Betrayal

Betrayal is one of the deepest wounds we can experience. It shatters our reality and forces us to build walls. But what if the wall we build is just an illusion of finality? What if it's the very thing designed to wake us up?

How Betrayal Hurts You

Betrayal hurts you in unseen ways. When you give your trust to someone, especially when that is the only person you have ever trusted, there is an unspoken agreement between your hearts.

The agreement goes something like this: 

I don't have anyone that I can trust. I don't let people get close to me. I am letting you get close to me. I'm laying down my fears so that you may hold my heart with me, and I may hold yours with you. 

We will never do anything to drop these hearts, hurt these hearts, or leave these hearts alone or unsafe.

Betrayal is finding out that your closest council member who has been by your side as you built up a kingdom, is actually plotting your death so their lover can take your spot.

When one is betrayed, they put up a wall around themselves bigger, stronger than ever before. But it's not that wall that hurts them the most, it's the resentment that does.

Think of someone who you (think) you could never forgive. From the day that person betrayed you, and you have decided to never forgive them, you unfortunately included yourself in that un-forgiveness. 

Everywhere you look, you are at fault or someone else is at fault. You can never truly love again; you can never truly be happy again. That is until you forgive your enemies and they are equal in your mind as your closest friends. Then the light that shines upon them, points towards you, and frees all your enemies and yourself from this Catch 22 prison you constructed. 

How Betrayal Wakes You Up

When you move through betrayal, practice forgiveness to your enemies, see them in the same light as your best friends, and allow this light to absolve you of all your issues or "sins" for a lack of a better word, you instantly become one and the same with how the Creator meant for us to be from the start. 

You're unplugged from the false matrix, free from the wires that weighed you down, tripped you, and kept you plugged into something that was actually holding you prisoner. 

"Why would I leave? There's a socket right here where I can get all my energy?," people in the false matrix justify. There are completely unaware that just the simple, but not easy, act of forgiveness removes them from the need to rely upon anything else for life and energy. 

Forgiveness allows us to become self-sufficient, energy producing machines. And together the energy we radiate towards each other forms a network of love where no one needs anything from anyone to live again. Our network has agency and there's no excess, but just the right amount so we all live needing nothing. 

The Purpose of Our Deepest Wounds

There are many people here on earth whose childhoods were so horrific that words fall short in conveyance. If we chose this life before coming here, why would we choose to go through such tragedies that are seemingly crippling?

Because, we want to get enlightened faster. We know this lifetime is valuable, and we want to break the illusion of forgetfulness early so we get to spend the majority of our life awake. 

Is it not true that cruel people cling to their self-righteousness their whole life, and only when they're upon their deathbed do they have a change of heart?  

That is a greater tragedy to us than anything we went through in childhood. To be asleep your whole life until the last day. 

The pain of betrayal is real and devastating. But the prison of resentment is a choice we make every day after. Forgiveness is not for the person who hurt us; it is the key to our own cell. It is the brave act of choosing to unplug, to wake up, and to reclaim the rest of our valuable, enlightened life.