I was happily reminded this week of the consistent behavioral imprint portrayed in the cartoon characters of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner who repeatedly won our hearts as youngsters. Coyote’s sole agenda in life is to catch/eat the Road Runner by way of complex mechanical absurdities that he obtains from ACME Corporation, yet each complicated attempt backfires and he becomes increasingly frustrated and imprisoned in his thinking that is misguided and unsuccessful. Despite his harrowing experiences, Coyote doesn’t die, but he seems to fuel more energy and determination for creating his next unsuccessful strategy.

There is an underlying constant consistency that flows deep within each of us that propels us toward securing the healing that we need in life that may be likened to the natural forward momentum of a baby moving toward birth. The constant consistency that runs deep within, consists of unconscious and conscious energies. Tuning into the different parts of ourselves, the unconscious and conscious parts, and learning more about their impacts on us, may likely be of paramount importance if we wish to maximize our wellbeing and decrease our sense of suffering. The unconscious parts of us give voice to the ways in which we are wounded by shocking experiences very early in our existence. Because the shocks are overwhelming to our little systems, we have no boundaries or defenses to keep them at bay. As a result, we make conclusions about ourselves (i.e. archaic beliefs that perpetuate the wounding imprints), our perceptions of life, and the dynamics of our relationships. When the shocking experiences occur, we cannot keep ourselves safe, so we may spend a fair amount of our life attaching to things (in the form of addictions and defense mechanisms) that we unconsciously think will keep us safe, but are ineffective in providing a sense of pure safety that leads to wellness, thus creating the potential for havoc, unhappiness, disease, and suffering.

Whatever happens for us while on our life journey is not an accident. And yet, it’s the unconscious parts of ourselves that may live in opposition to the notion that there are no accidents. We may be attached to a belief that says we don’t need to own or take responsibility for our path. Unconscious thinking perpetuates the belief that whatever happens to us is the fault of someone/something external to us; as a result, we stay in the victim position and play the blame game. When we come from a conscious place inside of us, we know that what happened to us by way of our wounding, happened to us, but we have clarity that our wounding is not who we are. Here lies the juxtaposition between form and formless. In our unconsciousness, there is attachment and identification with the Ego as defined by Eckhart Tolle in his book A New Earth: Awakening to your Life’s Purpose, a powerful read in delineating the clarity of consciousness in response to recognizing the chaos of unconsciousness. Herein, lies the connection with Wile E. Coyote who seemingly embodies the chaos of unconsciousness by way of repeatly using ineffective strategies for living out his goals; the Road Runner stays present in each moment, and doesn’t identify with the Coyote’s constant death threats, all-the-while creating safety and wellness by embracing life fully.

As spirit-and-soul woundings happen to us very early in our existence, the thematic template is established in our psyche and in our cells and these themes will repeat over and over for us on life’s path. Have you ever felt a similiar dynamic showing up in your next relationship? This themed pattern is full of consistency and innate integrity, and its underlying purpose is to serve our highest good by moving us toward creating positive/inner resources that guide us to the formless (i.e. consciousness). We come into this world by taking on a body and we initially find our way in this life by attaching and identifying with form, but we also lose ourselves in varying degrees because of our attachments and identifications.

Our innate integrity is at work within us, whether we consciously acknowledge it or unconsciously avoid it. Some of us hit rock bottom before we are ready to consciously choose to look at our repeated themed patterns and delve into our individual beliefs and the corresponding ineffective structures that we have built within/around us. I continue to fall in love over and over again with the innate integrity of our human spirit-and-soul wounding that is unwaveringly faithful in its loving pursuit of us – to heal that which needs healing.

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