You Can't Skip Chapters
Personal growth demands our attention and yes, it can feel exhausting at times. Yet every chapter presents opportunity. Awaken. Forgive. Evolve. My reminder to myself.
You can’t skip chapters, that’s not how life works. You have to read every line, meet every character. You won’t enjoy all of it. Hell, some chapters will make you cry for weeks. You will read things you don’t want to read, you will have moments when you don’t want the pages to end. But you have to keep going. Stories keep the world revolving. Live yours, don’t miss out." Courtney PeppernellHello!
In my absence I have been embracing a chapter. Not one of the most comfortable but I have come to accept that every chapter has a purpose and holds an opportunity for gratitude - if I choose to look for it.
This insightful quote and figurine (above) were offered by Miss A, a bright light in this beautiful world, who is also on a healing journey.
An aside: Many despair about younger generations, however, that is not what shows up metaphysically. These are bright, beautiful souls in a young body who care deeply: about others, their impact on the world, and the world itself. Their choices can be challenging, and that is okay. Sometimes tradition needs to be thrown out to draw something new in.
A Chapter of Growth
Re-awakening our awareness to ourselves as Christ Consciousness can be an uncomfortable process. The new energy that is coming in to support our growth is vibrant, contains clarity, beauty, manifests oneness, and brings exhilaration.
My response? How exhausting! And why wouldn’t it feel exhausting when we understand low vibration is heavy, and clings like tar. As we evolve, we are releasing low vibration patterns of thought and doing from every energetic point connected to our Source energy. This dramatic process of transformation is akin to magic, encouraging us to morph into a new, lighter, way of feeling and thinking that is grounded in unconditional love.
Each of us are unconditionally surrounded by the love of the entities we invited to join us in this journey, and their support is here to buoy us as we evolve. PS If you haven’t had a chance to connect with your guides, gift yourself a short meditation and listen to Spirit Companions.
What does this Energy look like?
The healing colours that are accompanying our transformation are of the Divine Feminine: Purple to raise consciousness and allow greater insight through the crown channel. Loving pink light supports the physical to draw in the energy needed to align Earth with the new consciousness, the consciousness of all as one. The two energies combined create a healing ripple through the emotional / electromagnetic fields and balance our genetic coding (DNA). While we may feel this disruption, it’s not necessarily a negative but does invite us to rest.
What does this mean for us?
Muck. Dis-comfort. Old wounds.
All must come to the surface. We cannot move to the ‘next level’ if we continue to bury our hurts and, sometimes, it will mean we must accept that others may choose something different. And that too is okay. Of utmost importance is trusting that we each have our own Divine path that includes freewill and our own unique experiences. We are here to hold unconditional love for others and support them by believing in them.
Correspondingly, we ARE here to heal our own wounds (one of which may also include why we feel we can’t offer unconditional love to every being). Our purpose unanimously includes looking within, to acknowledge our hurts, acknowledge the role they play, the lessons we are here to discover in this lifetime, and ultimately to forgive.
The Wound Map
People often think that to forgive is to forget when really forgiveness is the balm that allows every layer of the wound to heal ourselves. Contrary to some lines of thought, forgiveness is not really about the other but more about us. Here is why:
We plan a lifetime* in which our goal is to find joy, to remember our Past Life (karmic) wounds so they can be healed, and to achieve spiritual evolution.
This plan (Divine Blueprint) includes seeking assistance from others to play the roles we need - some supportive and others not.
Those who agree to perform with us on life’s stage have often journeyed with us in many other lifetimes. Sometimes a specific energy will play the role of an antagonist again and again until we ‘get’ it. Other times we partner up and play tit-for-tat roles one lifetime after the other until one or both choose forgiveness.
We then embody the physical and our Higher Self follows the blueprint by working with other Higher Selves to help us have the experiences we need.
Generally, we need a series of events or experiences to form a pattern to get our attention, whether it be abandonment, betrayal, criticism, or any other uncomfortable emotion. This shows us what we are here to heal and offers certain strengths such as resilience, courage, etc.
When we recognise that the emotions we are experiencing reveal the wounds held deeply in our cellular memory, we can learn to heal the pain that has been following us through many lifetimes.
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts."
William Shakespeare* There are approximately 2% of the population who have not come to Earth of their own volition. However, the role of wounding still applies - perhaps also the need to release the wound of abandonment or betrayal at a greater level than most. We are Divine fragments of a Source energy that is unconditonal love. Anything that is not unconditional love is not who we truly are.
Applying Logic
So if we are playing roles for each other, it does not serve to hold onto the belief that ‘life is happening to us’ or that people ‘have it out for us’. Rather, it is an invitation to see ourselves as the powerful beings we are and to remember we are Divine co-creators of our experiences. If you are looking to understand this further, I highly recommend ‘Radical Forgiveness’ by Colin Tipping.
Control
We humans egoically believe we can control our experiences. Understandable but a folly. Our Divine blueprint is our ultimate guide for this lifetime and if we choose to ignore the clues, hints, and synchronicities we will find our roadblocks ever increasing. Rather than suffering and wondering why it is ‘happening to us’ we are empowered to learn our true ‘control’ is how we react to life’s circumstances.
Finding Forgiveness
With this in mind, and remembering that we have asked energies to play the roles we need - our parents, siblings, partners, friends and enemies, does it make sense to hold onto anger, resentment or bitterness? What would it feel like if we could forgive ourselves for creating this experience? And could we hold gratitude for no longer needing others to play out the betrayal, lifetime after lifetime because finally in a physical body, we recognised what we are doing?
I can’t Forgive
Please remember that forgiveness does not mean we need to allow people who don’t respect us or our healthy boundaries to have a ‘free pass’ into our lives. One of the strategies that we can use to bring us closer to forgiveness is to imagine we are addressing the person’s Higher Self rather than them. This is really the ‘true’ part of them. If we can thank their Higher Self for teaching us we deserve something better, or that we are worthy enough of saying ‘no’ and learning to create a firm boundary, then we can move forward. It may take small steps, but any step towards forgiveness is going to begin to release us from the imprisonment of anger and isn’t that worth it?
Broader Implications of Forgiveness
I see every wound ever experienced on the earth plane as a tangled web of low vibrational energy. When we resolve a wound, we not only feel better, but we untangle a portion of this low vibration energy and lift all of Mass Consciousness. What a blessing to humanity and all sentient beings!
A Healing Gift for You
A little mantra that can be used as often as needed was gifted to me by Suzie Webster of Red Earth Healing. It goes like this:
I have compassion for [ insert name/event/problem/experience] and I love myself enough to let it go.
And so dear souls, thank you for the roles you play in my life experience. Whether as a reader, or an active player in any capacity, I have gratitude for you!
Blessings
Michelle x
Michelle Cowles
Spiritual Leader/Teacher/Learner
Copyright Michelle Cowles 2023
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Love this Michelle. Thanks so much for sharing.