Higher Self through Carolyn Gervais                                                                                                                                                                                          awakeningyou.com   

FINDING THE BALANCE BETWEEN NEEDING AND HAVING

At this time in the evolution of humankind many fear that human existence will end in the year 2012 on the 21^st of December, including those who believe they are the chosen ones that will go to heaven.   Of course this belief of being a chosen one is being looked at in a false way.  First of all, every soul is an aspect of the wholeness of what many call God, which means all go to what is termed “ heaven “when they leave the human form behind.  What is Heaven?  Heaven is returning to the Oneness of the light which is the Source of all existence.   You see dear ones you are only human as long as you occupy a human form for 80+years or so, outside of that, you are Essence.    

What you have been taught through organized religion is that you must atone for all the mistakes, lies and hateful thoughts and actions you have had and used throughout your lives on the planet.  Be that as it may, you can only atone when you are in a human form.  When you are not in human form, you are busy creating new ways to balance your existences as you move forward into another human form.  In other words, when you move into a human body, you will choose the type of wiring that will serve you best in a particular life.  You will also choose certain souls before that lifetime, to help you to atone, heal and ultimately at some point, abandon your false truths.  

So who is really this Supreme Force deciding the fate of human kind, now and in 2012?  You are!

Your perception of a God; a Divine Force or lack of…greatly determines how you perceive your life.  This perception however, can be so conditional, dark and judgmental that a person can become their own greatest enemy and their own greatest fear…creating the false belief that it is always someone else or something outside of them that causes their aggressive reactions and unhappy feelings.  This is victimhood in disguise.

This restricting perception is what is being called; the “dark times, Armageddon; the end times and the anti-Christ represented by the biblical number 666.  Right now humanity as a whole is moving through a dark time where the energy of the 666 is very much active.  The number 666 is a frequency of transformation, regardless of whether one is relating to the dark side of it or light side of it.   The dark side of this number means one is living in and expressing mostly through the denser aspect of the 3 lower centers or chakras in the body, which are: Root, Sacral and Solar Plexus.  The lighter more refined frequency of the number 666 expresses through and vibrates with the Heart, Throat and Third Eye chakras…of which when balanced, can keep the three lower chakras in balance as well.   There is a mix of the two extreme energies of 666 being expressed in your world right now and these extremes are affecting you and your Earth.  As all of these chakras are balanced with the higher frequencies, the crown chakra opens and transforms first you and then your world.

What is greatly causing a lack of peace in your world…is the false perception of what you call happiness.  Let us look at that perception.

Fear is created when life and circumstances do not match with your perception of happiness.  In other words, what happiness looks and feels like to you.  The choices you have are either to run away from what is feared or face it.  There are several ways to face fearful challenges.  One way is with thought, insight, logic and rationale; another way is to react with anger and violence, which only magnifies the fears and the circumstances. Then there is the way of peaceful understanding.  Peaceful understanding comes with the knowing that all challenges, experiences and emotions are the gifts of life, no matter how they show up in your life. 

Outside of Man’s laws and rules, the soul does not punish you for what you individually perceive as wrong.  But the human aspect has been taught to use emotional pain to punish one’s self or another.   If you find yourself doing just that, ask yourself who you want to punish.  Is it you?  Is it your past, your present; someone else from your past or in your present?   Is it the human aspect of life, your human ego or the Creative Source (God) Itself?  Maybe it is all of it.  If it manifests as any of these, then it is definitely time to dissect your perception and definition of happiness to find out why it is eluding you.

Ask yourself:  Does happiness, contentment and peace of mind have anything to do with acquiring something that you think you are ready for, but you really are not?   You might be asking, “How will I know?”  You will know when it is in your possession.  And if by chance you receive that something too soon, you may have a hard time hanging onto it for any length of time because your ability to know how to use it is not developed enough yet.

So the question here is: If need, desire and acquiring things; relationships and jobs… are not the way to happiness, why do humans have goals?  That is a very good question, and the answer is that goals move you into experiences that take you through a processing period of growth.  During that growth period, you will be giving away old aspects of yourself and of your life, and opening to new aspects of yourself and your life.  This means you may have to give away something you thought you couldn’t live without and receive what you didn’t consciously know you needed.   Whenever you take a step forward into unknown aspects of yourself; life gives you trade-offs.  Trade-offs mean that you are getting rid of what you no longer need because it will now hinder your growth.   But on the same token you will receive what you now need to transform and move into a new aspect of yourself and your life.

Is it not the degree and intent of the giving, and the degree and intent of the taking that determines whether you are happy on a personal level; an ego level or on an Essence level?   Some people temporarily fill their need for happiness when they are taking more than they give, while others might fill their need for happiness when they are giving more than they are taking.  Is it noble to want to give more than you take and selfish to take more than you give?  When a person’s perspective stems from the lower chakras, that person is going to be more ego-based in their perceptions.  This will greatly determine a somewhat darker intent when in a position of giving and taking and cause an imbalance within themselves and their life.

What is the difference between taking and receiving, you might wonder?  The definition of receiving that we want to convey is that receiving is about accepting what is being given in the form of an offer.  That is very unlike the definition of taking, is it not?  To take something implies stealing, no matter how it is disguised with charming words, a nice smile and self-induced justification.

What it all boils down to is that when you find yourself greedily measuring what you have given with what you have received…then you are colluding with the ego mind where you might find yourself caught in the illusive self.  To say it in another way is that when you can give with your heart and receive with your heart …you will have all that is required and more, in life.  When the soul energy going out is balanced with the soul energy coming  in, there is no need or want of anything but to love it all, including what you call good, bad and indifferent. 

It is understood that you all require a means in which to keep a roof over your heads and have food to sustain and feed your bodies.  This of course means having a job you like or having a job of any kind that will allow you to survive and take care of your physical needs.  There are two ways to look at this.  You can either drown yourself in self-pity because you no longer have or have ever had… a life that gave you much in the form of material assets… or you can look for the opportunities in your present life, no matter how difficult that seems, and find the love, freedom and real meaning  your new lifestyles can give you.  

It’s all about awareness and expansion on inner levels, that occurs when you finally realize that the purpose for human goals; the purpose for human life and all of its experiences…is to eventually pull you out of the false world into the real world where Essence combined with the human wisdom of the heart, is in the driver’s seat...at least as often as possible.  When you confuse the unreal with the real, you can get stuck in the lower emotions of fear, martyrdom and victimhood.  Being caught up in what is truly not real, but feels like it is…is the hardest lesson to master in human form.  But mastering it you are, and will continue doing so moment by moment.

Needing is often confused with having.  For instance take someone who has more than they need in the way of money and material substance.  The trap in having more than one needs, can create a need to have more.  The more they have the more they may think they need.  Therefore having can make you a slave to the human perception of need.  When this takes place in the physical human mind, an imbalance is created between opposites such as good and bad; having or not having and real and unreal…causing those opposite extremes to control your thoughts and actions.  To say it another way:  Needing can become all about having.  Having can become all about needing and both can create the desire to take, borrow or steal that which you have no need of.

So where does wanting, fit into all of this?  Wanting can be defined as: Not being good enough; lacking and deficient in one’s intent to do and be, as in reaching a goal.  The question is; what is the motivation behind your wanting?  Let’s take for example the Yogi Masters.   A master teacher such as Buddha opened himself to the highest forms of wisdom…that of Spirit/Soul/God/ Love.  And, used those combined frequencies to let life happen through the human form and not force it to be anything other than what it must be through the master teacher according to his/her life goal; life mission and what ultimate role that plays in the human world.   When master teachers are born into the human form of a baby…often they must go through rigorous training of body, mind and soul before they can put back on their robe of mastership.  In other words, many of them go through hectic and painful trials and tribulations for whatever period of time is necessary; to be honed and fully reawakened on the higher and highest levels of their being in order to accomplish their soul’s mission.

What the Yogis learned as they reached out and inward for self-realization was that life naturally brings opportunities to those who live from the heart.  It is through the opportunities that present themselves in life, that will bring you all that you need to live a life of abundance and that has very little to do with financial wealth.

Before and during the Yogi’s training period to enlightment, the Yogi experiences a deep desire; a longing and wanting to be “at-one-ment” with the Creative Source… to where the little self or ego gradually becomes insignificant in its wants and needs and allows selflessness to take over.   That is when the only purpose of the goal is to reach complete self-realization. 

As one reawakens on higher frequency levels, need, transforms into an ever more pure energy of want in the conscious mind.  Please do not assume that all need, want and having are wrong and evil, because they are not.  There are as many degrees and levels of need, want and having as there are people in the world and they are a necessary part of the human aspect of each of you.  Simply by causing discomfort in the body and mind, the darker side of need, want and having continue to chip away at the ego or selfish aspects of mankind.  Without this form of need, want and having, there would be no goals to reach; no need to learn and explore the mind and heart or to expand on soul levels.  Therefore there would be no meaning or purpose for human existence. 

Need, want and having, move you into challenges, experiences, relationships, jobs and goals that will stretch and broaden your perspective of life, and refine and define you on all levels.   Until needing, wanting and having are replaced with the freeing and transformative light of understanding there will be a human, dualistic purpose for them.  As we have said before, understanding brings wisdom.  Wisdom brings with it a light that cannot help but shine on the beauty in your lives; giving you access to those parts that will expand your perceptions, so that you have an opportunity to express the beauty that lives in each of you.  Wisdom also creates a peaceful mind and a knowing that what manifests as each moment, is as full and rich as that moment is capable of being.  It is your perception of each moment will alter that moment in the next moment, in some way… because life has to move; to change and transform from moment to moment to sustain itself.

You are the life dear ones of the life of all Life.  Without your life’s light, there would be no life expressing as the Universe, because you are the life that is expressing as the Universe.   When the concept of being one with all life is fully realized, the understanding of just how important you all are will become clear.  To say that you are dearly loved, is an understatement; since you are the love that allows love to be expressed.

So you see the world cannot end dear ones in 2012.  All other realms are focused on your Planet Earth right now, cheering and applauding each new awakening, each act of love and kindness and each person who is determined to be strong and to never give up on the beloved and brave souls of Earth.

You who have eyes that see and hearts that feel, are not the victims of a dark fate dear ones. You have come to Earth as the redeemers for all humankind.   You did not come all this way to fail at your mission of transformation and transcendence beyond the third dimension.   You knew it would look bleak at times and that you would be heavily challenged during the process of change.   But you also knew you would have what you needed for the awakening journey on Planet Earth no matter what the appearance.  

 Again we say: “Who is the Supreme Force who is deciding the fate of humankind now and in 2012?  You are.”  

We leave you with this: You are the source of love that expresses as the light that fills up all the darkness in the Universe.

Higher Self through Carolyn Gervais                                                                                               awakeningyou.com