Making Friends with My Inner "Pigpen"
Do you remember Pigpen, from the comic strip Peanuts? He was the kid who always had dirty stuff flying around him, like a constant dusty haze. Although he never seemed bothered by it, the other kids (and even Snoopy!) were clean and shiny by comparison. This comes to mind when I consider what my own aura must look like to those who can see. Lots to clean there, after all. :-) Today I found an old saying that brought me back to grade school: "I'm rubber, you're glue; everything bounces off me and sticks to you." There were kids in my class who would say this often, even when the "problem" was clearly with them! (at least as I saw it.) Perhaps many adults live by this too -- it's a slick way of deflecting the blame for anything that happens onto others, so that we don't look like "Pigpen". Instead we're more like Teflon that way. Ho'oponopono is quite different from this, because the first step is to take 100% responsibility for what...