn in this life-time, my soul would gladly return to physical life to face the same lessons again. Better to live this life to its fullest, so that I can move on to higher levels of experience next time round.
Whether you believe in reincarnation or not, I hope that looking at it this way gives you a new perspectives on your life. I like to think of my life’s journey as a journey to find my way back home. Home is where the heart is and the heart is where love is, be that love for yourself or for another.
When we were young, in our innocence everything and anything was possible. Then life got a hold of us. Thing is, if we let go of the baggage we accrued along the way and simply remember who we truly are, the soul that lives within, we will find new inspiration in an ordinary day.
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