VERONICA LEE

In the hustle and bustle of our daily lives, we can find little, if any, time for peace and quiet. Sometimes our only private, quiet space is when we are in the bathroom! And, likely, it isn't a daily ritual to take a leisurely bath with candles, lavender and an hour of indulgence just for you.

Many of us have looked to the early morning or the late night hours to have a little hush time for ourselves... if we are not too tired or haven't used that time to squeeze in a few extra tasks, anyway.
 
Sure, meditation can be a wonderful way to find peace and quiet. To allow the mind, ears and voice to rest. To release thoughts and soak in the silence.

Yet meditation is not the only way to enjoy quietude. Reading, crafts, chores and driving can also be done in quiet. Rather than clicking the noise-inducing Play button on your electronic device to fill the space with music or speech, perhaps you integrate a little silence into your day. Don't worry if your mind wanders; perhaps it is simply wondering how to help you listen to the sound of the Divine in silence.

If only for a few minutes each day, why not allow yourself to be embraced by quietude?

There is a difference between discernment and judgment; subtle, but important. Discernment allows us to see, feel or know the things that are in our “highest good” and those which are not. Using discernment, we can avoid experiences, relationships and conditions that are not in our best interest. We can decide which jobs, activities and situations to engage in and, generally speaking, have pleasant experiences when we use our gift of discernment well. Judgment, on the other hand, keeps us separated from others and from Source. Judgment is always directed at people or groups of people. Though we may believe it is about others, it is actually about ourselves. Judgment is the ego’s way of feeling safe by protecting our hearts, beliefs and perceptions, even when the judgment is against ourselves. Because it stems from our personal, often wounded, aspect, judgment can be detrimental to both our individual and spiritual growth and happiness in life.

Why are we attached to judgment?

Most of us grew up in a family that offered conditional love. We saw that if we behaved in certain ways, we would be rewarded with affection, kind words, encouragement, and so on. Or, perhaps, we would avoid being hurt, whether physically, emotionally or mentally. Or, unfortunately for some, avoid being hurt too deeply. We also discovered that our world had many places, people and situations that felt unsafe and soon learned to protect ourselves, and our hearts, with our power of judgment. Thankfully, a mechanism of our ego body, the structure of judgment saved us. For better or worse, it actually helped form us.

As we move individually and collectively to a more loving experience of being, we are finding ourselves in an uncomfortable predicament. On the one hand, we are aware that it is time to change; we desire unconditional Love, we wish to release our fears, we want to expand into a greater us. We may even wish to release the denser parts of our ego, including one of its prime foundations, our judgments. On our other hand, however, we are finding resistance to our growth, resistance to releasing the basics of our old “safe” structures, which – of course – includes judgment.

How can we simultaneously allow our ego to feel safe and release its attachment to judgment so we can grow and stop the patterns of separation consciousness?

Our intention, as denser energies become finer, is to bring Love Consciousness to all aspects of ourselves, rather than to defeat or reject them. Just as we might work with a frightened child, we can use what is familiar and in the child’s capacity to lovingly teach from that starting point and encourage growth. As judgment is what’s familiar and safe for our ego, we can use it to help it transform; perhaps into discernment, or even unconditional Love.

Shifting Judgment
We all know of people, whether in our personal lives or currently living on earth, that we consider “good”, “pious” or, if you are aware of energetic vibrations, “high frequency.” These are individuals we judge to be either equal or better than ourselves on a deeply personal or spiritual basis. Perhaps we only know of a few folks, or maybe we have given up on humankind and only view saints, archangels or past spiritual teachers in this category. Regardless, we all have those we judge as “superior” or “holy” in some way.

With a simple exercise, we can let our ego use specific individuals to create a new structure from which to feel secure, grow and assimilate.

• Allow yourself create a safe, comfortable space around you, whether literally or energetically. With intention, call upon the individuals you admire to form a structure around you. The image can be a spiral with each person representing a point on the structure as it surrounds you. If you can think of others, perhaps higher beings such as ascended masters, you can create a second spiral moving in the opposite direction, as in a double helix like our DNA. Visualize other forms, such as sacred geometry, if that is your preference. Repeat this exercise as much as needed, especially when you notice your judgment hampering you, or when you feel lonely, lost, foundationless, or disconnected.

As many of us feel separate from Source so often, or place archangels and ascended masters on such an unattainable pedestal, it is important to envision real people in this exercise, even if we don’t know them personally. This connection is a “next rung” for our ego’s ascension process. The ego may even judge the person invoked as having real human flaws, which helps it feel worthy, resonant and safe, deepening the connection, allowing the entrainment.

Whether we feel it during the visualization or not, this exercise allows us to connect deeply with Love Consciousness. By encircling ourselves with “high beings”, hence Love, the ego body finds its validity and releases its need to judge and separate. On a subtle, energetic level, by continuously creating the DNA image structure around us, we can allow the field to entrain our own DNA with these higher frequencies. In doing so we can rebuild our “matrix”, both outwardly and inwardly, in a conscious and deliberate way. More importantly, with the ego’s judgment released we actually open our hearts completely to ourselves, to others and to the Divine. We become conduits of unconditional Love.

Think of all that is breaking apart around you.

So many are finding themselves losing relationships, jobs, money, homes and more; things they never imagined losing. We have entered a "point of no return" in which energies which no longer serve us, especially old patterns, are falling away. We, of course, can try to turn back and grasp at the old, but the efforts are in vain. As we forge through the uncertainties, we are growing stronger and soon - soon enough, anyway - we will see that we have broken free. 
  
Trust that your soul knows how to claim your freedom. Trust that this is why you have come to Earth at this time; to not just remember that you have always been free, but to demonstrate and relish in your absolute freedom.

When things seem as if they are breaking apart in your life, let the courage in your heart remind you that you are simply breaking free - allowing liberty - so that you can pursue your happiness unfettered.

For the last several years I have been talking about energies "intensifying." I have also said that I like the word because it is a neutral one; it can describe ecstatic experiences as well as dramatic, heavy ones. And, again, I must say that the energies we are experiencing are still intensifying. Time is whooshing past, structures are crumbling away and our need to feel and believe in our value is nearly unbearable.

This, of course, could be called "Life" or it could be seen as the shift we are moving through as we awaken to a greater consciousness. I think it is both.

Intensity.... As I continue to breathe through the whoosh of my personal life, with my oldest daughter graduating from high school and my son graduating from eighth grade, I am finding myself re-evaluating the "how's" and even the "why's" of my work as an Intuitive and Spiritual Mentor. I am caught between welcoming the New Age - in which we are no longer needing "teachers" or "healing" - and the deep feelings of "I can help show the way" and (more surprising to me) "I can help people clear old patterns and integrate the new."
 
And, in this 3D world, there are the necessary logistics to make the energies from higher realms manifest. And, I see and know a world in which only Grace and Ease are most in alignment. 
 
In my work and daily life, I find myself in this space "between worlds" - inwardly experiencing the new as I witness the old still in action. Stepping forward in consciousness, as best I can.