Q : But really, couldn’t you give us some tools here? Some methods we could use to at least keep this process of our personal evolution moving forward?
As spoken of in an earlier part of our exchange here, and referred to again just a moment ago, share openly and authentically with those whose lives you touch both your struggles and your progress on the path to full awakening.
The choice to do so is both empowering and emancipating, unshackling in an amazing way the Will Within to express the Divinity that is yours, and liberating in others their own desire and ability to also do so.
The challenges of the path you have chosen may, on more than one day, hardly seem worth confronting unless you accord them greater meaning than the simple triumph over them. The question must be asked, “Why?” Then your answer must be given.
I tell you this: Your path is not without purpose in the heavens. For every soul which would grow to know in its experience what it has always understood in its awareness serves not only its own agenda, but the Superconscious Will of the Collective, advancing the evolution of a species even as its individual progress is attained, for it shall leave in the wake of its advancement the ladders and stepping stones by which those who follow may do so ever more rapidly.
This is the most powerful tool you could be given. Gratitude can be a selected energy, and not merely an autonomic response. When one actively chooses to be grateful for everything presenting itself in one’s life (and I do mean everything),it sets up an energetic signature that washes over and impacts the energy of whatever is now arising. This can transmogrify (defined as: “To transform, especially in a surprising or magical manner”) the presentation itself—to say nothing of one’s entire life.
Do this in advance of anything you know you are going to think, say, or do. Life has very little to do with what you are doing and very much to do with what you are being while you are doing it. The surprising thing about this is that through pure intention, “beingness” is transformed from a reaction to a creation. It is no longer something that arises out of an experience, but something that you put into an experience.
Most often, you respond to whatever is happening in your life—whether it is an illness, a disappointment, a happy surprise, whatever it might be—from the logic center in your Mind. You analyze the data that your Mind holds regarding the experience at hand, and that is the place from which your reaction emerges
It is possible for you to cultivate the ability to respond from the wisdom center in your Soul. Here, the data regarding the experience at hand is unlimited and expansive, and includes considerations and understandings that may not have been even conceived of in the Mind.
The soul is the place within which everything you know is already integrated, and simply awaits the outward expression of that. So take a moment whenever anything is confronting you—something that you call “good news” or something you call “bad news”—and instruct your Mind to let you act as if you are out of your Mind. Then notice your response emerge without thinking, producing a spontaneous demonstration of your Soul’s wisdom and awareness.