“Within every human being lives a story of hardship and victory.”~#MarioCampanaro ©
“Once you realize that you are your best guide you will begin trust your own intuition rather than depend on others’ experiences.” ~#MarioCampanaro ©
As long as I can remember, I have always been intensely passionate about observing and trying to discern what motivates us to make the choices we do in regards to the outcomes we consciously or unconsciously desire.
Though taking in world this way may not make me the life of the party at all times (lol) , it definitely keeps me extremely present with the company I keep.
Humanity fascinates me.
What we do, how we interact, how we listen or not, how we respond or not, even our own silence triggers me to understand and apply it all to Life and Art.
I always want to know what’s behind the social mask because the false concept of what the social mask represents is blatantly obvious.
Yet what I witness over and over is that damn thing called ‘fear’.
It’s not the kind of fear as if a tornado is about to swirl in stimulating the sympathetic nervous system.
It is that invisible internal omnipresent fear that is always whispering to us in the back of our mind.
It’s a fear of reality.
Imagine that!
A fear of reality…of everyday Life as it actually is in this here and Now present moment.
And then that fear expands to other parts of our Life like the Exxon oil spill corroding our perception of ourSelf and the world we live in.
So in turn, we begin to experience a fear of connection between one another and our environment.
Then we develop a fear of compassion and kindness because it now feels foreign and creates all these ‘what-ifs’ that accompany the ‘risk’ of opening our heart to others.
So then we begin to hide our authentic Self exacerbating a fear of vulnerability for being seen and judged beyond a filtered ‘it’s all ok’ existence.
YUP, WE GET A FEAR OF WHO WE TRULY ARE BEHIND THE MASK.
And so to costume our fear we adjust our behavior and our connections to avoid being seen or effected in a profound way.
A human way.
The one thing that has remained constant in everything I have observed is that we all yearn for our experience to be witnessed and validated.
This connects all of us.
But we go on validating our filtered lives as if our own Life is our own avatar never getting to reveal our true essence.
The thing that astounds me the most is when all cover-up is dropped and things get real, I can see people start to breathe deeper.
It is like this heavy burdensome weight has been lifted.
I can see their eyes shine brighter.
I can hear their voices vibrate stronger.
And most of all, I can see them happier and experiencing a new found peace.
Not so much because something has been lost.
But because something real has been found.
Art asks of us to show up in all our grit and glory.
Ironically this is exactly what happens towards the end of our life.
So if we know this is part of the inevitable journey, why not start our BEing right now rather than waiting.
What are we hiding and why?
Is it truly worth the work it takes to hide our authentic Self for the sake of an idea of how we think we are suppose to appear?
I don’t think so…
I can promise you everything you are behind what you think you have to be is far more interesting than you have ever admitted.
Let’s get personal…
As actors, it is not uncommon to have an extremely sensitive and even empathic instrument.
We willingly live our lives experiencing the deepest level of the human experience.
We expose our deepest self to the world not only because of choice but also a divine calling.
We are messengers of what is hidden.
We are speakers of what is unsaid.
We are un-doers of what is doctrinated.
And we are hopefully the shifters of the human consciousness towards that which is good and true.
However, there are moments in our work when this can feel burdensome.
It can go so far as to manifest to the point that we suffocate in our own despair.
We keep giving and forget the need to nurture ourself.
So we try to reach out to mentors and loved ones hoping that they will say that one thing to help remedy our experience.
Though the intention to help is there, often we don’t get that shift in our feeling life that we crave.
So as highly sensitive individuals, what do we do?
We have to be our own medicine!
This is OUR own journey and the accumulation of our own life experiences which have brought us here and now.
Just as we do not viscerally understand what’s going on in someone else’s life, it is just as impossible for anyone out there to understand what’s going on in our own.
So as artists, what are we to do when we feel lost and broken?
We stop right where we are!
This is a sign that there is too much going on in and around us.
This is a sign that we need to unplug and recalibrate from a world that has become unnaturally fast, toxic, and chaotic with inhuman expectations.
These feelings are a divine gift that notify us that something is off and its time to go within and reconnect to our center.
It is a crucial moment to make the changes we need for our body, mind, emotions, and spirit to heal so we are able to continue our very special path.
We have forgotten that we are not superhuman.
We are not robots.
We are human beings that require a time and space to get in touch with our silence and peace in order to transmute our defiict into something of a higher vibration so we can continue our work.
We forget that this IS part of our work.
This IS part of our process.
This IS part of our growth.
This IS part of our essentials.
THIS is our powerful non-toxic holistically hopefully habit-forming medicine!
It is so easy for us to go through our everyday life sleepwalking.
We become part of the herd.
We listen, believe, and become reactionary to what’s shown and said.
We get lost in the illusions that smother us into submission.
Our defenses go up and we unconsciously are in attack mode.
We can feel this all around us.
We see it every day on the news and throughout the world.
There’s so much anger, rage, hatred, deception,… the list goes on.
We’ve become too comfortable with all the darkness.
It doesn’t make sense.
It’s backwards.
We’ve become more fearful of love, then it’s actual opposite.
We’re scared to show it, we’re scared to say it, and even scared to receive it.
We’re so afraid that the vulnerability that comes with love will destroy us, when in reality it’s the only thing that strengthens us and build us up as a humanity.
So with all the political and social unrest that’s going on in the world, there must be a wake up call as a collective humanity that is greater, louder, and more powerful than this unthinkable unrest.
We need to get back to what’s real and true.
The signs are all around us.
We’re not the sum of what we’re told, and we’re definitely not the accumulation of everything we are taught.
We’re more than that.
Love is who we are, it’s what we’re made of, and it’s where we come from. Anything opposite of that, is a labyrinth of illusion.
It’s deception at the most basic level.
When really considered, EVERYTHING we do in life has love at the core level.
Every action we take somehow someway is about love.
Either getting it or not getting it. Either giving it or not giving it.
Whether it’s receiving it or giving it, it’s all about love.
LOVE is who we are.
It always has and always will be.
Fact check that as a REAL political statement!
We all have a miracle within us that innately knows what to do.
Think about it.
We possess an inexplicable force that takes us moment to moment without monitoring our internal biological circumstances.
Our heart beats on its own.
We inhale oxygen without having to tell our body to do so.
Our blood circulates.
We turn food into energy.
Our cells reproduce without an instructional manual.
This force allows us to just BE.
We trust it and as long as it is in balance, we let it flow without a critical eye.
However, we have been conditioned to not trust this force nor our own instincts.
We begin to seek an “idea” of what we think this moment, here and now, should be.
We overlook the most reliable place to access our most concrete truth.
This way of being simply negates our very own divinity.
As a result, we begin to watch, listen, and monitor our every move causing a complete paralysis of the creative and healing energy needed moment to moment.
Everything we need comes from within and therefore is effortlessly attracted and manifested.
Our being is an inexplicably intelligent organism whose one and only objective is to sustain its peace, balance, harmony, and aliveness in the NOW moment.
This is what every human’s primary need is everyday.
This is the journey of every character we will ever reveal.
When we begin to experience specific blocks in our life and work, we receive messages, whether they be physical manifestations in the body, or even a slight voice that is whispering to us to pay attention to a specific need.
The closest and most intimate relationship we will ever experience is with ourself and our innate Spirit.
This is a relationship that we MUST learn to turn to for what serves our best and highest needs.
This relationship with ourself is one that MUST be a relationship of limitless trust.
Go within and seek the answers that we may be exhaustingly searching outwardly.
Go within and listen to that soft subtle voice that tells us what we truly know but may be ignoring.
Pay attention to the physical sensations in our body that our Spirit is sending to awaken us to pay more attention.
When we begin to tap into this crucial trust in ourself, only then can we experience what it feels like to live freely in your work.
Ask the questions and listen for the answers! They are there! Be patient! Trust!
Be aware! Become conscious! Awaken!
