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I had an interesting interchange with someone today. he said “ Oh are you one of “ so and so’s people?” He was referring to a popular figure that I had taken a seminar from. I looked at him and said “ No, I’m not anyone’s person. I think he might have been offended but it was not a personal comment to him. It was something that had been in the tip of the tongue of my mind.

 

The universe works so beautifully. I had just been pondering that whole idea of idol worship and there he was with the question. 

 

It’s no accident that we have a show in America called — American Idol. We have fun with the name and the whole process of choosing the “Idol” but I’ve been thinking more deeply about what idol worship is about. 

 

I come from a Jewish background and when I think of the idea of idols, it makes me think of the commandment from the bible “ Thou shalt not worship idols.” It was given to a people who are supposed to believe in one god. But if you’ve read any of my other posts you know that I see the bible as a a metaphysical teacher about staying energetically healthy.

 

I remember I had a conversation with my son many years ago about prayer. He said that prayer was demeaning. I thought at the time that he was just angry about his life and taking it out on god so to speak, But what I see now is that even though he may not have meant to, he spoke a very profound truth.

 

So what happens when we worship idols or an idol?

 

it feels so good to have an idol. We get a high that comes off adulation but at the same time we invest our psychic energy in something outside of ourselves. We see the thing or person that we idolize as having the answer for us.

 

We’ve put a tremendous load of expectation on something outside us and we are bound to be disappointed unless we keep ourselves from seeing things as they really are. No body or thing has our answers.

 

I once did an EFT session with a client who had been spending thousands of dollars going to seminars given by a popular self growth figure. The name is not important.  Anyway, she said to me “people spends thousands to come to his seminars for him to stand on the stage and say “ you have to get rid of your “micro programs” and in the same breath tells us not to look at him for our happiness.” She had looked to him as did all her fellow seminar goers for the answer but when they got home they were hit by the same issues that they went to the seminar with. She was very disappointed. She had gotten high at the meetings but came home and crashed in her reality.

 

Its easy to have idols. And so tempting to worship them. In the process we see them as the answer outside of us and we give our personal power away. 

 

When we think of idols we think immediately of people. But, there are all forms idols.

 

Our idols can also be ideas, or things. 

 

Take a moment to ask yourself what your idols are? Is it money, a spiritual guru, a way of thinking or a charismatic self development personality? If you find yourself get defensive it’s tip off you have an idol that you don’t want to admit to yourself.

 

It may seem like my question is a confrontation, but it’s not. It’s a self care moment.

 

In a culture that creates idols all the time it’s hard not to have one. It’s good to take a moment every once in a while to check in to see what we are doing with our precious energy. 

 

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Have a powerful day!

 

 

Shulamit