External woes are often the result of bad choices but they can equally be just the way things should go. Don’t get too caught up in trying to fix everything that you perceive as wrong but let things run their course. Often the cure can only be gotten by going through a process that may not appear as healing but actually is the solution. It’s nature’s way. Let things unfold as they will and full healing will result. This advice is to be taken at both a personal level and an impersonal one, in your own world and the world at large. Healing is taking place whether you detect it or not.
Without air there would be no life. Without water there would be no life. Nature provides these most important life-giving necessities and yet are they fully appreciated? Or are they taken for granted? Tune into nature and experience all that she gives without needing anything in return, except respect. Provide her that and things would not be so dire. Spend a little time respectfully in her company and with gratitude and respect breathe her air and drink her water. She will appreciate it.
Prepare now for the changes that are to come. Prepare the self in all ways but especially emotionally, mentally and spiritually, for the spirit, the mind and the emotions will face the greatest onslaught. The changes that are coming have not been experienced in a long time and yet there is a slim possibility that they will be sidestepped and the world as you know it will continue. Develop strong internal mechanisms that will allow you to go inward during times of duress, to visit the calmness cave within, to rest and rejuvenate and wait out the crisis. Such times too shall pass.
Reconciliation requires trust, trust that anything is possible, trust that can be shared between adversaries, between parts of the self or between two issues or situations that need resolution. Reconciliation may require boundaries, limitations, strict rules, but reconciliation may lead to new respect, nonjudgmental attitudes and a loving relationship never before imagined. For reconciliation all parties must show up, be fully present, of sound mind and heart, and willing to do the work necessary to come to a peaceful resolution. With hard work, trust, respect and truth, reconciliation is truly possible. Sometimes reconciliation may mean a parting rather that a coming together, but either way the same methods apply, hard work, trust, respect, truth.
The greatest challenge of all, in this life of physical form and beyond, is accepting the truth. For one thing, truth is relative.
In childhood we believe we are responsible for everything. Mature adulthood allows us to accept the separate existence of others, including their contributions toward our difficulties.
Wisdom, the next level of truth, takes us full circle. Reflecting objectively upon life, from the pinnacle of spiritual acuity, we see ourselves in everyone. From this perspective our oneness is restored.
Our evolutionary journey requires that we traverse successfully these developmental stages of truth.
The Buddhists suggest that we reincarnate into bardos, into dreams of our own construction, until we are at peace with the full truth of the lives we have lived, which then enables us to be open to life beyond them. This is the true achievement of detachment—the freedom to move into new life, fully resolved from dilemmas of previous lives lived.
Frequently, loyalty to unresolved issues results in counter-suggestions to the subconscious mind around changes we intend to make in our lives. For example, if one fundamentally maintains the belief that they are unworthy, a suggestion for prosperity may be cancelled by this blocking belief of unworthiness.
In this case, the subconscious may generate incidents to reinforce one’s loyalty to the felt undeservedness. Detaching from this belief will require recapitulation of formative experiences that reinforced this belief. This may expose distortions that were formerly needed to protect a significant other, or a part of the self.
This recapitulation may also lift the veil of narcissism shrouding the belief that dates to the primary narcissism period of childhood. From this view, one is able to assign responsibility for events where they should be truthfully assigned, unseating younger interpretations of reality. From this perspective one is able to accept the fuller truth of self and other.
Ultimately, one might reach a perspective that once again assigns one full responsibility for the life one is in. This might include realizing one’s decision to enter life in the time period, and family constellation, one was born into, as one’s contribution toward one’s greater soul’s journey of infinite growth and awareness.
This does not absolve a perpetrator from responsibility for their behavior. However, it might explain the choice of a victim-experience as part of one’s spiritual growth.
Accepting the truth also requires that we face the ulterior motives within the self. From a holographic perspective we are comprised of the same everything as everyone else. If we attempt to solve the polarities that live within the self via projection onto others, we lose the thread of our fuller inner truth.
Fuller acceptance of our shadow self, with all of its desires, manipulations, cruelty and greed, allows us to be in full truth with ourselves. Acceptance requires that we live our wholeness as responsibly as possible.
Every day we are offered countless opportunities to be in truth with ourselves. We just need think about the world and our relationship with others; what truths are we being asked to face each day, in each moment, as we live out our lives.
From a place of higher truth, we are quite likely to manifest the kinds of experiences that will bring us fulfillment, as we eliminate negative counter-suggestions from an unknown shadow self. And then we can fully own our whole, integrated and wise self.
