28th April 2016
By Sarah Elkhaldy
Guest writer for Wake Up World
For those of us who are currently
experiencing the awakening of consciousness taking place on this planet
right now, there are many rabbit holes we can fall down that lead us to
believe we are fully conscious and awake when we are really waking up
out of one layer of the world dream at a time. No two paths are the same
even though there are world issues that affect us as a collective.
Any plateau we become attached to on our
awakening journey can create a sort of dogma within us that acts as a
repellent to higher states of consciousness, because we may already
believe we are at the pinnacle of being “awake.” So, one of the most
challenging trials in the awakening process is being able to cultivate a
quality of fluidness so as to not become static in our ever-expanding
worldview.
We can take a cue from Mother Nature on
how to lean into this one. When it comes to healthy sources of water in
nature, rushing water is the cleanest source to drink from because it is
full of vitality and momentum. This movement is what purifies the water
where as stagnant water from a pond has built up bacteria from its lack
of circulation. So too are our egos when we become energetically stuck
to our belief systems.
Beliefs can harden us and sometimes even
defeat the ultimate purpose of the belief by how dogmatically we
identify with them. Everyone has their gifts and talents to bring forth
for the whole. We are all called to the areas where we can best
contribute to the holistic mandala of life that we are
co-creating. However we lose our own range of motion when we get stuck
in tunnel vision and let our beliefs create a fortress against a new
layer of reality that is reaching out to us. Sometimes righteous
indignation against the system can bleed into obsession, and we become
spiritually exhausted in this manner.
Whatever teachings and information we
resonate with now may only be the building of the foundation for larger
revelations that are to come.
Just like an empowering belief on one
stretch of the journey may become a limiting belief holding back our
expansion on another stretch of the journey. Our vantage point shifts,
as we are willing to reflect and take inventory of the beliefs that we
have out grown and have become limiting.
We are all in different layers of the
world dream and the mind tricks itself into thinking it already
surrendered the ego as a last ditch effort to avoid another round of
surrender. It is afraid of losing its identity because identity equals
security. At the heart of the matter we fear the death of our worldview.
The ego isn’t horrible, it’s just attached to what it feels is safe and
our beliefs are our safety regardless of whether they are pleasant or
not. From a compassionate perspective, the ego is just scared and is
fighting to keep its “home.”
When we go through the process of
connecting our consciousness with our heart we see that every leg of the
journey is valid and honored as a part of our growth without needing to
demean where we came from or currently reside. We can see how each
experience that led us up to this point was cultivating our highest
evolution and as a natural byproduct of this grace that we give
ourselves, we can offer that same understanding to others wherever they
may be on their own journey.
That said, it is important to trust that
whatever new horizon needs to come our way will find a way to do so and
that our part is to remain open and fluid when the time comes for us to
climb to the next plateau, but that we also need not force new
revelations. The harmonious recognition of “becoming” and “being” as
equal parts of “to be” is the magic to enjoying the three.
- Transcending The Victim/Perpetrator Cycle
- Knowledge Is Power – The Benefits of Conscious Awareness
- Thought Parasites – Our Ancient Mirrors
About the author:
Sarah
Elkhaldy is the author of “How To Set Yourself On Fire” and the
administrator of “A Talking Lion”, where she uses her social media
platform to help humanity gracefully tap into our evolutionary
potential. She considers it her work to connect the higher with the
lower; the outer world with the inner world. Sarah is also a Quantum
Sphere healer and photographer. She refers to herself simply as an
‘existential detective’.
