Tired of Fighting Demons?
How do we vanquish our fears, and fight our personal demons successfully?It certainly takes spiritual fortitude to face your fears and battle your demons but is warring the best way to victory?
One of the most overlooked ways to work through our fears is through those who challenge us. who are the best spiritual teachers?.
Touched by Grace in Spiritual Ceremony
....Fighting your Personal Demons
Warring Within
Whether you believe in literal demons who breathe fire from hades or not, you most likely face personal demons that seem just as formidable as if they were in third-dimensional form. Among those energies that can appear overwhelming and bigger than we are, stands fear, doubt, worry, shame, guilt and rage. You can almost gauge your ability to transmute and evolve as a spiritual being by how often you face a personal demon.
How you choose to approach fighting demons says a lot about the path you are choosing as spiritual being as well. Though it may feel as if there really is only one way to victory, there are different ways
of healing.
Accepting the situation I was finding so painful, or accepting the presence, in my life, of the person whose actions resulted in pain for me, seemed to be a type of defeat that would leave me helpless and forever vulnerable. For that reason, I fought against acceptance of what is for a long, long, tedious time.
I guess I may have kept fighting but for a situation that so completely slammed me that I had nothing left with which to battle anything.
I collapsed.
I surrendered out of lack of energy to do anything else.
In the stillness that followed, nothing happened for what seemed an eternity but was only 3 months in linear time. Then, when the situation and pain and person's involved came rushing back into awareness, I did something different. Instead of raising back up to do battle, I simply recognized that I owned this situation, had called these people to me, and had to stand and fight in the only way that really ever works.
I had to let the situation be what it was, let each person be who they were, and still be who I was, in it.
I think at that moment, I realized that the only way to stop this situation from recurring was to fully get it. Understand it. Be with the effects of it til I realized what it was in me that drew it. I realized that fighting demons outside myself would never work. The reality was that my personal demons originated with me and could only really be conquered on the inner ground of my consciousness.
Related: Evil with Good, Why?
Opening the heart to love * The Path of the Empath
Accepting the situation I was finding so painful, or accepting the presence, in my life, of the person whose actions resulted in pain for me, seemed to be a type of defeat that would leave me helpless and forever vulnerable. For that reason, I fought against acceptance of what is for a long, long, tedious time.
I guess I may have kept fighting but for a situation that so completely slammed me that I had nothing left with which to battle anything.
I collapsed.
I surrendered out of lack of energy to do anything else.
In the stillness that followed, nothing happened for what seemed an eternity but was only 3 months in linear time. Then, when the situation and pain and person's involved came rushing back into awareness, I did something different. Instead of raising back up to do battle, I simply recognized that I owned this situation, had called these people to me, and had to stand and fight in the only way that really ever works.
I had to let the situation be what it was, let each person be who they were, and still be who I was, in it.
I think at that moment, I realized that the only way to stop this situation from recurring was to fully get it. Understand it. Be with the effects of it til I realized what it was in me that drew it. I realized that fighting demons outside myself would never work. The reality was that my personal demons originated with me and could only really be conquered on the inner ground of my consciousness.
Related: Evil with Good, Why?
Opening the heart to love * The Path of the Empath
About Hecate: A Greek Goddess with three heads, Hecate has a reputation for evil but has also chosen
to rescue those less fortunate at times. Her three heads, that of a horse, a dog and a snake will have deeper significance to those who
work with totem animals. All three are very powerful medicines but quite at odds in some ways too. A lot to manage on one body!
It's interesting to me that Hecate did not start out this way. She originally only had one head, for example, and was considered a mother goddess.
learn more about Hecate here
It's interesting to me that Hecate did not start out this way. She originally only had one head, for example, and was considered a mother goddess.
learn more about Hecate here