Define Your Sovereignty; Upgrading Your Self-Identity

All your ideas, beliefs, thoughts, and feelings about who you combine into what we refer to as your Self-Identity. Our thoughts and ideas are like tennis balls we toss up in the air. Emotions connected to our thoughts and beliefs are the tennis racket we use to send the tennis ball out into the quantum field. The quantum field acts as a backboard sending back to us the circumstances that mirror the thoughts, beliefs and emotions we sent out. The stronger the emotion connected to a thought or belief, the more energy propelling those thoughts and beliefs against the quantum backboard. And then back into our lives.

We each have strong, deeply rooted emotions connected to the thoughts and beliefs we hold about who we are, don’t we? This is why editing, revising and clearing up your Self-Identity to remove/release the negative thoughts and emotions about who you are can have such a big and beneficial impact on your life. Editing out the negative, limiting beliefs and negative emotions clears the space so that the real You can shine through in all your glory!

When I began the actual ascending process, I saw that in fact, upgrading one’s Self-Identity plays a “key” role in activating for ascension to occur. For those choosing to pursue transitioning to the next level of consciousness (ascension), clearing out what is Not You from your Self-Identity serves as one of the keys to ascension, unlocking the door to ascending to the next level of consciousness.

These exercises and the mediation tools to follow (in subsequent posts) are ones I created for myself in the months just prior to ascending up to the next level of consciousness. At the time, I created these tools in order to feel better about myself and to free myself from the weight of all negative, belittling, judgemental labels I’d absorbed in childhood and adulthood. The exercises made a huge difference in how I felt about myself and I share now with the intention that they might assist others in their journey of growth, healing and wholeness.

So let’s pick up and continue on from where we left off in Part I of this series.
Gather up your lists from the previous exercises. There’s one more list to create. Well actually two.

The Positive Qualities You May or May Not Own
Make a list of the positive things others say about you. Examples: You’re so talented. You always know how to handle an emergency. You’re so creative. You’re one of the most non-judgemental people I’ve ever met.

Some of these positive statements about you may be strengths or attributes you own.  On the other hand, some might be ones you’ve resisted owning about yourself. If you have a lot of resistance about owning a positive quality that others often acknowledge, it might be an area to look into.

You Are The One & Only Expert On You
Each person is unique. You are the one and only expert on You. Thus you are the only one who can make the choices as to what you wish to include in your Self-Identity and what you want to edit out and release from your mental, emotional, physical and energetic fields.

Defining Your Revised Self-Identity
While it may seem counter-intuitive to start defining your revised Self-Identity before taking steps to release the parts you want to let go of, there’s a benefit to starting here first. When you define your Self-Identity in a new way, one that most accurately reflects who you are and how you choose to see yourself, you gain clarity, stability, strength, and become more grounded. This puts you in a solid & high vibrational space, one which facilitates the process of releasing the stuff that no longer, or never did, fit for you.

After reviewing all the lists you’ve made from this and the previous post, each giving you info on how you see yourself from different perspectives, it’s time to define your revised Self-Identity. On a clean sheet of paper, make a list of the qualities, attributes, and self-identifiers you choose for yourself. Taking the time to write out your Self-Identity is a first step in self-expression and bring your true sense of self into form.

This is a statement of your sovereignty. And it’s not my place to guide you this way or that. Yet I will share some options you might consider.

Options to consider:

• Place the various roles you play - spouse, sibling, parent, grandparent, supervisor, employee, etc. - in a side column of “Hats” that you put on and take off as needed.
  
  
• Consider including qualities and attributes that you want to embody. Example: courage, compassion, humour, confidence, flexibility, honesty, integrity….
  
  
• Practice “trying on” qualities or attributes that you want to embody on a continuing or situational basis. Each of us knows what confidence feels like, for instance, even if we’ve not seen ourself as very confident in the past. Trying on an attribute on gets us re-acquainted with the feeling, one you may decide you want to embody frequently.
  
  
• If you’re looking to make a career move, or change direction in another aspect of your life, consider including the qualities and attributes that fit you being successful in this new endeavor (however you define successful).
  

It’s important to recognize that, as a Sovereign being, you are in charge of how you choose to see and feel about yourself. You can choose how you want to experience yourself. Pretty neat, huh?

With your new sense of Self-Identity taking root and giving you stability, I’ll spend the next couple of posts sharing some meditation tools that can be effective in releasing old labels and false personae, reigning in your inner critic, and replacing limiting beliefs with positive ones.

You are the Light. Shine with the clarity of your true Self!
Godspeed!

Upgrade the Way You See YourSelf; Changing Your Self-Identity Changes Everything

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One of the most powerful ways to change your life for the better is to change the way you see yourself. What you experience in your life is merely a reflection of what is inside you. Your Self-Identity holds resonance (vibration). What you resonate from within attracts that of the same resonance into your life. Even small changes in your sense of Self-identity ripple out in beneficial ways in every aspect of your life, and the lives of others.

How We Identify Ourself
Most of us when asked Who Are You? offer a list encompassing our profession, family roles (mother, father, wife, husband, daughter, son…), political party, group memberships, and activities (jogger, gardener, painter, activist…), and perhaps an attribute or two such as, dog-lover, creative, or free-thinker.

Many of the roles, labels and attributes we absorbed into our self-identity during childhood or many years ago. We adopt these identifiers consciously or subconsciously, yet may not shed them when they no longer represent who we are. Ask yourself, are you the same person now that you were six months ago? A year ago? Five or ten years ago? Has your sense of Self-Identity changed in keeping with the changes in you and in your life?

At the deeper emotional and subconscious levels, our core sense of identity is acquired in a piecemeal fashion as we grow up and interact with others in our world. We take on what I call false personae. We acquire and take in at the subconscious level during our early childhood aspects of our Self-Identity upon hearing declarations such as “You were a fussy baby.” And as we grow up we hear: YOU ARE... “too rebellious”, “such a cry baby”, “too demanding”, “too emotional”, “too much of a free-spirit”, “too sensitive” “not man enough”, “weak”, “too far out there”, “crazy”, “hair-brained”, “selfish”, “such a coward”, “too aggressive”, “always think you’re so special”, “stupid” etc. etc. and on and on and on. 
 
It’s often more difficult for us to take in and self-identify with the positive things others tell us about who we are. The gist of these pronouncements, which we absorb into our sense of identity at a deep unconscious level, amass into a deep-seated self perception of “I’m not good enough.” or “I’m not worthy.”

Notice the commonality between our list of professional, relationship roles, and outside interests, and the false personae is that they’re all derived from outside ourselves, our outside associations and (mostly negative) opinions of others. 
 
The Benefits of Editing, Revising & Upgrading your Self-Identity

• Changing and upgrading your Self-Identity raises your vibration as you release old attributes that no longer or never did fit for you. Dependent upon what choices you make in selecting your revised sense of self, it can raise your vibration significantly.
  
  
• When you change how you see yourself to reflect what is truly you, you align yourself with your higher Soul Self.
  
  
• When you change your Self-Identity, based on your choices and Not others’ opinions of you, you (re)claim your Sovereignty.
  
  
• When your Self-Identity is based on your core attributes, and not your outside affiliations and roles, you gain stability and grace. This is especially valuable in these global transition and awakening times as the falsehoods are being exposed and the Truth is revealed. When one roots their self-identity in a particular cause or belief, one loses the ability to dispassionately assess information that refutes the basis for one’s affiliation. 
   
  
• When you remove false personae from your Self-Identity, and revise to reflect who you are and what you choose to embody, you remove lenses of distortion and expand your perspective on the world and open to seeing possibilities you could not see before.
  
  
• When you change your Self-Identity to one that reflects all the many positive attributes you embody, you diminish the power of your inner critic.
  

How to Change Your Self-Identity
If I just tell you about the benefits of changing your Self-identity you’ll get a cursory inkling. If I give you some tools to change your Self-identity and you try them out, you could develop deeper understanding and witness results. That’s the shared intent here.

The first step in upgrading your Self-Identity is to take a good look and identify what’s there, both consciously and subconsciously. In the second step, you get to make choices on what you want to keep, what to reframe, and what to let go of. Lastly, I’ll give you a couple of meditation tools to make revisions at the deeper subconscious level. This will most likely take a number of sessions with your journal and meditations. You may experience huge transformation in the process.

If you’re up for this, grab your journal and pen. This is a list of journaling exercises to examine how you self-identify.

1. When someone asks you to tell them who you are, what do you say? Write your answer as a list. Leave room to make three side-by-side columns.

After you have your list, in you second column, note for each item whether it’s a family role, profession, activity you engage in, or an attribute.

In your third column make a note about your feelings for your role, professions, activity, or attribute. 
 
Take a some time to reflect on your answers and journal your thoughts.
What patterns do you notice? 
 
Are the ways you describe yourself primarily descriptors? How many are positive attributes? 
 
Are there patterns in how you feel about this identity you share with others?
Other observations?

2. How do you describe yourself to your Self? Write your answers as a list. Leave room to make three side-by-side columns.

After you’ve made your list, in the second column note whether the descriptor is positive or negative. 
 
In your third column make a note about your feelings for each descriptor on your list.

Now take some time to reflect on your answers. 
 
How positively/negatively do you describe yourself to your Self?
What patterns do you see?

How does the way you describe yourself to yourSelf compare or differ from the way you describe yourself to others?

Other observations?

3. What does your inner critic say to you? Make a list of your inner critic’s comments about you. You might want to closely observe your inner critic for a day or two and take notes along the way. 
 
After you have this list. In a second column, note TRUE or FALSE.

For each inner critic statement that you marked as True, flag it as a “Limiting Belief”. 
 
Take time to reflect and journal on your observations. What patterns to you see? How often do you believe what your inner critic says is true? 
 
4. What statements have others made telling you, or others, who you are? Make a list of the statements/labels made by family, teachers, school friends, friends parents, employers, co-workers, during childhood and adulthood.

In a second column note whether each statement on your list is positive or negative.

Sometimes statements/labels denote a quality or attribute that you find to be positive, yet it was said with a negative connotation or context. For example “free-spirited” or “inquisitive”. Make a star or highlight these statements. You might decide to re-orient these qualities or attributes into “positive” at the subconscious level.

Spend some time reflecting on this list and journalling on what comes up for you. Note which ones were especially hurtful, or that you’re aware you took in at a very deep level.

As you’re doing these exercises and journalling about them, you may very likely find some old hurts coming up to be processed so you can heal, forgive and release them. You may also discover strengths you hadn’t seen in yourself before. 
 
This wraps up the exercises for examining and identifying your send of Self-Identity. The next post(s) in this series will continue on with making choices of what you want to edit out and discard, and what you want to include in your Self-Identity. Lastly, then implementing and integrating your choices at both the consciously and subconscious levels.

Namaste & Godspeed!

Inner Work - The Benefits of De-Cluttering

“The answers you seek are within you.” 

“Go inside to find the answers you seek. “

This guidance used to leave me in a state of confusion and frustration after each attempt to get the answers I needed. I’d sit quietly and focus inwards but I never heard the wise, loving voice speak the answers to my questions, questions that habitually involved some rather desperate version of “What’s going to happen???” or “What should I do???” Despite being strongly clairsentient (empath), and at times clairvoyant, I longed to be clairaudient so that some voice of wisdom would tell me the right choice to make, or tell me what was coming so I could prepare. Sound familiar?

"If you correct your mind, the rest will fall into place" -Lao Tzu


About 85 – 90% of the spiritual journey is a journey of self-discovery and personal growth. When we know and understand the process, we can better navigate the tasks required for correcting our minds. 
 
The analogy I'll use here is of a messy, over-stuffed garage. This is pretty much the state of our minds at the start of the path of self exploration, discovery and healing – a messy, cluttered garage. 

It’s very hard to find the answers inside when inside is a cluttered jumble of old stuff. The process of getting to an inner state of clarity and openness involves A LoT of sorting, chucking out, discovering inner resources we didn’t know we had, cleaning up, re-organizing, re-polishing, re-purposing, and donating back to Source what we no longer need/want so that it can be transformed.

This is a pretty comprehensive list of the tasks involved in the process of clearing and correcting the mind:

• Sorting through old hurts, figuring out what wisdom can be gleaned from the experiences.
  
• Learning to release old emotions from the mental, emotional, phsyical, and energetic body.
  
• Learning forgiveness.
  
• Discovering the one or two core issues you came in to explore and learn about in this lifetime.
  
• Examining the programming you adopted while growing up in your family of origin – Roles, overt & covert Rules, patterns of communication, perspectives, beliefs, values, who your family told you that you are. Then deciding what to keep, what to revise, what to replace with new ones that fit and work better for who you are now.
  
• Examining, editing, revising and upgrading your Self-identity.
  
• Raising your sense of Self-worth, which for most of us, is pretty low when we start out.
  
• Eliminating Fears.
  
• Running out the Doubt.
  
• Identifying and replacing limiting ideas and beliefs with expansive ones.
  
• Identifying the stories you tell about your life events where one often feature themselves as the victim, and rewriting your stories with new, more positive ones. Then ultimately, throwing the stories out completely.
  
• Elevating lower vibrating emotions to higher ones.
  

As we progress along the spiritual path, we progress in de-cluttering, cleaning-up, re-purposing, and organizing the mind. As the mind is cleared, corrected to reflect who one really is, it becomes easier and easier to go within and find the answers one seeks.
 
The cleaned-up garage of the mind then feature:

• Open space, openness of mind.
  
• Deep knowledge and awareness of Self.
  
• An array of very useful Tools, easily accessible, with ever developing skill in using them.
  
• An organized store of internal resources – Courage, optimism, honesty, integrity, resourcefulness, creativity, inner strength, flexibility, self-trust, humor, wisdom, compassion and self-worth.
  
• Elevated vibration.
  
• The coolest sports vehicle imaginable, one that can even transport you to the next higher level of consciousness, if you so choose.
   
  

Eventually the need for answers dissipates and evolves simply into an intention to create what one chooses to experience.  

Godspeed!

The Seven Step Process of Manifestation

The science of creation, aka manifestation, is based on quantum physics. It’s science. You do not need to understand the science to manifest. In fact we all manifest every day, whether we know it or not, whether we understand the underlying science or not.

Now, if we understand the process and have the gist of the physics involved, we can create with purpose and intention what is beneficial in our lives and serves the highest good of humanity.

The Manifestation Process is a simple, seven step process. Like the seven notes in a musical scale. One takes the steps in order, with steps 4, 5 and 6 continuing on at the same time. In other words, keep doing Step 4 as your add in Step 5 and Step 6.

Here are the Seven Steps of Manifesting:

1. Will to Do – Your commitment to create ____________ (fill in the blank)

2. Perceive – the design, the vision, the definition, the purpose.

3. Divine Love – Deep, pure, unwaivering love of your design.

4. Purity of Focus – Do NOT waiver from or second guess your design.

5. Concentration – Maintain Focus and Follow Through as you work, step by step towards your creation.

6. Rhythm – Keep Showing Up, taking action towards your creation on a regular basis. Build & keep the momentum going.

7. Tranquillity – After your creation is completed, mentally/emotionally wrap your creation in Peace.



When these seven steps are followed, manifestation WILL occur.


When the process of manifestation is disrupted mid-process, we don’t get the creation we are hoping/planning for. Sometimes we end up with nothing, other times we get something not quite what we designed or the opposite of what we set out to create.

These are some of the ways we disrupt our process of manifestation:

• Giving up. This often happens just before our manifested creation was about to show up for us.
• Second guessing our design (Step 2).
• Doubting. Doubting self, doubting your abilities, doubting your worthiness. Doubting your design.
• Limiting thoughts & beliefs, both conscious and unconscious. Example: "I don’t really deserve this", "Only greedy people make a lot of money", "I’ll never own my own home", "That’s never going to happen for me"….
• Losing Focus. This happens when we get distracted or start doubting. When we don’t follow through in taking actions towards your creation. “maybe I’ll start it tomorrow...”
• Failing to build and keep momentum. This involves failure to take regular action towards your creation.
• Sending out lower vibration emotions in regards to any aspect of what you are creating. Examples: anger, frustration, fear, doubt, jealousy, despair.

The tricky part of manifestation is that to really create effectively, one has to develop their inner mastery. Just as a novice musician first learns to play the scales, it takes practice and dedication for the musician to uncover their mastery and develop their skills to play a symphony. 

It takes dedication and perseverance to do the inner work to clear out the limiting thoughts and beliefs, to remove self doubts, to discipline your focus. However, the nice thing about developing one’s inner mastery is that as a result your inner work, step by step, your life gets better and better. As with all things, it is your Free Will choice whether to pursue this path or not.

Namaste and Godspeed!