Spirit Report: Don’t Let your Feelings Determine your Actions
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The purpose of this journey is to travel to the Upper World and ask for general guidance and advice to help us in 2025.
So I’m standing on my mountain ledge, my mountain shelf, and knowing that I wish to go to the Upper World the energy beam gets lowered to me, almost like a rope, it comes and I put my hands around it and I grasp with my feet as well.
And immediately the rope energises and becomes taught, and this almost a vibration, that’s coming through into my body from the rope and I start climbing up very easy.
Hand-over hand using my feet to grip as well, but there’s no sense of effort, I’m just making these effortless motions and going up.
At the same the beam is taking me up as well, so its combination climbing and taking me up.
The sky above me is actually blue, with a few white clouds, and I’m going higher and higher, and it’s interesting – usually in the past it’s become darker but it’s still light.
And there’s a message that comes through already – of saying sunny days are ahead – which is a very positive and a nice message to
hear.
I get to a place that I’ve often gone to before – these large long wide pink steps, and I climb up them looking forward to going to being in the Upper World.
My intention is to ask a benevolent Ancestral Spirit for guidance and advice about how best to live and behave in 2025.
I see the large doors of this church-like building that these steps lead me to, and inside are dark wooden pews.
I sit and there is a white marble christening bath, and I’m seeing an infant being christened.
The message here to me is that 2025 is a rebirth, a new life, for me and for all of us.
Yes we can make 2025 a rebirth for ourselves, and we simply need to be clear about what the new version of ourselves will be like – in our behavior, in our qualities, in our actions, in our intentions – and we can create those ourselves.
We can anoint ourselves into a new life in 2025 and be better – more functional in ways that bring us more peace and contentment.
We need to be clear on what is it that we think will make us happier, and more content, and more satisfied, and feel like we leading meaningful worthy lives, rather than just waiting for something good to happen, which may well be the case, as the Spirit started off by saying 2025 is going to be a good year.
Part of making the goodness manifest is being clear to ourselves about what changes we want to birth into the world.
In what ways do we want to be more efficient, more productive, more creative, healthier, have better relationships ?
We need to to know what those dynamics are and not lose sight of them. We need to have a strong sense of what we want, and of what we want to get.
And a commitment that we really want to get, what we say we want to get.
If we want to get healthy, commit to that, as that’s what you really want.
The Spirits are saying they’re not talking about committing to the actions that will get us what we want, the Spirits are saying the actions that will get us what we want will be a natural consequence of firstly committing to what we want –
e.g. we want more health, we want to lose weight, we want to have a better relationship, we want to have more creativity in our lives, we want to be kind, we want to be more organized.
Whatever it is, we need to have clarity and commitment to what we want.
The more we are committed to what we want, the easier it is to commit to the actions and the intentions to act, that will get us what we want.
The Spirits lead me up a very tall tree – it’s almost like in a jungle.
I’m at the very top of a tree looking out and it’s green – like I would imagine the Amazon looks like seen from above.
And the Spirits say we need to be clear about what our place is in this vast Amazon-like expense of the world.
They mean having a sense of who we are, that gives us a grounding, that gives us a foundation, and our lives will expand immeasurably
So I could say for example “I am a grandfather and I want to do the very best for my grandchildren” – that would be like a grounding foundational statement that I don’t lose track of
It’s like a guiding statement that we will be clear and committed to.
We need to have commitment to the end, and the means will much more easily flow along, and occur, if we have this commitment to the end.
So for example, when a healthy body commitment rules, then all the subsidiary aspects or means, like eating well, fall into place so much more easily.
I put out this wish here in the Upper World to see an Ancestral Spirit that I can ask for guidance and advice, about how to live in 2025.
And I see a little hut – it’s a very simple structure, with an Ancestor, a woman wearing very a simple long dress, and she’s got a broom and she’s sweeping out her hut.
And I understand here is a message straight away – we must “clean up our act”.
She beckons me to come down to a little area where there are logs around an outdoor fire area.
I say I’ve come with great respect, to request you give me some guidance and advice, about how to live more successfully, more contentedly in 2025.
She says the biggest thing is to not get caught up in the negatives.
She says every century has negativity, every year has negativity, and it’s like feeding ourselves – are we going to eat at the trough of negativity, or eat at the trough of positiveness?
She said that its it’s an indulgence to continuously eat at the trough of negativity – just because one can be negative so easily, just because it comes so easily to be negative, doesn’t mean we should slide easily into that.
She says with practice and repetition, taking a more positive outlook, noticing the good, being thankful for the good, appreciating the good, talking about the good – that’s gonna have a very beneficial effect.
So even though it’s so easy to slide into talking about the negative, noticing the negative, being pulled down by the negative, it doesn’t have to be like that.
She said if we think of ourselves as this little infant that has been born ( the christening I was shown really didn’t have anything to do with Christianity, it was really just to symbolize the idea of a new life, and being greeted into the world by the community ), and no matter how old we are, we now have an opportunity to be a new life for ourselves, and our community.
She brings out her bowl that might even be made of wood, and in it is a thick white liquid, almost like a porridge.
It doesn’t look that appetizing, but she says for her in the 1790’s, having something to eat, and having enough to offer a guest, was wonderful.
She’s making the point of us appreciating that she appreciating our good fortune, in having food, and having enough to offer visitors, and not being selfish.
She said that’s an important aspect of what we should want for ourselves – to not be selfish.
And I drink this thick soup, porridge-like stuff, and it’s actually really, really good – it’s almost like a vanilla custard desert.
She says we should regularly put sweetness into our lives – this vanilla custard that she gave me, is symbolic of that.
What would be sweet? – a conversation with a grandchild, or with a friend or with a neighbor, looking at something in nature and acknowledging its beauty, and our are good fortune, children playing. She says sweet is actually a really good word.
We should endeavor to experience sweetness, and she make a start on the things that want and hope for oneself, for the New Year.
Make a start on new intentions and actions – each time you do something, it lays down a layer of strength for doing it again.
She says that we must remember that when things seem “stormy” , the storm is not going to go on forever – it will pass.
If there are hitches in putting the strong intention of what we want for ourselves, and then the supporting actions that will help us get what we want, it will be temporary.
The Ancestral Spirit says imagine if you had wanted to learn a musical instrument 10 years ago but you didn’t do it, imagine now today 10 years later, how good you would be and how enjoyable that would be.
She says despair is one of the worst conditions to allow ourselves to slide into – even when feels despair or feels hopeless, one can nevertheless do things that are positive despite how ones feels.
She says that our feelings are often our very worst enemy –
to be guided by our feelings, especially when our feelings are so negative and judgemental and despairing and hopeless, don’t let your feelings determine your actions.
The summary of her guidance and good advice for 2025 is don’t let your feelings determine your actions.
She said she had no idea that she would have such a wonderful family – her offspring, her future generations in 2025, and for her to see me, to meet me, is such a joy and such a reward.
I say thank you, and the drums have changed and are calling me back. I’m floating up into the air, she’s far below outside her little hut, and she’s waving at me and I’m waving back, and I’m shouting “thank you, thank you, thank you”.
I get back to the steps, these pink steps, and I run down them back to the energy beam and slide down, it get taken down, down and down and down, back to starting point on the mountain.
Now I’m back at home where my Journey started and I thank the Spirits that – was really interesting and inspiring – thank you!
