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This article is from The Sedona Journal of Emergence
Out of the Conundrum Welcome, dear Friends and Lightworkers! Do you find yourself trapped in a repeating loop of crisis? Is fear seeping through heretofore unnoticed cracks in your reality – your life? Are you looking for guidance – guidance that has always been available before and which has been clear, honest and trustworthy – but now it seems to elude you, or worse, it comes and it is patently wrong? Do you feel like the burdens of this chaotic world are attaching to you and that those sharing your reality are only too delighted to let you take responsibility for their burdens, too? What is going on, Lightworker? Is this another ‘dark night of the Soul’ experience? Have you somehow ‘gotten it wrong’ and missed your Soul’s path to enlightenment and ascension? No, dear friend – you have missed nothing and you have not gotten it wrong. You are simply unaware that you are stuck in a conundrum, a puzzle as mysterious as the riddle of the sphinx. We know that you are ready to be done with the well worn passageway which leads you in endless circles and we are here today to help you step out. Another way to define this particular conundrum is ‘the path of least resistance’ or ‘habit’. And why is it running the show? Because it is the path which has always worked before. It is the former pathway to the Divine. It is the way that has always worked in the past, and in truth, it still does work, but (ah… the ‘but’ word) there truly are new options, opportunities and potential futures available with their intrinsic new growth and for those of you who have requested to participate in the new futures and opportunities, it is very difficult to get there from the old energies and pathways. Think of it this way: If you live in Chicago and have always vacationed in California but now you decide to go to New York, it is very difficult (but not impossible) to get there by traveling west. As you begin your vacation journey, you would likely choose a different route to the east, stepping confidently out of your old, habitual map. In these new energies it is equally difficult to arrive at your highest potential by using the tools and techniques of the past… And what happens when you perform the sacred work you have always offered with such love and integrity and your results are less than in the past or even nil? Most often, fear sneaks in and begins to infect your thoughts and emotions in the form of self-doubt or self-judgment. As soon as this happens, stress sets in. For those of you who have always communicated easily with your own Souls and your own Higher Selves, the stress creates a gap which makes it very difficult to hear or feel clear guidance. Sad to say, during these stress situations the clearest guidance usually comes from the negative ego and the conscience, neither of which are designed to move you forward or to offer you hope. For those of you who are here as healers, counselors and teachers, one of the other characteristics of this stuck place is that others, coming from their own fear, tend to unload their troubles on the most willing of their acquaintances. Is that perhaps you? So let’s begin with the conundrum. How can you recognize that you are stuck in a repeating pattern? Take some time to look at your life, your dream, your work and notice if you are feeling frustration or boredom. These are common symptoms of this particular stuck cycle. Do you feel that, no matter how hard you work you only come close to success but never actually achieve it? Are you stuck halfway through the writing of your book, your music, your class handouts? Are you medicating your boredom with food, drugs or other calming tools? What if, just for today, you decided to change one thing – to try to work slightly differently? What if, just for today, you began each work time with a centering meditation and alignment with your inner being? What if, just for today, you intended to add something to your efforts which is completely new and beyond anything you have previously imagined? All these choices would actually begin to create new activity in your brain and new flows through your mind. Like choosing the path less traveled and inventing a unique life experience, you can choose unique ideas, thoughts and efforts which literally catapult you out of the repeating loop and into the realm of new and innovative experience. Most people believe that innovation is for the scientist or inventor, and it certainly is one of their most vibrant tools. But innovation is for you as well, dear Lightworker! As you claim innovation and embrace new experience you open to the future that awaits you just beyond the known and certainly beyond what has always been dreamed before. The second technique which we would like to offer involves dealing with stress. As soon as you feel strong stress, rather than walking your path in contact with your Soul (think of it as walking side by side), the stress separates you and makes the flow of loving guidance which your Soul offers unceasingly, almost impossible to hear or feel. Stress, especially enduring or denied stress tends to place a chasm of seeming emptiness between you and your Soul so that when you ask for help they must ‘yell’ across the chasm in order to be heard. The wider the chasm, the more faintly their guidance comes to you. Most people stand (they call this meditation) and yell for guidance until they become so disillusioned that they give up. And the lucky ones find tools and methods such as music, a walk in nature or inspirational books to slowly and steadily cross the void that separates until they can finally enjoy the clarity once more… at least until they loop around again. This is one of the reasons we urge you to meditate. When you are a practiced meditator and stress strikes, you have simply to enter true meditation and in that simple effort you realign with your Soul and your inner guidance. While you are realigned, even if it is only for a few moments, you have the opportunity to ask your questions with clear access assured. And here’s a little used idea: While you are meditating and realigned, ask your Soul, ‘How do I stay here?’ The answer to that question is much easier to hear than the answer to ‘How do I get back there?’ when it is shouted across the abyss. Will this heal your stress? Probably not, but it can certainly soften your stress and begin the healing process… And if you are one of the lightworkers who is experiencing the overwhelming weight of other people’s burdens you will find that it will be impossible to complete your ascension until you release their stuff. Why is that? Because it is impossible to piggyback into ascension… it can only be achieved individually. So, Lightworker, if you are here to help others with their ascension process you will find your own blocked until you release theirs and then you will find that from your newly ascended state, you can now guide others to their own ascension (which they will also accomplish alone). So, how does one leave the loop? Twenty-two years ago the channel took flying lessons, eventually becoming a licensed pilot and owning her own antique airplane… a sweet little Cessna named Ms. Scarlet. One day, the channel was having a flying lesson. As they approached the runway to land, her instructor pointed out that there were some geese standing to the side of the runway. He asked her if she would like to learn something very valuable and she quickly answered yes while continuing to bring the plane in to land. “Continue your landing and look at the geese,” he said. She did… and immediately the plane began to veer off to the side where the geese were obliviously sunning themselves. As she realigned for the landing her teacher said, “Your plane will tend to land where you are looking.” And that simple truth is the answer to how one ends a repeating loop. If you have been circling around and around with the same processes and the same results, you also have been circling with the same intentions. Simply change your intentions to where you would truly like to go… Your life will tend to land where you are looking. In these dynamic times there are new opportunities, new energies, new experiences and new growth available. The problem for most people is that that new future exists beyond imagination, it exists in a future which has never yet been experienced! As you work to break out of the habits that obstruct your growth, imagine the most exciting, interesting and inspirational future you can – and then ask your own Inner Being, or Higher Self, or Future Self or Soul to help you to move beyond that imagining into totally new territory – beyond the conundrum. You align with your future according to the love that you are – according to your resonance. You step out of the loop by looking where you would like to land and stepping. If we have one last suggestion it is that you make that step purposefully into the future. Yes, we know that we have said that repeatedly throughout this channeling and yet we realize that many of those reading these words have not focused on the importance of that future orientation. Step out of the conundrum and into the future. If you have been fascinated by your past lives, become inspired by your future lives. If you have learned to work within the wondrous confines of your subconscious mind to rewrite, repair or forgive, learn now to work within your subconscious mind to write, invent and create – your future. Those who step out and into the past will either stay within their present loop or they will step into another old one. The future holds the doorway to new experience and once accessed, the future pours its new and vibrant potential into the present. Whatever course you choose, your future awaits. You cannot fail, however, you can certainly delay the success you crave. So what future do you dream of? And what is the most joyful, loving and innovative version of that future that you can possibly imagine? Answer those two questions and then simply invite your dearest helpers to expand those answers beyond what you have imagined. As you nurture the results with your attention, love and hope… look tenaciously at this vision of where you would like your life to land. Then celebrate – for you have just stepped out of the conundrum!
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