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Sacred Space

Jul 24, 2022

Video Summary:

want to talk about sacred space. The way I'm using the word sacred here is when something is really precious and matters a lot to us. It's something that we're willing to stand up for and take action over because it matters that much.

A question that's often asked is, “What is sacred to you?” I want to reframe that question as, “What is sacred about you? What is precious? It might be being open-hearted, loving, and vulnerable. It might be your beauty, honesty, sweetness, or preciousness.

It would then follow that sacred space would include the places where it's safe to let out the things that are sacred about you. Maybe that's in your home, in nature, in church, spiritual retreat, Zen center, yoga class, or with a group of friends. 

Once you have places and people that are sacred, then the next level is embodying your sacredness. This involves you taking your sacred space with you and making it wherever you are sacred. How do you take your sacred space with you into the world?

So then if I speak my truth and someone makes fun of it, am I willing to stand up and say, “Hey, that's not okay.” This brings our warrior energy into the mix. Are we willing to pull up our strength and stand in our power to say, “Excuse me, but that's not okay. That's really important to me. I shared something vulnerable and you're disrespecting it. That's not acceptable.”

My favorite way to talk about warrior energy describes warriors as the defenders of the undefendables. Children would be a great example of an undefendable in that they're not able to defend themselves. So the warrior society of a clan or country defends the undefendables.

So now once again, if we bring that home and into ourselves more, “What are the undefendables in you?” It might be being really vulnerable, open, genuine, and speaking our truth even if it's different than everybody else’s truth around me at that moment.

So we're holding space for ourselves. We gladly hold space for other people, but are we willing to hold space for ourselves? For what is sacred to us, for our beauty, and for our preciousness.

As we're willing to stand up for ourselves in this way, the more subtle qualities of our hearts can come out because they trust that we're holding space for them. They're trusting that we're keeping them sacred, that they're in a sacred and protected space.

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