With each bout of frequency shift we encounter we will also meet more shadows to work through until we have transmuted all there is for ourselves and for the collective.
The inner child has been stepping forward again for many of us, myself included, this time needing our attention to be deeper and more detailed. The message she holds is one of wholeness, for we cannot be truly whole whilst any part of us is still hiding afraid to come into the light.
Shadows and inner child work can often be entangled, they weave a web of cracks and crevices that splinter who we are leaving us incomplete but unaware. In shamanic cultures one would undergo a soul retrieval to relocate parts of the soul that fragmented themselves for self preservation. The process of bringing the pieces back together and into wholeness leads to personal and spiritual growth.
It seems that as we undertake this journey we must continually do the work, I came to a very personal realisation this week regarding my own work - I think I can say I won’t be alone in this outlook so I’d like to share this with you...
A pattern I have noticed on my own spiritual journey is that when the tough phase is upon me it is eventually followed by a high phase; a spell of synchronicity and abilities developing for example. What I noticed only recently is that I had developed a habit of thinking to myself “this is it, this is the one, after this spell is over I am going to be where I’m supposed to be, know my true purpose” and so on and so forth... each time to be met with unnecessary disappointment. After all something shifted, something within me became lighter and I grew but I overlooked this because it also was clear that this wasn’t it; it’s not the miracle I’d been waiting for.
But this time round I believe that I found that miracle - it wasn’t clear vision through my third eye or giving up bread instantly or any of the other ideas I’d convinced myself of, no, it was simply shifting my beliefs and expectations. It was realising that in this moment, after the last tough phase, right now, this moment of high was it. This is where I am supposed to be and this is what I am supposed to be doing, but it IS going to keep changing. For the spiral keeps going and we keep growing, we go round and round but level up each cycle. Learning, clearing and growing as we go.
We are collectively very good at looking forwards with hope and looking backwards with either happy sentiment or sadness and what ifs but what if we changed that and looked back with hope and forwards with happy sentiments, life would be very different and our journeys would be smoother and faster as we would in effect be surrendering to what is and surrender always allows us to be carried on the flowing currents.
Looking back with hope allows us to see how far we have come, how strong we have been and how much we have achieved, so then to look forward with happy sentiment would allow us to continue to make strides and progress as we remember those achievements.
This simple change of mindset has changed me quite remarkably and I feel as though I’ve taken an invisible shackle off of my ankle, one that I had unknowingly placed there myself.
The synchronicity of this realisation along side my latest shadow-inner child work has felt like it made the work easier, so I hope that by sharing this with you it may give you some encouragement and hopefully make you stop for a moment and see how far you have come and feel proud of yourself even if it’s just for a moment.
With love,
Gemma x
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