Energy & Consciousness = Oneness
Exploring the energetic exchange and innate wisdom of consciousness
Consciousness is an endlessly fascinating topic. From a micro to macro understanding, this has been explored through many modalities: astrology, quantum physics, alchemy, psychology, theology, hermetic principles, tarot… by the Gnostics, Free Masons, Jains, philosophers, and more… And through these sects, we’ve been given endless literature exploring this topic. Philosopher, psychoanalyst, pious, and more have delved into the topic for eons.
All this to say, I am by no means the first person to be interested in the evolution of consciousness. And, with the access to information we’re afforded in this day and age, I’ve come to the understanding that each explorer has their niche, but the connective thread is the same—they’re speaking on the same topics with different language related to their life experience and interest.
This article explores my errant thoughts on energetic exchange and how cultivating different levels of consciousness enables us to tap into different frequencies of energy and expressions of consciousness.
Identity Crisis
You are not your body. You are not your mind.
You are the experiencer of both. You are the emanating energy, the spark of life, the soul, the spirit.
Maybe this is a familiar concept, at home with your meditations and contemplations on the meaning of everything. Maybe this is uncomfortable to hear, your brain shouting all the ways this affronts your identity.
Consciousness is neither of the mind or body, and yet, it breathes life into the body and mind.
Consciousness is as foundational to reality as it is to you. Many believe there is reason within the universe itself, or a conscious mind facilitating the unfolding. Yes, and… I think this is still too black and white—all intellectual, philosophical, or theological—caught in the duality of understanding everything through the mental plane.
I don’t believe that there is a big man in the sky watching our every move, waiting for us to fuck up so that we can beg mercy of him. But, I do believe in God… or Source or Creation or Universe or Brahman or whatever you want to call it. I believe this is the emanating energy of life. I believe there is consciousness in creation. It’s in the rocks and the birds, the water and the trees, it’s in you and me. It is everything, even the wine you’re drinking and the plastic chair you’re sitting on. It doesn’t believe in good and bad, it just is. It’s the many faces, many emanations, many experiences and experiencers. And we’re here to experience it, it experiencing us.
It doesn’t matter what you call it, it matters how you feel connected to it. And, spoiler alert, you are it.
We got big fast, with strong beliefs! I had to lay the groundwork. Taking it back down a notch…
And yet, I’d be silly to remiss the deep, individuated connection to the body. I love my body, as I hope you love yours, and I’ve been on a lifelong journey of embodiment that has deepened my consciousness and energetic knowing (more on that in a bit). Lowkey, being in the body might be both the most blissful and painful part of being human. And, I kind of believe that’s a big reason we’re here—to feel all the things, try something new and fail, learn the really hard lessons and skate by on others, to love and be heartbroken, to feel the pain and joy of believing in something with your entire being, to live and die.
(Because the One, the omnipresent and omnipotent, doesn’t have the luxury of being human… or a dog or a flower… it simply is and all things, outside of time and space as we understand it. And to experience life, it must individuate and live and die. To evolve, it must put itself in situations where it forgets.)
A note on individuation: the term was popularized by psychoanalysis Carl Jung and describes the process in which one becomes distinct in identity. It is what distinguishes you from the world around you. It’s the act of separation, of unique expression.
I believe the body is simply a housing unit for the experience of life. Think of it as your home for this lifetime—the turtle shell for your soul. Is it the only home you will ever have? I don’t believe that it is, but that is another conversion. And as consciousness is breathing your body, every cell of your body is breathing your life, uniquely patterned into you.
Consciousness and Physicality (the Basics)
If consciousness inhabits physical form for the evolution of itself, we are incarnated for the evolution of consciousness, to experience experiencing. In pure expression, consciousness is energy. Everything is made up of energy, and energy is intelligent. Physicality is simply the densest form of energy we’re aware of.
Energy is in a constant state of flow and transformation. This creates a symbiotic relationship, a give and take, that is to the benefit of balance. Think about the molecular level of energetic exchange—protons, electrons, and neutrons binding together to form different substances. The action in itself is inherently intelligent—we don’t have to tell particles how to bind together.
One might argue that this is automatic, compulsive even. And I’d say it’s compulsive in the way the universe formed impulsively: density and heat, explosion, expansion—the first breath of life. And as it cooled, material met like material and formed into more complex materials, forming galaxies, stars, and planets. Simple to complex.
The poetic nature of creation makes me tingly, I highly recommend listening to this podcast if you’re looking for more science and storytelling on the formation of everything.
And science tells us we are simple to complex beings. Evolution is inherently a process of becoming more complex. From microscopic organisms with a carbon molecule to differentiate itself to invertebrates to sea-dwelling creatures and birds on the fifth day and multifaceted, individuated beings on the sixth (approximately 13.8 billion years of cosmic history).
And this is only what is observable. I’d go out on a limb and say there is an entire universe of consciousness in the unobservable.
What’s the connection? Did I jump too far ahead too quick? The core of the coconut is all energy is consciousness, or consciousness is expressed through energy. From the smallest building blocks of matter to the space between each observable particle, energy is the connection to creation. Not all energy can be seen, heck, we can’t even see clean air or the building blocks of matter without the use of special instruments.
And what about emotions or thoughts or beliefs that affect all corners of the globe? Clearly, these have a level of consciousness that is indisputable, they’ve built society generation after generation. There is more at play in the unobservable than our physical-based, fact-oriented existence would like to admit.
And yet, with awareness unobservable energy can be felt, sometimes a movement so nuanced, we chock it up to be the ever ethereal “vibe,” like the changing attitude of a room. The linguist in me must note that the slang use of vibe originates from vibration, “to vibrate” or “a rapid motion of the particles of an elastic body or substance back and forth (as when a stretch cord produces a musical tone or molecules in the air transmit sounds to the ear).” And vibration after vibration after vibration creates a repeated wave (a literal pattern of movement), which is frequency (“the rate at which a vibration occurs that constitutes a wave, either in a material as in sound waves, or in an electromagnetic field as in radio waves and light”).
Consciousness > energy > vibe > frequency 👍🏻 now we are all caught up and can get into some juicy discussion.
Levels and Planes
What we’re talking about is outside of the mental plane, and in trying to discuss it, we must simplify it down to barely adequate language. Generally understanding that the repeated exchange or movement of energy is frequency, we can further define different “levels of consciousness” as different signature frequencies or dimensions of being.
Frederick Dodson’s Levels of Energy offers a basic understanding of this; there are clearly definable and perceivable levels of energy that people routinely inhabit and each level corresponds with specific physical, mental, and emotional realities. I.e., the thoughts and emotionality we experience affect our interaction with the world. And reading between the lines, the contents of our mental and emotional planes create our reality.
Sidestep for further explanation: when I speak of different “planes,” I’m referencing known planes or dimensions of existence, e.g., mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, etc. These are referenced across cultures and religions, from the Kabbalah to Rosicrucianism to Buddhism to Gnosticism, etc., etc. But, in the West, it was really H.P. Blavatsky’s writing that synthesized both Eastern and Western cosmology. To bring it all together and simplify, think of each individual plane as a 2D shape, and all planes come together to create the full picture of the 3D shape (individuals, Earth, whateva). Thank your calculus teacher for making you read Flatland.
Consciousness interacts as different levels of energy. People are individuated in their consciousness and naturally attuned to different and specific levels of energy. If energy is “vibing” around us at all times, energy is always being exchanged. Continued exchanging creates a patterned frequency.
Another way to conceptualize this (as in what is the purpose of the exchange if not just for the sake of exchanging), can be understood as giving and receiving information. Or, a network of information, a grid of connection, a shared consciousness among all.
Shared Consciousness
We are encapsulated in a greater shared consciousness space—closer to the one. It’s the concept of Atman (the individual Self, the essence that resides in all matter) and Brahman (the divine essence of the universe, the Ultimate Reality or God or Source or whatever you believe in) through the lens of the mental plane.
If we were unbounded by physical form and linear time, I believe all levels/planes/frequencies are accessible. As the saying goes, you don’t know what you don’t know. If you’ve never experienced something, how would you know how to get there? The experience creates the neural network (because we are bound by physicality), so, being able to access different levels of consciousness more readily happens through intentional cultivation of that energy. Understanding this helps in accessing this greater understanding of consciousness. This is one way in which we are all connected, but we must build the relationship to remember how to access it.
Even this writing right here is representative of that collective consciousness. I believe that a lot of my writing is channeled—it’s not me having these unique deep thoughts for the first time that no one has ever thought before—it’s tapping into the knowing that is always present. It is both “mine” in my ability to access these thoughts and my paradigm of experience these thoughts are filtered through to disseminate this information, and knowledge of the collective that can be attained by anyone.
I always joke that I wear different brains in the writing vs. editing process. And it’s true, my consciousness is in different states of awareness when I’m authoring something vs. cleaning it up for consumption. I’m not saying that all my writing is from god’s mouth to your ears (or eyes?), but I am taking a moment to appreciate that a lot of the time, my writing is coming from a source that is bigger than my individuated experience. I’ve lived a lot of life, but to say all this comes from my mere 28 years is hubris. Wise beyond my years is the mental way to justify expanded perception and connection.
Think: a frequency of information that I have experienced, so I can readily tap into it. This is understood to be accessible in any moment—the connection to frequency is what opens the door. The cohesion of thoughts and presence is powerful. I use this time as ceremonial writing, intentional in what wants to be expressed through me.
Flexing Conscious Muscles, an Analogy
One way to visualize how consciousness functions is to see it reflected in how our bodies work. Everything is mirrored. It’s the classic “as above, so below” axiom. Understanding one increases the understanding of many.
Consciousness is like a muscle, with the perceived borders of your body. Different expressions of consciousness (emotional, spiritual, mental, intuition, etc.) can be visualized as different muscles with different functions. To make muscles stronger, you must exercise them. In exercising, you realize it’s not just the isolation of the quads that creates strong legs, but the equal and opposite activation of the hamstrings in coordination with the glutes, hip flexors, and calves.
And zooming out, connective tissue holds everything together, the literal border of the body, which correlates to the ability to see patterns and functionality overlap. We must look at it as an entire system. You have the ability to refine different aspects, to make new connections and access new levels—as science would say, create new neural pathways. Seeing the connection as sacred, bigger than thou, is what strengthens the “connective tissue” and intentional practice, flexing and contracting, strengthens the “muscles.”
Exploration of Self
Releasing the analogy, let’s go back to thinking in different planes of consciousness. Our body (physical plane) holds its own consciousness that can be perceived outside of the thinking brain (mental plane—while the brain is physical, our thoughts are not until we make them manifest). Our body, like an antenna, transmits our energy and picks up the signals of others. Since it is physically dense, this means it can hold lots of energy, and part of the body’s job is to transmute all energy we emanate and interact with. The body is the conduit.
I believe the ability to experience multiple levels/states/planes of consciousness is in everyone, it just takes deep exploration of self to rediscover. And, everyone has “easier” connections in different aspects—we have access to all, at least a distant understanding/connection, but some are stronger and closer to home, so access is easier—and strengthening that connection comes down to experience, awareness, and practice.
Through my experience, connecting to your body’s energetic consciousness is the first step to enhancing your consciousness, i.e., accessing more levels. You can read all the books you want about the ocean, but until you experience the ocean, you’ve merely dipped your toes in mental understanding. And pictures never do it justice, what about all the smells and textures and nuanced vibes that accompany the experience?
By fostering the relationship, altered states are more readily accessible (“altered states” are any state of conscious that isn’t your waking normal mode of consciousness, think dreaming or meditating or psychedelics). The first step to accessing altered states of consciousness is to get out of your thinking mind. You can still be thinking (as I am now) but it is a free flow of thoughts, materializing outside of “normal” patterned thinking. This is only one way—there are many other ways completely unrelated to thought at all. Again, these are most easily accessed through the body.
I have many an article about embodiment. This is just scratching the surface of why the connection to the body and senses are so important. It’s tapping into another level of consciousness, of knowing intelligence that transcends just physical life and physical experience. When we are present within our body, we have greater awareness of the energy we’re engaged with. We are listening to the information it is filtering and taking action based on more inputs.
And on the life-fulfilling side, through deeper embodiment we understand that we are both accessing deeper knowledge by feeling into the sensation—vs. resisting it—and learning to surrender to the experience, allowing the experience to become doubly enjoyable. In surrender, enjoyment is found purely for the pleasure of feeling the difference in sensation. This enables us to feel past the edge of what the mind deems uncomfortable, and feel further into whatever is happening in the body. This is ultimate access to the experience without getting pulled in and drowned by all the stimulation.
Walking hand-in-hand with yogic philosophy, embodiment is my steak and potatoes—a lifelong love and journey into self knowledge. I discuss this in greater detail in Sensuality of Being, Portal to Creation.
Increasing Perception
Awareness of the energetic exchange is dependent on the level of receptiveness and level of consciousness. Some levels are too dense to feel anything at all, nearly impenetrable. Or, we’re so busy in the mind that the body isn’t felt. Energy is mostly physically felt, think of perceiving different energy through different senses, because the body is the antenna.
Sometimes there is a deeper knowing and awareness… an I don’t know how I know, but I just know… that appears to be totally mental, but I’d argue the knowing came though sensory input that triggered a connection in the mind. If energy is the exchange of information, then we are an accumulation of data.
I’ll use me as an example. I’ve always been told that I am very smart. And to an extent, I am, but really, I’m perceptive. Can I whip out the calculus equation or chemical formula to launch the rocket? No. Can I accumulate three data points that triangulate a greater thought pattern to provide analysis, wisdom, or a solution? Yes, every time. Why? I’m good at pattern recognition, and I’ve fostered an acute awareness of subtle energy and consciousness. These are a deadly combo to walking through life with what appears to be little effort, or from the outside, it looks like I’m just a natural at picking things up, which equates to “being smart” in school. But give me a lecture on something I have no connection to and put a test in front of me, I’m probably going to fail—college taught me this. If I don’t apply the data in a uniquely personal way, it doesn’t have a hold to connect to.
Taking it back out of the mental, I’ve had the lifelong experience of strengthening my connective tissue. Why? I was incurably shy, didn’t speak up much, and preferred to observe life happening around me because I didn’t know how to interact with it. A decade ago, was I as perceptive as I am now? Hell no. Experience, awareness, and practice facilitated the expanded perception I’ve become accustomed to. I am by no means the gold standard of attainment, merely an example to rely on when lived experience is richer than ethereal claims of how to.
Tapping back into the concept of different conscious muscles, sometimes energetic fields can be palpably seen. In the literal and physical sense, we can see the power someone is charged with as they run a race. And with practice, some people can see auras or the energetic signatures in nature (and boy are they mesmerizing as they glimpse in and out of sight). And yet, I find that altered states of consciousness are usually necessary to make this connection—it doesn’t need to be plant medicine/drug induced, simply meditating will create an altered state of consciousness that opens us to new levels of perception.
The body is an antenna, receptive to all frequencies… ever. But like a radio, you have to know the channel to tune into. This is where creating the relationship comes into play and is applicable to everything. Think about how the body craves certain food, places, or people. We’ve unconsciously tuned ourselves to that specific vibration. As Ram Dass says in regard to romantic love, we’ve chosen a key to unlock the door within.
The energy is always there, increasing perception is key.
This understanding takes lots of practice by forging yourself through the over-sensationalized experience and sitting in full surrender. Then learning how to surrender to the easy and enjoyable—enabling you to feel them deeper. Then you learn to surrender when nothing is happening. This enables that next-level connection. You are now getting data inputs from the most subtle energy around; the energy that constantly surrounds is nearly unnoticeable because we are so familiar with it, like the smell of our own home, we stop registering it.
Is this something that needs to be explained? No. It is felt and viscerally experienced. But there is something interesting about thinking about it. And that’s on attachment to the mental plane ;)
Energy in Action: A Thought Experiment
Often, there is resistance to doing the stuff. This resistance needs to be observed. What is the deeper root of this, what patterned “thinking” is at play?
Doing the thing is never going to be too much, it’s just doing it, taking the action. When we deeply and energetically understand this, there need not be further avoidance. The energy is misplaced. Like the ~*manifestation gurus*~ on Instagram say, just align your energy to the action you desire. Action is happening regardless of the choice of action. Doing nothing has the same level of energetic connection that doing everything has. Choosing what you tap into is the free will of living the life of the creator.
Even the NPC-type of people are living in their creation—the difference is the consciousness of the choice. All levels are accessible. In “unconscious” living, the pattern runs the choice—they are what the body and energetic level know. You don know what you don’t know. Access is slowly revealed through life choices. The experience teaches the experiencing, opening up new and expanded access. Routine is important for building new connections and new patterns, but this is also why routine is dangerous. The behaviors become conditioned and nearly unconscious (action without thought and intention). In Buddhism this is known as samsara, the recycling of same patterns, which equals more pain and suffering.
The action without intention then loses some of the accessible sacredness. Sacred is recognizing through attention. If we appreciate the presence, we tap into the sacred energy of now. This weaves the path to constant connection. The frequency is always there, the question is about the attentive connection. This is the path and pursuit of getting to know thyself.
All minds are great minds when we break out of our patterned thoughts. All minds have access to great thoughts and great answers.
Getting up with the sunrise attunes your energy to the sun—the original generator. Earth and sun and moon have a pure exchange of energy. Humans muddle the exchange with thoughts and beliefs of what is “real” or “physically possible.” We place assumptions, and believe what others tell us vs. just experiencing for ourselves and using intuitive discernment to understand a patterned thought and embody an intuitive “download.”
We’re stuck in the pattern most of the time. And when we “break” it, we replace it with another. The pattern never leaves, to transcend it is simply to observe it without attachment and action.
And that’s on being the observer. Now, can you tap into the energetic consciousness of the observer behind the observer?
Consciousness and Nature
Do you ever feel the urge to go lay in some grass at a park or get lost in nature while hiking a mountain? Soaking up the sun shimmering on exposed skin and enjoying the gentle tickle of the breeze, the damp smell of the dewy grass in the morning or creosote-soaked desert after it rains, the quiet cresting sunrise from the East awaking the city or the candy-tinted skies at sunset... I desire this all the time—it is part of my relationship with nature.
Why? Nature is the neutralizer. Through her, we can come back to our purest energetic state, back to homeostasis, and give to nature the energy that isn’t ours.
Back to science, the Earth is abundantly charged with negative ions. Negative ions are electricity-charged molecules floating in the air. The positive affect of negative ions is due to the chemical reactions happening with bodily tissues and DNA. Research supports exposure to negative ions in reducing symptoms of depression, regulating sleep and mood, boosting immune system function, reducing stress, and influencing body systems and cognitive performance.
If interaction is a constant energetic exchange, consciously and unconsciously flowing, everything is symbiotic in nature (generally). Nature holds us, supports our health in ways we don’t fully comprehend, especially living in a concrete jungle. We don’t see, we don’t realize… so we ascribe other attributes to it.
To bring in more context: are we so egoic to truly believe we are the only conscious beings? Well, animals are conscious, but not in the way humans are… maybe we don’t understand the full extent of their consciousness and feel the need to play into the hierarchy of humans on top. Are trees not conscious? Intelligent in the mycelium network, sending and receiving nutrients, and the upper canopy growing with just enough breathing room for the surrounding trees? And all this is on the physical plane.
What we don’t see is the deep-rooted wisdom of trees, unmoving with the changing tides of time. Or the ever-flowing ocean, movement and change the only constant known. And the mountains, the original giants, growing to heights even humans are silly to climb. Or volcanos, quietly waiting for the opportunity to start over, burying everything in ash to reform rock, cycles of destruction or cyclic life? Entire ecosystems in the coral reefs and rivers slowly carving new paths over millennium… all intelligent in their ability to foster life. And let’s not forget air, an integral ingredient of our physical life force energy.
I honor this energy with gratitude.
I am grateful for the land I live on. For mother Gaia always supporting me in beauty and abundance. For her ability to balance my energy. For the opportunity to experience her vastness. I’m grateful for all the variety of shapes and sizes, and landscapes and energies she appears in—for it makes the experience more mystical. I’m grateful for the opportunity to explore. To approach new places with curiosity and wonder. To get lost in the energy that surrounds me. To find new paths and take them. To not know what’s around the river bend and be completely amazed when I round it. To find magic in every detail, knowing it was placed with precise attention. To get lost in the glimmer of water and the reflection of the moon. To see the energy emanating from every living thing… even the objects that don’t seem alive, they thrive as an ecosystem for all others. To feel the currents as they come in contact with my being, playing in the connective collective energy, mixing and matching… exchanging currents to help the other come back into balance.
An exchange, in the truest sense.
Nature is another key to self evolution. Emotions (energy in motion), gut feelings, even intuition are all heightened when we realize how tapped in we are. And we are always tapped in, all the time, which is why we need to spend more time in nature.
Not all energy that isn’t ours is bad—much of it is good and fills in energetic gaps, so to say. Think about social energy that makes you feel more social or connected to the beings around you, or the energy of music that helps you get up and groove, enabling you to move inner energy that became stagnant.
Nature simply gives a neutralizing affect, like taming free radicals that want to attach in unstable bonds.
Its effect is always calming… although, all energy is different. Different landscapes hold different energy… and affects us in different ways. Some are very compatible, some not so much. But it will never be to your ill effect to commune with nature. Some places, like people, have “darkness” about them. I don’t think these places are innately corrupt, but there may have been acts and experiences that have affected the frequency. These may be felt as the land needing to pull from you to heal. I don’t know, these are just thoughts.
Maybe our need for nature seems parasitic—peace and rejuvenation for our excess energy. If consciousness is one, are we not an extension of nature? Then, isn’t it in her benefit to support us and we love her? Regardless of the specifics, which we’ll probably never fully understand while incarnated, there is a relationship to always honor. Thank the land for sharing with you, and in turn, feel the gratitude of the land for your presence. Because it is grateful… quiet, but grateful.
Plant Medicine and Consciousness
I love plant medicine. Maybe I shouldn’t state that so brazenly on the internet, but when we come to substances for ceremonial purposes, we have life changing experiences. Intention and gratitude for the merging of consciousnesses needs to be at the center of the experience… or we may as well just be partying (and honestly, there is nothing wrong with that, when we have clear intentions for why we are indulging and not using it as a form of escapism).
When we tap into plant medicines, they are changing our perceptions. But they also change the vibration that we feel at. We are tapping into their level of consciousness. This enables us to open up to sensations that are more energetic. These are happening and live within us at all times, but like tuning a radio to a certain channel, the use of plants allows us to tune into that specific frequency.
With experiencing access to this new level of plant consciousness, we are then able to reach it ourselves without the use of substances because our consciousness is now connected in a very physical way. One example is the use of psilocybin creating different pathways of connection in the brain.
Once you make the decision to mingle with different levels of consciousness, consciousness mingles with you.
For example, many people who have sat with ayahuasca, will say that it called to them. Speaking from experience, we knew we were going to sit with it, for years maybe, but when the time came to actually make the decision, it was impossible to say no to the call. A deeper energetic knowing that the time is now and the signs are impossible to ignore. Then, once action was taken, she starts to merge with you. For me, this was through intensely vivid dreams and visions, before I ever consumed the plant.
One of the joys of sitting with plant medicine is access to the bliss state, total presence and absorption in the moment. Back to Levels of Energy, if someone’s consistent energy is at a “lower” level and they get shot up to the bliss state through a medicine experience, of course the comedown is going to be especially jarring. And, if we think of consciousness like a scale, as the book arbitrarily outlines, and many people live at the lower states, of course plant medicine produces “bad” trips.
I don’t believe there is such a thing as a bad trip. I believe there are hard trips that usher in the edge of our capacity and ask us to sit with the most devastating experiences of self to grow… but if we sit in a state of control or desire for what isn’t the present moment, we create the “bad trip” because it’s not living up to the expectation we had, making it inherently wrong or bad. With surrender, we learn that everything is fine as it is, and there is no other place we are meant to be. We can only meet difficulty with greater awareness and presence. Trust that you can hold yourself through these experiences and the medicine will trust you.
While I am a huge proponent of plant medicine, I don’t think it is for everyone. Merging of consciousness shouldn’t be something that’s taken lightly, it will fuck up your entire life if proper awareness isn’t cultivated. If you haven’t learned how to cultivate inner love, peace, awareness, and bliss, plant medicine can become a dangerous escape route. Or, it will throw at you all the demons that you’re not ready to face, because it blasts you to a level that demands total integration of all sides of self. There is no shame, regret, anger, etc. at the “higher” levels of consciousness, the density must be worked through first or they block the path until they are faced, transmuted, and accepted. Nothing can hide in the shadows of awareness.
Back to me, my favorite example. I’ve known since I was a teenager, since I learned what psychedelics were, that I wanted to experience plant medicine. Even with this desire and knowing, aside from cannabis, I didn’t start sitting with plant medicine until I was 26. I wasn’t ready and the medicine knew that. Life didn’t produce the situations and people to supercharge my expansion until I was ready to expand. I literally outgrew my own paradigms and patterning, and then and only then was I in flow with the opportunities to come my way. I had to create the foundation of self awareness first, then I was ready to accept assistance.
The medicine will call to you and the opportunities will present themselves when you are ready and it is ready to merge with you.
Struggle for Growth
I know part of the appeal of evolving our consciousness is to get more out of life, whether that’s to live a fuller life of experience or deepening relational connections or material gain, among a host of other things. So, I will conclude with how can this work affect you in the real 3D sense.
When I quit my corporate job, I experienced a season of financial contraction. The area of life that I had always found stability in quickly became earthquaken ground, unsteady to walk on.
And I realized, I desire full financial freedom.
The affirmation I wrote for myself:
I’m not meant to grind my entire life. I’m meant to live—fully live it. I know this is the way it’s meant to be. I know I am feeling the struggle before the expansion. I will face the struggle with ease because I know something better and bigger is awaiting me on the other side. I trust the universe is always conspiring in my favor, because I am a manifestation of the universe. Everyone benefits from my abundance. I am building my capacity for abundance and prosperity. Aho.
So I ask, where in life is letting you struggle (that you used to find stability in) so you can grow strengths in other areas? Realizing that it all is experiencing life. Every moment an opportunity to live life. Embrace the present moment, recognizing where it asks you to surrender and where it asks you to step up to the plate. Always testing your capacity to live/achieve your dream. Your dream is dangling in front of you. You choose to move enough energy to grasp it. All opportunities are dancing carrots in front of you. You choose the action and strength behind the reaching hand.
Opportunity/possibilities are numbered in stars and galaxies. Each choice we make directs our trajectory—minute shifts in direction based on decided action… as inaction is action in itself. If I am to live life fully, I’m going to put my full energy and full effort into what my attention is on.
This is also a way to compartmentalize different aspects, or even people, in life. While all occurrences are correlated, as if beads on a string, there is space in the energy, you give at individual points in time, in existence, that have capacity at the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual fields of energy (and existence). Being fully present in the moment is intentionally simple in the manner of aligning energy and effort into what you desire, for that’s how you get the best return and action toward your desired outcome (goals). If I desire a certain thing, yes I have to align my energy, that way it is attainable and sustainable. This creates a feedback loop of same frequency. This takes minimal effort to maintain as they energetically give and take with each other. It then feels “easier” to keep aligning and seeing occurrences as opportunities to align further (refine). This creates living in the flow of life. Honoring the ups and downs. Recognizing how to honor your energy. Using it as the guide for your everything.
Do the things. Let your energy flow, move your body, challenge the ways you see your consciousness as fixed.
It feels so good to be in the body. It feels so good to feel into the edge of aliveness. It feels so good to let your consciousness flourish outside the confines of your mind.
Let loose. Give yourself the opportunity to explore deeper aspects of self—through embodiment, through presence, through curiosity and childlike wonder. There is so much more to life than what we initially perceive.
And one last affirmation to align your energy:
I am grateful that I’m aware of this subconscious urge—for without awareness, I would fall into patterning. I am grateful for my awareness. I am grateful for the opportunities that present themselves. I am grateful for all the love that pours into my life. I am grateful for all the connections that come into my life and the ways they individually impact me. I am grateful for the bonds and ties we share. I’m grateful for the time and space to deepen my relationships… with others, with nature, and above all, with self.
Take what resonates, leave what doesn’t. These thoughts are half baked, and I’m just scratching the surface! This article isn’t mean to be the be all, end all by any means.
If you found this interesting and want to deep dive into your own study, I recommend listening to talks by Ram Dass and Alan Watts (The Book by Alan Watts is also amazing), and reading The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, The Kybalion by The Three Initiates, The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer… I could go on and on with recommendations.
While none of these speak to the totality of consciousness, they are some of the thoughts and literature that sparked my thoughts on this topic.
Let me know your thoughts ;)
With love,
Madison