I Learned How to Rise Above

[BTW – in case you don’t know, I’ve got a FREE Forgiveness Workshop on zoom today.]

In my journey I’ve had a lot of years of spinning around and not getting much spiritual growth – I read a lot of books, went to a lot of talks, took many classes and workshops, but I was just collecting information. I wasn’t really doing the inner work in a deep way.

I made a list of how I used to feel – see if you can relate:

• There’s too much going on to keep up and so spiritual practice gets moved to the back burner.
• Taking spiritual classes is great, listening to podcasts and reading books is form of enjoyment, but I never seem to make it to the deeper work on my own.
• Rather than harvesting my lessons I was just pressing onward, feeling alone.
• My lessons were repeating – painfully so – and I didn’t know how to stop it or move beyond it?
• My triggers kept triggering.

I was desperate to break the cycle and yet I felt like I was being pulled down into a cycling whirlpool of reoccurring negativity – all the while recognizing that there are new choices, loving choices, and you can feel them, like lights twinkling on a distant shore – a distant land.

I felt that all I had to do was begin swimming toward that land – to summon the strength and courage to head in that direction and refuse to give up. And yet it SO OFTEN seemed easier to surrender to the ferocious current pulling me in the wrong direction. Into isolation and rumination. Self-medication.

And then later there was so much guilt and remorse. Sabotaged again! UGH!

I’ve experienced ALL of this more times than I could count. I’ve learned that these kinds of moments are the crossroads of our life. And I’ve learned how to move through them and experience miracles – that’s what I now share with folks in my programs.

Sometimes I felt like I was drowning. I might feel like I COULD fight it, but it seemed like it would be easier to slip away into the vast rush of water and self-destruct. I felt like I was trying as hard as I could and I just couldn’t do it. And that was hugely embarrassing for me. I felt like such a spiritual failure.

It almost seemed as though I had no choice. My hopelessness would over take me. The circumstances overwhelmed me – but I did know better. I just didn’t have the energy to make a higher choice, a loving choice. I felt resistant, reluctant and stuck. It felt like falling into a hole or getting on the pain train.

As I was saying in the Forgiveness Workshop yesterday – I’d get triggered, then get on the pain train and take it all the way to Margaritaville. I didn’t even realize I could get off the train. I’d forget there were choices.

Life feels like this sometimes – for some, it happens OFTEN. And, I’ll be honest with you, I din’t want to STAND it anymore. This is why I share from my experiences. Because I learned how to go the other way and I learned ways to make it easier and easier for myself.

If you feel like a failure, you’re definitely wrong. You’re succeeding at learning through pain. You’re on a very difficult path of discovery and you can get onto an easier path.

We must summon that strength, that courage, that willingness and make even the smallest effort – to apply any amount of willingness to go the other way rather than let ourselves drown in the muck and mire of believing we don’t have what it takes.

Sometimes it takes tremendous willingness and in the summoning of that willingness is the making of us. That’s why I DEEPLY VALUE the support of a like-minded community.

Sometimes, even though it takes only a little bit of willingness to raise our vibration, we cannot be bothered. Instead we take the hit, the loss of dignity, the loss of self, the loss of integrity. We shrug our shoulders and say it doesn’t matter. We’ll do something different another day. How many times did I do that? Too many to count!

And then, I began to follow the prompts that Spirit gave me to cultivate the desire to shift my thinking and the willingness to activate the healing of my mind. Through spiritual practice that was simple and easy to fit into my life, I developed the willingness to decide to fan the flames of that fire instead of give in to the resistance. Things really began to change.

When we have a strong desire to live in a higher consciousness, and be more loving, more connected, tuned and tapped in to Spirit, then the way becomes apparent. We’re led, guided and supported. All we had to do was be truly willing.

Here’s what a mother of two young children in Masterful Living said to me:

“I didn’t find the commitment to Masterful Living very difficult because I desire, so deeply, to heal and remember. The community is such a great support. The classes with Jennifer are so rich. It seemed the time was available to do the work simply because I wanted to and I am a mom of 2 young children so life is busy. Masterful Living was one of the greatest gifts I have given myself. I know that my healing also benefits my family and that feels like a bonus gift.”

One year before that she felt overwhelmed and insecure, lacking confidence in herself and now she has a whole new outlook on her life and her family! WOW!

One of the very best things about my life now is that I get to see people make that shift from feeling that they aren’t enough, that it’s too hard, to being determined to lift up, and to help others. And through helping others, loving others, their heart heals, their vibration lifts, and then the inspiration flows.

That’s why I say: Don’t ever, EVER give up. Don’t ever even consider it. Instead, give it UP to Spirit. Let yourself be lifted. Forget trying to figure things out. Allow yourself to be led.

Make cultivating trust and faith your highest priority.
Heal your heart through activating the flow of Love by being loving.
Place a high value on being patient, kind, compassionate and considerate NO MATTER WHAT.
And don’t let anyone put you down.

We don’t have to fight the haters and naysayers, we can recognize that they’re flailing, and they’d like to take us down with them, but they cannot do that without our permission.

No one has permission to shame me and no one can, unless I agree, which I don’t.
I am here to represent the one who sent me.
And the one who sent me guides me, and directs me, goes before me and with me.
I work for Love, for Spirit, Inc.
I serve the Light and therefore I cannot fail.

The fire of desire in our heart is required to have this level of healing. That’s a fire that can be cultivated and grown from the eternal flame of truth that’s in our heart.

Our willingness is all that’s required. That’s it. We can be willing, to be willing to be willing to be willing and we’ll get there. God is unstoppable. God is relentless, and that’s our nature.

The God in us knows no opposition because there is none. Realize that. Stop believing that ANYTHING is against you and start telling yourself EVERYTHING is for you – because it is.

Tell yourself the truth!

This is a time of extraordinary healing and let’s get on with it and make it FUN!

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