Hello Vywamus,
I am slowly becoming more and more spiritual and adapting my own consciousness, it is difficult to rid of all negative thoughts and emotions…How can I further …expand my consciousness to the level that I send and receive love and light to help others and to achieve a light worker mastery?
All the best, love and light to you Vywamus and to you Andrea
James
Dear James,
For you and for other readers who are working to evolve spiritually, I thank you and commend you for your efforts. I and other guides are always there to help you.
Before I make recommendations about expanding your consciousness, let’s look at how spiritual evolution takes place, and how spiritual evolution itself is evolving. For most of you, evolving spiritually is a very gradual and very natural process. Very few of you have a sudden and complete shift into higher consciousness, as some mystics have described it. And even with them, it is often the slow gradual spiritual work they have done in other lifetimes or in this current one that has laid the groundwork for a seemingly sudden “conversion.”
In the past, those who wanted to evolve spiritually would typically withdraw from the world – into a monastery or ashram or hermitage perhaps – and/or sit at the feet of a master or teacher and be led through successive steps practicing meditation, yoga, fasting, and so on, with the object of opening their consciousness to spirit and achieving “mastery.” That is the old pattern, and it still works for some souls.
For most of you today, however, a new form is emerging for spiritual learning and evolution, a form which is open to all, not just the elite who are able to withdraw from the world. This new way involves being fully conscious in spirit while living in the everyday world. It is more individual than the old form, because each of you, in collaboration with your higher self and your guides, design your own spiritual path, and in that sense you cannot measure your progress against what others are doing and have done. It would be “apples vs. oranges.”
And this new path is also not hierarchical as you have understood it in the past, where you would progress through lower to higher stages, from “beginner” to “advanced,” and eventually to “enlightenment,” in a linear way. Rather, it’s more helpful now for you to perceive it as we do. The reality is that you are not going from A to B and so on finally to Z. You are always in all the levels of consciousness simultaneously: beginner, advanced, enlightened, you are always in all of these at the same time. The learning for you is how to broaden your focus so that you can be conscious of how you are living not only in the physical, mental, and emotional realms, but also in the highest spiritual realms throughout all the ordinary experiences of your everyday life.
In this regard, meditation is helpful. To help you recognize and connect consciously to the highest spiritual energies within you, I have offered the I AM meditations in Chapters 18-19 in my book The Next Big Bang. I have also given you a basic version of the I AM meditation in my 7-25-14 letter to G. on this ASK VYWAMUS page. Once you’ve learned to recognize and experience the energies of Spirit within yourself, you will want to learn how you can then hold your conscious awareness of the spiritual energies while you are in the midst of everyday life. Look for the Two Hands Meditation on the News page of this web site. It is designed to help you do just that.
Now, besides consciously experiencing the higher energies in meditation, and in everyday life, it is essential for you to experience that the spiritual energies are not limited to your head or even to your heart, but are always flowing through your whole body. Practices that help you experience the higher energies in breathing and physical movement would include yoga, dance, martial arts, even walking, indeed, any kind of breathing and physical movement done with awareness. Find one or more of them that you can include in your day, even if for only a few minutes. The length of time is not so important as being fully present while you do it.
Well, what about when you are doing these helpful practices and not seeming to get anywhere? Inevitably you run into blocks, or resistances: distractions, inertia, going blank, emotions of fear, anger, sadness, negativity in general. I have written at some length on what to do when you run into such blocks, and you will find some helpful guidelines on this page in my letters to Ann (October, 2014), Gold (November, 2013), Wendy (7-23-13), and other previous letters, and in Chapters 22-23 in The Next Big Bang where I give more detail on Working with Limiting Beliefs and Emotions. The gist of all these guidelines is that seemingly “negative” experiences are not to be ignored or gotten rid of. Rather, they are opportunities for important learnings that you need in order to evolve further. As I often say, they are not detours from your path, but are part of your path. So embrace them and work with them. They are actually your allies.
Now as to being a light worker, the first thing, as you can guess, is to let light into yourself, or rather to become conscious of the light that is already always within yourself. The suggestions I’ve given above should help with that. When these meditative and physical practices are part of your day (even if only a few minutes) you will gradually also become more and more aware of the greater Oneness in which we all live. At that level you are always in communion and communication with every other human, with every other being, including, friends, relatives, strangers, your higher self, us guides, as well as all the plant, animal, and mineral realms, the earth, the planets, the whole universe.
With some practice you can learn to focus on and be conscious of this Oneness, of the bonds that are always there, and of the conversations that are always going on among you at the highest levels. This is always the best place to start when you want to be of help to someone – or when you hope they will be of help to you. I refer to it as “talking at the soul level” It is helpful to always go to this level in all your interactions with others and have a conversation there. . Even if someone seems closed and unreachable in your everyday contact with them, their soul is always available to your soul. With practice you will learn to listen to someone’s soul, affirm your bond and willingness to help, and get a better sense of whether there are particular ways you may be of service in their evolution, and of what is the best way to approach them on the everyday level.
To you and to all other readers who are seeking to evolve, I hope you will try some of the meditations and physical practices I suggest here and adapt them to your own needs, and I hope you will let me know how you are doing. I and the other guides offer you our continuing presence and help. Call on us. It is our pleasure to be with you.
Blessings,
Vywamus