Feeling Different
For those who find themselves undergoing an energetic spiritual awakening, or wrestling with being different than everyone else, or feeling like you don’t belong…know that you are not wrong. Instead, your strangeness, your uniqueness, your differences, your unique abilities and expressions are gifts to cultivate and nourish within to diversify and inspire the world for the better.
In a society that demands sameness and conformity in every way, it will try to shame those who are or choose to ‘be different’ and follow their own path. Everyone is expected to look the same, behave the same, believe the same, think the same, and follow the same standards and goals. For some, this will be what they are here to support and reinforce. For others, it will be what they are here to break free from and define for themselves. The rules of society are constantly evolving and can be re-written for the better. Some rules may stay, and some may go. The rules follow the evolution of humanity. But in the end, we can start by making our own rules for ourselves and how we wish to live.
For those that are called to break way and ‘walk their own path’, it can feel incredibly lonely, isolating, and scary. Cellularly, we are generally designed to organize ourselves within the context of others. We are designed to play our role, based on the needs around us. And this same form of collective organizing and functioning is extended to human self-understanding. We tend to ‘see’ ourselves through the cues of others. To create self-identities based on the input of others and our immediate environments. But we have a false sense of collective organizing, where we are programmed to first look externally to tell us who we are and what our role is. Whereas this must be defined internally, and then the self-organizing begins externally.
Given this dynamic, any deviation can be considered an act of rebellion, or even disorganization or dysfunction. If we believe that we are the outlier of the collective, we can believe we are the source of dysfunction. But what if the collective is already in a state of disorganization and dysfunction? Rebellion within a healthy and functioning collective is a cancer. Rebellion within an unhealthy and dysfunctional collective is healing and transformation.
In these times, it is so incredibly potent and valuable to feel different, in a society that tries very hard and spends a lot of energy and money trying to make things conform in a dysfunctional collective. Feeling different is an opening, a gateway to a more powerful and beautiful expression of self, if done with an intention of honesty, healing, and love. It all starts with the single ‘you’ to turn inwards and endeavor to find your way back to your original, natural code. To shed the disease and the false program, to re-organize your internal self and being to healthy functioning, and turn outwards to begin influencing and organizing. The power of one has the potential to expand to many, and can give way to whole new way of being.