What If You Became Your Own Saviour?

In this session, we contemplate the concept of taking ownership of our lives, identifying the issues we have faced, and taking the steps to save ourselves and do what we need to do to thrive. This track is taken from my course, ‘Awaken To Your Highest Calling’, available now via my profile.

Transcript

Hello and welcome to the session.

I invite you to take a seat or lay down and get yourself comfortable.

You can close down the eyes if you wish and take a deep slow breath in through the nose and out through the mouth.

In a moment I'm going to share with you a question to contemplate and then we'll just sit in silence for a minute and just let it percolate.

Then we'll talk about that question and just see where the discussion leads us.

This question and indeed all of the questions in this course are designed to be a catalyst for change,

A prompt that will help reframe your thinking,

Help you to consider new possibilities and approaches and to usher in a state of being that is more attuned with your highest calling.

I invite you to approach the question with an attitude of extreme openness,

One where for the duration of the session you welcome in and accept any and all responses that arise.

There are no right or wrong answers,

No good or bad thoughts and nothing for you to run from or move towards.

Just be open to whatever arises as it is for what it is in this moment without judgment or filter.

By doing so you'll be opening yourself up to the deepest and truest expression of wisdom and intuition available to you.

So let's just take a moment to sit with today's question.

What if you became your own saviour?

What if you became your own saviour?

So this question,

What if you became your own saviour,

Speaks to one of the hardest truths of recovery that you may have to accept.

Now I speak of recovery here as recovering from our pasts and whether or not you identify as needing recovery,

I would probably still put a caveat that we all do and or at some stage we all will.

Life will inevitably cause us to have pain,

To have suffering,

To have people passing,

To have things changing.

Not everything goes according to plan and even the best of life Not everything goes according to plan and even the best of life has pain.

So we need to recover and deal with that.

But for those of us that have had challenging childhoods,

That have had events in our past that have been you know caused by other people or by circumstances,

This idea of being our own saviour is especially poignant and prominent.

Now I'm speaking from a place of personal experience.

I moved out of home at 16.

I lived off charity and government handouts and a whole variety of things to just survive,

To get through.

And from that space of survival I learned a couple of hard truths and that's what this is pointing towards.

The hardest truth that I learned in that space was that you have to become your own saviour or rather it's all on you or rather no one is coming to save you.

However you want to approach this concept the answer is the same.

Now to be clear I'm not saying that I'm looking at the world from a pessimistic perspective that no one cares,

Not at all.

What I'm suggesting is that if you are lucky enough to have people or systems or interventions that can help,

Even with those things in place,

Now that's not a guaranteed I'm aware,

But even with those things in place you still have to choose to take action.

You have to see the therapist and the doctors and take the medication.

You have to do the self-work.

You have to open up and share and explore and express to even get that help.

If a friend offers to help you,

You have to well ask for and accept that help.

So even if there are things there to help,

If you're blessed with that possibility in your life,

It's still on you to take the actions to be okay with accepting that help.

Like I said I moved out of home early and I moved out of home early because it seemed like the safest,

Best,

Most appropriate option for me available at the time.

Was it?

You know looking back now at you know 35,

36 years old,

20 years past,

Perhaps I could have done something differently but I'm now in a different state.

I've in a lot of ways have moved on and recovered but the only way that I was able to move on and to recover was to be that 16 year old fleeing and then taking the steps to help myself,

To get the job,

To seek the government handouts and support,

To approach the charities and state my case why I needed that help.

The analogy that I like to offer here is if someone pushes you over and you're laying in the dirt and they walk away,

Are you going to lay there until they come back hoping that they come back and pick you up?

One of these hard truths is that you may never get the apology,

You may never get the help from the person that you think you should have gotten help from,

It may never be rectified but nonetheless you need to get yourself back up,

Nonetheless you need to get up off the ground and take those steps and those steps might be acceptance of the reality of your situation that you may never get that apology,

Maybe an acceptance that you need to just embrace your new reality.

If things have irreversibly changed in your life due to whatever event arose you have to accept that and you have to operate and move from that perspective,

You have to accept that it's not fair,

You have to process anything that needs to be processed,

You may need to seek treatments and interventions and therapies and medications and all these other things that you may need to do.

You're the one that has to be your own saviour and this is an even deeper sort of more spiritual thing here,

No matter what your circumstances we all face this spiritual existential overwhelm and angst that comes from mortality and I'll talk about mortality in a different session in this course but you have to be the one to step through that barrier,

To live regardless,

To take those steps towards your highest purpose in the short amount of time that we have on this earth.

You have to be that person when life becomes overwhelming and stressful and you've got work on your plate and you have to move house and all of these things arise,

You have to take ownership,

You have to do the work because really there's no one else.

Now yeah you might have a partner,

You might have parents,

You might have siblings,

You might have friends,

You might have all of these systems in place to help you but like I said you need to be the one to reach out,

To accept,

To ask for,

To let them know what you actually need,

You need to be the one to lead that charge.

And this isn't to say that you need to be just by yourself and like you know a solo life,

That's not what I'm saying but if you're feeling lonely and no one is coming to your door,

No one's messaging you,

No one's engaging with you,

You have to take those steps,

You have to reach out,

You have to risk a little bit to get some social company.

Who else is going to?

Now you could sit and pray and hope that something changes you know and I invite you to experiment with that,

If it does let me know,

Let me know how to evoke such powers of manifestation in prayer but chances are if you want something different in your life,

Be it social,

Financial,

Physical,

Mental,

Spiritual,

Medicinal,

Health-based,

Whatever it is,

Chances are you're going to need to take some steps to get that to happen in your life because no one can read your mind,

No one knows what you need,

No one knows what you want better than you do most likely,

Particularly as an adult.

You know as a child we sort of progressively lose someone else looking out for us,

The older the child gets the more they do for themselves as is right and as is expected but they have to come to terms with this idea of increasing levels of self-reliance,

Increasing levels of self-direction.

Can you become your own saviour,

I.

E.

Can you parent yourself and not just you know to fix all those problems but to point yourself towards that highest calling,

That highest mountain,

That thing that you want to be doing,

This course,

Awakening your highest calling.

You know by taking this session you are doing that for yourself,

Unless someone recommended it to you but even if they did you still chose and are listening.

Do you see what we're getting here and I guess that's where I want to leave off with today's session is you already are your own saviour,

Maybe not to the extent that you should or that is necessary but you already are taking steps to become your own saviour.

You're doing this course,

You're listening to other speakers on this app,

You're doing your daily meditation and exercise and trying to look after yourself in different ways right,

You're doing it.

You might need to do a better job of it,

You might need to do that research but even just identifying that you need to do a better job is an act of being your own saviour.

Do you see how you're already doing it?

If you could rank yourself out of 10,

10 being 100% your own saviour,

You're living,

You're embodied,

0 being nothing,

Where are you?

If you identified yourself as being at a 4,

What could you do to get it to a 5 or a 6 or a 7?

Can you do that?

I invite you to do it,

Take those next steps towards becoming your fullest total and biggest version of yourself,

Being your own saviour.

So I ask you for the next minute,

What if you became your own saviour?

What if you became your own saviour?

So,

Well done.

This brings us to the end of the session.

At the bottom of your screen,

You'll see the option to view the classroom or to ask a question.

Before moving on,

I invite you to take a moment to click through and share your insights,

To read the answers from other students and to hear my replies.

Remember to start your responses by restating the question so we know which one you're referring to.

In this case,

Saviour.

This is an opportunity for deep learning,

Further introspection and insight,

So please don't miss out.

I look forward to seeing you in the next session.

Thank you.

This session was taken from the course Awaken to Your Highest Calling.

It's out now and available on Insight Timer via my profile.

Check it out.