SUBTERFUGE FOR EMPOWERMENT

You want to be stronger, more direct, less fear engaged, but your emotions trip you up again and again. You’ve tried talk therapy, emotional release, meditation, and other modalities, each of which require you to either ignore the issues, pretend they are less, separate yourself from them, or determine their source so that you might leave them behind or “turn them.” However, you find that those methods are not working for you.

But . . . what if you choose to acknowledge these conditions and qualities that exist with you today as “What Is,” not worrying about how they came to be, but seeing how you would like those qualities to transform into higher qualities that serve you at a more helpful level (and therefore serve others at a more helpful level)? What if you said:  I have a fear of the dark, but I will take on the role of a powerful character who embraces the dark?

How is that character different from you? If you were studying this role for the stage, how would you compare your conscious self with the self of a powerful person who you perceive to be unafraid of, and even comfortable in, the dark? How would the qualities of this other cause you to change your posture, language, and behaviors? Practice this role until it feels you could do the role for an audience.

After some time, you will notice that the role becomes easier to play. You begin to embody the role by studying the attributes of the night and its uniqueness. You study the animals that move in the night and the vital processes that are at work, keeping the Earth whole and vibrant. You learn to look at the stars and enjoy the moonlight. 

At some point, while using Subterfuge to “try on” the character of a person empowered by the dark, you find that you can now function in the dark at a very high level. The character you have tried on is now a part of you, and in peeling it away, you realize that you will retain more of the character qualities than you leave behind. You may choose to keep this character in your wardrobe.

In a sudden, traumatic event, you may panic and backslide to an “understudy state”. That’s understandable. There are other, perhaps many, reasons for your latter, unnatural fear of the dark, which we will not consider under the subject of Subterfuge. 

Whatever your reasons for feeling “less than,” Subterfuge can help. Draw Empowerment to you through the taking on of higher roles, and thereby subverting the lower incarnation or version of character development that you wish to leave behind. In cases of extreme duress and human derangement, the shield of Subterfuge has been the saving grace for a broken mind: the tortured adult who reverts to childhood; the survivor of genocide who reverts to her teenaged pre-war years; the explorer who believes himself a god in order that he doesn’t lose any more persons under his command.

If you are too bashful to engage comfortably with others, take on the Subterfuge of confidence. For anger, study the ways of peace and diplomacy, and mimic this in a Subterfuge of loving compassion. To set healthy boundaries, consider the teachings of mediators and perform like one through the Subterfuge of that role.

The opportunities are endless.  

What you practice becoming, you soon become.

Blessed Be This Day 

This is a Direct Voice Communication from 
my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms 
with me from the other side of the veil.

May 27, 2014

art by Walks With Fire

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