Hey Sam,

Internal guidance has shown me that expanding our consciousness and raising our vibration is the only way forward in evolutionary terms. Given the rapid global transitions currently happening your question is most timely.

First of all. The degree to which our consciousness expands depends entirely on our internal state of being. The state of our being always comes down to personal choice between one of two things.

1. Do we choose to attune to the lightness (i.e. the natural energetic flow of the universe or the pull of our soul) or

2. Do we attune to the heaviness/darkness rampant in all things not aligned to higher purpose (unfortunately this includes most modern environments with technology, impulses and toxins, negative energies that continually disrupt natural alignment to higher flow)?

Whilst our inner state is fundamental to expansion, there are countless things we can do in our personal external environment to support and reflect this higher state of raised vibration to us and inspire permanent shift in consciousness.

We might begin by asking ourselves the following:

How does the energy flow in our immediate environment?
Is our personal space uncluttered, clean, toxin free?
Have we consciously paid attention to the lay out and flow of space around us to avoid build up of energetic stagnation?
Have we cleared out all things/objects/gadgets/clothing that we no longer use/need or serve our purpose?
Do we have a personal space/corner/altar/home/garden prepared with love to honour our inherent state of expanded consciousness?
Do we minimise (or avoid) the use of mobile phones and wireless internet, microwave ovens, electicity etc?
Do we make lifestyle choices in harmony with the planet?
Do we eat organic, local or home grown food?
Do we embrace food that supports expanded consciousness?
Do we wear natural clothing where possible and use only natural products on our skin?
Do we use natural cleaning products?
Do we meditate (or do something - whatever works for us!) that naturally aligns us to higher consciousness on a daily basis?
Are we surrounded by people ('friends', family, colleagues) who support our spiritual evolution? Or do we frequently encounter people who consistently project their stuff, emotions and negativity into our field?

It is surprising how much of our lives we leave to fate. If we are ready there are no end of changes we can make to assist in our expansion of consciousness (and hence evolution).

Once we become aware of them we might also ask ourselves"what are we waiting for?" "if not now, then when?"

With warm regards
Trin

In response to your question on the contrast between lighter and heavier states:

When we enter the field of others with a higher vibration than ours it is common to attune to their higher state, feeling uplifted with a temporary raised vibration/expanded state (as long as we remain in this 'higher energetic' field. This is often a powerful contrast if we are used to the ordinary vibrations of most modern/man-made living.

The 'crashing' effect that you feel after leaving a higher energetic space is the effect of re-attuning to heavier density.

We find ourselves unable to maintain an expanded state of consciousness unless we have done the necessary internal work on ourselves (i.e. releasing that which does not serve our evolution and harmonising with the natural flow of the universe).

We can make matters infinitely easier by making only choices that are aligned to higher energetic order. It's all up to us!

Warm Regards
Trinity

Thanks guys for a really interesting thread!

I see "attunement" kind of like tuning forks. Imagine someone is holding a high vibration. Their soul is like a tuning fork sounding a strong clear note. However where someone is not really tuned into their soul at all, then the sound of their inner tuning fork is greatly dampened - kind of like wrapping it in material.

Now if the person with the low vibration moves into the vicinity - the aura - of someone with a high vibration, then their soul will vibrate stronger - it will "entrain" with the energy of the stronger soul (the louder tuning fork).

Now when that person leaves the higher vibrational environment once more, the tendency is to slip back into the lower vibrations. However as Trin points out above, this is ALWAYS a conscious choice. In other words we have the possibility to keep tuning into the lighter vibrations of the soul and follow only those choices that raise our vibration OR we can slip back into the old fear based habits - those of lack of trust, judgment, doubt, anger, worry etc etc.

At the end of the day, it is all up to us!

Best wishes

Chris

"Do we have a personal space/corner/altar/home/garden prepared with love to honour our inherent state of expanded consciousness?"

Drawing on Trin's question above how do people feel about this and creating sacred personal space with love? What is your personal space like? Something I've been meaning to do for a while.

Love and Light
Mari

The first step in creating sacred space is to clear out everything (and I mean be profoundly honest with yourself here) that we no longer need. Objects that have been given or gathered mount up in cupboards, drawers and invade our space. Clothes, kitchen objects, dvds, music, books, photos etc.... Charity shops, car boot sales, second hand book and music shops, local ads, the local skip are excellent outlets for this kind of stuff.

I cannot recommend clearing out highly enough. It can be an intensely liberating experience (after releasing any lingering attachments and resistance of course ). You may find that many things become immensely clearer.

Many people find that possessions carry energy around old relationships and circumstance. One of the major benefits of clearing out is that we being to release ties that have long since served their purpose. To hold on to them would only serve to retard our evolution.

We often find that we use very little of our personal possessions and most of them are nothing more than and unnecessary weight to bare. Ask, with an open heart what we truly need and take it from there. There's no time like the present

Trin

Just the motivation I needed.
Love and Light
Mari

So now we've cleared out all of our clutter What next?

I'm not really into half measures and personally believe that ALL of our personal space deserves to be a sacred outward expression of the heart and soul. In this way expanded consciousness is truly invited to integrate into our everyday experience. It may be that within that we have a room or altar that we offer particular homage and care to, which can provide focussed inspiration. If you share space with others who have different ideas then do whatever you can, even if it a small corner or shelf.

My experience has shown me that the personal space around us reflects our internal state of being i.e. clutter and hap-hazzard space equate to busy thoughts frequently incongruent with the clear harmonious flow of the universe. Conversely clear and spacious surroundings reflect internal clarity often accompanied with intense surges of divinely inspired activity. We are much more likely to be in expanded consciousness when our space is clear.

When deciding how to arrange our space (whether it be the entire home or a shelf) it works to find stillness, open our hearts, meditate and find the peaceful energetic flow that guides our action. It may be that we gather a collection of flowers, plants, objects of personal and sacred significance to us such as a card from a dear friend, an image, candles, a rock, feathers, a poem. The most important thing is that these things are significant to you.

Do we eat organic, local or home grown food?
Do we embrace food that supports expanded consciousness?

Expansion of consciousness depends on our internal state of being and our internal state is influenced by anything that enters our field (especially that which enters confines of our physical body).

When we prepare food our energy is transferred into that food. Personally, unless my energy is harmonious refrain from preparing food for others. I will only do this if it comes as a heartfelt experession and I can do it with love. If it doesn't come from the heart then it is best not to bother (never tastes good unless it does anyway).

Given that energy is transferred through food other things to consdider are whether our food is toxin free, organic, grown locally, home grown, produced with love?

In my experience a diet based on plant food is optimum for expanding consciousness (I have thrived on a vegetarian and vegan diet for over 20 years). In most case eating meat appears to have questionable energetic implications.

I would also add that avoiding addictive food stuffs, sugar, caffine, wheat, refined products, additives hydrodgenated fats etc are also highly conducive to releasing our blockages. In my experience these foods tend to keep us locked into a heavier more dense vibration.

Some find that eating raw food where possible greatly adds to raising our vibration.

There are many different traditions that tell you what you should and shouldn't eat. I would say that the most important thing is that you find what resonates in your own heart. It can be wonderful to seek inspiration from the experience of others, but we may find something different works for us.

When making the discernment about what I am supposed to eat, I would ask if it respects the divine flow of the universe and the natural harmony of Mother Earth? If I'm off track I will under no uncertain terms feel the brunt of it internally.

Trin

Many many thanks for the energy in answering these questions. I see why people would rather stay oblivious to these things . The things that stop us expanding consciousness are the bedrock of modern day societal norm.

My question (to anyone who has an answer) - how do we deal with friends and family members who just don't get where we stand? Expansion goes to pot for me when I come within a two mile radius of my family. I've grown apart from my friends at work too. There is complete lack of support for any spiritual journey. I feel awful for saying this, but I think I have outgrown them.

Sam

Hi Sam !

I just read you text "Dealing with unsupportive family and friends" ...just to let you know, I and my husband and also a friend of ours, too are suffering because of this issue.

We struggle trying to show them something new, some new possibility, some different way, not that we are the owners of the truth, but we would like to share our new perspectives and preceptions with them. That´s all. But no, they don´t want to hear, some even laugh about it, so we decided not to force them, just let them go...

I think everyone has their own time, and we do what we can, we try to show something different, why not??? So it´s up to them to try new things or not.

Now I expose to them my point of view and I don´t mind anymore if their minds are not opened to this , or like in most of the cases, they don´t WANT to open their minds.

I know it´s a little bit sad due to the fact that we kind of separate from them, but I try to keep in mind maybe their time will come soon, just as mine came only 2 years ago !!!

Take care,
Aline.

Great thoughts guys!

We often encounter these issues with people during our workshops. My inclination is to point out that our true family is our soul family who vibrate on a frequency that resonates very closely with us. Between us there is complete harmony, understanding and unconditional love.

Frequently when we incarnate into 'biological' relationships the purpose is to release attachment to them - to know ourselves as complete and whole beyond them.

The difficulty with such kinds of relationship is that they can pull our consciousness back to the old vibration if our relative continually wants to remind us of who we were, not who we now are. If we are to continue to evolve, the only way to do so is to be profoundly honest with ourselves and others. If they are unable to handle that, it is most definitely their problem.

I don't mean this in an uncompassionate way. The best thing we can do for another is to stand in our truth thereby causing them to confront reality not an illusion their distorted thinking would rather identify with...

"Be true to thyself
and it must follow as night the day,
thou canst not then be false to any man"
William Shakespeare

So my advice is always to keep standing in truth and let relationships arise or fall naturally around that.

Best wishes

Chris

Thank you for sharing Aline. It's very supportive to know that you are going through similar things too. I have started to feel strongly that if I spend time with certain people then it slows my personal spiritual progress right down.

I've just now seen Chris's posting too helping to make sense of it all. We are doing no service to ourselves to allow others to pull us back into the old vibration. Many thanks for wise, helpful words everyone.

When we first begin to consciously encounter the love and support of our soul family we become increasingly discerning about who we spend our time with. Every encounter becomes purposeful and meaningful.

The choice is always ours. We are not beholden to anyone. The only thing we owe anyone is to sincerely be ourselves.

"Even after all this time the sun never says to the Earth,
"You owe me."
Look what happens with a love like that;
it lights the whole sky.

Hafiz

Warmly
Trin

I totally support that the food we eat has big energetic importance.

If we eat something that had endured a state of distress then surely we take that distress on energetically whether we realise it or not.

If we take milk that is meant for a calf (erm....... that would include cows milk) then surely we take on the appropriate karmic energy to match the imbalance in nature.

If we prepare food while we are in a foul mood then I would think that we transfer our negative energy into the meal and then whoever eats the meal absorbs it!

We eat food for energy. So when we eat our food something happens to the energy. It becomes part of us. We take on the energy of what we eat!

These things my folks never taught me when I was growing up!

Love
Angel

I know what you mean... That reminds me that a friend of mine said something slightly different in that we are infact not what we eat, but rather we are what we absorb of what we eat.

Of course since then I have come to realise that we are actually none of that and are infact beyond it all However we are having a human experience (atleast most of us are) here and are infused into bodies that are imprinted by the energetic influence.

The cells of a body structure hold memory imprint. That could be anything depending on what ever has been experienced by that life form (compassion, love, fear etc). If we eat that life form (be it plant or animal) then we absorb the matter as well as the energetic imprint.

I breast fed my child and he developed eczema. Since the only thing that he was consuming foodwise was breast milk it indicated that the protein within the breastmilk contained something that his system was reacting to. I'd eaten no meat, dairy or stimulants for years, although I still ate bread made from wheat. I cut it out of my diet and within three weeks his skin problems had cleared up entirely.

Imagine what we would be absorbing from the rest of the food we eat if a child can react in that way to a fairly pure diet.

ALthough I agree with all that Chris has said here I would like to add one comment .

Some of us , perhaps most of us here have incarnated into this lifetime with specific plans ....sometimes very big plans .
For those of us with big plans for this lifetime we require ways of keeping us looking in the right direction.
An easy successful and prosperous life would only serve to show us that we have mastered all that we came here to master.

The relationship that may seem like a curse now .......may provide the inner understanding to take you to the next level. Without that relationship you would probably not have looked deep enough to have realised that there is next level .

gary

Love is always the answer.

Welcome to the forum gary

Thank you for your input - I totally agree with you. I too believe we each have a unique and destined pathway in line with a "Higher Plan".

To me that Higher Plan is not fixed, it is continually shaping and changing around what each of us does. It feels to me like there is a constant flow 'downwards' of Right Action, kind of like water flowing down a mountain side. It flows according to the lay of the land constantly changing and reshaping to find its way back to the ocean.

I believe the Soul Family guides us in this destiny by continually providing a mirror - "does how you're flowing right now serve who you really are? Is it what you came here to be?"

Good to have you on the forum.

Best wishes

Chris

Chris

I like your moutian stream analogy . I agree that our paths are not fixed . If they were there would be no such thing as free will.

Using your analogy the specific plans that I was talking about could be thought of as deciding what part of the mountian you start from . Obviously if you start from the east side mear the top you will go east for the most part and the trip may be very dramatic at times. on the other hand if you start near the bottom on the west side. Your life will be much more like a serene flow to the west .

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I believe the Soul Family guides us in this destiny by continually providing a mirror - "does how you're flowing right now serve who you really are? Is it what you came here to be?"

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I am not sure what your idea of a soul famaily is ( didn't see it in your glossary )

I believe that the soul is more complex than alot of people do.

I beleive that we all start from the ONE

From the place where we all are one there is what could be called a string of incarnations though all the dimensions . We ALL exist in ALL the dimensions right NOW.
From the perspective of this incarnation it seems like we are only physical. But our physical selves are a very small fraction of who we really are.

If I was to define what a soul family is to me , I would have to say that some of the strings of incarnations are entwined. Our lives in this and other realms have been in close contact for a long time.

gary

Love is always the answer.