Loving Our Humanity Into the Sacred

Self protection is an inevitable part of living in this 3D reality. It allows the most precious parts of us to survive through both trauma and even our most ordinary challenges. There is a deep validity in these protective parts of us. They deserve an honoring for holding the boundaries that have kept us safe while we learned to discern our desires, needs, and limits.

But there comes a point when protection can quietly and almost imperceptibly become a wall. It can start to bypass or invalidate what we truly feel, hiding away the places inside that ache the most. In their devotion to safety, these parts can forget that what they guard eventually needs light more than shadow. Safety, once life-giving, can become a barrier that keeps these tender places from the love and healing they need to fully emerge.

Much of mainstream spirituality encourages “rising above” the messiness of emotion and transcending the very nature of what makes us human. To me, our humanity is not something to outgrow. It is something to water, to nourish, to infuse with divine love through our own vessel. Our emotions and the parts of us in pain do not disappear when ignored. They remain, forever woven into the mosaic that has shaped the person you are today. The suffering, however, can be felt, loved, integrated, and honored as sacred.

The deepest healing I have known has not come from escaping my human self. It has come from loving her. From letting her speak even when her voice shakes. From allowing her to feel desire even if it is not met right away. From welcoming her forward whether she is in bliss or in mess. Meeting my raw, trembling, sometimes contradictory parts with the same reverence I offer my divine self has created a true safety inside me, one that allows me to be all that I am with myself and with those I love.

You are not alone in the depths of your emotions, nor in the instinct to push them aside. I have recently walked through a cycle where I resisted letting everything rise to the surface, and when I finally could, I felt a liberation. I felt a renewed passion for who I am and all I embody on this deepening inner journey I have been walking for years.

This process of embodying our humanity while being held by the divine is not a quick fix. It seeps into every hidden corner and asks you to show up for every piece of yourself. It invites you to shine light on the most concealed parts until light feels like love instead of judgment. It teaches you to care for yourself so completely that love overflows to those around you while still giving you the strength to advocate for what you need.

It asks you to be imperfect. To be in progress. To remember that growth never stops.

We did not come here to escape our humanness. We came here to love it into something sacred.

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Raianna Shai is a Divine Self Embodiment Facilitator in 1:1 sessions with women. Visit https://www.divineselfembodiment.com for more information about space-holding sessions and free 45-min intro calls, group calls, videos, community, etc.