The Journey to Becoming Yourself

The Journey to Becoming Yourself
In a world full of stress, deadlines, needs, and scarcity,
it is sometimes hard to determine that you have any power.
Helping yourself can feel like an overwhelming and
unattainable mission. However, we also live in a world full
of new information and understandings. Ideas of
self-empowerment and the feelings that these truths bring
is testimony for a new way of thinking.

The universe is unlimited, and, if you choose to explore
it, you will awaken to a whole new way of knowing---a whole
new way of being. Spirit is available to all people at
equal levels; there is no "better than," or "more
deserving." The choice to raise your consciousness means to
broaden your awareness, open up to new possibilities, step
out of your comfort zone, and allow information other than
what you already "know."

Spirit has many names: God, Great Spirit, All That Is,
Mother/Father, Great Mystery, Allah, and Lord. All are
interchangeable. Your spirit, which is housed in your body,
is part of that giant whole. In fact, everything is made up
of the same energy. All things---every tree, rock, grain of
sand, gust of wind, drop of water, animal, insect, bird,
planet, star---are expressions of the divine, and we are
all interconnected in a divine and profound way.

You are an incredible spirit of divine perfection, the same
composition as Spirit. Creator is an ocean and you are a
drop of water in that ocean. You carry within you the exact
components and properties of the entire ocean. You are made
of Spirit, in the reflection of Spirit, and Spirit is in
you.

The following basic truths are unifying principles I have
learned in my work with the spirits. These truths present
concepts about healing and working with energy. They also
provide suggestions on how you might apply them to your own
life to enhance your process of healing and well-being. I
guarantee that if you make them a part of your daily life,
your life will improve in a dramatically positive way.

Anyone, at any time, can make choices for happiness and for
healing. This includes you. Read the following truths and
begin to ask how they might affect your life.

Universal Truths

1. Spirit loves and values you unconditionally.

2. You are first and foremost a spirit---a soul having an
earth experience. This earth-walk is but one fraction of
your being.

3. Your spirit has a divine purpose.

4. You agreed to forget your previous existence. This makes
becoming enlightened a quality of remembering who you are.
Remembering is embracing this reality and then making the
necessary changes in your life to reflect this truth.
Respect, honor, compassion, and reverence for all life are
necessary components for the path to awareness.

5. You are here on earth to experience, to create, and to
remember. If you do nothing more from this point on in your
personal growth, you will achieve two out of the three
before you die: You will experience and you will create.
You cannot help it. It is happening every second of every
day. It will, however, take a conscious decision to
remember. It is a conscious decision to awaken, to grow
spiritually, and to become the greatest version of yourself.

6. Walking the spiritual path means that you made a
decision to seek the truth of who you are. The quality of
life that you live is strictly a matter of choice. You may
choose to live your life at any level of awareness; all are
honored and respected; nothing is judged.

7. The universe is continually offering opportunities,
opening doors, and answering prayers. You can choose to be
conscious and awaken to these offerings.

8. Judgments, punishments, opinions of right and wrong or
good and bad are human concepts. These concepts are
illusions that hide the perfection of the soul. Judgments
and punishments do not exist in the spirit world.

Life is a journey of becoming, a continual cycle of
evolving from one lifetime to the next. What you do not
achieve in this lifetime, you will achieve later. You
choose the rate at which you evolve. To follow the
spiritual path is a choice and a matter of readiness, but
it offers phenomenal rewards. Your spiritual path is a
completely personal experience; no two existences unfold in
the same manner. As the spirits constantly remind me,
everyone participating in the earth-walk will eventually
come to complete consciousness. It is only a matter of when.

Judgments are what most often get in the way of personal
growth. When a person directs judgments toward others, it
usually indicates personal feelings of inadequacy,
unworthiness, low self-esteem, and lack of self-love.
Judgments can cause fear, hatred, arrogance, war, greed,
anger, blame, jealousy, pain, and loneliness---the
psychological disorders of the human experience. They are
often imprinted heavily and cloud the reality of one's own
being, which creates tremendous fear. Judgments have
nothing to do with truth or the perfection of the soul. Our
job as humans is to clear ourselves of the many judgments
we hold toward others and ourselves.

Spirit does not pressure you to change, because you are
loved unconditionally for all of eternity. The urge for
change is a pressure you feel from within---your own soul
urging you to create a better life. Happiness, peace, deep
joy, and a closer connection to Source are all available to
you. Something has encouraged you to ask questions, to
seek, to pick up spiritual material. If your life is not
being lived from a place of fullness, love, spontaneity,
passion, sensuality, and divine joy, then you probably need
to make some changes in your life in order to attain these
qualities.

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Jan promotes self-healing, empowerment, better communities,
a healthy world and conducts workshops in shamanism &
journeying. Her book, Becoming Yourself is at
http://www.janengelssmith.com . Jan?s a Licensed Counselor.
She?s done over two thousand soul retrievals. She is the
founder of LightSong School of Shamanic Studies, a Chemical
Dependency Specialist, and Marriage Therapist. She is a
water-pourer for sweat lodge, a minister, a Reiki Master.