SHINE: Gene Key 8 Playlist
Journey through the 8th Gene Key: Mediocrity - Style - Exquisiteness
In this journey, we explored all of the facets of the Shadow of Mediocrity and the Gift of Style.
What follows below is a collection of my “study notes” from working with the 8th Gene Key.
🔗 LINK TO THE PLAYLIST IS AT THE END OF THE POST 🔗
Shadow of Mediocrity
“A lifetime of mediocrity is a high price to pay for safety.”
Todd Henry, author of The Accidental Creative
This shadow is driven by a fear of being different that prevents people from standing out from the sea that is mass consciousness and the NORM.
We learn at a young age that being different is undesirable and unsafe, so we choose the illusion of security by conforming and living inside of the khaki-colored comfort zone.
Our systems and society encourage sameness and uniformity because they’re inflexible and rigid and designed with a false sense of efficiency and control.
Fear of success also lives inside this shadow. To succeed, we must stand out, and if we stand out we risk being seen.
Mediocrity keeps us thinking inside of the box, behaving like others, and imitating a recognizable stereotype that serves the machinery of society.
As a result, we become cogs in the wheel and we fade into the background of our lives.
Repressive State: Wooden
In repressive shadow states, the energy collapses in on itself. In the 8th Gene Key, this expresses a lack of life force, fire, and grit. People living in this state seem hollow or wooden. They gave up on their dreams and their unique gifts and purpose. Their days are so filled with obligations and compromises that their lives no longer feel like they belong to them. There is no space for them to breathe or create and they never leave their relationships out of fear of change.
Reactive State: Artificial
In reactive shadow states, the energy is expressed outwardly toward others, typically through anger. In the 8th Gene Key, this results in building an identity of illusion. Underneath this artificial self lies a compromised spirit. People living in this state cannot stay in relationships long because their masks inevitably slip, their anger rises to the surface, and they run away.
The Shadow of Mediocrity has us trying to be seen a certain way by others, whether that is fitting into the beige box which earns us safety, or rebelling against the box and being seen as “different” which gets us a different form of status.
Mediocrity in all forms is a costume, a set of masks, a projection that shields us from the risk of being our natural, glorious, unfettered, ever-evolving, magical selves.
Gift of Style
“You can never step in the same river twice.” Zen saying
We learn the false safety of mediocrity at an early age.
It has to be unlearned if we wish to uncover our genius and share our unique gifts with the world.
Style is not about our clothes or how we look.
Style is “following our unique spirits out into the world”.
It is the unique flowering of our individuality without worrying about what others think about us.
Style cannot be imitated and it requires that we “surrender to the creative process of our being”.
Like nature (of which we are a part!), humans are designed to constantly evolve and emerge.
Our style is an emergent expression of our being.
When we surrender to this creative expression and LISTEN to our inner/higher self, we bring our unique style to life.
Siddhi of Exquisiteness
Siddhis are difficult to explain in words.
Exquisiteness is when our divine essence SHINES through our being.
In the state of Exquisiteness, we are simultaneously expressed in a unique “genetic vehicle” AND we are higher beings beyond all differentiation.
Those who embody the Siddhi of Exquisiteness are not leaders to follow, they are EXAMPLES.
They cannot be imitated.