Today, Tom asks a question about energy.

Dear Jeanne,
My question is in regards to difficulty I have with my awareness of energy. I seem to not be able to differentiate external energy from the background of my own energy or experiences. At first I expected to sense it almost as an electric charge, almost experienced with my normal senses. In time I came to believe that it is something that is and has always been there, but that I perhaps was just not recognizing it as such. I have found myself feeling discouraged and annoyed with my lack of awareness of energy when it is mentioned in your messages. I end up wondering, “Where was I?” when this happened! Is my awareness just so undeveloped at this point that I am not aware of the energy around me, or is it perhaps that I’m just having a hard time sorting it out with all the other changes that I’ve been going through in the last year?
Thank you for your love and guidance,
Tom

My Dear Tom, awareness of energy is not an immediate or blatantly obvious awareness, but a cultivated, learned awareness. However, it does involve learning to feel it by remaining as often as possible in a state of calm and balance in order to have knowledge that you are actually feeling it and not something else. I think most of you Students of Awareness are feeling and experiencing energy all the time, but this problem of recognizing it is pretty universal.

In order to become more aware of the energy outside of you, and how it impacts you, is it best to first understand your own resident energy. Who are you when you are calm, centered, and balanced, with outside interferences at a great distance? Who are you when you are closest to your truthful, honest self, and alert to the fallibilities of the self? What do you feel like when you allow your most vulnerable self to go calm, and relaxed, and feel safe in your mature presence? What does utter peaceful self-awareness feel like?

Allow your self to go into a place of calm heart-centered breathing in order to achieve this feeling of self as energy. Allow your thoughts to empty out of your mind as you center your attention on your heart chakra, and allow your simple breaths to guide you to who you are and what your own energy feels like.

Once you find what your own energy feels like, allow that energy to be recalled throughout your day as a gauge against all other energy. As you reassert your self in your own place of energy awareness, so will it become more apparent that outside energy is totally different from your own.

Do not get angry or upset with the self as you learn about energy. This is not a good method, not is forcing calm, or pursuing this practice too vigorously. The time must be right, the circumstances must be appropriate, and you must be in a place of physical comfort and quiet in order to gain the most from this practice. Once you have achieved this state of inner calm, and you are happy that it is your recognizable individual place of energy, then will it be easier to recall it at a moment’s notice.

This is your grounding energy; your place of calm, of inner resonance, and knowing of self. Without achieving this, even if only momentarily in order to be able to recognize it as the true self, will you have difficulties in recognizing all other energies, whether good or bad, intrusive or helpful, positive or negative. Ground your self, as an electrical grounding is securely attached to calmness and safety, and then can you securely go off into other experiences of energy without fear.

And, My Dear Tom, when you do achieve feelings of your own vibratory energy an electrical charge is a very good description of what it can feel like. A vibratory experience of energy is similar to electrical current as it hums and pulses through electrical wiring. If you could feel it, so would you feel vibration and humming. You Tom are energy, vibratory energy. Even in your dense human form are you but molecules vibrating as an electrical charge does vibrate.

So in order to experience outside energy, must you attain this inner knowing of self and your own brand of energetic charge. Then will outside energy be noticeable. You may feel that it does not suit your resonance, or you may feel slightly off, slightly uncomfortable, irritable, vulnerable, physically unwell, tired, annoyed, or even exhilarated or enticed by outside energy.

If it is distant from you, either not interested in you or you have advanced too far to be approached by it, so may you not notice it, or be drawn to it. If it is outside energy that has a lesson to teach, then will you notice it. Often such teaching energy comes in forms that are personal, forms that are recognizable, and forms that you are automatically drawn to.

For instance, one of the most easily approachable means is through people close to you. Suddenly you are approached by someone with a crisis, or someone with a dire need, or command, or other means by which you can be sucked in to giving your energy.

Or you may be enticed to join in some activity that is perhaps not truly resonant with you. Or you may be drawn by old habits better left untouched, for they open too many doors that you closed a long time ago. Or you may be drawn outward, in a projective manner, with your inner issues ready to attach to outside energy when it is most appropriate to stay in your inner calm and do the work of the self, rather than attach to distractions as a means of avoidance. Or it may be all of these things at once, or in combination!

Energy is very tricky! So then, what do you do? How do you handle it when someone close to you has a dire need of your energy? Do you give it? If necessary, of course you do! But you must ascertain whether or not such need is just coming from the big baby seeking to shirk responsibility, or is it truly a genuinely needy situation. This is a practice of detachment, which is pretty much what everything is about and is leading you to learn. For as you learn about detachment, so will you also be learning about attachment of energy, and of acquiescence to it at the proper time. And your balanced state of being will be greatly enhanced as a result.

As outside energy approaches so does it offer many lessons. Evaluate your state of self, your place in life that you have achieved now after so much hard work on the inner you. You have learned a lot about your self. Have you not changed? Have you not discovered that you are fully capable of focusing your attention on the issues of the self, going innerly, rather than outward looking for answers?

Once the turning point comes, when you realize that you alone are responsible for every choice, decision, experience, and event in your life, then are you ready to truly advance further to taking on the power of your own energy. Once you turn that energy inward; where before it was spent outward searching, asking for help, for attention, for pleasure, for pain, safety and for a resting spot; can you find your grounding and your stability now in your place of inner knowing.

If you can allow your self to remain in that place of inner inward focus, so will the outside energy become more clearly outside energy. It will be noticeably different from your own. It will perhaps not be so enticing any more. Even if you are attracted to it ever so briefly, so will it no longer have such lasting power as it did in the past. And you may wish to return to your place of calm more quickly than usual.

Energy awareness and detachment will lead you further to that awareness of universal love and compassion that has been another one of my topics lately. These things are all, in combination, the necessary tools in order to begin turning outward again once you have completed the major aspects of your inner work. When you have wholly accepted the truths of the self, taken responsibility for the total self, recapitulated, and learned to love the self for the journey thus far taken, so then are you well prepared to turn outward again. And this time, without projection, will you re-enter the world as an energy being. A being who is alert, aware, learning still how to navigate life as it unfolds, but with a new awareness of your place in life, the meaning of your life, your new job becoming apparent, your relationships becoming known, your communication skills centered in truth, and an understanding of your fellow travelers as journeyers equally needing to take their own outer journeys and their own inner journeys to wholeness of self.

As wholeness of self is achieved and constantly attended to (for it never ends) so is life in the greater world different. With change of the self does everything else change too. The outside world becomes totally acceptable, viable, and necessary, no matter what is taking place in it. There is no stopping another from taking the journey they have chosen, and this goes beyond the individual to the other aspects of the world, the individual countries, the direction of political, religious, and social progress, the dissonance around you as you perceive it happening, so is all of this necessary for true change to occur.

So, do not, My Dear Tom, become discouraged if you feel unaware. I think you are quite aware of what is happening around you, you just don’t fully know it. You are totally aware, by your questions, that even the idea that you may be missing out on something has gotten your energy in quite a tizzy. And that, My Dear, is exactly what I am talking about!

Turn that tizzy inward, and see what is stirring up inside you that has you so frustrated. All of you Seekers and Journeyers, this is good advice for all. Turn your frustration inward, and ask your self, “What am I missing?” That is where the focus should be placed, inside you, as you do the work on the self. Not outside of you where your valuable energy will simply be spent in frantic looking and nothing accomplished as a result. Don’t waste energy!

Today, Tom asks a question.

Dear Jeanne,
During the last year I have come to your guidance as a great change in my life had been taking place. It began with taking better care of my body, then with an awakening of my heart.

I have been working in therapy with Chuck for several months and my evolutionary growth is the primary focus of my life. It has provided me with much joy and some pain as I have struggled to understand and grow. In addition to your messages and “The Book of Us”, I have particularly been inspired by the writing of Robert A. Johnson and, to the limits of my ability to understand the terminology, C. G. Jung. I trust that I will be led to what I need for growth and I believe I have achieved a patient acceptance that my evolutionary growth will unfold in time, as it should if I maintain a steady focus. The use of heart centered breathing helped me this weekend with a long standing resistance to the work I need to do to put my physical surroundings in order and I am thankful for all that I’ve been blessed with this past year. Can you offer guidance regarding understanding of the projection of my anima in the relationships in my life and how doing the inner work with my dreams and active imagination will bring me to a more balanced and expanded consciousness?
Thank you for your love and guidance,
Tom

My Dear Tom, you are a seeker, and as all seekers must you turn to your self for the answers. To continually look outside of the self will result in refusal to contain the issues and tackle them in a manner that is appropriate for an evolutionary being. In other words, you must turn inward at all times now in order to grow. For I see that you have evolved to a point of acceptance, acquiescence, and exploration, but you are in further need of inner work. By this inner work do I mean solving the questions that arise in your inner magnifying glass, your inner microscope, rather than putting on your binoculars and looking for distractions, loves, and attention outside of you.

You Tom, and all of My Readers and your fellow seekers, in order to understand the self must you first experience this anima/animus aspect of the self that this man does bring up, for it is the most profound recognition of the self, that the self projects outward all that one has hidden inside. At first may this appear to be an incorrect statement. But without judgment is it possible to acknowledge that outside of the self is it much easier, and perhaps safer, to place these inner problems and prospects for growth. The inner self, until it is ready to allow truth to emerge, is happy to project, to judge, to find fault, disgust, stupidity, and simplemindedness outside of the self, especially while the ego is in the process of building.

There comes a time in life when the ego becomes overladen with its own need to have more, and then is it desirous of unburdening itself of all that it carries, the burdens of the inner self, sitting upon its outer shell, heavy and constantly doing battle with what it perceives as interferences from outside. Interferences may be love interests pointing out the possibilities of the inner self, projections of desire that will go unfulfilled until the inner self learns love and compassion for the inner child that exists inside everyone. The outer self, the ego self, maintains such strict standards! But to what end? In order to uphold some old ideas, some old lies, untruths, and long ago developed ideals that wish to be uncovered and rediscovered as truths waiting within the spirit self, and the child self, for that is where all secrets to the self lie, not outside of the self.

So, that being said, as an evolutionary being is it this process of detachment that I speak so often of that now must be started in order to cease the old habits. Detachment requires turning the binoculars inward now, switching over then to the magnifying glass, and eventually getting out the microscope as you do your inner work. Ask constantly, “Why?” as regards the self. And then wake up the inner child self and ask for an answer. I can guarantee that there is where the truth lies. But do not do this in a demanding, accusatory way, as perhaps the adults in your life once did, but ask gently, with the love and compassion that you are learning as you practice detachment, and as you learn what it truly means to be evolutionary.

Perhaps what you thought was an enigma, a goddess, a perfection of everything you were not, is but an energetic being like your self. As energy are you all the same. As energy is no one grander or more perfect that another. All are equal in shape, in form, in beauty, in characteristics, in intent and focus of growth. As energetic beings is there no man and no woman, no sex, and no sex appeal. But at the same time, is energy the ultimate of all of those things, for it takes everything and encompasses it in the intensity of truly vibrant, energetic, and alive love. Each of you have this within, and this you must recognize when you look outside of your self for fulfillment. You will not find it until you have tackled the challenges that your anima, or animus poses to you.

Your anima, My Dear Tom, is simply your best, most honest friend and companion, pointing out your path, your inner path, your direction for how to get to the truth of the inner self. Turn inward. Look to the self. Put aside your books now for a time. You have already learned enough dogma, enough terminology, and enough definition to last you several lifetimes. Turn now, with your reading glasses on, to the small print that you have barely noticed inside your self. Turn inward, and read the inner words of truth. Listen too, for that inner voice would like you to hear what it has to say to you after all these years of ignoring it, with your ears taking in so much of your outer environment.

This is how you will be able to process what you have learned, and find what you seek. It is all inside you. That is where you will find all the answers to love, to caring compassion for the self; the one you must learn to love the most, but with utter honesty, humility, and detachment.

See what happens as the energy outside of you continues to also point you inward. That is what this time on Earth is really all about. You Earthbound Ones must learn to stop reaching for things outside of you. They are not attainable. You are looking in the wrong places. Everything is inside you. Begin to look there now more often for your answers. You’ll find them, I guarantee that!

For this question I thank you, Tom. And for this day I request that you do not pick up another book, or read another word about what you should be doing. Instead, go innerly and ask your inner child what should be attended to first. This is good advice for all of you Seekers and Evolutionary Beings. You might be surprised at the answer, but I suggest you pay attention to it and truly take the evolutionary path. Good luck!

Today, Sid asks a question.

Dear Jeanne,
I was first introduced to you through my work with Chuck, and then with Jan. I feel that I was ready for this next connection, as it resonates very deeply. I believe you said once that the three of you were related in a previous life. So do we decide, with members of our soul group, prior to each new earthly life, to enter those lives with each other at times when to do so would provide an experience for our further evolution? Many times in my own life has a person or situation appeared that became either an immediate or an eventual evolutionary vehicle. Does our soul group remain energetically linked, both in spirit and in earthly form? Are some of them our guides?
Love,
Sid

My Dear Sid, Jan and Chuck and I, although linked in previous lives, must all live out our own fulfillment individually. Our linkage has continued to this day through preconceived efforts on our parts and the greater overall completion of our destinies to evolve, but also to mature into souls with a mission of import during a time when this is not only acceptable but feasible.

As you know, we at one time were ostracized for our uninhibited approach to what we offered. The times did not receive us, and our demise became buried in historical fact. However, our commitment to continue the connection was well placed in our destinies. There is reason for all encounters in life. Some partnerships and relationships of intimacy go beyond the normal everyday passings. Some are connected for reasons that go beyond present knowing, but figure in to a greater structure of future energetic existence. That is the connection that you now witness in this process of channeling, healing, and awakening now being made available to you.

However, this process would not have evolved to this point had not each of us taken on the challenges presented to us in life, that 21st century life, that modern evolutionary time. The challenges embraced, studied, and the signs acknowledged and followed have brought this convergence that to many seems quite appropriate and acceptable, while to others is but a crock of shit! That I do declare with knowledge that not all are prepared for the ideas being proposed now, and throughout all time, that reality is not what it may seem.

That being said, I must address your query regarding the actual preparation of these lives that we have lived, and continue to live. In a predestined situation are opportunities presented that each individual must determine as their path, and choices must be made. Perhaps many choices do not lead to fulfillment in a single lifetime, but many lives are needed.

Is the soul group involved in determining the challenges presented? There is no determining factor, it is but known. It is but laid out without forethought, but with total knowing, if that makes sense. Chuck and Jan and I did not sit down with advisors and plot out our lives. But we did have contained within us all possibilities, and all choices and opportunities existing within each of our energetic composites. Each of you contain attachment to all possibility, all knowledge, and all connection of thought, of wholeness, of completion in eternity. All of you have within you everything you need. You are all infinity. You are all part of the universe.

Your own path, Sid, is littered with people of significance. Those you meet who resonate and offer guidance, truth, and challenge may appear as gentle souls, clearly extending knowledge of your attachment to all things, or they may appear as negative influences keeping you grounded in the vagaries of that life upon the confines of Earth. Yet are they all guides, all opportunities for growth.

As soul groups evolve, by completion upon the Earth level, so do you reconnect with your own place in infinity, from which you came and from which you return, having done the work of the first level of growth upon that Earth. Your lives upon that Earth are meant to re-inform you of your innermost abilities; your connection to greater awareness and consciousness; and to learn humility, love, and compassion. Your times there in that realm are to learn what the ego is, what the truth is about your own ego, the desires of it, the big baby, the greedy focus of the insatiable beast inside each person upon that Earth. To deny the insatiable beast is to deny the truth of the ego. Each one of you must allow the beast to live, at some point in your lifetimes, or evolution to an egoless state of pure awareness, comprised of love, compassion, and connection with all things will not be accomplished.

So the people you meet in your lifetimes upon that Earth are there to aid you in evolutionary growth. Accept the ones who prod your inner beast, for they are as important as those who prod your inner spirit. If you can accept them you will begin to understand what your journey really means. Do not run from, or reject, the ones who seek to destroy you for the characteristics of the beast inside you, nor the ones who cannot abide the spirit seeker in you either. Tend to both aspects of the self, with reverence for the inner spirit that seeks wholeness. Trust that everyone you meet is your guide, and everyone you come in contact with is connected because, in reality, are you all connected. This connection is the aspect of the self that you seek convergence with during your lifetimes upon that Earth, as you battle the ego and the spirit selves, the negative and the positive selves, and the grounded and the ethereal selves. Do not lose sight of this news that: You are everything! You are connected to everything. You are full consciousness. You are total truth. You are fulfillment of life, with connection not only to your own soul group, but to all other soul groups, through your consciousness of everything as energy. Do not forget this most blatant and revealing truth: You are energy; everything is energy; you are everything. I don’t know what else I can say in order to teach you, My Lovely Seekers, besides this truth of energetic competency. You are all connected, interconnected, now and forever, and that, My Dears, is what life, soul groups, higher consciousness, and fulfillment are all about, the interconnectedness of all things through energetic vibration, the substance of life and reality.

So, My Dear Sid who struggles to understand life and evolution, keep your self focused on your inner work as I have continually instructed. Focus on your own inner work, as work of energy, of understanding the connection of all to all, and the fact that you are where you are now because you should be. What is life showing you? Where do you need to go next?

All of You Readers be aware that your life has the greatest meaning for your evolution from that earthly realm, and is of utmost importance. Live your lives as energetic beings, aware of your inner knowing of all things, aware of your connection to infinity, and aware that you have choices to make, every day, related to your progress toward completion.

I will continue this discussion again, I am sure, as your questions continue to evolve with your awareness, and I am happy to do so, but for now, experience your energy!

Today, Alissa asks a question.

Dear Jeanne,
In a recent message, you talked about our future groups and projects that we will be connected to after this world. Can you talk about this a little further? Does the group consist of family or friends? Is size a factor? Do the groups and projects evolve and change? Is it connected to our career paths here on earth? Thank You.
Love,
Alissa

Be aware, My Dearest Alissa, that talk of soul groups and future life is meant to entice you to live the life you now have, to its fullest potential. For without that completion will none of this talk of soul groups have much importance. But I will acquiesce to this greatest of curiosities for you and my many Readers who consider the future, though it may still be many lifetimes away. I do encourage a brief acceptance of the fact of future continuous, unbroken life; energetic life that will lead on into places not so far removed from what you experience now, but yes, quite different too. For as energy, with fuller knowledge of being energy and nothing else, is there a greater awareness overall, and thus is it possible to truly understand and accept the ideas of soul groups.

I must continue also by saying that the concept will be better understood if you have already begun to accept that detachment must be achieved in order to evolve to this point of shift to a new reality. So keep that in mind. Understand and seek to accept the things I am going to lay out before you with detachment, as I described the other day, uppermost in your mind. For otherwise may you not quite like my descriptions if you remain too attached to people of that world. For in truth, are many who you are now connected to not at all meant to accompany you on your journey.

Find your own calm and balanced center now as you read my missive regarding soul groups. Do not think of these groups as cozy little families, for they are vast thousands upon thousands of energy beings with like-resonance, with like-intent, and with like-compassion for the journey and the process they have embarked on. These characteristics have accompanied each one of us, in our energetic component, for all eternity, and will continue to do so. We have all gotten beyond the confines of Earth.

Am I connected now to family and friends? Yes, I recognize some from past lives, but not as I knew them then, for all are we different now, not connected to human form, or personality, or ego selves as we once were. We are but energy. And the question, though of concern to you now will not be in your evolving future, for your energy body does not need such attachment. In a state of pure energy is there love and appreciation, but most of all connection to all other beings. So no one is special, nor closer to you, nor is there emotional need or desire for such.

So to continue, a soul group is a massive group of energy, but energy of love, compassion, and wholeness, existing in all time, all space, and continually learning, and teaching, and evolving further together. Our collective mission, in my group, is of awakening the inner potential in all of you. You ask if size is a factor? Group size is not necessarily a factor, except as we are energetically intense, and aligned, and focused, so does that matter. Strength of awareness and intent matter, but I don’t conceive of size in perhaps the way you mean. Size is mostly measured energetically. You see?

Do the groups and projects evolve and change, you ask? There is constant change, for that is life, that is energy. Within my soul group has there been constant evolution. I joined this group quite unaware of what I must do, and had to learn a great deal in the beginning to get up to where I am now. I have teachers and I also teach others within the group. My inner “personality,” that once comprised who I was through many life times, has continued to be my strength in this life, and it has been quite an asset. So perhaps that can answer your last question, about whether your career path on Earth is preparing you for what you will do next.

In actuality, and in my most clear voice, I must say that your “career” is not so much the factor, but your evolved self is the greatest factor. Your inner abilities, which you are learning to hone, are your most necessary abilities. These inner aspects of the self may have no connection to the career upon that Earth. For what is it that is fulfilling in that life, truly fulfilling? The inner work! Doing the inner work will lead you to discover your greatest assets. And these inner assets, which you have carried over from one life to the next, are your trademark strengths.

You are all different. You all vibrate at a unique rate. You all reside in unique states of “knowing,” “seeing,” and growth. Yet are you all beings comprised of energy, intent, and the core will to evolve, and that is what you must remain focused on as you do the inner work.

Your soul group connection is pre-destined, but your choices in making the journey to that group are yours alone, and have always been. There are many roads to take, and many choices to make in your journey, and although we await your completion, so do we guide and aid you as you learn what it truly means to become an energetic being and join your awaiting companions.

To become an energetic being first requires detachment; learning to leave the ego behind and evolve to a being who is flowing and able to trust every aspect of the journey; able to make choices that are evolutionary; able to confront all challenges as necessary; and able to truly accept the self as fallible, as lost, as sweetly tender and unaware, so that the connection to original innocence is rediscovered, and from that place of utter knowing of self begin again your journey to connection with your evolutionary self.

You will see that it is quite lovely in this place of loving compassion, but it does require complete detachment from the things of that world, including those you love the most. Whether or not you will meet them again is uncertain, for all must make the evolutionary journey alone. Do you choose to go it alone? That is the question you must all ask your selves. Am I ready to evolve alone, and take my true journey, the inner journey that will lead to my ultimate energy journey? That is the way to discover your future, your connection to your soul group, and your true career.

I hope this has answered your curious mind as it wonders so much about the future. I do continually advise to use your energy now for learning about the self. Then will you be able to answer your own questions, and you will find your connections awaiting you. And it may not be where you now think you will go. For who are you really? That is what you must find out, My Dear Alissa. Who are you?