#363 Everyone Else Around You is in the Same State of Dazed Awakening

Dear Jeanne,
The energy has certainly been most prominent and forceful lately in asking many of us to confront our issues as we are propelled to change, transform, and advance without regret or attachment. It does feel as if we are being challenged more strongly than usual in many areas simultaneously, though the synchronicities of challenges in our inner and outer worlds are undeniable. Can you continue to address the question of the energy forces now present, offering us guidance and support as we make our attempts to go with the flow of it?

This time of energetic forcefulness will continue to push. This is now a pushing energy, and yet it does ask you to move forward now without regret or attachment, as you say. But it also asks you to continue to carry with you the lessons learned thus far. To advance forward must you retain your deepest past confrontations as perfect examples of how to proceed in the future, as you confront new challenges and new methods of growth.

I do ask that you allow compassion to guide you now as well, as you allow truth and right action to be your companions as you take your next steps. There will be times when right action will be the perfect solution, but you may be drawn to feelings of sorrow, loss, or regret for having to move swiftly when others in your care may require a slower process. This is where your compassionate energy rides the coattails of your inner knowing. When confronted with such a situation, a dilemma of knowing that to push forward and onward is obviously correct, though another in your presence is not quite ready to do so, must you follow through with your right knowing action anyway.

Your compassionate aftereffect will be asking the other to be present, to be responsible for self, to accept the challenges, and to allow the inner strong self to step forward and direct the process now. To continue wallowing in self-pity, sorrow, the state of the big baby, the insatiable beast, or the frightened animal, are but old actions, cardboard cutouts long overused; and this is known to the one who does use such devices, in order to cull sympathy, to soothe, to postpone, or to gather thoughts or feelings before the inevitable process of growth continues.

All of you know, and those in your nearness do also, that this energy is stirring awake the inner strength in all of you. Even though it may be long buried, or never even tapped, so is it now apparent that this is what is coming forth to partake in the energy.

There are dramatic challenges, controversies, confrontations, and enormous conflicts present in that earth realm right now. These dichotomies reflect this strength emerging, and yet is the dilemma not so much in outer sparring but in the inner sparring, as this inner strength seeks a place in each person’s life. It seeks a place of centering, inclusion, and participation in life.

I advise that you do not keep your talents, your strengths, your obvious creative, intellectual, or most apparent and emerging capabilities hidden, either from your self or your world. You are all asked now to come out of the closet; to be real; truthful; to be honest and open; to allow and accept, but most importantly to be soberly, straightforwardly and pragmatically present in your life.

Bring all of YOU forth now. This is a time of exposure. The real you no longer needs to be hidden. In fact, with so much exposure going on all around you, you will realize that you are in quite good and safe company.

Do not hide any longer from your self. This is, of course, your first real challenge. Who are you underneath all that you present to the world? I think many of you are finding out the truth of the self. I ask that you please accept this self, whether it be a lost and confused self, or an evolving and forward moving self. Whoever you are is who you must be, who you need to be, and who you so tenderly must accept as self of now. Then must you remain connected to this new self.

Do not run and hide from this self. Do not allow old fears and cloaks of denial to sweep over this most bare naked and truthfully revealed self. All of you are at different stages. Your challenges will be individual; your processes will be at different paces, but keep in mind that all of you are on journeys of growth. And this is what you must keep in mind as you take your steps of right action.

Listen to your most innocent self who must now allow room for your strong self, who must now move over and share your inner center of balance with this forceful energy that is uncurling inside of you. This determined aspect of self who is ready now to partake in life is asking for room to grow, evolve, and merge inside you and be expressed outside of you.

This is a time of brutal honesty. Do not shrink from what is going on inside your self in the same manner as you tend to obscure what is going on outside of you, for it is meant as a mirror for you to learn about the self. My contention is that you are all being pushed to perform now to your fullest capacity and potential. You are being asked to be the best human being you can possibly be at this moment. You are asked to be the best spirit being you can possibly be too. And you are also asked to combine those two aspects of self and be the best whole being you can possibly be. This energy asks you to confront your self with your deepest issues and truths, and then to honestly reconcile those issues. Then this energy asks you to turn them into your strengths, your powers, your creative energies of mergence with self as an active participant in life, in your own life as it is presented to you each day.

Be now assured that the energy is here to stay and support you, no matter what stage of evolutionary growth you are at. Your issues and your challenges are what are now necessary for your growth. But know that your participation in tackling your issues will be met on all sides with thoroughly supportive guidance, energy, and renewable energy for a long time to come.

You are not alone in your dilemmas. Your challenges need not be tackled in a vacuum of aloneness. Reach out and notice, My Dear Ones, that everyone else around you is in the same state of dazed awakening to the truths being presented. This is your new reality. I urge you all to participate by doing what is truthfully and honestly the right action necessary for your own growth.

#362 I Give Up My Control

Today, a Reader asks for guidance.

Dear Jeanne,
I am experiencing many of the changes within and without that are occurring now. At times I can flow with them, and at times fear sets in and I lose my trust for myself, and in turn lose the ability to get to my heart center. I am grounded in knowing that even though my heart center may be messy with change right now, it is still a safe place to go.

This leads me to my question for guidance. I am here in this life to work on self-esteem issues and to break the barriers of my perfectionism. It served me well through the times in my life when things were out of control, but now it is calling for a restful place, and I am being resistant. Because perfectionism has been a dominant energy in my life, I need guidance on how to come to a more balanced state so I can honor its presence in my life and give it the rest it needs. How do I let myself make mistakes and get messy in order to let go and grow? As always, I thank you for the opportunity to ask questions and receive guidance…what a gift!

Love & Light…D.A.D.

My Dear One, in order to learn to let go and flow with your life, must you practice doing just that. When the opportunity arises, so must you notice your old habit creeping in and immediately strike it away from you and relax into a new positive position so that your ability to let go will have a physical passage.

I would suggest that you begin with your body, which is your mode of constraint and controls your every action, thought, and emotion. This is so for everyone. Your body holds everything. Your body is your home, and if you persist in keeping it pin neat (neat as a pin) then do you risk not accessing that which you keep neatly stored away in closets, drawers, and hidden in your attic.

This is why I suggest recapitulation as a means of accessing the physical self. If you concentrate your attention on what your body is trying to tell you, so do you shift your awareness from the outer controlling self, who has so successfully progressed in life in a certain fashion, to the new self desiring to emerge.

Your physical body is the place for you to begin allowing. This is where you must begin to let go and become restful. Your tightness is no longer working for you. Your inner spirit self is not happy being so constrained and constricted. Your inner self desires release, but how can that happen if you continue to torturously keep her down?

I admit that my words may appear a little harsh. I do indeed need to confront you on this, for I see a spirit who has had to take a back seat all these many years. Although your outer self has allowed spirit to explore, so has outer self controlled even that exploration. Now I hear your spirit self asking me, another spirit energy, to give you the message that your barricades must come down in order for that true spirit self to emerge. Your spirit self has not yet been allowed to speak, for you speak words for her. You do not even allow her words to be released unedited, and this is another area for you to practice letting go in.

What truths have you not allowed to be spoken? What words are you afraid to hear? What will you not allow your physical self to experience and have access to? Who do you really want to be, the control freak or the flowing, growing, soft and beautiful self who lies waiting to be discovered?

I challenge you, My Dear One, and all of you Readers, to enjoy the energy now available to you. This is a time of great transformation, energetically supported, but you must choose to engage it for growth purposes. You must make a conscious decision to now invite your self into the energy. Put your self into its flow by making the choice to allow it to take you where you need to go. In essence, this is a time and opportunity for acquiescence.

This must be done without controlling the outcome, but also not controlling the input either. By this I mean, you must simply state:

I am ready now.
I give up my control of my body to the energy of the universe.
I give up my control of my spirit to the energy of the universe.
I give up my control of direction, purpose, and intent.
I totally acquiesce to the flow of this powerful energy.
May it lead me where I need to go.

Now that is total acquiescence, My Dear! Can you do this act of release of self? Can you trust my guidance to further your self; to grow and evolve totally unburdened of ancient rules, demands, and ideas? This energy of now wishes for growth. That is its underlying intent and purpose, to push us all along (even those of us in energy form) to discover what is really possible. But your adventures will be short lived if you do not allow your self to have this grand opportunity to trust the energy like never before.

I hope I have satisfactorily answered your question. Oh, and by the way, you will achieve restfulness, balance, and amazing flow simply by acquiescing to the energy. If you allow your self to flow with it, then will it be so right that your inner self and your outer self will find their perfect balance because your controlling self will no longer be tipping the scales.

I thoroughly enjoy watching the progress of all my beautiful Readers. Keep daring yourselves to take the initiative on behalf of your spirits. Dare to live the spirit life by opening up to the energy that will take you, guide you, and lead you perfectly.

Acquiesce to the truth that awaits. As truth is revealed, will you begin to understand your life. Your future, your past, and your present will all make sense. In utter truth and honesty must you be ready to allow this process of growth to unfold. Acquiesce to your truths. That is where you must begin now, My Dear One. Reveal those to your self, and then allow the energy to guide you on your real journey, not yet begun!

#361 Be Aware of Your Place in Each Moment

Dear Jeanne,
Now that we have all of this energy available to us, how do we use it without constantly getting caught in it. How do we most properly use it?

Use it most properly by going innerly, My Dear, of course. Your charge now is to be a being of light and by that I mean one who utilizes energy most effectively but also in a positive productive manner. And how do you do this, you ask? By taking your own inner glow to heart and by acknowledging your own power. By accepting into your inner world this brave new energy in small increments you can most effectively harness it for good of self, for growth, and for purposes of enlightenment.

I do not wish to make this appear to be an intangible, untenable property. Energy is rather amorphous, but you can have certainty of it in your life by remaining innerly centered, knowing of self, and aware of your place in each moment. I ask that you allow your self to detach for a moment from even the idea that there is grand energy available. Withdraw into self, right now, as my words explain how best to utilize this worthy aire of energetic convergence that now permeates your world.

By shutting out the world around you, even momentarily, and accessing your inner calm self, do you offer your self a small place of refuge from all that swirls outside of you. I do not mean pausing in your busy head, but to instead resort to your calm place of meditation and inner knowing. This is your place of balance and inner resolution, far removed from your outer world.

By allowing your self access to inner quiet and inner silence will the energy become but an accompanist to your life. It will be available, but not overriding. However, if you remain focused on the outer energy, on the flurry and the choices it offers, so will you have problems settling in to a nice flow, utilizing it for good and for growth.

So remain cognizant of your inner place of calm, your so well-known balanced inner spirit self, as you maneuver through and around this energy. For often will your inner knowing directly desire to engage it and other times will your inner awareness say, “No, not now.”

That is what you are looking for you know, that inner dialogue that is so peacefully knowing and right. Once you find it; acknowledge it. Allow that inner silence to be broken only by the true inner voice. Then will you find that using this energy, or any other, will be perfectly natural and easy. In such a state of right knowing will all actions also be right actions. Thoughts will be centered on this place of knowing too and they will lead you to correct conclusions as you allow energetic convergence and participation with the outer energy to become part of your daily life.

#360 Take a Ride on the Speeding Energy Train

Dear Jeanne,
Can you talk about the energy and what we can expect for the week ahead?

There is no need to fear this energy that has now left behind the boxed apparatus of confined vigilance. Now is the bursting out. The energetic easing of pressure is over soon, for this is a time of release and eventual smoothing out as a new reality is encountered. That is what you must all contend with now. In some way has your reality shifted and changed and it is up to each of you to follow through with where it seeks to lead you next.

It not only now becomes a guiding energy but also an allowing energy, giving you permission to follow, to allow the self to have new experiences based on what you have learned about the self during this recent energetic time.

The energy has had plenty of time to play with you and you with it. But now, as shift occurs once again, is it time to get serious and forcefully ascertain that the lessons you have learned are extremely valuable life-altering lessons to now be fully embraced and utilized for further growth.

If you do fully embrace your lessons, so can I guarantee that your progress now will escalate as the energy continues to flow at an exorbitant and excited pace. Now is it your time of choice making. This is a time of decision making, not a time to wait and see, but a time to act based on what you have recently learned about the self. Your presence upon that earth is not haphazard or random. You are energy that is necessary, vital, and meaningful for some purpose that only you will grasp when the time is right for you to do so.

This time of now is energetically aligned to enlighten, engage, and enervate you, offering you plenty of incentive to decide just what that purpose might be. Many of you are re-discovering who you are now during this time of energetic push. Many of you are discovering aspects of self that you did not even know existed. And many of you are finding out that you are more than just your body and your mind, but a whole other being, comprised of energy as well.

The aspect of self that is energy is capable of so much more than you can even imagine. And this is what you are about to learn and explore further as you step out of your blown apart house, your place of boxed in rattling energy. Flow now with it, as it continues to swirl you about, wishing for your participation; as it invites you to go along with it, not just for the ride, but for the reasons that it shows you, the possibilities it presents, and the sheer magic that it holds for you.

The energy of this great shift is now available for your growth. Do you elect to go further in your life than ever before? Do you elect to let go of your fears and ride the energy forward now? Do you trust your self to take a new journey on this energetic wave of change?

Come on, the energy feels great today! Position your self to be able to take advantage of it, of the outer energy, but also of your own trusting and eager inner energy because you want change, meaning, and purpose to be in your life. That is what is being offered, but you must make some decisions if you are to be actively involved in taking a ride on this speeding energy train. It is pulling into your nearness now. Are you going to hop on?

I’ll save you a seat. Don’t worry; we’ll be traveling in style, comfort, and safety, with plenty of powerful fuel, free fuel. So don’t hesitate because of lack of energy; that is not going to be a problem. The only thing you need to do is push aside your fears of change. Unburdened of fear are you freed to step lightly and easily forward into pure energy and experience what it means to ride this energetic wave of change.

#359 Compassion Rides the Tail of Right Action

Today, a Reader asks Jeanne for guidance.

Dear Jeanne,
Several times in my life I have fallen prey to manipulative people without realizing what was going on until it escalated and got to an extreme situation. Although now, after much work, I do recognize when someone is acting in a manipulative way, I have struggled with giving myself permission to act firmly, to say no or to simply not give in to their wants or desires. This causes much inner turmoil as I feel like I am being uncompassionate, but at the same time, I do not want or desire to be a victim or to be manipulated. Could you please clarify this? Thank you very much.

My Dear Reader, in the warrior’s way do you speak of separating self and issues of self from the situation at hand when you speak of compassion. It is important to have clarity when considering actions, for not all actions are appropriate if the big baby or the hurt baby or wounded child is present. In order to act as a warrior, must you be able to assess the self as well as the situation being encountered. And this must be done swiftly and decisively, for only in right action of truth will compassion be addressed as well.

Your own big baby is not compassionate, nor is your wounded child, or your maternal self. Compassion is the balance that is achieved in actions based in truth. I advise learning to assess situations thoroughly. Wake up to the fact of whether the situation is one of truth, honor, and rightness, or are you being manipulated? Those are the questions one must ask oneself.

In your own case, must you allow your self to forget the past, stay in the moment, release the self from past attachments, outcomes, and histories, and immediately stand in the truth of now. Only in remaining alert, aware, instinctively knowing the truth of your situation can you act correctly, quickly, and ruthlessly. That action is immediately balanced by the compassion of life itself moving in the right direction, energetically forcing truth to be reckoned with and offered to the recipient in clarity.

Compassion is two-fold. It is honest, and it is loving. It carries blatant truth at its core and yet does it ride on the energetic waves of love, for it delivers itself by means of direct intent. That is what you must know; that you might not feel the compassion in your argument, but you must know that it is energetically delivered.

Compassion is a gift, not given freely, but earned by doing the work of truth, of setting the intent to commit acts of right doing, right action, that will set the record straight, put the world on the right course and send a wave of new energy of truth forward.

Compassion is not always a gentle and kind action, but often brutal and resented, obvious and confrontational, straightforward and directly hitting at core issues. You mix up vulnerability with compassion. You confuse sensitivity with compassion. You deter the message of compassion by attaching to the misconstrued meaning of it.

Compassion does not get defined so easily, My Dear. All situations are different, thus compassion arrives in many guises. Your chore is to stand always in your personal truth, unswayed by your past or your negative thinking about the self, your misguided understanding of what compassion truly is. For compassion is, to put it plainly, neither love nor kindness, but a separate amorphous energy that is always delivered correctly if the message it rides on is truthful and right, in a timely moment when no other message will serve.

Compassion deserves respect, for it is not to be used recklessly, nor will it allow itself to be squandered. For if misused will it energetically backfire upon you and then must you contend with its misfired intent. That is why I say that you must, as a warrior, be quickly and decisively able to separate self (ego, baby, child, victim self, etc.) from the moment. You must, as a warrior, be able to assess quickly, with knowing clarity and knowing of right action. This process does not involve the head or a thinking process, but only an acting on truth process. The action must be taken in alignment with the truth at its core and then does compassion ride on its tail, delivered with the blow of truth.

Compassion is used in dire circumstances when no other attribute works, for it can withstand the rejection that is sure to come. But it can also accept the total surrender that also comes when right action and truth are received bravely and honestly. Do not doubt your firmness, your warrior actions, for when they are right they will land dead on and have affect. This is when compassion will become present and known as companion to right action.

To learn universal love and compassion are to learn the warrior’s way: to be available energetically to give and receive without attachment to self, able to purely give with no expectation of receiving, yet also be appropriately able to receive without expectation of giving in return. That is the true meaning of love and compassion, to be without expectation, but totally energetically available and free.

Thank you for your question. May you find this natural aspect of self. It does not come forth in your demeanor or your personality, or your sensitive feelings for even those who manipulate you. That is your work to center on, to free the self to become the warrior you truly carry inside, waiting for growth.

The warrior self has no ego, no thoughts or muddled thinking, but acts in rightness and in truth, always knowing. Compassion is energy riding its waves, flowing in natural accompaniment. That’s what you must keep in mind; it is a natural phenomenon. Compassion is natural. Truth is natural. Right action is a natural act. Manipulation is not. Does that help?

Remove ego self. Remove big baby self. Remove confused and bidding self. Act from knowing self.

Chuck Ketchel, LCSWR