When I was in psychic school, we took a look at what was called “Perfect Pictures”. A perfect picture is this perfect, static, frozen image or story or idea that you have and that you are desperately trying to maintain. It’s stiff and has little if any flow to it. It’s a tight, limited space. But it is often something we are taught to be, or to have, at all costs.
We all have our share of perfect pictures.
For example, perhaps you have a perfect picture around your physical appearance or an aspect of your appearance. Perfect hair, perfect weight or figure. Maybe you were raised to be the perfect good girl or the perfect student. Or, maybe it’s a perfect picture about your relationship or your life as a whole. Perfect look, perfect confidence, perfect home, perfect spouse, perfect job, perfect children, perfect athlete, perfect bank balance, perfect health, perfect diet, and on it goes.
These days we get a lot of perfect pictures from social media. I recall the perfect pictures that some TV shows used to bring into our homes every evening back in the day. The perfect family and home, ahh yes. Leave it to Beaver, anyone?
It can feel like we must maintain our perfect pictures because the truth is too terrifying. We try to force this static, unmoving perfection. And it is exhausting.
Energy is always moving, flowing, rolling, blowing, evolving.
Change is constant, especially these days.
If only we could let go and allow the energy to move instead of resisting and fighting against the flow. If only we could blow up our perfect pictures.
We can struggle to see that we’re in effort to maintain a perfect picture when we’ve lived in it for so long. Even once we become aware and start to realize this picture is no longer real, it’s difficult to get out of it. We struggle to blow up some of those tight, perfect stories we tell ourselves and to display the real messy truth behind the picture. That degree of vulnerability is still terrifying for many of us.
However, we are growing in our awareness of these static, perfect, little pictures that simply aren’t real. We’re getting better at calling them out and choosing not to buy into the perfection. I see it with myself, my clients, and my country. Our perfect pictures and our propensity for operating to maintain them at all costs is quickly becoming outdated, it’s no longer how we’re choosing to live. It's time to unravel the perfection in order to see the reality underneath.
More and more, people are wanting what’s real, what's authentic. We are getting better at identifying when we are pushing for a perfect, frozen picture and we are finding that, in fact, we do have the courage to allow things to fall apart within our own lives and the world at large. We can allow the perfect picture to dissolve. It’s ugly. It’s messy. It’s scary. It’s destabilizing. But it’s also creating space and flow, movement. It’s making room for creativity and new ways of seeing ourselves.
More authenticity and realness.
We can heal what we can see and are aware of. We are remembering our power (and seeing shadow versions of power). We can remember to breathe and have the bravery to allow, observe as the cracks form in our perfect pictures. We can begin to see the light coming in. We can and we will create more space for love and light. We can hold space for ourselves and others to fall apart, be a mess and expand. It’s the perfect pictures that are falling apart. We can allow change and we can evolve rather than prioritize perfection.
We can choose love over perfection. Love for ourselves and for each other.
This requires us to have faith and let go.
Breathe.
We can do this.
With Love,
Lynnette Suzanne
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