I can trust myself as a perfect and luminous Creator. What an amazing discovery this has been! The light of this awareness has been slowly dawning over the past few years, as I've come into the recognition that every experience is a perfect gift from my Higher Self, my Spirit. And this is true for you too!
Every incident, occurrence, event, "accident", etc. carries with it an opportunity for healing, enhanced awareness, spiritual growth for yourself and others involved. More Light, more Love, more Joy. When we are able to recognize the perfection of our own creations, we can identify and claim the gift(s) in any situation. When we perceive from this level, we shift our narrative from stories of suffering to tales of transformation. The trick is to find the gift within the experience.
In order to do this, we need to be able to detach from our suffering perspective and witness the dynamics involved from a higher level. This requires mindfulness, the ability to connect with our intuition ... and, of course, practice. The first step is learning to insert a liminal pause.
What does this mean?
The liminal is a threshold state -- an undefined space betwixt and between, neither here nor there. It is the space between catalyst & response, cause & effect, an experience & our evaluation of it.
When we perceive a challenging situation, we tend to immediately label it as "negative", which triggers resistance and throws us into a fight/flight/freeze mode. Our brain goes into a beta brainwave state. While this is an optimal state for running away from an imminent threat, it is not conducive to mindfulness or intuitive connection.
Intuition requires an alpha or theta brainwave state. While we're in beta we cannot be in alpha or theta, which means if we want to perceive and receive the gift of our own creations, we need to learn to shift our consciousness.
In every challenging situation, I'm learning to insert a liminal pause. I stop, breathe and remind myself that I can trust my creations. I'm cultivating the ability to suspend the temptation to tell myself stories of stress and impending catastrophe. Of course, I can still be triggered into a fight or flight response, so I've also been learning energy medicine techniques to help me calm, center and reset my system when this happens. As I relax, my brain shifts into a deeper brainwave state, making intuitive connection more accessible.
As I work with these techniques, it's becoming a habit for me to incorporate them in the moment or as soon as I realize that I have been triggered.
One technique I find beneficial is Sedating the Triple Warmer. Triple Warmer is one of the meridians or energy highways in the body. This meridian tends to get over-stimulated by stress. Sedating this meridian helps to soothe and calm stress in your body, mind and emotions.
SEDATING TRIPLE WARMER
adapted from Donna Eden’s Energy Medicine Kit
Benefits: The triple warmer meridian is closely linked with the fight-or-flight response. Sedating the triple warmer calms the meridian, helping to reduce fear and anxiety, release tension and overcome insomnia. You sedate the triple warmer meridian by running your hand along the meridian in the reverse direction of it's natural flow.
Do these exercises when you are feeling stressed, frightened or anxious, having trouble grounding and centering or are over-energized or excessively jazzed.
Simple Option: Smoothing Behind the Ears
You sedate the triple warmer meridian by running your hand along the meridian in the reverse direction of its natural flow:
- Place the tips of your fingers on your temples. Take a deep breath in through the nose and exhale through your mouth.
- On another deep in-breath, slowly slide your fingers up and over your ears, maintaining some pressure.
- On the out-breath, take them around and behind your ears, down your neck and hang your fingers on your shoulders.
- When you are ready, push your fingers into your shoulders, drag them across the front of your shoulders, and let them go.
Complete Option: Tracing Triple Warmer Backwards
- Place your right hand flat on your left temple.
- As you inhale, sweep your hand firmly and steadily along the triple warmer meridian (pictured above) to the tip of the ring finger on your left hand, exhaling as you release the energy through your fingers.
- Repeat 2 or 3 times on your left side as needed.
- Repeat on the right side.
I use this and other energy medicine techniques and spirit practices to help me restore balance. For more techniques, I recommend Donna Eden's Energy Medicine book &/or kit.
When I am calm and centered, I ask myself:
How is this perfect? What gift am I offering myself in this situation?
I don't try to find the answer through reason or analysis; I align with ease and ambiguity, stretching out the liminal pause to allow my Higher Self to slip through the space between my egoic responses and illuminate the situation with the Truth of the Spirit. Sometimes clarity arrives quickly. More often, I need to take my mind off the situation, release attachment to outcome and allow insight to incubate. Movement, sleep, meditation and prayer can all help me to connect to my intuition.
When clarity comes and I glimpse the gift at the heart of the challenge, I often laugh aloud. Gifts come in many forms: an opportunity to heal a long standing wound, to forgive and restore a broken relationship, to recognize the beauty of my own being or that of another, to shed a limiting belief which has shaped my experience of the world, to hold another human being in love, compassion and trust in our mutual luminous creativity.
I open my heart and mind and say "Yes!" to my own perfect creation. Once the gift is received, I ask Spirit for guidance to help me move forward, taking the necessary steps for resolution, releasing what is painful and aligning with joy. I insert a liminal pause and await the inevitable inspiration.
article by Ananaia O'Leary