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Aspect #14

ESSENCE BOOK #1

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“The decisions you make today,

determine the stories you tell tomorrow.”

~ Craig Groeschel

ESSENCE: Change is constant in life.

Change is to make or become different. Change is constant in life. “We cannot step into the same river twice.” If we view change as positive, we tend to discover that new options are always available. With options, we have choice. Having choice is free will. Our society is plagued by a limiting thought that affirms, “Accept each other for who we are because people don’t change that much.” The acceptance aspect is accurate; the don’t change aspect is not. By the time we are teenagers, we undoubtedly have a blueprint of our core values firmly embedded in our unconscious minds. This blueprint is our operating system that guides us through life.

However, at some point in life we may challenge this blueprint by questioning our current-day values. This is often a worthy exercise, as many times we discover that we’ve outgrown what we were taught earlier in our lives. Through this discovery we change, eXpanding to our greater power. The more we eXpand, the more powerful we become.

Sleeping Souls tend to be stuck in their ways, highly resistant to change, because they find it difficult to question their blueprint. Many would rather suffer than experience what is unknown. They tend to live in fear, mainly fear of themselves. As a result, many of them never take the time to truly challenge their core values, because if they did, they would discover that many of them are illusions. And as Sleeping Souls get older, they find it increasingly difficult to accept that they have been living an illusion, with constrictive thinking, and poor habits. As they continue to suffer, they often do not know how to heal their past traumatic memory events, which reveal themselves in the form of energy blocks in their bodies. Many continue to cling to these inaccurate illusions and negative energy blocks, hindering their happiness and aliveness. Many feel stuck. Some begin to seek.

Seekers come to realize that anything that separates is an illusion. Therefore, beliefs are illusions! When this realization occurs, they tend to challenge everything, including their core values, which are based on their illusionary beliefs. Seekers tend to learn from others who have gone before them, realizing that figuring out an infinite Universe is impossible. Therefore, their change comes through accepting the great mystery of life. “I don’t know is all I know” is a spiritual truth that many of them embrace.

Awakened, who were once Sleeping Souls, now see the world from an eXpansive perspective. They accept that they are an “infinite spiritual being having a finite human experience.” They view themselves as a student of life, always learning, changing, and growing. Many Awakened have learned that true change occurs when they transcend to a new regenerative life of heart-centeredness....