The Power of Forgetting

I am no one, I repeat to myself again. I am no one and that is everything.

When we are children, and depending on who we surround ourselves with as adults, we hear again and again that we can be and do anything we want.

I have a feeling most of us think that’s BS by a certain age. But then I read a successful entrepreneur say that that the secret to success is to remember that we are no one but the stories we built up about ourselves based on past experiences. Forget those and you really can be anyone, with enough work and perseverance.

So much of DNRS, of the process of rewiring the brain, is forgetting. We are handed all the tools we need to forget absolutely everything we used to think we were and discover who we really are – what do we actually LIKE, when all the ego and BS is taken out of the picture? What sets a fire to our souls and a light in our eyes? Go! Go do that! AS MUCH AS YOU WANT. Permission GRANTED.

As it turns out, praise God, we are NOT our thoughts, bodies or brains, the weird films and vague feelings that are the unseen backdrop of so many lives, this web of lies that makes us “feel like”. I “feel like” [insert negative statement]… is a blatant LIE. The sign of some untrue belief(s) clogging the flow of life through our being.

So, smarty pants, what’s the answer then? Follow the energy. The good energy. Literally EVERYTHING is made of energy, and the only way to change a false belief that’s been jammed into your subconscious (at least that I know of) is to live out the emotions (joy, love, gratitude, calm, peace) of the opposite belief. You don’t even have to know what you’re doing. Just let the energy of God’s life flow through and it will carry all the junk out, no effort necessary. Just hold still and let it happen.

This takes immense, intense humility. To purposefully become no one, and at the same time own the greatness of your own limitless human spirit that is steering you toward enormous joy, this takes being both incredibly tiny and at the same able to hold the glory of all creation in your heart. 

The glorious secret in this is that after passing through the no one, after the forgetting, the purging, this stinging love of purification, this sacrifice of joy…we’re home. We arrive at a place within that is oddly familiar, and completely new. THIS, at last! is home. I know this place. The place those whispers inside had spoken to you of so many times, the ache of a stunning sunset, a snowflake, a drop of water on a leaf in the light of sunrise, the silence of a winter morning, frozen in utter, untouched perfection – deep calls unto deep and every bit of that glory exists inside of YOU. Yes, YOU. Reader. Right there behind the screen. And it’s the realist thing about you. I promise. You are not your body, your brain, or anyone’s opinion of you (even your own). You are that. His kingdom lies within you.

So go! Forget. Let go of thinking, of knowing, of analyzing and controlling, of pretending to be that vague structure of beliefs and web of feelings and follow your heart in the moment. Look around right now. What color do like most in this room? Your favorite piece of art? The shape of your child’s face? The sound of a bird, a rustle of paper, glint of sunlight, the poetry of the chair’s shadow in the 4 pm light? Everything is magic. Pay attention, moment by moment, trust the goodness with all your might, and the bliss will carry you home.