the awakening journey
WEEK 3: BEGINNING TO WALK THE WALK
In week 3 - Understanding Separation - Exiting the Mist.
You awaken to what separation is and how it influences every aspect of the human experience. It can significantly influence your thoughts, feelings, words, and behaviors.
At this stage in the awakening process, you also become aware that in addition to separation, you are also influenced by the walls of blindness, failure, limit, necessity, anger/hatred, and suspicion/doubt - these are the Seven Walls of Humanity that are contained within and energetically support the Collective Consciousness.
Throughout this stage, you will face personal challenges that enable you to overcome deep-seated issues. You begin to address unfinished business by facing aspects of your life that no longer serve you on your path to spiritual awakening. You also learn to actively embrace the gift of forgiveness and how to forgive others and yourself. As you continue to advance in your awakening, your journey of personal discovery enables you to practice what you are learning through your experiences and remembrance.
Awakening to understand what separation is and how to overcome it.
There was a bumper sticker my 10-12 year old son (he’s 39 now) stuck on our Safari 7-seater van that said, “I Love My Family.” I say “our van,” but it was lovingly called the Debbie Bus, so the sticker was about me. I love that he knew what was in my heart. He was proud of something I never knew to be proud of. This act by a 10/12-year-old who boldly announced “I love my family” filled my heart even more.
In my previous post, I stated that I was living in a mentality of lack and fear. I also mentioned that I was embraced by the Fuhr Family and felt included.
We all need inclusion. We all need love. To be seen and loved for who we are and what we are about to become. What I began to realize is that when you love yourself and believe in yourself, you begin to love others and love what they are to become, and somehow, a community is born out of the first act of loving yourself.
Finding others who are like-minded is key. Discovering our interconnectedness. We are not alone, even when we are physically alone in our buildings. To realize there are walls of separation made of gyproc and lumber but nevertheless a metaphor for feeling alone, walls have doors. No need to feel or experience loneliness. Finding the courage to open those doors one step at a time, every day. Embrace the adventure of you. Open the doors. Find your way through the doors and simply breathe. The window of joy and love will embrace you. Knock down the walls of separation, the fear and lack of. This took me years to learn. 39 years to be exact. Working in insurance, in the fear and lack of world, before I embraced a more abundant vision. A vision of no separation.
Know that you are not alone. We are connected to the greatest Source, Love 💕. We will find each other.
Deb
Facing personal challenges...
We all have personal challenges. One of my biggest presently is letting go of personal identifiers; so who am I? I am a daughter, an auntie, a cousin, wife, a partner, a mom, a Nana, friend, and so on. Each role I have played in my lifetime I now see myself that I have behaved in a manner according to who my identifier is within the moment. I am struggling with personal challenges as my mom and son both have been recently diagnosed with cancer. As a daughter and momma bear. I know I have to be One with Spirit, and recognize they too are Spirit on their own journeys. This is part of the journey of being aware and knowing we are all One as Spirit. There are no labels or identifiers. Embrace the journey!
How do we return to a natural state of peace & harmony?
We go beyond ego and our stories. We let go. We accept. We go within. We self-nurture from our hearts, with so much forgiveness, compassion and permission.
"Be the love you never received.
Be the acknowledgment you never got.
Be the listener you always needed.
Look at the younger versions of yourself within you and give
yourself what it is you always needed.
That is the first step of healing.
If you want others to see you, you must see yourself."
― Vienna Pharaon
Overcoming deep-seated issues.
There was a season in my childhood when my dad was the main provider,my dad was jobless. We struggled to make ends meet. I have vague memories of tension and despair at home—more of an emotional imprint than specific events. I was like 5 years old. The atmosphere was heavy, a feeling of constant stress that lingered in our house. I remember being excited about having Cheerios for dinner, sometimes for both breakfast and dinner. Looking back, it must have been a really difficult period for my parents, though they probably had no idea that those simple meals were a highlight for me. Still, growing up in poverty left its mark on me. I could feel the weight in our home, and I dreaded returning to that sense of desperation.
Again the words “lack of” creeps into my vocabulary. Lack of money. A deep seated issue for me. It brings sadness, fear and that in turn brings loneliness. Darkness.
The lack of money remained a driving force for me. I would not let that happen in my life, was my motto.
A lack of money can leave me feeling vulnerable and anxious. The constant worry about unpaid bills or a loss of income can trigger anxiety, causing symptoms like a pounding heartbeat or deep nervousness that could eventually lead to dis-ease.
What I did though was not imagine more. I imagined cheerios. I imagined judgement. I imagined loosing my own home. I couldn’t let that happen. I imagined in fear. 3:30 in the morning going around and around imagining the worst. Hearing the old messages of money doesn’t grown on trees or that the rich are evil and selfish. That’s all I knew. That’s all I heard.
But what if we chose to imagine more? What if we encouraged each other to envision a life filled with abundance? What if we spread joy and lived in love and happiness?
More money to share. More money to live in abundance. More money to end poverty. More money to expand joy into the world by providing more than cheerios for dinner. More money for clean crystal clear water for everyone. What if our dreams include local hospitals able to serve fresh produce for each meal, even farm fresh grass fed eggs for breakfast. What if our dreams did the same at our schools so no child came to school hungry. What if we could eradicate homelessness and provide communities for all.
What if we could?
Who knew there could be lessons in cheerios. 😉
Deb
Unfinished business - learning how to forgive.
If you are experiencing a repetitive pattern in your personal challenges, stop and go inside yourself to determine what is within you that is continually drawing those circumstances. There is unfinished business to take care of; otherwise, they would not periodically show up in your experiences. Once you have successfully overcome them, they will no longer be a part of your life.
But how do you resolve and overcome unfinished business: how do you let go of what no longer serves you and prevents you from advancing on your journey of spiritual awakening?
One of the first things you will let go of is your inability or unwillingness to forgive. To forgive yourself and others, you begin by letting go of blame, self-justification, anger, jealousy, resentment, pride, expectations, or misunderstandings.
Forgiveness takes time, effort, and the energy of intent. It means letting go of your self-centered point of view to honestly look at what happened in your life, and it is because of this that you still harbor a grudge or other forms of unforgiveness.
True forgiveness occurs when all parties understand and accept that what happened may not have been what each of you thought you saw and experienced. True forgiveness will focus on the emotional, mental, and physical aspects that may still exist within you and influence your thoughts, feelings, words, and actions. You will not move forward along your journey until you acknowledge, face, and resolve your unfinished business.
Personal discovery - putting into practice what you are learning.
Summary. Understanding Separation - Exiting the Mist
You have now awakened to the understanding of separation. You have reached the place on your journey where you first became aware of the rest of the Seven Walls of Humanity. This is the stage where you will face your most significant challenges. You have made progress on your journey to discover who you are and have gone through the stages of spiritual awakening, from being in a deep sleep to becoming conscious that you have been living your life in a state of separation. Personal challenges or trials appear throughout this stage to help you overcome deep-seated emotions, feelings, attitudes, and behaviors that must be resolved to continue on your path. You are learning how to resolve unfinished business. You discover that learning to forgive is a key to advancing along your path.This is also a stage of great personal discovery as you will experience periods of unusual clarity, followed by increased awareness.
