Tag: <span>Your Higher Self</span>

Back in 2000/2001, my life was increasingly in crisis. In fact, I had the distinct feeling that I was being set up, that the people around me, including my husband, were setting me up. Crazy things were happening: people were encouraging me to write a book (though I was not a writer and didn’t know what I was supposed to write about), my husband acting strange and distant, another man trying to get my attention, and a terrible, sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach that I was in deep, deep trouble.

Furthermore, I had the inner knowing that no one or nothing outside of myself could help me or heal me. I knew only I could save myself. I needed to do the inner work (of reconnecting with my soul, my higher self) and get to the bottom of it.

To make a long story short, I did get to the bottom of things and here’s what I’ve discovered. We go through crises in order to discover through first-hand experience who we really are and what we’re truly capable of. (Crises have a way of bringing out the best in humanity.) We also go through crises so that we can become more:

• Loving
• Compassionate
• Understanding
• Real
• Joyful

The following is an excerpt from the first article I published (August 3, 2008), after I published my book, What Everyone Believed: a memoir of intuition and awakening. (The Kindle title is Reconnected: a spiritual awakening memoir.)

The article explains the Divine Plan, why it’s so important that you reconnect with your soul (higher self) right now, follow your inner guidance, and stop watching all the mainstream news, which will only make you crazier.

If you knew that your soul / higher self (your connection to the Divine, to God) had planned your life experiences so that you would grow, so that you would come to know yourself as “one who rose to the challenge,” would that give you some comfort at this time? And, because your higher self had planned everything in your life, including your biggest challenges, it has the capacity to complete those challenges successfully. All you have to do is to reconnect with your higher self, develop a stronger relationship with it, so that you can hear its guidance (your intuition) and trust it enough to follow through promptly and consistently.

As you begin to do this, you will glimpse into your soul’s original plan. Your life will begin to make more sense to you, and you will begin to understand how it fits into the larger “Earth game,” or Divine Plan.

On a collective level, if we knew that each of us had a role in planning this Earth game, and if we remembered why we agreed to “play the game” in the first place, we would view the world’s crises as opportunities rather than dreadful things to be avoided. We would know that we had the power within to complete our challenges successfully.

From my own experience of “trying to get to the bottom of things,” I came to understand that we created this Earth game a long, long time ago, and with good intentions, too: so that our souls would learn and grow. As new souls, we yearned to discover who we really were, and the best way to know ourselves was through firsthand experience. For variety, we created variety on the earth, including a variety of belief systems. Things got interesting when some of us agreed to be the “good” guys, and some the “bad.” Sometimes we reversed roles so we would know what it was like on the other side. We did all this for each other, knowing that this Earth Experiment would be instrumental in helping us evolve as quickly as possible. Although we knew that some of our experiences would be extremely difficult, we knew this was the quickest way to spiritual growth. We also knew this time in “duality” would be temporary. At some point, while we were in the process of learning our final lessons (like right now), we would remember that this was “just” a game we had once created. We would be able to complete the game successfully, and create a new, more loving world, a “Golden Age.”

Now, we won’t remember planning this game, this “fall in consciousness” (in the sense that we have conscious memories of it). In order to have been able to play the game correctly, we needed to forget that we had planned it. Forgetting was required for playing the game “for real.”

Buying into the belief systems that each of us bought into was also required. If we had known that we had made those up, we might not have played this game with complete conviction, which would have derailed the learning experiences our souls really wanted. But our souls are powerful, so powerful that we have created an illusion—and then lived it as if it were real—in order to accomplish larger, much more noble goals for ourselves.

In facing my own life challenges, I came to understand that each and every person on this planet had agreed to play the game of duality. (You can call this game “dark versus light,” or “learning through contrast,” if you wish.) If your higher self hadn’t agreed to play this Earth game, you simply wouldn’t be here at this time. Furthermore, you have a unique life purpose, an individual contribution that will help fulfill the game. “Fulfilling your soul’s purpose” is another way of saying, “rising to the challenge.” That’s when can you consider yourself “awakening from the dream.”

Which means that humanity did not actually “fall from grace” as we were led to believe, but intentionally planned this “falling” as if it were real … so that we would be able to learn, grow, and experience ourselves rising back up again. This implies that you are much more powerful, and good, than you may know yourself to be. Realizing the extent of your power helps you take effective action, but you may not know yourself as powerful unless you experience yourself being powerful, which means beginning to resolve your current life challenges. You resolving your challenges then helps resolve the crises on this planet.

Rising to the challenge takes something, of course. A commitment to develop a relationship with your higher self is required. Courage is also required, because your wisdom and inner guidance will, most likely, go against the collective conditioning.

Once the relationship with your higher self is at least as important and as real to you as any of your other relationships, once you trust it enough to follow through on its guidance promptly and consistently, you experience what I have termed “critical mass.” This is the point when the Universe begins to cooperate like never before, because you are now “aligned with” the Divine Plan. This is also when you begin to discover your hidden gifts, by tapping into that part of you that’s been around forever—your soul.

Each of us has our own contributions based on our individual gifts and talents. Human beings have both a common purpose (to learn, to grow, to be more loving, etc.), as well as a specific purpose based on individual identity.

So, while you don’t need to feel like you’re attempting the impossible, you do need to make a commitment and get serious about your soul’s purpose. Because that’s when the Universe will support you; that’s when you’ll receive what you need in order to fulfill your purpose. The Universe will respond to your questions, favorable synchronicities will occur regularly, and you’ll know without a doubt that you’re on the right path.

The world is the way it is, and circumstances are the way they are, so that we can discover who we are, including who we are when times get tough. You have the capacity to fulfill your deepest dreams by following your inner guidance and expressing from your soul.

We can’t fail if we follow this guidance. If we can begin to see from the soul’s perspective, if we can view this time as an opportunity, we can be vehicles for truth and freedom; we can triumph. The power of your soul, expressed through your psyche and body, is what will turn this planet around, and nothing else. This is the truth about spiritual awakening.

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