Stretch Your Mind, Expand Your Consciousness

It seems there is a lot of different ways of viewing things coming to the surface now for us to expand our minds over. Normally when we learn of something new that we don’t yet comprehend or yet know what we feel, our first response is “No”. We just automatically fire off a “No” as if it were a “shoot first and wonder why you’re even asking the questions later,” at best, type of scenario.

This is so our minds don’t have to stretch themselves and then our consciousness – or comfort zone – can remain unmoved. If we just say “No” to change or something new or different then things just may stay just the way they are – after all, its taken a lifetime to get them this way and I’m finally feeling mature and grown up enough to understand a little bit about how it works here…..  and so I’m staying here with my mountains of chocolate/packets of ciggarettes/bottles of wine/what ever your choice of anxiety suppressor…. and I’m just going to cope with the way it is, because its too hard to do it differently?!

Is this familiar to you? Does this feel like a scenario you are experiencing right now…. the “No, I’ve taken on enough change and transformation for one life, I’m just going to get used to this now” type of feeling?? If so, you are not alone… but there’s more to come, more change, more transformation, more restructuring, more confusion, more excitement, more hope, more optimism, more light, more insight, just more…. So it really is time to deal with your life because its just going to get more of what ever it is now.

I’m begining to see everything in our experience as being driven by a consciousness that is in itself evolving… and as we continue to evolve and become aware that the spiritual target is moving, we also begin to sense the evolution of consciousness becoming aware of itself becoming conscious – in other words, consciousness itself, is evolving. So it is a moving process that has many levels, layers, dimensions, perspectives, lines, states  and structures that keep it on some kind of evolving path of expansion at an ever increasing pace.

And this has implications for our World View and ultimately our concept of reality.

Within all of this, everything we think, feel, say and do directly affects and influences the quality of our experience of life. So if something hasn’t gone your way, go inside and ask yourself, “what have I been thinking, feeling, saying or doing to create this experience in my life right now that is not going my way?” In every moment you are creating your experience and it is manifesting in your reality as a direct reflection of how you are with yourself. This in turn means you are offering this attitude out into the evolution of consciousness as your contribution. And this process is speeding up all the time… just as quickly as technology is increasing in its ability, so too is the evolution of Human Consciousness. So are you contributing an attitude which is to the higher good of all?

Its time to Stretch Your Mind and Expand Your Consciousness so that we may open our eyes to the full profundity of what this may mean. In other words, its time to listen to other perspectives, take on different ways to do things, let judgment and old view points based upon “Because So ‘n So said”  go by the way, and allow new ways of thinking about, seeing and doing things now come to the fore.

We all have our own perspective on what is happening to create the reality in which we live. Its time to become curious about other perspectives, to nuture them without judgement and accept that they too have validity. No one and nothing can be 100% wrong. Stretching your mind will help you find the part of another perspective that can expand your consciousness in a way so far hasn’t been happening, and create a better comprehension of reality and your experience of it.

So your perspective wants to be one that is inviting of this process and responds with a “Yes”.  Then let it in, chew on it, turn it over, add it to what you’ve already got, hone in on it and see how it feels, does it work for you? Could it work for you? Will it help you grow along another line of development? Will it help form a new structure for thinking within a more evolved framework? Does it reasonate with you? Does it feel right for you, not them, you?

These are the questions that we want to be asking about EVERYTHING right now so that we can figure out a way to include more in our paradigms and experience a smoother, more peaceful ride.

Embracing the Past in the Present

Moving forward can mean moving on. Moving on feels like letting go. And letting go sounds scary even when we want to move on. The future is unknown and the past is familiar and safe, crusty corners and all.

So finding a way to move on from the past yet embrace it and accept that it is the past, all at the same time, can create more than a wobble of a challenge and a few tears. But the challenge lies not only in the act of moving on from how things were in the past, but also the role that we personally played. That person that we were can often seem more fun, more free, more spontaneous, more confident, more exciting, or more something.

Think about how comfortable and confident you were in the old job, how free and spontaneous you were before you had your child or got a mortgage, or how easy it was to just be in the old flat or town or relationship, or how you were before you got in a relationship. All these kinds of changes create changes in identity. And changes in identity can lead to identity crisis…. “Who am I now?”

On top of these kinds of changes we have energy shifts or planetary realignments taking place that are almost demanding our release and acceptance of the past, so we may move forward to higher levels of awareness and consciousness. In the higher realms of awareness we comprehend that there are other aspects to ourselves that exist externally to the physical body and in a different dimension to the Earth on which we physically exist .

These other aspects have been referred to as Spirit Guides, Guardian Angles, Higher Self and God to name but a few. Did you know that these are actually aspects of YOU and that you have access to all of their wisdom through all of your changes? And now is the time to call upon that wisdom.

As the planet is readjusting her vibrational patterns right now we are experiencing a myraid of change that is resulting in all kinds of emotional disturbance that appears as anxiety, panic, stress, insomnia or depression as you ask “Where do I belong?” and “I feel so alone.”  It can feel as if your wheels are really about to fall off. And it is actually ok if they do because that is the kind of change this is. It is demanding we re-identify ourselves at a higher level of awareness and find that place in which we have a sense of belonging and ultimate freedom.

The higher levels of awareness that are being called for now are ones that allow us to follow our higher purpose for being here. Now is the time to surrender to your inner yearning and follow that which makes your heart sing, your body healthy and our planet shine. Now is the time to create all that you came here to create and to let go of the old ways of thinking and seeing things.

Its time to change your perception and include more perspectives in your World View. Let go that it has to be hard and that good things come through sweat and tears. Let go that all good things come to those who wait. Let go that because it was hard for our ancestors it has to be hard for us too. Let go that they are wrong and you are right. Let go that there is only the way we’ve always done it. Let go of all that struggle and open your mind to the possibility of a New Way of Being.

Now is the time to change your perspective. See economic downturn as positive restructuring and an opportunity to ask yourself ”what is important to me?” See redundancy as the chance to create with your time that which is inspiring to you. See the need to leave behind one way of life for another as an opportunity to follow your Soul Purpose. See wakeful nights as opportunities  to connect with higher aspects of yourself and better understand your Divine Intention. See what appears to be forced change as guidance from the ever present aspect of yourself that knows better than you do. Learn to Trust that all is perfect just the way it is… even if it isn’t as comfortable as you would prefer it to be.

Who of the great Saints of our time did all that they did in continual comfort anyway?

Comfort comes out of discomfort. The two take turns as they ebb and flow through the stream of life. Strength comes from moving through fear. Fear and Trust can not exist simultaneously. So just Trust in the perfect outcome of all things. Put one foot in front of the other and follow your own light.

Find a way to do what you do with enjoyment and enthusiasm and if you can’t do that, then do it with acceptance (or don’t do it at all). By engaging in that which makes our heart sing, creating that which inspires us and providing that which is of service to others, we are increasing the vibration of our planet and moving into the higher realms of love and joy where money and consumerism is just another aspect of the past.

Ask yourself, what is important to me? Embrace it all. You don’t have to let it go, you can transcend and include it. We’re all One so there is nothing to let go of. Accept that it is what it is and be grateful for all of its beauty, crusty corners and all. Everything in life is an opportunity to learn, love or grow and as we continue to wake up and become more and more aware, that which we learn, love and grow with raises our vitality and the vibration of the planet.

Namaste.