Parts Integration 3 – WIND
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Welcome to Air!
Air is represented by the Inner Critic.
Parts Integration 3
INNER CRITIC. COMMUNICATION.
Sounds like:
- Impossibly high standards
- Perfectionism
- Controller who needs everything to be known and predictable
- People-pleasing
- Caretaker focusing on other’s needs more then their own
“Remember, you’ve been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.
– Louis Hay
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This is Cihuateotl the goddess of the wind. She is the feminine counterpart to Ehecatl the god of the wind. Cihuat means woman. Teotl means of the divine.
Cihuateotl can be used to change the direction of our thinking. The wind classically brings us things and takes them away. “A ver que trae el viento,” is something one hears when we need or want something. This is helpful for the inner critic. We ask not to silence the inner critic, rather that they change what they are saying. Our inner critic is a proactive protector who wants to protect us from unsafe or uncomfortable emotions.
The air speaks a great deal and is intricately part of my intuition.
As practice for cultivating your intuition, I invite you to begin listening to the wind, if you don’t already. Pay attention to your clear thinking, and then notice if there is any movement with the wind.
This is Tlazoteotl, the goddess of the earth and filth. We ask her to take all we don’t need. She’s a wonderful ally for working with the inner critic.
Tlazoteotl accepts all from our inner critic. There’s a warm, feminine space for our inner critic to go. She doesn’t judge. Our inner critic wants to keep us safe. Cultivating a relationships between Tlazoteotl and the inner critic can be really supportive.
Ask the inner critic why they are always tearing us down?
Ask the inner critic to relax and tell us the story of how they came to be. Why were they developed?
Opening one’s channels can be easy. Many of you probably already do it in your work, or while taking care of others, in your intimate relationships or while enjoying yourself in nature. This course will help you open your channels further. It is a divine process. You’ll know when you’re doing it because there will be a lightness inside your stomach or chest. The lightness might go all the way up through your throat, third eye and crown chakras.
What is more challenging is engaging your lower chakras and creating boundaries once you are channeling.
This is the great lesson of the wind. The wind cannot be contained. Seemingly boundless, air can travel anywhere. This is part of it’s healing qualities, it’s lightness and ability to identify or contain whatever it is surrounding.
Boundaries are important. We need them in order to have compassion for ourselves and for others. We have to guide our intent to achieve our goals and guide our lives. We can’t do any of those things without boundaries.
To work with the air element in your own internal universe, and then in the universe at large, we must understand how the wind and air work within our bodies.
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