Terminology

Based on your individual experiences you might find some words difficult to deal with. For example, if you are not a religious person or you have had a traumatic religious experience, words like God might bring a completely different set of feelings to you than to other people.

These emotions might be so strong that you could be reluctant or even refuse to read any text containing religious terminology. What might be beneficial in such circumstances is firstly realising that there are certain words that you find problematic and secondly seeing whether that is something that you would like to change. Words are simply words; they mean nothing until we add some meaning to them. To me the word God is the same as the word love. And love might have a different meaning to different people.

There are certain words that I am going to be using more than others in the blog like ego, fear, love and Truth.

When I mention ego I mean the body, the human self, that side of you that you know very well, the voice that you hear practically all the time, that mostly accuses, blames, shames, that knows best, that tells you what to think, feel, say and do, but one that also helps you make sense of the life here, one that you need to exist. This is a world of senses, a world of duality, where there is love (conditional love as unconditional love has no opposite), there is also hatred, where there is happiness, there is also sadness.

Fear is a general term that I use as an antonym for love. I think I came across this terminology when I was doing one of Lisa Natoli’s programs.

The Truth refers to who we really are, the unconditional love, the side of us and the voice that is gentle and yet very powerful that many people are either unaware of, do not pay much attention to or stopped listening to a long time ago. There are many other words that are used like God, Love, Higher Consciousness, the Source, the Divine and Energy to name a few.

To me it is not the terminology that is important, not what others say or write and then following them blindly, but rather finding the time to go inside and seeing how I truly feel about something, whether it feels right 💜