Weekly Insights: Personal Healing As an Act of Service...

To be human means that we must endure the good with the bad, the highs with the lows, and the fun times with the challenging times. It is the sacred dance of life, and there is a toll to pay no matter what our financial status, religious beliefs, sex, race, or nationality. We are all transparent to the Universe, accountable for our words and actions, and have the opportunity to cultivate inner strength to overcome obstacles that can sometimes seem impossible. Overcoming these obstacles is helpful to our lives, but it is also an act of service to the greater collective.

We each emit frequencies that shift with the way we think, how we feel, the way we behave, and the attitudes we hold. When we walk around holding blame, shame, anger, resentment, and fear, we are giving off those frequencies, feeding those forces, and attracting more of those energies toward us. In order to amplify higher frequencies, we need to shift ourselves in that direction. The inner healing work we do with the help of the breath, meditation, mindful movement, and conscious living can create a profound ripple effect of good vibrations within and around us. Just like playing a chord on a musical instrument, our frequencies bounce off of the outer world and harmonize with other beings. When we hold the energies of inner peace, Love, forgiveness, compassion, clarity, and harmony, then we can help to tune our surroundings to those frequencies. Holding the space for a positive and stable energy field creates an invitation for others to do the same. Personal healing expands the possibilities of healing for others, and it can be inspiring to be around when it has been fully embodied. Having forgiveness inspires others to forgive. Living authentically inspires others to be more honest with themselves. Having strong boundaries inspires others to Love themselves enough to protect their energy.

On a greater level, the collective consciousness has already experienced every known challenge to humans. We have ancestors that have defined the lineages we come from by the way they have faced trauma, loss, betrayal, fear, or other shadows on the path of life. When each of us faces our own shadows today, those energies hold lifetimes of history and carry the weight of the ancient stories that have been woven together over long periods of time. We are one thread, but a mighty one, that can be strong enough to change the fabric of our lives. When we speak our Truth, we are actually healing generations of ancestors that were once being silenced. When we allow ourselves to forgive, we heal lifetimes of judgements and condemnations. When we overcome our greatest fears, we heal the greater collective consciousness on the level of fear. The new story threads its way through the tapestry of all of humanity, and it has the power to change the narrative for future generations. It helps us clean our entire ancestral lineage and break the cycles of pain that would have otherwise continued into the future.

As much as it may feel comfortable to hold onto our pain and continue to repeat old patterns, our higher selves understand that Love is the only way to truly move forward. We are meant to receive the lessons of what it means to be human, and we have the ability to reclaim our Light where we may have felt darkness consuming us. By integrating our personal life lessons, we become the embodiment of the balance of Light and dark. Allowing these opposing forces to become whole through their co-existence, we take our power back and feel more whole ourselves. From a rough stone to a polished gem, we soften by facing our shadows with authenticity and honesty. That frequency ripples through like vibrational medicine that heals the past, present, and future. The greatest gift we can give ourselves, each other, and future generations is to face our darkness, embrace the deeper lessons of the pain we have experienced, and choose Love as a response instead of hatred or fear at all costs. We have the power to stop the cycles that are destructive and painful, and instead invite in the wisdom that the hardships gift us over time. As we know, challenging times create the space for positive change. When we can embrace the higher energies of these darker times in our lives, we have power over them and the ability to become the spiritual alchemist that turns a low frequency into a high vibration.