The Tortoise and the Hare

I was contemplating my next blog post last night and settled on the idea that I wanted to talk about the ego and our heart centre and the idea came to me that the story of the tortoise and the hare is the perfect way to describe these two contrasting factors within us all.

So like the hare the ego is pumped up, arrogant, loud, and obnoxious he says he can do anything better than anyone else and is not afraid to let everyone know. The hare brags about how fast he is and also relentlessly teases the tortoise for being so slow. Eventually the tortoise gets sick of the hare's behaviour and challenges him to a race. There are many versions of the story but it ends up that the hare is so cocky and arrogant that he lazes around while the tortoise slowly but surely makes his way through the course and ends up winning. Our true self is like the tortoise, unassuming, peaceful, full of self love and confidence but not cocky. We know that we will finish the race in our own time and we don't need to boast about how good we are at things or put others down. We approach everything with love. We also don't need to prove ourselves to anyone else. Unfortunately the ego can take over and we do need to stand up to it and challenge it to, once you face up to your ego I promise you your true loving self will win.

Why? because light always betters dark and and by shedding light on your dark emotions we can dissolve them. This however is not always as easy as it sounds the ego is tricky and clever and has many ways of disguising itself. It will throw anxiety, depression, anger, possessiveness and pretty much every other destructive emotion at you in order to preserve itself. Many of us are also addicted to our egoic self, I find this most often takes the form of drama.

You know what I mean the drama we all have in our lives and the lives of those surrounding us and even though it always ends up making us feel empty we often can't help getting sucked in. Even if you don't have drama in your personal life you can easily access it through the media and celebrity gossip websites. I call it drama glue, which I first heard being said by "Kurek Ashley." Drama glue is pretty much exactly what it sounds like it sticks to us and is really hard to get off once we buy into it. It just hangs around. So whenever you feel yourself getting sucked into the drama vortex just take a moment to separate your emotions. Sure its fine to listen to it just don't take it in or emotionally invest in it. Let it wash over you like a wave. That way you don't get that sick felling in your gut. 

Our heart energy is fueled by loving emotions, belief in oneself,  serving others, unconditional love, withholding judgement of others, cultivating good karma. Basically the more we practice utilising positive emotions the stronger our heart energy grows and the stronger our heart energy grows the weaker our ego becomes. This is also beneficial to the whole world as the more positive energy we project the more positive the world becomes. Its win win for everyone! 

So this week before you buy into that drama or judge that other person for doing something that you wouldn't normally do just take a breath and separate yourself from the negative energy. Every gap that you create means that the light can filter in more and more and more. Then we really don't have any more dark shadows to fight and the light fills us all :-)

Finally I want to share a poem that filled me with light today

The Sun Never Says
Even
after
all this time
the sun never says to the earth,
"You owe me"
Look
what happens with a love like that-
it lights up the whole world.



L xox