Living as the One Consciousness
This is such an enjoyable stage. You will find yourself spending a lot of time here. The biggest challenge in this stage is maintaining the feeling of oneness that you have with everyone and everything. If you try to maintain it, it fades away. You have to not try, and just be in the now, feeling it, flowing in the moment. Be cognizant of how easily you can be pulled back around the cycle into other stages.
Here is your homework…
- Connect to higher wisdom beyond intuition
- Start to understand your influence
- Recognize what disconnects you and take action to stay connected
Here is how to do it…
Connecting To Higher Wisdom – Beyond Intuition
In Stage Nine, you practiced connecting with your intuition by connecting deeply with each moment. Now that you recognize that there is only one consciousness, and you are an extension or part of that, you have access to a higher level of wisdom and guidance. In moments when you need, or simply would like divine guidance, it is yours.
Be still and listen. Ask for guidance. Feel your presence as the one consciousness. Feel the divine nature of that consciousness. Reach out through this infinite existence. Feel the presence of other extensions of that consciousness here to guide you.
Have you ever felt, intuitively, the presence of a long lost family member? Or a dear friend who has left this physical existence? Do they appear to you in dreams? You can feel their presence now if you want to. These people who were connected to us in life often return to help us along. But they are not the only ones. Beings of pure energy or light, whom you have not met before, may also come along to help you.
For some very skilled in this work, you may be able to see them, or feel physical contact from them. If that is not the case, or you do not want that kind of experience, you are not any less connected to them. They are here to help, regardless. They are conduits of divine wisdom and guidance to help you toward your purpose.
If you can learn to hear their guidance speaking through your intuition, you can accelerate towards your purpose and ideal life. Your guides will make you feel compelled to do what is in your highest interests. Pursue what you are compelled to do but carefully note why you are compelled (do not pursue activities that come from from a place of ego, fear, or other negative emotions).
As you learn to distinguish compelling from impulse, recognizing higher wisdom becomes easy. Impulse makes you act from a place of fear, ego, or other negative emotions. Impulse urges you to do things that set you back, sabotage you or ultimately are not good for you. Compelling feels like acting from a place of love, joy, connection, purpose, or other positive emotions. Our guides compel us to do what is good for us, what forwards our purpose, and what connects us to ourselves, others and life itself.
So welcome your guides. You may find they each specialize in specific kinds of help. Some may focus on preparing you for particular tasks, ensuring your safety, or guarding your purpose. Others may play a more expanded role.
If the idea of guides assigned to you feels humbling, that is a good thing. We are too often taught that we do not matter. We too often feel that we would not be missed. But the divine has a purpose for you and has sent help to make it happen. If that makes you feel important, it should, because you are. You are the only one who can carry out YOUR unique purpose. Your purpose may be simple or grandiose, but the effect of reaching even one person with true connection can change the course of humanity. And the whole of creation is looking forward to it.
Connecting To The Oneness And Your Influence
At this point, you recognize your physical body and the one consciousness that is within your body, all people, places and things. Try this…
- Feel the energy inside you.
- Practice being the energy or being the physical body/mind (alternate back and forth).
- Feel what it is like to be other people, places and things.
- Feel what it is like to just be the energy/consciousness separate from the body.
This is a fun exercise that helps you to connect with all sides. You will find that you can control how you choose to exist in this moment. You are always anchored in this physical form, but you can be the energy or the physical.
With that understanding, it is time to learn how much influence you really have. As the one consciousness, you have influence worldwide, and across time. Notice how your thoughts, combined with feeling, change your world. Notice how you can manifest people, places, things, opportunities, and anything else.
You have probably been trying this all along, but you may have noticed that you are more effective now. No, you are not ALL POWERFUL. Your guides will attempt to block anything that takes you away from your purpose. But anything you might request that forwards your purpose, or at least does not take away from it, will be granted now much more quickly.
Why? You have more experience now and your connection is deeper and more complete. You are simply more capable now because you are more connected to yourself, your energy, this moment, others and your life. More connected = more capable.
Understand that you do not have control. Control is a form of attachment. What you have is INFLUENCE. Your expanding influence can be exciting, frightening and humbling. You might fear that it will go to your head. You might fear that the universe/divine expects too much from you. Good. You must pass through this phase of fear to reach a balanced command of your influence that is humble and respects its power. If you have not felt these fears yet, you have not yet realized the full extent of your influence. Give it time.
When you recognize an emotional or ancestral issue that you have trouble clearing on your own, use your influence to request help. Practice optimizing any and every aspect of your life as you like. Enjoy this process. Manifest your ideal life from a place of joy and peace, allowing your influence to grow naturally into its full potential.
Staying Connected – Recognizing Separation Triggers
Connecting to the oneness and this moment; living in that space, is easier for you to do each time you try. However, you are not immune to life. There will be a steady stream of triggers that will take you out of this stage. Life happens, and we become disconnected from the oneness, from the moment, from others, from ourselves and from life. This is a good time to craft an environment that keeps you in these later stages as long as possible, and helps get you back here quickly when you become disconnected.
Connection is a fragile thing. It is easily broken. Take some time now to write down the types of situations that disconnect you…
- What disconnects you from yourself?
- What disconnects you from your energy?
- What disconnects you from others?
- What disconnects you from this moment?
- What disconnects you from life and purpose?
- What disconnects you from the oneness or the divine?
Be specific. For example, common triggers for many people include:
- Not getting enough exercise or movement
- Eating specific foods
- Worrying about specific future problems
- Regretting specific past events
- Reading or watching the news
- Looking at social media
- Watching too much TV
- Negative self talk
- Treating your purpose as unimportant
- Missing your meditation or prayer
- Distractions that come between you and your friends or partner
- Illness or injury
- Elections
- Specific people who seem to pull you back into earlier stages
- Lack of sexual fulfillment or connection
- Work stress
- The daily commute
These are just a few ideas. Triggers are very individual and your list may look different.
Once you know what causes you to disconnect, you can craft an environment that avoids it as much as possible. For example, you might find ways to make your daily commute a source of connection, instead of disconnection, by calling a loved one or listening to books or podcasts that are fun or give you fuel for your purpose. You might organize your calendar to ensure time for exercise, and quality time connecting with your partner. You might make a rule that phones and devices are not allowed when you gather with friends. One idea is to place all the phones face down on the table and the first person to pick their phone up has to pay the bill. Get creative. Make connection a priority.
Ultimately, life WILL take you around the cycle again. BUT, you can, with these safeguards in place, get back to these blissful later stages quickly and stay there longer.
What changes will you make to safeguard your connection?