Hi Beautiful.
If you happen to be one of the people who are alive and breathing right now, chances are your 2016 was a bit of a wild ride.
Maybe 'wild ride' is putting it a little too lightly.
This year certainly lived up to its numeric reputation of being ' the year of purification' for most of the people I have spoken with.
You see, if you had a really hard year, if you struggled, if it felt relentless and crazy - that is because it was.
Why Was It So Hard?
This life that we are living is a school.
We are here to learn lessons. To transmute. To transform. To bring light to places that have been drowned out in darkness. We are here to allow ourselves, our bodies and our consciousness to evolve.
Just like with regular school, the lessons build on one another. We cannot move on to the next lesson, to the next experience, to the next level of consciousness, until we have allowed ourselves to learn and retain all the information that this current lesson is trying to provide for us.
If we are in resistance to our current situation, if we are at war with what is coming up within and around us, we are dooming ourselves to continue to experience the same experience over and over, because we cannot move on to the next thing, until we get this stuff.
And we cannot get this stuff if we are in resistance to it.
Pretty simple concept, right?
So What Is This Evolution Exactly? How Do I 'Get It' So I Can Move On?
Simply put, this evolution that is taking place, is actually a RETURN to reality.
A return to awareness of who and what life really is, and who and what YOU really are. That is your task.
This year provided a MASSIVE wake up call for us, to see where we are out of alignment with the Truth.
When you start to get past the surface stuff on your personal awakening journey, you will see just how wildly OUT of alignment the world is with regards to truth and reality.
We as a society are so far out of alignment with Truth that pretty much EVERYTHING we do in our 'normal' society is completely self destructive.
You look around and you see:
- Our financial system, our medical system, our food system, our education system - are all causing harm to the planet or other on some level.
- The way we treat the earth causes it harm, and thus causes us harm. We believe we can be separate from nature, and in this we destroy ourselves.
- The way we treat one another, how we withhold resources from many so the few can have more, the way we subjugate and repress, the way we torture and kill and mame - never actually causes anything good for the perpetrator. We always harm ourselves when we do harm to others.
- Most if not everything we do is designed to harm or hurt someone or something.
These systems are not being questioned radically enough.
They are blatantly harmful, but for the most part, they are being desperately clung to and upheld, even though they are not 'true' - in the sense that they are not natural, and thus would not carry on if we did not all agree to participate in them.
From Society To Personal
We need to understand that in order for society at large to be operating so far out of alignment, it requires that each individual is living out of alignment.
We are the ones who make the society what it is, after all.
On personal levels, we as a society still struggle with forming habits that support our own health, our own happiness and our own harmony with life.
Each individual person, as they take their journey towards awakening, will come to realize how much they are in resistance to the reality of themselves.
How much they resist their own personality.
Their own likes and dislikes.
Their own genuine nature.
Each will come to see that all the suffering in their life is due to being in resistance to their life. That all the beliefs they have compiled about how things 'should' be, and how much pain is caused by that believe being contrary to reality.
We believe we can eat whatever we want - but at the end of the day we get sick when we don't eat in alignment with what the body actually needs.
We believe we can treat people however we want - yet we reap the results of treating people poorly by creating drama and chaos in our own lives.
We believe we can live inharmoniously with nature - yet we get sick and create a world that is uninhabitable for ourselves.
We believe these things, and yet we are faced on a moment by moment basis how what we believe is simply not true.
But we fight anyway.
Truth Is Truth All The Time
Basically, truth is always operating. Truth is truth. Reality is reality.
It is when we do not understand truth and reality, when we are trying to deny it, run from it, rebel from it or live outside of it in some way that we suffer.
Truth and reality are always making themselves known. We as a species are constantly trying to run from it and deny it, thus breaking ourselves against it.
Truth can be ignored and denied, but it cannot be smothered or stopped.
Your Task Moving Into 2017
So it is our task right now as humans to finally realize how far we have strayed from living in alignment with Truth - and this will be measured by how much pain and suffering we have in our lives - and to readjust OURSELVES so that we can come back into alignment with truth.
It is not about trying to change reality - as so many believe it to be. Right now it is about humanity as a whole coming BACK to reality. Then we can get creative if we want to. Within the bounds of what is. Until then, we are simply cutting our noses off to spite our faces.
Reality is not going to change to align with our beliefs. Reality is going to stay being exactly what and how it is. We can resist it, and thus cause harm to ourselves, or we can align with it and so create peace, harmony and health.
Those are our two choices.
This is no small task, once you begin to understand just how far we have strayed from being in alignment with reality.
This year showed us where our gaps in self love, where our gaps in awareness and where our gaps in alignment were.
Everything came up to the surface to be seen, loved and transformed.
It was hard and painful, because it was a lot of truth we have been unwilling to look at for a long time.
Now you have the opportunity to relax into what is showing up in your life - your emotions, your circumstances, your thoughts, your feelings - and allow it to show you what it is trying to show you.
It is your job now to allow reality to teach you.
It is your job to align with what your body is saying, rather than assuming your body is broken.
It is your job to look at your relationships and ask how they are reflecting back to you where you are believing things that are not true.
It is your job to look at your circumstances - especially the ones that seem to be constantly repeating themselves, and ask yourself how you are resisting reality within those circumstances.
It is your job to look at everything in your life - all the uncomfortable stuff especially - as being a messenger for how you have been in resistance to reality.
The best way to make 2017 different than 2016 is to RELAX.
Stop fighting with what is. Stop resisting what is.
Ask yourself instead - what is THIS trying to TEACH me? What is THIS trying to SHOW me? How is THIS the TRUTH, and where I am in RESISTANCE to the truth.
If you can do this, your mind and body will open to a whole different kind of life.
You will start to see what you did not see before. You will start to understand what you did not understand before. You will know things you did not know.
You will be able to change your life that it may reflect harmony, rather than chaos.
2017 is all about new beginnings.
The way to get those new beginnings, is to ask yourself 'what is this teaching me?' Then lean in.
Lean it.
It is all for your good.
Here is to a new 2017.
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