Opening To Receive
by Kelly Tobey
It seems that the Lifeforce is continually willing to offer us more expansion in every area of our life and only awaits our congruent choice to let it happen. I say congruent because as many of us have discovered time and again, it takes more than just a conscious choice to have our life actually change. We may be clearly willing with our conscious minds to have
Spirit work its miracles in our lives. Yet if that is all it took, most of us would have been continuously happy, prosperous and enlightened long ago.
If our subconscious mind and our emotional and physical bodies aren't in congruent alignment with those conscious choices then we have not chosen fully from all of who we are. As this is a free will zone, Lifeforce will continue to
honor the voices that are the "loudest" in us. So if our subconscious desires
are bigger than, and in opposition to, our conscious desires it is not surprising
that we don't always receive what we would like.
One of the things Spirit asks of me, is to be available to help facilitate myself and others in the process of exploring what our subconscious minds are choosing, what our emotional bodies are choosing, and what our physical bodies are choosing. Once we become aware of these other levels of choice we can bring
clarity to these areas and invite the changing of our choices to congruent ones that more fully support us and everyone we affect.
I give the following example from one area of life. This may bring more clarity to
the concepts above. My belief is that Lifeforce would be glad to provide each of us with a happy, healthy, expansive sex life, in whatever differing form that may look like for each individual.
A person may be consciously choosing to have a healthy sex life, yet not experience it fully manifesting. They may have done lots of work with their conscious mind and beliefs, to do, think and say all the appropriate things that would invite
in a healthy sex life, but still not receive significant results. If they had the loving support to access other parts of themselves, they may discover, for example, that locked in their subconscious mind is a memory of being sexually molested under totally inappropriate circumstances. At the time of the event, the physical, the emotional and the mental body may have gone into traumatic overload because of not having the tools to deal with the
experience.
As an unconscious attempt to prevent a similar occurrence in the future, the emotional body may have decided to associate sex with fear and shame. The physical body may have associated sex with pain. The mental body may have decided that the only way to cope was to suppress the memory of all this into the subconscious because the person did not have the tools to deal with all this overload at the time. So years later, this person thinks they are ready to blossom into their sexuality but they have no idea that
in their subconscious memory are these messages that say 'be careful around sex', 'don't open completely or you'll be hurt,' 'sex is bad and frightening', 'sex will pain the body', 'just deaden the body and go through the
motions to survive sex', etc. etc.
No matter how much work this person does on the surface conscious level to have great sex, it will be undermined by the trauma induced messages that lay underneath. For the messages about sex to become congruent through their whole being, this person needs a very safe environment and the appropriate tools to bring conscious awareness to these underlying decisions and then to build safety so these parts of the self know they don't need to fear being re-traumatized and that it is safe to have a more fulfilling sex life.
This is just one example representing what can block us from having the bounty life can provide. Our blocks aren't necessarily as extreme as in the example.
We could have blocks created by all sorts of simple confusions and coping decisions we have made and then buried in our subconscious. The blocks
can effect a variety of areas in our lives.
If it is true that this is a loving universe that is willing to bless us in any area that we congruently choose to receive in, then we have to
conclude that in any area of our lives that we are not receiving with total
expansion, 24 hours a day, every day (our relationships, our prosperity, our work, our play, our sexuality, our spirituality) is an area where we still hold some blocks.
The good news is that Spirit has many, many ways to help us release those blocks if we choose to. My job as a facilitator is to let
Spirit work through me to support people in
removing blocks so life becomes more and more fulfilling. I am only one of many available resources. If life is inviting you to open to receive even more, then I support you in following your inner guidance so you will be drawn to the perfect people and situations for your next step in opening to receive.
