Greetings!
Welcome to 2021!
This brand new year ushers in a whole new era. In fact, it is said that in this new era
Consciousness is the New Currency.
Elevating our consciousness requires awareness that leads to inspired action.
Inspired action is not a plan of action. It is right action from a higher knowing.
It is a means by which life can be experienced with a sense of freedom, ease and joy.
Accessing higher knowing requires elevating our consciousness.
As I've written previously, according to Dr. David Hawkins', Map of Consciousness, most of humanity vibrates at a consciousness under 200 out of a possible 1000.
When we vibe below 200, we experience more often the primary emotions of fear (anxiety), anger, and grief (regret). This leads to "lack" consciousness. There is never enough. We're often unaware that we're focused in lack so it can be insidious.
On the other hand, most of what we dream about and aspire to experience calibrates higher on the Map of Consciousness. Somewhere between 250 and 500 at which point we move into "abundance" consciousness. The primary emotions we experience here are trust, optimism and understanding.
Without a process to elevate our consciousness, it doesn't change much in our lifetime.
In turn, we can fall short or even forfeit the experiencing of our dreams and desires in way that is satisfying. Instead, we continue to effort after it, feeling emotionally overwhelmed and deflated. We remain stuck around 200.
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Theme for 2021
Two of my greatest passions, other than my daughter, are helping clients grow and expand their businesses as well as themselves using spiritual best practices.
Twenty-five years ago, I began merging the two because it worked for me when nothing else did.
When I say spiritual, I mean exploring and harnessing universal energy; the life force that creates and co creates with us. I believe, it exists in all things.
Part of my spiritual training has been interpreting energies in the way of patterns.
Patterns in the environment, in our relational behavior and from our subconscious.
Patterns are important because they become the framework from which we experience our lives.
If I were to interpret a dominant pattern or theme for this year, it would be "authority". We can consider using this important time as an opportunity to explore the pattern of authority in our lives and create a new context from which to live.
One quick google search produced these definitions:
➤the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience.
➤a person or organization having power or control in a particular, typically political or administrative, sphere.
This year ushers in a whole new era. Authority over no longer fits. We're seeing this everywhere.
Here are three questions to consider when creating our new authority:
How do you currently define authority?
How are you exercising your authority in a way that serves you and the greater whole?
Where is there an opportunity to exercise greater authority from within yourself?
I've been playing around with this definition and I'd like to share it. I'd also welcome your feedback:
The ability to experience sovereignty in my life at all times.
In other words, it's my declaration to be personally responsible for my experience: my choices, my energy, my reactions or responses, my thoughts and feelings. ALL of it.
It's my passion and aspiration this year to claim consciousness as a new currency and support others in doing the same. I hope you'll join me.
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"To thine own self be true," says Polonius
Moving beyond Spiritual Bypassing~
John Welwood, the prominent psychotherapist and author of the classic book,
Toward a Psychology of Awakening, defines this term as “spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep personal, emotional ‘unfinished business,’ to shore up a shaky sense of self, or to belittle basic needs, feelings, and developmental tasks.”
When spiritual practice is used to compensate for challenging traits such as low self-esteem, social isolation, or other emotional issues, Welwood said, they corrupt the actual use of spiritual practice. In other words, using these practices to cover up problems seems like an easy way out, as opposed to working on the actual issues and etiology of the challenges.(Psychology Today)
When we don't take the time to know ourselves, how can we possibly lead ourselves?
Consider this: Who are we leading and why are we leading and where do we truly want to go?
As we consciously define our new authority, we achieve greater awareness that drives powerful outcomes because it elevates all.
