It’s in your Nature

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              I’ve always admired people who get up at 6 am, are competitive in sports, scientific, physically handy,  savvy in cities, introverted enough to spend long hours alone without craving companionship, mellow …all the qualities that aren’t me.  Then I remember the importance of honoring my true nature—to see the way that it shapes my life as a gift—not an obstacle.  I’m grateful for who I am. 

             Are you being true to your nature? Are other characteristics of being seductive to you? Can you accept who you are— what you came here to do? What qualities naturally emanate from you? Are you introverted, extroverted, upbeat, serious, a risk-taker, relaxed, ambitious, laid-back, funny, sweet, probing, active, passive, steady, bouncy, wild, conservative, wacky, scientific, artful, boisterous, pensive, silly, talkative? There are endless nuances of being that shape the human condition. Individually we reap the rewards of color, form and expression when we employ our natural inclinations to direct our soul’s essence  

             How do we discern the difference between our true nature vs. protective characteristics acquired as compensation for wounds? Perhaps we learned to put on a happy face as a child because we were taught to bury our pain.  So we became a jokester. Others perceived us as light and playful. But maybe our true nature is sensitive, deep and serious. 

            We need to explore the energetic feeling accompanying what we assume is our nature.  If the energy is forced or heavy, coupled with internal emptiness, pain or longing, then we’re probably caught in a synthetic nature created by our

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