I really appreciate the wonderful questions that the Tribe members have come up with of late, each one has taken me on a journey, getting me to dig deep and find my understanding and truth about the wonderful topics that have been put forward. Today I ask myself

What Does It Mean To Be A Light Worker?

This question was put forward by the wonderful @eco-alex, who also puts questions forward for the EcoTrain, where he gets these thoughtful and thought provoking questions from, I don't know, but I am grateful that he does and that he shares them all with us.

I usually don't read any one else's answer before writing my own, but to be honest I was too curious to see how some of the other Tribe members identified with the term light worker. There is a big community of healers where I live at the moment and lots of people run retreats and lots of people make a shed load of money out of healing others. It is quiet a trendy place to come and be enlightened and healed. Personally I have a big problem with this whole industry, not with everyone involved, but I do with those who advertise that they can sort out your problems, that they can make your life better, that they can bring you into the light, whilst filling their pockets.

True healing must come from within, we must be the ones to heal ourselves. We do not need more people telling us what to do. Healing needs to go back to the root of listening to yourself, learning from yourself, accepting yourself and loving yourself. Not handing over all your money and power to some one who will stand up and tell you and everyone else, that what you are doing is wrong and then convince you that they are the ones to make everything right again, if you just listen to them. No listen to yourself. None of this hierarchy bull please, no one person is better than another. We are just at different stages, of our life journey.

I really needed to get that off my chest because I feel so many are becoming more disempowered when they should be empowered. Around here, you can only reach our full potential if you can afford to pay for it. These people are certainly not true Light-Workers.

For me a true Light Worker is someone who is no stranger to the dark, for one leads to the other and we can not fully understand what it is to be in the light if we have not been in the dark. We need both in the world. The balance between the two is where acceptance comes into play. In order to move into the light we need to accept the part of us that grew in the dark, accept and honour it, because it sculpted us into who we are today. If we can not do that, then we can not move forward. With acceptance comes love and understanding and these are the things that take us into the light.

I have had darkness in my life and that darkness stripped away layers of me, it left me raw and exposed, and at times it left me feeling empty. But with that, was the opportunity to fill myself up again and here lies one of the biggest choices we have!

What is it we wish to fill ourselves up with.

This is the decision that will define us and that will set us further on our path. Because we can decide to stay in that darkness or we can decide to fill ourselves up with light. It is okay to be in the darkness sometimes, but we need the light in order to thrive. To move forward and grow. The darkness holds everything in, it keeps us locked within ourselves and yes there is a time and a place for that. But we are not meant to have such inner turmoil. We are meant to let the light flow through us, let life flow through us. Not hold on, not hold back, but free ourselves and open our hearts to all that life and nature provides for us.

For me a light worker is someone who draws from the darkness, in order to fully embrace the light.

A true Light-Worker is not here to preach and tell others what to do. They understand that We need to be empowering ourselves, not adding to this age of dependency, where we are always looking to others to sort our lives out. There is this desire to help people re-awaken to the awesome power that we all hold inside. This ability to see the beauty in everyone, in everything, the ability to accept everyone for who they are. Accept and move on if needs be, but the brightest light comes from a place of love. That is the light the world needs today. A light that breaks down barriers, that helps unite and creates a world that radiates and blasts out love. This is what a light worker strives to do. And yet there are times when the darkness pulls us back in, because we need that darkness, it is the fire that drives us and propels us into the light.