Let’s explore “Celebration” as a tool for keeping us in our creative orientation.
Celebration is another means of creating completion in our life as well as a gateway to express joy which is the emotional counterpart of our superconscious nature. Celebration keeps us in the present, outside the boundary of our ego. It keeps us connected to our highest creative expression.
What is celebration? Here’s a definition.
It is the action of marking one’s pleasure at an important event or occasion by engaging in enjoyable activity.
Typically this is done socially with others, however it absolutely can be done via celebrating on your own and it can be for any occasion.
In our culture we celebrate birthday’s, holidays, Christmas and New Year. In the US we celebrate Thanksgiving and July 4th American Independence Day. In Australia we have January 26th which is Australia Day, and there are multiple other festive days depending on your culture, ethnicity and religion.
Why do we take time out to celebrate?
When we go through our individuation phase, we don’t know who we really are. We flounder around thinking that the world we perceive is our actual reality. The truth is we are lost in a sea of beliefs with their compensating tendencies and we’re afraid to journey beyond this.
From our perspective of where we are now, standing in our Creator, we can take a moment and reach out to our younger self, and whisper, “We make it, we’re Ok… you’re doing great, just keep going and it will all turn out better than you can ever imagine….”
“So just imagine….”
The distorted view of ourself is not the truth of who we are.
We are Divine… Celebration gives us a gateway to view who we are becoming. It’s a connection to our higher self.
Here’s an excerpt from Neale Donald Walsch’s book “The Little Soul and the Sun.”
In this story, a little soul wants to come down to earth and experience itself as something more than just being a perfect soul, being the light. And as the little soul was having this conversation with God, another little friendly soul piped in and said, “I’ll help you…. I’ll help you to have this experience.”
And the little soul asked, “Well why would you do that?”
The other little friendly soul replied, “Because I love you.”
“Now in order to do this for you, I will have to slow down my vibration and become very heavy to do this not-so-nice thing. I will have to pretend to be something very unlike myself. And so, I have but one favor to ask of you in return.”
The little soul very excited and said, “Oh anything, I’ll do anything!”
“I’m going to do something absolutely heinous to you, and in the moment that I strike you and smite you, in the moment that I do the worst to you that you could possibly imagine… in that very moment…”
“Remember Who I Really Am.”
“Oh, I will!” cried the little soul, “I promise! I will always remember you as I see you right here, right now!”
“Good,” said the friendly soul, “because, you see, I will have been pretending so hard, I will have forgotten myself. And if you do not remember me as I really am, I may not be able to remember for a very long time. And if I forget Who I Am, you may even forget Who You Are, and we will both be lost.”
The little soul promises again and says, “I will remember you and I will thank you for bringing me this gift… The chance to experience myself as Who I am.”
The little soul was also reminded of what God had said.
“Always remember, I have sent you nothing but angels.”
You, me… we are all special, we are all extraordinary.
The reason why we shut down, disconnect and close off is because we love our Self (our higher Self) unconditionally. We shut down so that the true “Self” can be retained intact and when the time of awareness comes, the window of the soul opens up and the butterfly of immortality is free.
We all go through individuation and if we are aware of our individuation story we can return back to sovereignty. Individuation is part of our hero’s journey.
As we grow up we can forget who we are and who the people around us are. It is easy to see others and ourselves through our lower vibration.
Celebration takes us out of our individuation.
Celebration allows us to remember our light, our divinity, the grace that is contained within us. Our True Self. The Pure Awareness, the Pure Consciousness.
It takes awareness to be able to rise up to our higher vibration.
When you think about children, what do they do? They run around, make lots of noise, they dream, create and live in their imagination. They are constantly making stuff up. They delight in making up all kinds of wonderful stories, creations and imaginings.
As a child we start out as the epitome of what it is to be a Creator. We are in a state of innocence and a state of presence. There is no differentiation between what is real and imagined. We are expansive and limitless. We celebrate everything, purely for the love of it.
We celebrate the sun shining on our face, We celebrate seeing our shadow, seeing flowers, seeing a little lady bug or a beetle. Seeing ants in the grass, Seeing clouds in the sky. Hearing birds singing. Hearing the sound of kookaburras laughing and mimicking it back to them. Feeling the rain on our skin. Splashing in puddles. Making sandcastles. We laugh, we play, we celebrate it all, with joy, with curiosity and wonder.
As we grow up we stop celebrating. It is as if there is a hidden rule book, to follow some invisible status quo of how things should be, and we stop our celebration of life, of living.
By the time we are 7 – 9 years old we develop what’s known as the critical faculty. The critical faculty acts like a firewall in the mind between the conscious mind (also known as our self-conscious mind all the things we are aware of in our regular waking state) and the subconscious mind. It stops messages from automatically being accepted by the subconscious. It gives the conscious mind an opportunity to evaluate and, possibly reject, the message or information that comes to us.
It’s function is to keep us congruent with our beliefs so it filters out anything that doesn’t fit our ego’s model of the world. We become stuck in a self-perpetuating feedback loop from our past that gives us a sense of our identity. We don’t ever experience a true present because all that we can see is some version of our past.
We become stoic, stuck and frozen in a way of operating that is lifeless. We stop operating in the present with the spark of the Superconscious and our genius. Our ego becomes a prison that controls the status quo via a 24/7 vigilance of maintaining our safety and security and we become busy doing instead of being.
We rationalize our beliefs and the evidence from our perceptions and we begin to forget about what we had imagined. We start to define our imaginings as being pure make believe and childish. We trivialize our dreams and visions as mere fantasy.
Where are you at when it comes to celebrating?
Do you celebrate on a regular basis? Do you even celebrate at all? Do you think that celebration is some frivolous thing to do, that gets in the way of you being productive, you being taken seriously, you having substance, integrity or having worth?
Celebrating for any reason or no reason at all, purely for the love of it allows us to step out of the mundane, our ego, our matrix and immerse ourselves into our Superconscious orientation. Our Genius, our Greatness.
We burst out of the perception of needing to follow the rules, requiring permission to be who we are, we disrupt being asleep and wake up to our vision, our dreams, what we have always known and imagined regardless of whether we have experienced joy or sadness.
We step into the present, into our sovereignty where we are fully connected, electric and alive.
We wake up to our true nature and every time we celebrate we have a direct experience of who we are as a Divine being having a human experience instead of thinking we are a human being having a Divine experience.
