We are so much more than our programming. I received a recent reminder of this from The Wild Robot, an animated film currently streaming on Netflix. Roz is a robot designed to serve humans who crashes on an island inhabited only by animals. She searches for a new purpose and finds one in caring for an orphaned gosling. She was never programmed for this task, but she is committed to completing it and finds the resources and helpers she needs along the way. When she finally meets another robot, it comes out that she’s been over-riding her original coding in order to fulfill her new purpose, which shouldn’t be possible. Except, it is.
As Lightworkers, we understand intellectually that we are the creators of all our experiences. But we still sometimes give our power away to our fears, habits and false beliefs. We may understand consciously that we created these very self-imposed limitations but have also forgotten that we have the power to heal and transcend them. Maybe we just need to connect with a new purpose to propel us forward.
I’ve been working recently with my own needs and desires to “fix” things and make the world a “better place”. Many Lightworkers can relate! The rescuer, the warrior, the martyr and/or the protector are all energies that we may need to work on healing within ourselves. It may also be time to meditate on ways that we’re still holding onto old beliefs about our purpose within the Experiment in Duality. We may have made promises of service or to guide others or humanity as a whole. Being of service or being a guide are divine experiences as part of our learning. But vows or commitments to bind ourselves to those roles indefinitely can also keep us stagnant in our evolution. Roz experiences setbacks and obstacles as she creates a new path, but she perseveres and develops new parts of herself that are beyond her original coding. She expands her beliefs about who she is and becomes a new and unique being.
Ask your soul to help you find ways to be like Roz and connect with a new purpose that is in alignment with who you are now rather than who you’ve been. Free yourself of old programming. Allow yourself to step out of old roles that no longer serve you or anyone else. They may have served you once, so give gratitude for them, free of judgment. Then take your next steps into your new chapter. Have fun creating your vision, be open to help in unexpected places and have patience to allow it to unfold in divine timing.
The Wild Robot. Written and directed by Chris Sanders, performances by Lupita Nyongo’o and Pedro Pascal, Dreamworks Animation, 2024.
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay