Reclaiming your first nature

Re-membering who you were before you learned to hide

As complicated as we may make the journey of personal transformation sound, I think it can be simplified as this: A conscious return to your first nature.

When you think about it for a minute, before they go through years of conditioning, young children are completely surrendered to their first nature.

They are expressive, spontaneous, daring, reckless. They feel every moment fully, without restriction. They love and cry loudly. Their laughter is infectious. Their hearts are unleashed.

That’s why some of the most viral videos on social media are the ones of babies or toddlers being silly and wild. They remind us collectively of what we’ve lost: our unhindered self expression.

They are still connected to and expressing their first nature. Even though it’s mostly unconscious, it’s something we recognize.

What represses your first nature?

Somewhere along the way, you learn how to fear alienation and rejection. You learn that some traits will cause people you love to withdraw their affection.

Somewhere along the way you realize that your unhindered expression may cause you to experience humiliation, loss or persecution.

These are often wounds that follow you your entire life, until you learn how to transmute them. And they convince you that your first nature is unsafe.

You start repressing your authenticity through small acts of self betrayal. Each one representing a paper cut to the very fabric of your psyche. Until your first nature dies from a death by a thousand paper cuts. Can you relate.

These wounds make you believe that the world is not ready for your gifts and your authentic self expression.

They make you believe that your light is safer in your shadow.

Embracing the divine undoing

If you think expressing your pain is vulnerable, try expressing your brightness without holding back.

It is vulnerability at its finest.

It’s comparable to standing on a stage naked with the entire earth have eyes on you. It’s that vulnerability.

Your open heart, your authenticity, your gifts, your light, these are some of the most intimate things you have.

They need you to build the somatic body before you can allow yourself to express them.

That is a form of warriorship at its finest.

That's what allowing yourself to be SEEN requires. That’s what stepping out of hiding demands.

It demands that you build the mental and emotional body that is able to withstand being seen in your truth without abandoning yourself, regardless of how people choose to react to your expression.

Most people often buy into the myth that they are afraid to be seen. I disagree… Being seen is what we crave. What we do fear is the potential of experiencing humiliation, loss, alienation or persecution if we allow ourselves to be truly seen. And these fears can be uprooted.

Prompts

Some prompts to ponder. Complete as spontaneously as you can the following sentences.

• The brightness within me that I no longer wish to hide is…

• I no longer wish to hide it because…

• The fears I need to face within me to unleash that brightness are…

What comes up for you as you ponder them? Please share below.

An invitation

Join me on a 6-week transformational bootcamp where we will work on dissolving the hidden forces that cause you to hide, so that you can become unapologetically expressed. SEEN 3.0 is here. And we are going deeper than we’ve ever gone before.

SEEN is one of my signature group containers where we dive in deep to anchor master keys of self liberation that you need to be unleashed.

Please head over HERE for more details and to save your seat for this immersion.

In gratitude and reverence,

— Xavier