JEFF FASANO, Channel and Author
As
we have walked our pathways on the journey of self-mastery we have read many
books that have given us valuable information and concepts to think about and
we have stored much of this in our minds. Now, many of us are wondering,
“What’s next? What do we do with all of the information?” “How do I incorporate
these concepts in my life?” The next step is to bring what we have stored in
our minds into our hearts, so that we may actually live from it.
Journey of
the Awakened Heart is a book that does just this. It contains the teachings of
Archangel Michael that in detail guides us step by step to move within our
heart to discover who we are, our talents and gifts and our purpose in this
lifetime. Contained within it’s pages are messages and lessons that give us
tools to put into practice what we have learned so we can love ourselves more
and live the life we say we want.
Michael plainly illuminates a path for us in
this book. And if we follow it, we can move from being a silent observer of our
life to becoming a willing, joyful and excited participant in it.
CHAPTER 3: BEING ALONE
You
are now resonating at a level where you are moving within and beginning to
gather your thoughts, feelings, and intentions for yourself. Now, it’s time to
fill your “toolbox” and learn how to use those tools. Some of you have already
been given many tools. Some are apprentices learning how to handle them. Some
are actively searching for tools.
The next tool in your toolbox is your sense of self. You are
looking to step out onto the great pathway of the unknown and, as you look at
it outside of yourself, you see nothing and this frightens you. Seeing nothing
frightens you. It is evident that you cannot control anything outside of you.
Seeing nothing on the pathway ahead means your life is simply about you now.
You have been used to looking outside of yourself to have your needs met. Now
you are looking within. As you are moving into the depth of your heart, you
gather everything you know about you and all your energies to this one space.
You have shed layers of wounding. Now, it is as if you have
moved into a closet within your heart where you are looking at rubbish. You
have identified the old aspects of your life that need to be thrown out. You
will keep shedding layers and tossing out the rubbish until all you have left
is your truth and your energy.
“Who am I?” you may be asking. “Since
I know I can no longer look outside of myself for validation and gratification
or for anything, who am I now?”
Looking for a toolbox is to search for what you need to take
with you on your journey (other than yourself). You ask, “What
can I bring with me?” In your toolbox are the tools
you learn in your life about being who you are, and honoring and valuing your
wonderful self. When you hit obstacles, these are the tools you will utilize.
You are beginning to release the patterns of isolation,
separation, and duality within you. And when you look into the mirror now, you
are beginning to enjoy who you see reflected there, as opposed to judging and
shaming yourself. You can look into the mirror today and say, “I
like this person; there must be something to this process.”
Old judgment and shame falls away as you integrate parts of
yourself that you once avoided by honoring, valuing, and loving yourself from
the depth of your heart. As you do this, energy emanates from your heart and
raises the level of resonance and vibration within you. What comes next from
you is a thought, “I would love to meet someone and
begin to share this feeling with another soul.” Realize
that the person you would like to meet is someone who feels the same as you do.
And once the two of you get together, you both will wonder what it would be
like to meet another person…and another.
By raising your vibration and level of resonance you attract
those who are resonating at the same level. By moving in harmony, peace, and
love with the essence of yourself—in congruence with your truth—you connect
with a community outside of you.
You are now moving out into the world on a new pathway with
a somewhat intact self and looking to give from the depth of your heart,
enjoying how wonderful and glorious you are. World service occurs when you
begin to look for ways to express yourself and ask, “What
can I give?” Understand that this is why you are looking to attract and
be with others who are at the same level of resonance as you.
You are wondering, “If I love myself this much,
what would it be like to love and give to another?”
There is more to your life than narcissism. There is more to life than just
getting, accumulating, and consuming things, and making it all about Me. You
are ready to give. You have realized that you can give to yourself because you
have moved through a process to gain tools that guide you to support yourself.
You also now realize that it is time to serve the world. However, you might
feel a bit confused yet about the relationship between giving to yourself and
giving to the world. This is why you have a bag of tools.
You are learning to give and receive in
balance. As you consider what is and honor and value yourself, you become deeply
aware of your self. You gain a sense of self. Thus, you are gravitating towards
a deeper sense of knowing yourself, and understanding what this means in every
moment. Becoming clear to you are the talents and gifts you used to create your
life. So, you wonder, “If I give of my talents and gifts, which enable me to
convey who I am to others, what will I receive in return? What do I need?”
It is now time to open your heart and unlock the chains that
surround it to reveal the depths of who you are. In a resonant community you
may share your visions, yourself, your talents and gifts, and state your needs,
set your boundaries, and express yourself to the fullest. It is time to “be”
you and to live in a balance of giving and receiving with likeminded individuals
from your own soul family of We-consciousness.
In the following process, begin to examine your
relationships. Look at the people in your life and answer a series of questions
to determine if those you are in relationship with are serving your highest good,
and if you are serving theirs?
“Am I in these relationships to get something?”
“Am I giving something?”
“Am I in these relationships simply to remain in a comfort
zone?”
“Am I frightened to be alone?”
“Am I looking to learn how to be alone, yet frightened to be
alone?”
“Why am I in this relationship?”
“What is the relationship?”
“Why am I having this relationship?”
“Why is the relationship important to me?”
“Is it important to me?”
“What about the relationship I am having with myself allows
me to remain in old relationships that no longer support my movement towards
the greater good of myself so I can support the greater good of the whole?”
“Is there something far greater than the two of us that
moves me towards something that has a meaning, value, and purpose greater than
the comfort of our relationship?”
Look at the relationship you are having with yourself and
ask:
“Is this relationship supporting my highest good?”
“Are the relationships I am having supporting my highest
good?”
“If I am supporting my highest good in the relationship I am
having with myself, am I supporting the highest good of those with whom I am
having relationships?”
“Is their true intimacy in the relationship I am having with
myself?”
“Is their true intimacy in the relationships I am having
with others?”
Gaze at yourself in a mirror. Ask:
“Do I fully honor and value me?
“What feelings do I need to process to allow me to fully
love myself and stand in my energy alone?”
“What does being alone mean to me?”
Take out a piece of paper and a pen and write down the
definition of “alone” or “aloneness” that comes to your mind. Write the
definition spontaneously from your heart. This is important because in order to
connect to your soul’s divine plan and why you are on the path of creating a new
world, you must stand alone and individuated, honoring and valuing who you are.
Liberate your mind, move into your heart, and spontaneously write down what
comes to you. For some, the definition will surprise and astonish you.
Then ask:
“Am I alone?”
“Do I enjoy being alone?”
“Can I be alone?”
“Can I truly stand in aloneness and know that I exist within
it?”
“Can I give to me?”
“Am I giving to me?”
“Am I giving what I need to myself—or am I looking outside
of myself to get what I think is not within me yet?”
“Is there something I could give myself that would allow me
to stand alone, loving, honoring, and giving to myself?”
You have the power to transcend your shame and judgment of
yourself. What path do you choose to follow? Do you choose to travel into your
heart or will you go directly into your mind and listen to the chatter you find
there, voices that are remnants of what Mom and Dad said or did that you
believed meant you were unworthy, unlovable, bad, and wrong? Thoughts like
these are conditioned; meaning, what they say does not have to be the
foundation of your reality. What is real is in the depth of your heart. Do you
choose to move into your heart and look at yourself through the eyes from your
heart?
You are ready to connect with your soul’s divine plan.
Therefore, we ask you to acknowledge your worthiness, your accomplishments, and
the strides you have taken to arrive at this place in time. Look at where
extraneous mental energy holds you in a place and renders your talents and gifts
useless. Find what you shame and judge about you. Find where you can release
the extraneous energy that surrounds you, so you can begin to step out onto the
pathway into the unknown. You are allowed to have a new life. You no longer
need to prove to anyone that you are worthy of it, you simply are. Move into
your heart with acceptance and compassion and know that you are worthy to be
exactly where you are. You are allowed to have the life that you have
determined you want.
JOEL ANASTASI, Spiritual Journalist and Author
The Life Mastery Program is a guide for empowering you to
create the life you want and the courage to live it. Joel Anastasi developed
this sixteen-lesson self-help program from teachings of the Archangelic Realm
of Michael channeled by Jeff Fasano. Life Mastery helps you consider the
meaning of your life and, if you choose, guides you to develop a new life path
by exploring the questions: Who am I? Why am I here? What should I be doing
with my life? The program begins to shift your consciousness in a way that will
change you and your life forever.
LESSON TWO
RELEASE
ATTACHMENTS THAT DO NOT SERVE YOUR HIGHEST GOOD
EXERCISE II. BEING ALONE
You may be tested with deep feelings, including
the fear of being alone.
Many of you have never been alone.
Many do not understand what truly being alone is.
Being truly alone involves life
mastery—fully standing alone, fully making
that choice, fully letting go of the
attachments to what is outside of
you.
The
willingness to completely stand alone
is an important step in fully taking
responsibility for your own life.
Identifying
and seeing your attachments will reveal to you how you resist being alone and may trigger core feelings and wounds.
EXERCISE TWO
1. Spontaneously, from your
heart, write down your definition of
alone.
(To connect with the authentic you and create a new path for your life, you must be
willing to stand alone, individuated, honoring and valuing who you are.)
Your definition may surprise you.
2. Ask yourself:
. What does being alone mean
to me?
. Can I be alone?
. Do I enjoy being alone?
. Am I giving what I need to myself?
. Am I looking outside myself to get what I think I lack?
. Can I stand alone, loving, honoring, and giving
to myself?
3.
During this next week, be alone with you as much as you can. You will begin to
find out what it is like to be truly alone. Many of you have negative connotations about being alone:
. “I have been fighting the feeling of
being alone all my life.
. “Alone is bad.”
. “Alone means I am not liked or loved.”
Be with the feelings that come up for
you and write them down.
4. The experience of being alone will help you begin to
assess your relationship with yourself
and how that affects your relationships with
others. Record in your journal your
experience of being alone and your answers to these questions:
. Am I giving what I need to myself? Or am I
looking outside myself to get what I
think is not within me?
. What could I give to myself that would allow me to
stand alone, loving, honoring, and giving to myself?
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