The other you

I had a ‘vision’ the other day, more a deep thought, perhaps, which appeared quite vividly in my mind. This idea grew and is a potentially powerful and transformational exercise for/during shadow/inner child/trauma/any healing work. I will share it, as I feel it might be helpful.

Imagine that there is someone, on the other side of your town, country, continent, Earth- and that someone is your “double” in everything, an identical twin in all aspects. You are and look the same, have the exact same lives, circumstances, past, interests, ailments, struggles and so on. It is you, but it is someone else at the same time; someone who could be standing next to you physically and people would think they have double vision.

Now, imagine you were to meet this person and you had to say something encouraging to her (or him), knowing the she is going through the things you are going through, carrying the same burdens as you do and even looks just like you. Do this as if it were happening in this very moment. What would you say? What would you ask? I did this myself and the compassion, love, warmth and understanding I felt for my ‘identical twin’, brought tears to my eyes and filled my whole heart centre to the core. It surprised me. If I could speak so lovingly, so full of compassion and understanding to someone who is just like me, why then is it so difficult to actually speak to myself like this?

The ‘other’, the twin, it is me. It is you. If you (also) find it hard to speak to yourself in this compassionate way, without judgement, with unconditional love (due to a wounded inner child, due to trauma’s and patterns going back to your childhood and so on) then I hope this can be of value to you.

The vision continues. I step into an (underground) train/subway and walk through, till I see her sitting. I sit down next to her. There are no words, we know. We hug. Then we merge together. We were already one to begin with.

Much love and blessings, always. ♡ 

Silvia