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Spirituality: Surrendering
 
 

I Can't Make Up My Mind!

From Paralysis, Fear and Worry to Surrender

By The Council through Juelle (August 2006)

 DON’T BUY INTO IT. The levels of fear, anxiety, reaction and stress are off the scale out there in the world. It seems every day there is a new crisis, a new threat, a new shock. Don’t buy into it. One of the reactions to this stress and fear, in many cases is paralysis. Paralysis causes the inability to make choice and then, the inability to move forward. It is fear.

Don’t listen to people around you when fear comes into their mouths. That is their fear and it is understandable. However, it is not your fear, unless you make it so. Stay centered in your knowing and stabilized around your own Divine spirit. Just don’t buy into any of it.

We want to speak with you about shock and trauma and the affects of it. As we speak about this subject, remember that all the crisis, all intensity, all the pain and all the loss, is pushing humanity to evolve. It is pushing human consciousness to birth a new humanity. Always keep that in mind. There is something wonderful beyond this current reality.

Here is what is happening in the collective consciousness and how it might “feel” in your life, how it might play out and why it can be difficult for you to make a decision or take action.

Everyone experiences some level of shock and trauma. Some have had tremendous loss, loss of loved ones being one of the hardest. There are other losses that can be shocking like divorces, loss of jobs, loss of identity, loss of hope, loss of safety and security, loss of innocence, loss of health, loss of money, loss of dreams and so many more. Every one has had something.

Each of these losses is a shock and a trauma that registers in the cells of the body. Many shocks can accumulate and then can influence your life on a daily basis. The reaction to shock and trauma comes in a few forms which we will discuss in a moment. The reactions come right out of the subconscious and most times you don’t even know this is the source of a particular behavior. As you know, this is the healing work and release work that you have been doing so beautifully. This is personal shock and trauma.

Now take this up a notch. There is also National shock and trauma. As a nation, your country has experienced horrendous shocks and traumas throughout the generations. Most recently of course is the 9-11 event, the raising of the terror alerts, natural disasters and the elections. Yes, that is correct, the elections. The level of loss, disappointment, and fear of what it might mean, has been a profound loss that many people have not gotten over and are still in reaction to it. And now of course, there is the most recent shock and trauma with the possible targeting of Americans on airplanes again.

Keep in mind, there are National traumas all over the world, that is crisis and trauma happening to a certain nation like Rwanda, Burma, Israel, Tibet, Lebanon, Irag, oh dear, just to name so very few.

Take it up another notch. There is also global shock and trauma. The most recent shock with the airplanes and terrorists, affects the entire world. There are global environmental issues, bird flu and the religious upheavals. There is also the affect of all the National shocks accumulating to create a giant shock in the global collective field. Hang on.

And there is the accumulation affect of all shocks and traumas you have ever had in your own personal life, national life and global life. You are a part of the whole and can not help but feel the impact of traumatic events whether they happen globally or in your community. Someone else’s shock can so easily stimulate and activate your own losses. Many times you don’t even realize this is what has happened.

Now, take a deep breath, remembering these are the times for which you were born. We point all this out so that you can truly understand the scope of energy you deal with in the consciousness of humanity every day and why it is so important for you to keep holding your visions. You are the spiritual activists of your times, with the mission of not only holding the light of possibility but to interface it into every aspect of your life. You have worked with this subject many times, but usually it is the personal trauma. Think about the national and global trauma, especially national trauma and how it might affect you. Continuing----

When someone has experienced trauma, it is overwhelming. It sends off shock waves of energy to the mental, emotional and also to the physical. This energy gets chaotic, jammed or can send you into a spin. Some traumas have lasted a lifetime. An example is a physical violation as a child or loss of a loved one. Along comes another event many years later, seemingly unrelated and just like that, it can activate the response pattern from the old shock and trauma.

In response to the shock, you will fall back on an old behavior that you adopted during some of the original shocks of your life or maybe even a behavior you learned as a result of the modeling you observed as a child.

Most often these patterns of behaviors will fit in one of the following categories; Fight, Flight or Freeze.

FIGHT---reaction behaviors will have you blaming it on someone else, how could the world do this to me, anger, or in some way wanting to fight the issue. There is a feeling of being out of control and powerless.

FLIGHT---reaction behavior is to get away from the stress as quickly as possible, get a divorce, quit the job, sabotage the friendship, run for your life. There is a feeling of panic.

FREEZE ---reaction behavior will have you shut down!!! Denial. You might shut down through drugs and alcohol, sleep, depression, or an addiction of any kind. You close yourself off emotionally and physically. There is often a feeling of deadness and that life is meaningless. There is also the feeling of not being able to move forward, as if paralyzed.

Beloveds, so many many people in your country feel paralyzed at the moment. They are in grief over the loss of life as they have known it, loss of safety and security and loss of hope. They are afraid to move forward and really, don’t know how to move forward and so therefore contract the energy. If they spend this amount of money on this, how will they pay for that? If they make this decision, how will it affect the rest of their life! And so, they make no decision. They are paralyzed.

This is the collective energy and then, there is your own personal life and all that you may be working with and through. Think about how this has perhaps played out in your life lately or in the lives of others you work with or know.

Most recently we hear many of you saying you will feel the urge in your soul to do a certain something or have a certain experience and then, the mental and emotional bodies start interfering because they are fearing. You are afraid to make a decision and fear the results of this decision.

There is a difference between giving yourself time to process a choice that is the urge of the soul; you get the urge, make a decision and then allow your mental and emotional body to confirm the choice for you. This is different from what we are talking about. We are talking about the pull of fear paralyzing choices, having your mental and emotional bodies go into doubt, worry and fear and then, affect the movement in your life. Again, this reactionary behavior so often comes from the old stories around trauma.

So many people stay locked in their reactionary behaviors which is why making change can be so difficult. You, however, are reminded that the key here is to use these shocks and traumas for growth. You must feel the grief, anger, whatever the emotions may be however, eventually, you will rise to the surface and use the challenges for spiritual, personal and evolutionary growth. And right there is the key point as to what is being asked of you at the moment.

Your personal healing work has had you do this. Now, you include in the mix, the understanding of these challenges on a national/global scale and that this is the same work that needs to happen on a social evolutionary scale. This is you working with the collective consciousness again and often you do this by elements of it showing up in your personal life. Handling what shows up in your personal life, you then become a shining beacon of light and hope for others around you.

Now then, what can help you hold the visions, stay in your resonate field of energy, keep moving forward, handle the challenges and keep grounding in the physical, a shift in consciousness – Heaven on Earth:

*Allow the expression of emotional feelings. If shock or stress comes your way, it may trigger emotion. How human of you. Express it, whether it the feeling of loss, grief, helplessness, anger, whatever.
Direct the expression to nothing and no one. You just feel it and let it go as constructively as possible. This is important because you have dealt with repressed emotions in the past. No more repression and yet, constructive expression, getting it out and over with so you can return to center. Eventually as you continue to work with your tools, these initial reactions will not happen as often or last as long. You will be feeling many things and yet, will be centered at the same time.

*Recognize if you are falling back on an old reactionary behavior. If so, absolutely make yourself do something different, no matter how foreign it may feel or how many times you must remind yourself to choose a new behavior or a new thought. Remember, this is shifting consciousness and it takes a minute to make life changes!

*Connect to a sense of power. When shock comes, you may feel things are out of control and you are powerless to do anything about it. It is useful to remind yourself “hey, we’ve made it through harder things than this” and connect to your strength and power again. The message “I have survived” is a strong message to your body. It keeps it from struggling. Take any action you can, no matter how small, since it gives you a sense of continuing to move forward. Balance that action with receptiveness. Be still long enough for Spirit to inspire you as to the next thing to do. Do not identify with the suffering of the circumstances, but rather with the power of the direction of your own Spirit.

*Redefine safety and security. At the moment that your world gets shaken, you will want to do whatever you need to do to feel safe. Anything. You must feel safe and you deserve to always feel safe. When you have come back to a sense of center and feel safe again, that is the time to really look at what safety and security means to you, but get to the feeling of safety first. You just had a shock and you need time to recover. Then, evaluate. What really is security for you, a steady job with cash flow, your home, your relationship? These things are external conditions that can shift in a heartbeat. Believing that this is security many not be useful. Stabilizing around your eternal Spirit is the only security there is. All the rest is earth plane conditions and all of it is impermanent. Granted, you want security on the earth plane and must have it, so you will do what you can to create it at all times, not just for yourself but for everyone around you. Just keep the perspective what it really is ---an illusion. It can be here today and gone tomorrow, as many of you are experiencing. Your Spirit and the creative power of it, is here forever. Connect there, stabilize there, and move from there.

*Cultivate surrender. First you will look at attachments. You will look at attachments to material possessions, people and all the dynamics that go with relationships. If you have attachments to outcomes and the way you think things should be, take a look at this. There is never just one way for anything. What a limiting Universe that would be! Look at your attachments to control, opinions and “your way that it is.” Look at any attachment that somehow determines or defines your value, your identity and your purpose. They are illusions. This is not who you are. Attachments and the fear of losing them will not allow you to stay spiritually resilient and will keep you dancing around them to protect them.

Surrender is faith in action. It is not a passive response. Surrender is a fundamental knowing that the highest possibility is always flowing and growing through you and your world. Therefore, you surrender to this perfection emerging within you. Perfection is not an absolute or an end result or a way that you think it should be. Perfection is a continuous moment of harmony and creation in movement. Give your worry, stress, shock and fear to the perfection. This is surrender. Surrender comes from a profound awareness of the nature of being and from a deep acceptance of what is. In surrender, you allow everything to be as it is and your soul reaches a center place where it says, “not my will, but yours.”

These tools will help you navigate through this consciousness that is working so diligently to birth a new world. Our dear co-creators of a beautiful existence please understand compassionately the shifts your people are going through. Stay in the presence of your own Beloved Spirit and support each other through these days.

There is so much glory and so much that is beautiful. Always return to that and celebrate every moment of life. These are your times.

In peace,
The Council


We are here in support of your lives and the co-creation of Heaven on Earth. We love you infinitely. The Council


Reprinted with permission from Juelle Wilkins, author of "The Walk-In" [see Books-Soul Awareness] For more information about Juelle and to schedule a spiritual guidance/counseling session with The Council, see the Other Service Providers page (under Psychic/Spiritual Counseling), or contact her in Crestone, Colorado at 719-256-4223

 

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