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i had a dream last night about my special friend. we were running through the woods, alone together and i was in the canopy of the tree enjoying the cool air while he was enjoying the sun. he seemed to notice that i enjoyed the cool, dark, silent places more than the bright places which seemed to make me tense. yet, when i ran i felt free like i was leaving all that i was behind and that nothing was impossible. we stopped for a while under the base of a redwood tree and he asked me why i was so tense about being in the light, why i seemed to have many walls built up. he told me that he really wanted to get to know me, the person i truly was, not what the world saw me as. he wanted me to also always be in the sun and to live life like he did without holding back. i told him i was afraid that the world would judge me and that i had lots of flaws and i didn’t feel good enough for him. he told me that he thought, i could be myself when i was out in nature and i said that i felt freer in nature, but there was a part of me that i was still trying to find. he said the sweetest thing ever, he said “let me be the part that makes you whole. i’ll stay with you until you find your true self.” we ran until we came to a river and we had lots of fun watching the fish swim the river. we sat down again and he asked me again why i had so many walls around myself. i told him that i was hiding the flaws i had from the world and that all the sadness i had endured had made me build walls to protect myself. my special friend told me that although walls protect us, they keep us in fear and also prevent us from being our true selves in the world. he told me that he didn’t care about the flaws i had, he didn’t care about what the negative criticism the world said about me, he wanted to know me for who i truly was without the walls that hide me. he told me that he would that i was perfect the way i was, that i was good enough and that i didn’t need to hide my flaws because they made me more special since they were the flaws could be experiences in my life to make me a better person. he said “if you keep yourself confined in those walls, you will never find true peace within yourself. you are hiding yourself out of the fear of the world judging you. that is no way to live.” then he hugged me and said the sweetest thing ever “i know that you have walls built up and so does everyone else. i’m here to help you break those walls that hide you and help you experience divine love. i don’t care about your flaws because everyone has them. if you keep living behind those walls, you let your flaws and fears define who you are.” in the dream, i watched him break down my walls like they were sand and saw the river wash away the layers that i had piled on to myself. i was afraid that he would judge me harshly as well, but he kept breaking down the walls until it was just me, myself and i left. then he pushed me into the sun and i was shaking, afraid that my flaws were being exposed to the world. but, he wouldn’t let me go back, he told me to be strong and i realized that i had to build courage so i turned my face to the sun and let its rays soak into me. after fifteen minutes, i felt much better and i realized that i didn’t feel as burdened as i was before. then i looked back at my special friend watching me and i felt shaky again, i thought “what does he think of me? i have so many flaws, i’m not good enough for him.” as if he had read my thoughts, he scooped me up into his arms and said “your flaws are what makes you beautiful. what would the meaning of life be if everyone was perfect? you are a divine being capable of divine love, don’t let the walls hold you back. spread your wings and break through those walls, let your soul feel the light of the sun and what it truly feels to be alive.” i felt so safe just having his arms around me then and even though, i was still shaky, i felt my heart feel lighter and open to divine love. we continued on our path and traveled across a bridge. on the other side of the bridge we met the buddha. the buddha told us that we were spiritual partners and that we had a purpose to help each other heal and experience divine love and spread it to others. we continued on our way until we came to a dark cave, the cave had slippery tunnels and long winding corridors and i felt helplessly lost. through the darkest part of the cave, i slid on a rock and i fell and i didn’t know if i could go on. i thought my special friend would think i was weak, but he just picked me up and continued on his way. he would say encouraging things and we made it through the cave. we came to a mountain where there were criticizing people, but we hiked up the mountain together. when i slid and fell while climbing a canyon, he was able to get a rope to pull me back up. after all these obstacles we came across a clearing in which we sat under a tree and we laughed with each other about the obstacles we faced together. when i told him that that i didn’t feel like i had contributed much to the journey, he laughed and said “you’ve taught me what divine love feels like. you taught me about the meaning of life and that it’s okay to have flaws, it’s okay to fall at times. the important thing is that you pick yourself up and keep going. you made me a better, more compassionate person and that’s what matters.” after sitting a few moments in the clearing feeling the wind on our faces, we saw a light and a pair of wings and we saw archangel metatron (angel of life, guarder of divine wisdom and tree of life also the bodhi tree which buddha meditated under) surround us with purple light and we both felt the most beautiful divine healing within us, within our hearts and we felt so much divine love that no words can truly describe. angel metatron wrapped us both in his wings and all our doubts and worries washed away. we sat under the tree knowing that we both had found our spiritual purpose and that we both were surrounded by divine love. i felt a divine peace and love in my heart for my spiritual soul mate as we held each other and remembered the obstacles we had faced in life. i realized that death isn’t the end, that after death comes new beginnings and a learning to connect to divine love and healing. it was the most beautiful, serene feeling ever in the dream as all my fears and worries and anger vanished and all i felt was love and connection. the smile that my special friend and i gave each other was one of the most peaceful and relaxed ones i know. people go through life never feeling the true blessing of their divine being and never truly live, i realize i want to help spread divine love to help people live their life to the fullest.
The past should make us better, not bitter. we should take the good of the past and use it to better ourselves in the present and prepare for the future. i have been getting templates of the negatives parts of my past and i have been coloring them in dark colors, putting my pain on the paper and letting it go. i then take the paper and burn it and then bury the ashes while saying “this is no longer a part of who i am. i am reborn as i let it go. it doesn’t affect me anymore.” i take the good parts of my past and color them in bright colors and imagine them being part of my life, becoming who i am in the present. i imagine drawing the images into my body merging with them until i am them and say “i am healed, i am perfect, i am healthy, i am whole.” then i tack the good images on my vision board where i can look at them every night before i go to sleep and say “this is me. i’m becoming the person i want to be.” in the morning, i greet the sun as the start of a new day and say “buddha and angels, help me live this day in divine love and healing. help me on the path toward my goals. may this day bring me all i need to get closer to my goals and achieve them. let me be who i truly am.”
the dream inspired me to write a poem about my special friend. i am grateful for all the things he has done for me. while i was in the middle of the poem, writing it, i started to cry and even writing this post makes me feel emotional. there is no one like my special friend and no words can describe the divine love i have for him. he’s the reason i know what it really feels to be truly alive and to truly experience spiritual love. he’s the one that helped me break down the walls, i built around myself and he still continues to break the walls, making me more confident and reveal myself more. he always tells me “i want to know you you truly are. i’ll continue to break these walls until your soul is free and your heart truly open. i want you to know that i don’t care about what the world says, i don’t care about your flaws because i love you.” he is the sweetest guy ever and this poem is about the lessons he taught me and the person he made me become and also the lessons the that i developed because of him to share with the world. i usually write my poems by hand before typing them so i can truly get a feel or the words and while i am writing, it is like i’m putting myself out there on paper. i have been able to write poems almost daily now. i think my next poem might be called “Break the Illusion- See the Stars”. it will be about living life to the fullest, breaking free of what holds you back ad what you’re not and going for the stars, going toward heaven. i think i might be an environmental spiritual poet;)
here the poem:
Divine Love- Spiritual Soul mate
Focusing on climbing every mountain to the summit
Running to the place I love, to the place I feel alive
The world glows with light
Letting go of all I’ve held on to
Surrendering to divine to divine love and healing
i’m surrounded by Heaven’s embrace
Letting myself be free, breaking down the walls that confine my spirit
You’re my spiritual soul mate
Helping me to open myself to divine love and healing
It’s like I’ve bee awakened
Every day is a new experience
Learning to release the past and bring myself to divine light
I’m surrounded by your embrace
I’m surrounded by divine love
Before you i had so many walls built up
Now I watch them slowly tumble down
I’m no longer in the chains of sorrow
I am flying up to the sky
my soul is immersed in divine light and healing
You’ve restored my faith in myself
Before you i was always afraid to open myself up to love
Being with you makes me feel spiritually alive
Even if the world seems harsh and I have doubts, you are always there to lend a hand
Even if I feel like I can’t rise and life seems unclear in its purpose
you are always there to hold my hand and help me through
In my darkest moments, you remain a light to help me find my way
When my strength gets weak and I feel like falling into the abyss, you are the rock I lean on
You are the rope that wraps me in divine love and keeps me safe
Because of you, I am learning how to be confident in life
You’re the reason I truly know what love feels like
You’re the reason I see the beauty of life
Because of you, i can spread more divine light to the world
You were right when you said you would help me be my true self in this world
You told me not to hide the great person I was
From the moment you came into my life, you showed me what’s right
You believed in me and helped build me up, picking up the pieces and putting them back together
You told me that a person sometimes has to break to find who they truly are
When people were criticizing me, you told them that you didn’t care what they said; they didn’t know who I truly was
You told me that you wanted to know the true me
That I didn’t need to build walls to hide myself
You didn’t care about the person I was on the outside, the person I was to the world
I watched my walls come slowly down
At first I was afraid to let you in, so I built more walls
You never gave up, keeping breaking down the walls
You said “I want to know the divine being you truly are. I want you to be free.”
You broke down all of my walls until I was left open, and you saw the flaws I had
I was afraid you would judge me harshly
I tried to hide and avoid the fact that I had nothing left but myself
But you hugged me and pulled me into the light, saying “Even with your flaws, you are and always will be good enough for me. Your flaws make you stronger and make me love you more since they are what makes you who you truly are in life. You are a divine being.”
You told me that people who build walls around themselves couldn’t have happiness come in
That people who build walls confine themselves in a prison of fear, never accepting their true selves
You told me that it didn’t matter what negative things the world told me
I was a divine being and would always have divine love
Because of you, I am now helping others break down their walls and experience divine love
Even though we build walls to protect ourselves from negative things, these walls hold us back from truly experiencing life
What would be the meaning of the joys of life if we didn’t feel pain and struggle?
It is through divine love, to surrender ourselves to the beauty, the true meaning of what it feels like to be alive that helps us find ourselves
Turn your negative experiences into hopes or let them go
Use them to become stronger, to be more connected to divine love
Don’t seclude yourself in walls of fear for security.
What is life if you live in fear?
What is life if you let negative things define who you are?
It is time to develop our wings and fly
It is time to break those illusions of those walls that keep our souls in chains
It is time to set your heart free and experience divine love
only you can make the choice.
What holds you back is only your own doubts and insecurities
Break the illusions
You are not your fears, doubts and worries
You are not what the criticism of what others say or what the world shapes you to be
You are a spiritual being capable of divine love and healing