Fun

February 11, 2024

Many of us try to imitate the bliss of our soul child by detaching from reality altogether. Preoccupations with food, substance use, sexual gratification, financial security, power, and being at the top of the social hierarchy are a few adult attempts to reconstitute the soul child's bliss.

Also, if inspected closely, all nine passions of the Enneagram are our futile attempts to re-create our soul child's joyful bliss. The problem is that the good feelings we feel are short-lived because they are the ego's attempt at re-constructing the bliss of the soul child. Only our soul can return us to true bliss.

You can find genuine bliss right now simply by dropping into your heart and experiencing your soul child. Imagine the activities, situations, and people essential to your soul child's bliss. Many can feel it immediately when we remember our experiences with grandparents and others who loved us unconditionally. Bliss is the absence of shame, anger, and fear. Unconditional love is the antidote for all three of these. Therefore, the people in our early lives who expressed unconditional love are the ones who most fostered our bliss.

Soul fun is rooted in the freedom of unconditional love. Just remember the fun with your pets and the loving people who, as Mr. Roger says, "brought you into being." Remember the love between you and your little friends with whom you built huts in the woods and sand castles on the beach. Remember when you and your siblings and friends went swimming, bike riding, and exploring the forest and woods? Remember making a lemonade stand, playing school, playing house, and watching the July Fourth fireworks? They are feelings of having a home base of love, which gives us freedom to explore outwardly and inwardly. Amazing.

Inquiry: What does your pure bliss feel like right now? Does it relate to the bliss you had as a soul child?

Dear God,

I self-remember my bliss when reliving being in my grandmother's lap. I experience her fun, laughter, fragrance, and holding. I feel loved and safe, cherished and known. I am in bliss now and pray to keep this feeling all day. Amen

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