"I never do that!"

Have you ever said or heard these words before? What kind of responsibility is it to see what is "wrong" with everyone else? Have you ever seen someone do something and you say, "Yes, everything is reflective but that's not me. I don't ever do that"? Well you've just robbed yourself of the most beautiful power that awaits your awakening.

As I was thinking about situations that occurred this week I found myself saying these very same words of destruction. It was then that I realized just how tricky the shadow can be.

I'll give you an example to help. We have stairs at work where we keep files and such. Nobody really wants to go up there, but I seem to be more willing than the rest. There was an image in my mind where I wanted help to take these files upstairs and had requested assistance. But what I got instead was someone standing at the bottom of the stairs as I worked my way up. I really didn't give this much thought, and I had no feeling to it. However, it's always beneficial to us to observe and then process when we have time.

So as I thought about this situation I had to stay true with what was. Now, what normally happens is what I just said above, "I am more willing than most". Well this is not the truth, but what ego wants us to hear.

You see as soon as we say that we don't do that we surrender our power. It's not exactly as it seems. So I had to break it down. Upstairs equates to higher knowledge, higher understanding. But I also had to think about what was in the upstairs which was old files, files hold information, old is mature. And because the only way to get to the upstairs is by going outside this means that we have to see ourselves outside in order to access the higher realms.

Wow! how significant is that????? So what I was learning about myself this week is that I need to go outside of myself, experience myself through others in order to achieve or reach the higher realities, realms of higher knowledge.

You see I had only gotten it to the level of seeing what I see and judging it, but now that I judge very little the next step is to look at what is and understand it's spiritual meaning.

We are all here to ground the spirit with physical. It is only through our ability to take 100% responsibility for "what we see" in every situation. But as soon as we say, "Oh I don't do that" better think again because there IS something that you are either doing or not doing.

Now, regarding the situation I shared with you, what is spirit telling me? Well the friend is at the bottom of the stairs, so this equates to that I am unwilling to elevate to a higher level of understanding or learning. And even though I don't know why she would not go up there I have to "think" or judge why she wouldn't. This was more difficult because I had no idea. But I will say from experience those stairs are narrow, tight, and high. There are a lot of these skinny stairs to climb and they are not the safest. So difficulty was my first thought. How true is that for ALL of us. We all have moments in our lives that ascending seems more difficult than we care to take on. That's why so many of us just give up and go back to that it's everyone else that's messing up not me.

Wow!! what's real about this is I have said what God was letting me know from this situation. I had said that it was getting to hard to do all of this spiritual stuff and I needed a break, I needed to be more grounded.

So how was I doing this? I was thinking that climbing to the higher realms of knowledge and understanding were too difficult too obtain. But then I finished with the rest of my week and realized that it was as easy as 1,2,3......

If you are one that always says, "I never do that" you better look again because you are somewhere in your life. Maybe not just like that but like it in some way. When you say that someone else is controlling and rude, mean, and manipulative, of course it's going to be hard for you to see how you are doing that. The ego wants you to believe all that about others so that you will NEVER know you.

Enjoy!