Before our
brains are 'fully' developed they are already powerfully 'formed.' Mostly from
our DNA. Yet also powerfully from our family systems and our culture.
Most of us
humans have a really hard time remembering that we're animals. That we have
literally been animals for millions of years. The gift of life has come to us
through many other forms to get into who we are now. And we've kept a heap of
what we've been even before conception--as well as a heap of what we've
experienced in our 'formative' years.
So...we have
'tendencies'.
Ha! Lord God
Almighty--do we ever! Whenever we become aware of something we'd like to change
about ourselves--and are game to try to do it--we experience the steady
stubborn power of what we have been up to this moment. Something in us is
slow to change (this should be all caps and red letters).
So...how do we
change? How do we 'evolutionary' and 'family of origin' challenged humans work
within our reality?
Rumi said,
"I am iron resisting the most enormous magnet there is." But he was
most definitely not talking about our evolutionary DNA.
For Rumi,
and many of us, this magnet is God. Or Wisdom. Or...(how would you name it?).
Faith,
trust, hope--awareness--bring us into the reality of another force--something
more powerful than our DNA--and faster acting! Our human nature has been
developing over millions of years. But the magnet Rumi is pointing toward can
pull us to Itself in one lifetime.
Consider the
very simple directive, "Let Go." What happens when we let
go? Don't just consider what we're letting OF. Consider what we're letting
go INTO.
We are
iron resisting the most enormous magnet there is. And though our
resistance is ancient and powerful--Something Else is way more attractive.
