Spiritual Growth – Page 12

On our soul’s evolutionary path we have incarnated many lifetimes. There is a reason and purpose for why we chose this particular time to live in a physical body. We are always evolving and expanding and every lifetime is a “work in progress”.

Our divine spirits chose a physical body, specific gender and made “agreements” with our families. There are things that we wanted to experience in the physical or we would not have chosen to be born.

Choosing to take a body also includes choosing a path to fulfilling your soul’s purpose. There are many paths and the original one you chose may have changed over time. No matter which path you take you can embrace it, change direction or resist it; But regardless of changing, embracing or resisting you will complete the work you came here to do.

Your life is a work in progress and as such, you are learning, expanding and bringing energies from past lifetimes into the present. It is said that all roads lead to Rome; Well, all roads also lead you to fulfilling your soul’s purpose which includes integrating the knowledge and experience from other lifetimes into this one. In other words, we are the sum total of all those lifetimes and we are now in a time to consciously begin to integrate all that we are and all that we know from those lives and this current one.

The day-to-day challenges you face are learning experiences all of which are a part of your “work in progress“. Not because they are challenging but because they are constant reminders of what you are working on. With awareness you can choose to meet these challenges by deciding if you want your energy and attention in them (leaving no room for you to create something new), resisting them (resistance causes challenges to grow until you clear the resistance) or transcend them by reminding yourself of your inner strength of spirit and who you are.

A lot of what is experienced in the physical is about clearing energies that are not you! You are love, pure love, and you are returning to the oneness of love. The challenges you face are outside of you and each time you remember who you are, you become the creator and facilitator of your journey. Fulfilling your soul’s purpose does not just encompass only this lifetime. It may take many lifetimes both in and out of the body but each lifetime has a purpose in and of its own.

A real life example of how a work in progress grows and expands is the Il Duomo cathedral in Milan, Italy. The first stone was laid in 1386 and was completed in 1965! Even now there are uncarved stones which have yet to be completed into statues. There was a major facade renovation from February 2003 – 2009 to restore Il Duomo to its grandeur by removing centuries of grime and restoring what the elements damaged so we could once again see the colours of the Candoglia marble. Talk about a work in progress!

As a work in progress there are times you need to clear a facade to show yourself, remove the grime (energies you pick up along the way) and restore yourself to show the splendor of your being. Whether you are updating by bringing back energies “stuck” in other lifetimes or clearing concepts, untruths or programming from this lifetime it all comes down to YOU. One of the wonderful things about working with energy is that you may be able to complete some of the “hard” work sooner. Why take an entire physical lifetime when you can take charge consciously and use your time here on earth to create and ease your journey of expansion?!

There is always a process and always progress. The more you bring your energy and attention back to you, the more you move toward fulfilling your soul’s purpose. Many don’t even know what their purpose is and that’s ok, it will be revealed in its own time. Just know you have strength and fortitude to move forward on your journey. There is a purpose and you can live a life of joyful work knowing your divine spirit is progressing and expanding….or not. It’s your choice.~Shine Your Light Debbie
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“This above all; To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”~ Hamlet Act I Scene III by William Shakespeare

Have you ever found yourself saying YES to someone even though in doing so you were saying NO to yourself? I know I certainly have! I recently read Paulo Coelho’s Warrior of Light and one of the passages really got me thinking about how many times I’ve done this very thing and said YES to others at my expense. In retrospect there were all too many times when I said YES and responded how I thought I should and did not express how I was really feeling. Too many times when I was an out of control healer and did not say no….

So often we get caught up healing and giving to others that we lower our vibration and move away from our own truth. In my case I’m sure there were times I said YES because it was the right thing to do but how about the times it was because I wanted someone to like me or I was looking to be validated? How many times have I given up my space and responded by getting involved in the problems and drama of those who are perfectly capable of healing themselves yet they choose not to? Probably all too many! Saying YES and helping a friend in need is important. Doing the “right” thing is also important; HOWEVER saying YES in lieu of taking care of your own problems, challenges or health is something entirely different.

Be true to you…

It’s more common than not for people to say yes to others and we make up wonderful excuses for doing it. We tell ourselves there is a deadline to be met, we will be given back to or loved and dare I mention that at some level we think saying yes will bring us validation or recognition from those we said yes to?! When you are being true to yourself and caring for you sometimes the kindest and most healing thing you can do for yourself and others is say NO. To be sure, saying NO isn’t easy especially when we’ve been taught since we were children to be gracious and kind; BUT why do we so readily say yes to others when it is saying NO to us? I can tell you from personal experience that saying yes doesn’t bring validation, love or recognition depending on who you say yes to. When it’s a “no” for us and yet we say yes, in essence we have allowed someone or something else to become more important (senior) to us.

If you are continually saying yes and afterwards find yourself beating yourself up or complaining about it, isn’t that saying NO to yourself? If it doesn’t feel good going into the yes or it causes you stress, isn’t that saying NO to you? How amusing it is we find it so difficult to say no to others yet say no to ourselves all the time! If you are a healer and giver you may be experiencing the effects of saying yes all too often. When saying yes is saying no to yourself you take on energies, pain and problems from others. If you don’t know what I mean, think about how often you struggle to find a solution to someone else’s problems. Think about the reasons you said yes in the first place. Keep in mind that NO is an option and you have a right to say it!

As we raise our consciousness and become more aware of our own energy and what we are doing with it, don’t you think it’s time to find balance? There are always things we must say yes to that in the end benefit us even though (initially) we wanted say no but in those instances when saying yes is saying no to you at a core level it bares a bit of contemplation. Certainly say yes when it’s a YES for you! Listen to your intuition and say NO if it doesn’t feel right. When saying YES brings joy to your mind, body, spirit and soul, that’s a YES for you! Don’t you think it time to say YES to YOU? Repeat after me….YES! YES! YES to ME!~Shine Your Light Debbie

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