Last week, we covered Acknowledgment, the second of the 3 A's. We discovered that after we brought our awareness to a particular situation or circumstance, and could observe all the facts, we could then acknowledge the impact it had on our lives. We saw that when we acknowledged a situation in the Season of Transform, we could be at a level of consciousness that would allow us to decide what we would do in order to have what we want in our lives.
At the end of the Season of Transform, when we are in stage 7, we know that we are no longer the person we used to be, and that we want to get rid of all the things in our lives that are not "us" anymore. This stage is very liberating and it is a wonderful acknowledgment to any situation or circumstance that had previously been a problem or challenge in our lives.
This point is the transition between the Season of Transform and the Season of Awaken. As we move into Awaken, we are now able to experience the situation or circumstance with Acceptance. Stage 8 is the first stage where the baseline emotion becomes gratitude. This makes it possible for us to be thankful for something -- something that, in Discover, was a problem to get rid of (and in Transform was an obstacle to overcome).
In Transform we are acknowledging the situation or circumstance from the mind. We are looking at the stories that we have about it and how those stories impact our lives. By the end of Transform, in Stage 7, we energetically rid ourselves from all attachment to the stories about it, and in essence free ourselves from our minds.
As we move into the Season of Awaken, in Stage 8, we have our first experience of the space or emptiness left when all the stories of the mind drop away. We see that, through it all, our soul was always there but we could not hear it for all the noise. And we are grateful for the situations and circumstances that were necessary for us to get to this point. This is possible because the charge of the situation is gone and it no longer owns us. It just is and we just are, and we can see its gift now. The gift was always there for us.
In stage 9 we realize that behind our bodies there is light, and that we are the light. We experience the energy and love in the situation or circumstance. In stage 10 we ascend and connect to a higher level of consciousness; we connect to the experience of being everything and knowing everything because we are everything. And we see that the situation or circumstance was not just a gift to us, but also a means for us to experience the oneness and the one love. In stage 11 we realize that we must give our gifts to the world and leave a legacy. In stage 12 we see that we must also receive the gifts of others and that this situation or circumstance was one of them.
In the Season of Awaken, and through stages 8 to 12, we experience different levels of acceptance of the situation or circumstance. We find that, in Discover, we wanted freedom from something. In Transform, we invited the same thing to show us what we needed to do to get what we wanted in our lives. In Awaken, the same thing is present -- but we are free. We experience freedom with the situation or circumstance still in our lives.
The 3 A's (Awareness, Acknowledgment and Acceptance) are a powerful way to move through life and healing. Apply them often, and see how observing your life this way gives you a way to see what's really going on, do something about it and come to a place where you are free with it.
