This article is from The Sedona Journal of Emergence

Affirmations, Vacillations, Negations

Greetings, dear Lightworkers! As you read these words, winter is at its most intense in the land of our channel. In Northwestern Lower Michigan, lake effect weather dominates so that on cloudy days, it snows and on sunny days… it snows! How magical!

This same magic is what inspired the topic for this article. As the channel moves through her winter days, she tends to apply all the energies in the heading above: she looks out at the horizontal white precipitation and powerfully practices negations. Then she considers cancelling her commitments for the day due to the slippery driving conditions and experiences vacillations. Finally she takes the time to realign and realize… she makes a strong and informed decision and quickly settles into affirmations. Her process is quick, strong and effective and worth sharing, we feel.

Part of the discussion must include the very humanness of your physical experience and how it becomes what it is. The short and sweet of it is that your personal reality is 100% the result of your process. You create your reality. You experience and develop your reality according to your own beliefs. You grow, accept, resist and evolve in full harmony with the choices and experiences of your Soul.

Therefore, not only are the people in your life mirrors of who you are, everything in your personal reality mirrors who you are.

Do you want feedback which will help you understand ‘how you are doing’? Then look at your life and the world around you. Shocked? Before you begin to judge yourself for the mess the world is in, look deeper within and see what you truly believe, know and understand about the world around you.

What does that mean? It means that you are experiencing a reality which shares a group contract… many consciousnesses sharing many experiences. In your group contract you agreed upon certain aspects of life. We suggest that, as you observe the group contract of your 4D world, you look within and observe your own personal reality. Do you focus on the garbage or on the beauty? Do you think about the horror of war or the joy of peace? Do you talk about the vibrant potential of your day or the mistakes and sorrows of your past? Do you acknowledge and empower the mastery of those around you, or do you observe and analyze their weaknesses and selfish tendencies. Do you complain about the failings of your partner and/or children or do you enjoy sharing their strengths as you converse with friends and workmates?

If you follow your own thoughts and emotions out into the world you will discover the truth about the mirror that reflects so accurately. It reflects you.

Furthermore, do you study and emulate the teachings of one or several of the great masters? Some teachers urge their students to ‘act as if you are the Buddha’ or ‘act as if you are Jesus’ as a technique to live in enlightenment. We suggest a slight shift in that process. We suggest you learn from Buddha, Jesus, Einstein or whomever… but ‘act as if’ you are You living in enlightened bliss. Let the teachers be just that. Let yourself be fully you.

When you approach the fulfillment of your awakening, you will quickly realize that truth, for it is you who must claim it and authorize yourself to grow into it. The truly  great teachers show you the way and await you there… they do not cross the abyss for you.

Today… now… be fully you as an awake and realized being. Look out upon your world and see the paradise which exists behind the curtain of illusion. Even as you continue to perform your daily work and relationship duties, feel the perfection of the experience you have chosen to fulfill no matter what it’s perceived appearance suggests.

What you see in the 4D reality is what you have allowed yourself to imagine.

What we ask you to begin to acknowledge and see is all that is beyond imagination.

Are you aware, dear Seeker, that imagination is one of the major doorways to enlightenment? It is not, of course, the only doorway… God/Goddess/All That Is would not be so cruel as to restrict entrance to the kingdom so much! Indeed, there are as many doorways and pathways to true illumination as there are Souls…

You will find that your access to your doorway will be simplified immensely by liberal applications of imagination. The problem with imagination is that it is based on what you already know and have experienced. That is why we suggest that if you want new answers, new experiences and new creation it is quite empowering to move beyond imagination and into new territories of knowledge and experience.

How is this accomplished? By stretching your imagination as far as it can go and by dreaming as grandly as you are able… and then pushing through to more... and asking for more… and holding yourself ready and aligned with the more which already exists for you.

Even knowing all this, there will be days when it is hard to feel that you arrived in the situation or moment you are experiencing in divine order. Dear Friends… that is called ‘being human’ and it is what you came here to feel. True masters do not live lives with no difficulties. True masters live lives… and as they do they handle the difficulties and the joys that come.

As masters look out at their mirror, they see a world in which truth, love and light shine gloriously and abundantly. They also see the things which most people perceive to be negative as part of the learning process… perfect and divine… even while they take action to change, heal or otherwise lift the resonance of the thing. You see, masters know a secret about manifestation that is seldom included in discussions about the Law of Attraction. They know that, once they have declared to the universe what they want, and the universe has said yes, and they have aligned themselves within the resonance of that which they wish to receive, they must begin to take action in some way to create movement and flow. Any action will do. And taking action by helping, serving, healing, gifting light to any darkness can wondrously lift the world to new levels of experience while helping the master to maintain the resonance needed to receive.

Masters are constantly allowing more light and love into their lives and into their world. Because of this focus, they are not trying to analyze and fix things so much as to fill things with love and light. What the unawake perceive as darkness, the master perceives as low light. Thus if the situation is filled with new light, the darkness fades, the truth evolves.

It is often taught that the last thing to go before mastery is negative judgment. This is true. Negative judgment causes resistance in all its forms… including war. There is, however, a positive form of judgment that is akin to discernment. Positive judgment helps you to decide when it is safe to cross the street. Positive judgment is quite flexible so that it evolves as new information is presented. For instance, if you arrive at the conclusion that a friend who has shown himself to lie often is not worthy of your trust, that is a good judgment. If your friend eventually stops lying and becomes trustworthy… good judgment would reevaluate the situation and perhaps reclaim the friendship. Negative judgment would obstinately hold onto the old facts and refuse to evolve… the friendship would be shunned and the judgment would not be one of light.

Negation, as it was expressed at the beginning of this channeling, is the result of reaction, living in the box, living with the proof of the past as the main source of input and using negative judgment to hold onto choices that may or may not be wise.

Any time you re-act you are building on the energy of the past. Sometimes this is appropriate as in the case of someone who automatically turns into a skid while driving their car on an icy road.

Often, however, it is inappropriate. Think of the number of times you or someone you know has refused something without consideration… for instance: ‘When I was a child I choked on a green bean, therefore I won’t ever eat green beans.’ Or: ‘There was a mean rich kid at school, therefore all rich kids are mean.’ Or: ‘It’s snowing so hard that I know the roads will be too dangerous.’ Yes, we know, these are very simplistic examples, but are your reactions any less simple? When you react to different situations during your days and nights, are you thinking clearly and making participatory choices? Or are you simply performing automatic movements according to the habits of the past?

One of the steps of reaction that always follows our channel’s negations about winter weather is the vacillation phase. Even while she is doing it, she knows there are many better ways to proceed. After observing the heavy snowfall she will watch the weather report, ask the opinion of others, decide to stay home, decide to go… vacillation is an exhausting stage of the process. It happens solely as the result of re-action. After several years of severe winters she has finally become much more adept at listening to her own guidance and deciding from there. She has also learned to allow the vacillation stage to be short.

What do you vacillate about? Nothing? Wonderful! Or, perhaps you are in a job you don’t like and can’t decide to leave. Or are you in a relationship or friendship that no longer works? Or, are you constantly loosing the same 10 pounds or promising to quit smoking? These are all examples of vacillation.

How? Can you feel what happens to your energy field as you promise to quit smoking? It feels pretty good, determined and hopeful… right? Then several hours later, perhaps a friend smokes a cigarette in front of you and suddenly you feel down, depressed and angry. If you make it past that tease successfully you begin to feel good about yourself again and your energy lifts until the next time the cravings kick in and you drop. Up, down, up, down… vacillation! We suggest the next time you set yourself up for this type of re-action, prepare yourself for success by learning how to hold your resonance high and steady even while the craving is strong. Learn to maintain your high frequency when you are dieting and hungry. Find ways to let go of relationships which are kind, appropriate, light-filled and without guilt.

Vacillation experienced for a short time shows you where you need to focus and apply your efforts. Vacillation held for a long time is stasis.

Once the channel decides how to handle the latest snow event, she takes action and either begins driving or settles into an unexpected day off. She does this in the energy of affirmation. She claims her power of choice, holds full responsibility for it and goes on with her day. Affirmation. If the choice proves to be poor, she does whatever is needed to improve it. She also watches for the miracles that happen as a result of her choices.

Recently the channel chose to drive to work (about 100 miles round-trip) even though the weather service warned that a storm would be starting soon. By the time she had driven half way there  the snow was coming down so heavily that it was impossible to see more than a car length ahead so she turned around and drove home. As she stepped in her front door, the phone was ringing and she eventually spent that entire day helping and sharing with friends and clients. It was a wonderful day! And she worked it well by keeping the negation and vacillation stages short and empowered by information gathering, evaluation and action. Was she hard on herself for her process? No… she forgave herself for being human. This allowed her resonance to stay elevated and balanced so that the rest of her snow day was blessed with the divine light of constant affirmation.

Mastery and enlightenment are not about living your lives in saintly perfection. Mastery and enlightenment are about being awake to and aware of who you truly are. Be human, for that is what you came here to be. But also be the aspect of the divine which experiences life through your body, mind and senses in order that the divine might grow. When life is difficult and throws you into negation, call upon all that you have learned and all that you know to solve the problem and to maintain the highest resonance you can during the crisis. When circumstances cause you to vacillate, unsure and afraid, gather the data you need to make informed decisions even while you turn to your own inner guidance for help.

And as you decide upon a course of action, affirm your choice by filling it with light, holding your resonance in the appropriate energy to receive what you have focused upon and feeling the successful result which is already yours.

You are truly divine beings… all of you… That we joyfully and freely affirm.