Take the Long View to get the Big Picture

As many of you know, when I first began offering my services I identified myself as  a Soul Realignment practitioner…and that was that.  And that trademarked modality served me well for quite a while.  It gave me a framework upon which to hang my natural intuitive talents.  That work depends upon using a specific method to access the “Akashic Record”, and involves a pretty much cast-in-stone procedure for asking questions and narrowing down the information we need to help clear energetic blocks in the client.  I became very good at that method, if I do say so myself.  It suited me well…because if there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s following directions.  I’m very  mentally-based; you give me a decent blueprint, and I can build anything.

And so, using that rigid framework gave me confidence in my skills.  Like clockwork, when I described what I’d found by posing specific questions in a client’s “record”, almost without fail they provided validation.  I don’t care what anyone says; for any intuitive, this validation is pretty much the only way we have to double-check our accuracy.  There’s a fine line between egoic imagination and intuitive channeling, especially in the beginning of one’s career as a “psychic”.

Eventually, I began to develop a good feel for how the information was coming to me.  My dependence on the pendulum gradually decreased (although I still use it occasionally) because I found it unnecessary.  As well, I went on to  consult other very experienced and reputable mentors (amongst them at least one whose work was one of the bases for the SR work).  Without exception, they all advised me early on that I didn’t need the rigid framework – that my natural gifts were already developed well enough to begin working in a more freewheeling way.  In fact, the most reputable and knowledgeable one of these mentors advised me to abandon the entire concept of an “Akashic Record”, and even to stop using the pendulum altogether.  His position was that those concepts were putting limitations on my ability to tune my receiver in to all of the information available to me.  I was fascinated to see that all of the people I was consulting had somewhat different methods and viewpoints – but each was well-respected in the field and had numerous testimonials from clients attesting to their helpfulness and “accuracy”.

Moving forward, I also looked into other modalities; crystal healing, reiki, DNA restructuring, Diamond Alignment…the list is endless.  Again, all of these things had their enthusiastic followers and each had provided healing to a number of people.  At first I resisted acknowledging this; I knew that the method I had learned was “correct”…so how could these others be much good?  Most of them were very different from the method I was using (and usually in some very significant ways).  But eventually I came to the conclusion that, no matter what the basic concepts were behind these frameworks, none of the trappings mattered.  What mattered boiled down to a single question: did they provide relief, or not?  Intellectually, I’d always held that Truth is different for each individual.  But knowing is not the same as Knowing.  I finally was able to truly realize and internalize the fact that results are results.  This was a great relief to me, because I was then able to let go of the stress and strain of constantly being right.  Live and let live.  I didn’t need to correct or resent anything because it was none of my business what worked for other people.

Thus freed from the self-imposed responsibility of making sure that no one else was making a fool of themselves 🙂 , I was able to turn my attention to my own work.

Another thing that had bothered me about all the various belief systems was the difference in the terms and concepts used in each.  Sure, within each framework, whatever they wanted to call a thing was fine.  But being so mentally-based, I naturally looked askance at some of the inconsistencies between the systems.  Like, each method had terms like “demon” and “earthbound spirit”, “attached entity”…even the concept of the “soul” differed between them.  Some said that “group souls” were common…others that this was an impossibility.  Some embraced the idea of “twin flames” and “soul mates”, while others said that such contracts were actually destructive.  WTF.

Since I had decided that in most cases all of these systems were being used and promulgated by sincere people, I couldn’t dismiss the whole subject as being a simple matter of some of them being totally full of shit and some of them knowing what they were talking about.  Like I said, what works is what works.

But by nature, I have always had the imperative (and the innate ability) to reduce a problem or concept down to its simplest terms.  Instead of telling you that √(a+b/c) = d, I’d much rather tell you “d”.  Why confuse the matter with all of that other junk?

So, what I’ve settled on (for the time being) is that what you name a thing matters not at all.  Like the difference between healing and not healing, what matters is not so much the why of a thing, but the basic energy being produced by a thing.   Does it really matter whether there’s a “thought form” in your aura that’s producing an energy of depression….or an “attached entity”?  I say no…because you could go to ten different intuitives or healers and get ten different answers.  And, they might all be right!  But how confusing is that?  It’s no wonder that people keep going from one psychic to the next (aside from trying to get the answer they want instead of the one that’s true).

That said, I do still use some of those concepts in my work.  But I always emphasize to my clients that the exact terminology doesn’t matter – it’s the effect it’s having on them that’s important to know.  Once you know for sure that there’s something influencing you in a particular way and that it’s not a natural part of your Divine Self, that’s all you need to know to cast it off and make the change that you want.

So…I recommend that we all stop looking at the details and assigning such a huge significance to what we call them,  and step back to see the big picture.  I hate to burst anyone’s bubble of woo-woo, but using your magnifying glass in an attempt to discern the minutiae of a situation will only give you just that.  It’s like missing the forest for the trees, or looking at newsprint close up – you might get to see all the little dots, but it’s not until you take a step back and sweep your vision over the big picture that you you’ll be able to comprehend what’s really going on.