Experiencing Ascension

Making our Bridge between the Dimensions

In this time of Ascension may feel like we are living in two words.

One world is that of 3D material reality.
This world follows the laws of newtonian physics.
It is where we and almost all of our ancestors were born into.  Interacting with this reality is requires our natural sense organs - what we see, hear, feel, smell, taste and touch physically.
The beliefs and principles of 3D material reality is what most of our personal, family and global structures and organizations are based on.

The other world is called many names. I call it the 5D Spirit Plane.
This world follows the laws of quantum reality and metaphysics.
Interaction on this plane requires our powers of our consciousness and awareness, our intuition, our faith and belief and trust in our Spirit-Self and in Oneness.
We cannot always perceive or interact here with our natural sense organs, but the 5th dimensional state can be anchored into our material reality through our natural sense organs.
This beliefs and principles of 5D quantum reality is what is being anchored and created right now on the planet through each of us, our choices, our actions and inactions and our ability to connect and transform ourSelves and our Worlds.

This is how I understand and experience the Ascension process we are in - a shift in how we experience and show up to our life.

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A lot of us feel both these worlds simultaneously. It is as if they are actually separate planets and we bounce from one world to the other several times a day.

Through our practices of connection, yogic wisdom, meditation, prayer, rest, inspired action we work a little everyday to build bridges between the two worlds that live within us.

One of the things I hear often is the frustration around the 3D material aspects - the slowness of pace, the density and heaviness, the obsession with material possession and consumerism, the anger and distraction - whatever we experience in the cycle of Samsara. 

When we visit with our 5D creative possibilities, the 3D world can seem dense, basic, confused, conflicted, violent and misguided.

Early on, I was taught to navigate this both-dimension experience by moving deeper into and through moments that physical reality (3D) present to us in the moment.

The moment where someone cuts us off on the road while we are correctly merging onto oncoming traffic; the panic and rage we feel as we cuss the other driver who cannot hear us.

It can be the moment we are waiting for a bus to arrive, a webpage to load or someone to get back to us when we are in restless anticipation. 

It could be the time we spend waiting for an apology or for our perfect job or person to fall from the sky so we can do the next thing.

The teaching is to let the moment, like the ones above, just be, without distracting ourselves and without numbing out of escaping them. It is the practice of being Present with our mundane and annoying experience and breathing through them.

This seems counter-intuitive and impossibly hard, especially in the beginning.

But it turns out that this is one of the ways we learn to love 3D reality without preference or judgement, past our ego and personality structure.

When we can love a dark and challenging moment in the quiet infinite silence of our Heart, we learn to expand our perspective and potential and start getting our feet wet in the rivers of 5D reality.

How to Love the Present Moment

There is resistance to accepting and loving the Present moment often. Often because we don’t like it.

We believe that allowing ourselves to feel our apathy, rage, pain, grief, our disappointment is overwhelming. We do not like it and do not want to feel it. We may fear being drowned in it, never able to return.
Alternatively, the only way we know how to exist with our emotional intensities is by wallowing, pouring our pain on others or blaming them.

When I was here, I remember an unconscious belief I uncovered within.

The belief was this: When I am in the chaos of my emotions, I am disempowered, weak, irrational, crazy and therefore unworthy of love and undeserving of acceptance.
This kept my feeling ranges locked up tight and limited.
For a while this felt safe.
But it was also the cause of my suffering. It felt uneasy and I lived with low self-esteem and bizarre self-worth issues. This affected my relationships, how I showed up at work, the income I received and how I perceived and navigate the world.

If someone had told me: ‘Just love the moment’ at that time, I would have absolutely wanted to punch them in the face.

But luckily no-one did.

Like anything massive - like a vibrational shift in our life and consciousness - we take it one step at a time.

I’m sure there are many ways and expressions of this, but the steps below are the ones that I thought are absolutely necessary as a foundation to move through.

Step One - Creating Safety Within

When our bodies and minds feel unhealthy, unhappy and unsafe, the reclamation process is major vibrational shift - in both material and spiritual realities.
We may know how to do this, and so for a while we may enlist the help of an intimate friend, a therapist, an intuitive healer or our diary.
We may choose to redesign a corner of our office room so that it is the physical space we may go to when we need to.
We may have to establish some healthy boundaries - verbally, physically, emotionally and energetically.

Once we start feeling safe in our own body and heart, we can start to give ourselves Permission.

Step Two - Permission

This is about allowing ourselves to feel the full range and depth of our feelings and emotions. We may not be able to do so in the moment when something or someone is troubling us, but we can come back to it at the end of the day or week.

This permission is not about other people - what they did and said and what they didn’t. It is not a blame-game and neither is it permission to pour our rage, emotions and insecurities out at others.
It is permission to feel and emote in the private and safe sanctuary we have now build for ourselves. This enables us to feel and release instead of ignore, misunderstand and repress.
It is simply learning to create a bigger and bigger space within our Being so allow the full range and texture of our life experience.
This breaks us out of our limits, our denials, pressures and suppressions of Self, imposed by our own self or by society’s preferences and ideals.

It is possible that we need to do just steps one and two several times before we move along. The steps are not linear in nature. They are interwoven, quantum and relational.

There is no right or wrong way through.
There is either the way of fear or the way of Love.

Step Three - Acceptance and Learning

It seems that when we permit our emotions, we are pulled under the current of them. Like drowning in an ocean.
This may get compounded by our memories and past experiences, which is often why certain moments in life feel so painful and hurt so much.
These feelings are our truth in our material reality.
Sometimes, when we are very young, we misunderstand of misinterpret a situation and have intense feelings around it. Whether it is factually true or not, it tends to become our emotional truth.

An example of this is when a very young child blames herself for the divorce of her parents, even though in reality their decision was never about her.

What is also happening, is that as we are feeling our feelings, our Spiritual world and reality are connecting with us. Why? Because we are fully in our present experience.
In our material reality, we may sitting and sobbing at the edge of our bed, or unable to move from the fetal position of our bathroom floor. We feel completely undone and anything else feels impossible.
In our spiritual reality, we are learning to surf the waves of our emotions. We have fallen so much and we are building the necessary skills and muscles to pull ourselves up onto the surfboard of our consciousness and hold ourselves there.
This is not a mental act or an act of rigidity. It is an act of empowerment. What we previously labeled as overwhelm and chaos is what we denied, distracted from and repressed. Those same emotions and those same moments become the arena where we come to our True Power in the Self. 

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The more we do this, the better we become at it. In that way, it is no different than any other skill. It gets easier as we keep practicing it and then we start to feel that we are less and less controlled by our emotional states.

We learn to feel our feelings, but they are not our masters.

Unlike other skills, like the ability to skate or lift bigger weights at the gym or conflict resolution skills, these ones aren’t easy to show others.

In fact, there is nothing to show.
Sometimes, this adds a level of frustration to the process. We feel like we do this great inner work and we do not have a skill to eloquently phrase and put on our CV; nor do we have big shiny muscles or the ability to stand on our head as a result of this work. 

This frustration is another layer of interaction between our 3D and 5D worlds.

The work done in the spirit realm is not essentially seen and felt tangibly in the 3D realm. The people closest to you may have a harder time seeing it, as they physically see you coming undone and may not realize how much you are growing within.
So, we may be tempted to give up early. This is where the 5D senses come in.

Instead of relying on the input from the world around us just through our natural sense organs, we have to rely on our the powers of our consciousness and awareness, our intuition, our faith and belief and trust in our Spirit-Self.

This is where we have to let go for comparison, and the great attachment we have to external (often societal) validation and confirmation. As well, our attachment to how we think we have been ‘fitting in’.

This enables us to cross the shadowy rivers of self-doubt and the circular questioning of ‘what is the point’ and allowing ourselves a deeper and wider trust in ourSelf, our World and our Universe.

Your spouse may not see how much you’ve changed in between days. But you know.
And eventually, other people will feel different when they are around you.

They may not be able to name it, or they may tell you that you have a nice vibe and that you are a good listener and are non-judgemental.

They may not say anything at all. They may just feel more at-Peace around you.

You may never know what you enable for another human - a friend, a coworker or just a stranger sitting at the next table at a restaurant. 

But this is beauty of working through what 3D physical reality is showing us. Our pains and difficulties are the access points to 5D quantum living. 

If we are tempted to skip these access points, then we may feel good and spiritual in moments of the day, but we may tend to bypass the human connection with others, and aspects of our own life.

This is act of bypassing and pretending to be positive and loving when our inner reality is the opposite keeps us in separation and fragmentation from our Soul and Spirit. It certainly is not the medicine our world and our people need. It is akin to withholding the depth and pleasure of our gift to the world.

And so we do not seek or quest to 5D living in the Light body or the Soul-Self.

We mine, we remember, we uncover. We re-establish our safety, give ourself permission and believe in ourselves, we accept and open to different ways of relating to our self so that we may return to the seat of our true power, which is Eternal Connection to Light Divine. 

We do it into through thorough what is hard and easy, joyful and painful, delightful and annoying in life. 

And so it is, that we live lightly and love more on our Earth walk.