World View Perspective: When we fill our own inner bucket
Our human development encourages us to look outside ourselves to receive the definitions of ourselves. To use all those around us as mirrors to reflect to us who we are. Society does it, our families do it and our closest friends do it. Yet those same people, consciously or unconsciously, can poke 'holes' in our own inner bucket or worse, draining out our more positive sense of self. Maybe not meaning to or wanting to but it happens on the energetic plane. The holes could be gashes, gnashes, scraps and major punctures and we have no idea it is even happening. We may just not feel well after a meal with them or even just standing for family pictures and yet, because they are family, our parents or our own children, we can sometimes just tolerate it for the sake of connection. Maybe even tolerate it without question for years, unaware of the energetic damage it is causing. If we can imagine our own 'inner bucket' of Light, Love, and Self-Accepta...