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Spiritual Guidance – Your Healing Work is Our Healing Journey

Reiki Reverend - Antonio Dixon - Spiritual life coach, energy healing teacher

Spiritual Guidance
A Blog Series By:
Reiki Reverend, Ph.D.

In this article, I’ll be discussing why I temporarily shut down my website, and how Spirit renewed my call to teach healing.

Right now is our time to center, to remember who you are and why you are on your path or spiritual journey.

When I had made one of the simplest drop-shipping mistakes, my drop-shipping business was quickly plummeting, I knew I needed a drastic change in my life if I were to be able to keep moving forward without losing sense my sense of self. I thought I had to shut down my business to find myself, what I found instead was far more enlightening.

My attempt to have a successful business was not very small at all. I had invested not only over 12 hours of research, but a chunk of my savings towards the success of that business. A major investment which lost the battle of will with my desire to fully embrace parenthood with my then-developing  toddler, and my then almost 18-month old. I wouldn’t have had it any other way though.

At the time I was managing a separate blog and spiritual jewelry drop-shipping business, Pathways of Limitless Light. From its beginnings, I felt like had done more than enough groundwork, study, and communications with the shopify admin to ensure a successful journey. I made sure my everything was in proper order for my page, and even began working my partnership with shopify into my posts about various spiritual and religious wares.

I had started this journey after my online church, Limitless Light Healing Ministries, had too may hardships in because of my workload and a lack of true accountability with my board. All of this, along with an intriguing amount of difficulty with finding a consistent secretary, made it remarkably to make it all work. My goal of sharing healing with the world from a paradigm founded in raising healing spirits was not quite met, but nevertheless I washed my hands ceremonially of the experience. I feel in my heart that starting the church and attempting to raise it in a way that could serve many was preparation for the next steps along my journey. As this is what I am doing now, I have no regrets.

The two losses, combined with the common stresses of parenthood left me in a bit of a mental tumble.
My way of thinking about remaining in business in general had changed drastically. I had just registered Reiki Reverend LLC formally mind you, up until that point I had seen my business a an evolution of how I would continue my life’s work; Helping others grow. However, as my time away from my children became more obvious, it was with great burden that I considered it leaving it all behind for a pretty long time.

I never considered shutting down the website entirely until I found myself unable to cope with the weight of continuing. I would tell myself that my work didn’t matter in the bigger picture, that it wasn’t impactful, just to try and convince myself of what my heart would not truly believe.

I continued with injecting myself with a lot of different limiting beliefs, but the emotional toll was impeccable. I care about my work, and I also care about my children. To be consistent I have to make time, but with young children that time is liminal. The big picture at the time was how far I was willing to go to be a father and do my work honestly. It’s not a secret that this business can hold a lot of projects simultaneously, and I never know when Spirit will call on me to work with someone, record, something for a blog or Podcast. To balance both, I felt my life may become unmanageable.

One thought continued to prevail however, it would send a shimmer to my mind whenever I would circle near delete buttons for too long.
You see, I never found a problem with any of the long-term projects I would drift to and from, but I was always taught by a mentor to be consistent no matter what, or you may fall from attention. To my heart-space, time for reflection to share fully and beautifully are all in-part aspects of my spiritual journey.

For many it isn’t a problem nevertheless, however I personally don’t like feeling rushed with what I would give freely to others.

When I meditated on everything, I came to the conclusion that this had to be the work of Spirit calling me to tend my shadow yet again. It took time to feel better about even posting deletion notices, and taking my webpages offline, but I couldn’t stay active wavering as I did. So, it was in full faith that this would resolve as needed that I took a bow and left.

It took a good while for me to finally relax and not think about my projects, but I was finally able to relax my mind and heal from the limiting beliefs that the nature of business held over my spiritual progress. In this time, a few of my students and even some friends will attest to how often I reached out to share knowledge or energy. I just couldn’t help myself from the moment I felt called to assist.

Even in my darkest moments, the joy from helping others has always brought a special type of bliss to me. That joy surpasses what I want from a business because its value is limitless. I realized that the business has been, and always will be, a vessel for a portion of my spiritual journey. Never the whole.

After all, I had been helping others anyway in general. It puts a huge smile on my face to know that I was able to help. In meditation, I asked Spirit to help guide my course.

What happened after would be nothing short of a powerful message.

Even though I had occasionally helped my students and friends out with various things, it was never very frequent that this would happen, maybe once a week or so. However, slowly but surely, I noticed a change in my Facebook newsfeed.

People looking for teachers in the Healing Arts, people with deep questions that seemed to be directly aimed at things I had either felt or experienced, some of them even reflections of questions I had myself. It was all rather triggering for me, but I continued to abide and answered who I felt guided to. 

About 3 weeks ago, I started getting messages and activity on my Etsy shop that I had completely forgotten to close. These messages were most often dense with content and emotion. I was torn with the first message I had gotten.

*The following statements have been quoted with permission, but due to their potential perceptions from peers I have chosen to keep the name of my student anonymous to protect all directly involved.*

“Do these Usui Reiki Certifications also come with the proper attunements from you? I ask this as I have seen some Etsy sellers simply sell the information from the books and not offer the attunements to go with it. Without the attunements, the information out of respect for the art of Reiki should not be used.”

It struck deep, but the part that made me completely rethink my decision to teach was the most unsettling.

“I need to protect my wellbeing and make sure that I am working with a Teacher of Light and Love. As a teacher of Reiki, do you follow the ‘Principals of Reiki’ taught in Usui Reiki I; do you follow what you teach? If I am struggling with something in the session, will you help and uplift instead of scolding me? If you feel for any reason at all that I have violated your space and/or time, will you tell me in a kind and empathetic fashion instead of yelling at me?”

In this world that we live in, I can understand the need to survive by other-than-normal means. We all have in the very least held witness to it throughout life. I myself began humbly, but would soon begin the same as others for a time.

When I saw firsthand the minuscule imprint I left on my students compared to doing my work honestly, I quickly resumed the latter. So, the details they gave me regarding the first question didn’t come as a shock to me.

It was the context they gave to the second question, that made me ponder in a trance-like pause.

To hear of a teacher who would treat a student with such disrespect is gut-retching.

I’m not oblivious to the ways of others, but to me the relationship between student and teacher is sacred. If it’s not in Love or higher purpose, then there is no good reason to ever yell at a student.

I was once told by my guides that it would not be what I did that gave me the most energy and success, but it would be how I did it that would attract abundance for my practice.

For me, teaching others is a passion, guiding their spiritual paths and even life’s journey in various ways. I could never think to treat the people who come to me dishonorably.

Whether people come to me for simple healing services, psychic services, life coaching, or even learning a certification course, I do my best to remain invested in how people feel about our interactions. 

Not just the results of a working, or how easy the written content was to read, but how they feel about their development and growth since we first began. Most often, I even maintain dialogue after they have completed their course-work.

However, I do cast aside personal investment with all of my healing practices to best allow for the highest intentions to manifest. Not only have I seen better results personally, but it is also a core element of my tradition.

The begging question, left publicly unaddressed to those who have followed my work, is why did I leave to begin with?

As I said earlier, at its center, a lot of personal ordeals and challenges that I had buried repeatedly and walked away from all surfaced at once. Immediately, I had far too much on my plate to comfortably work through, along with my responsibilities as a parent. To be quite frank, it was crippling.

Bit by bit, I felt my motivation waning, and I had to make a decision at the time whether or not I’d close down, perform a soul retrieval, and wait for Spirit to guide me to my next step.

Little did I know how that would manifest.

As I continued to hear and read similar messages that my now student had sent to me, from multiple sources, I knew that I could not allow myself to sit while the community began to degrade.

That I would do my part in whatever way possible to help in the very least balance the community of teachers out and assist with helping more teachers better reach, and be accessed by, students.

This all being said, I bear no ill-will to anyone who sells courses without interaction or purchases courses simply for the certificate and proverbial blessing to practice.

There are far more practitioners and even teachers who started the same way but will never publicly admit to it. What makes us different is our will to push beyond ego and learn how to best do our work. How to heal others while holding sacred the Light that enables us to do so.

In gaining experience, wisdom, and perspective, you may best prevent mistakes that could harm the ill-prepared or even the recipient.

The rest is giving those who seek access to their teacher(s) or resources the ability to do so most simply.

As we are all healers inherently; Constantly growing and developing, there will be a dire need for things like this in the community if there isn’t already. 

Whether or not you will count yourself among those who stood in the Light, honoring their students and healing traditions; Guiding the steps of those who have invested their energy and placed their faith into you. 

That choice is yours to make.

That challenge is yours to accept.

Your healing work is our healing journey.

Each of our souls is connected with the same Light.

Let us share our healing wisdom in harmony with one another.

Love and Light

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Spiritual Guidance – Taking One Step Back

Reiki Reverend, PhD - Spiritual Guidance, Energy Healing, and Psychic Services

Spiritual Guidance

A Blog Series By:

Reiki Reverend, Ph.D.

I’ll be giving in-depth yet light-hearted spiritual guidance, spiritual counseling, and a way for you to enhance your spiritual awakening.

In this article, we’ll be taking a step back. What do I mean? Read my story below.

Taking One Step Back

My goal today is the provide the help you need to achieve that next step on your personal paths to your higher purpose. Speaking of steps, that’s exactly what I want to talk about.

Steps.

Already, I have some people excited about that concept. “Alright, progress, moving forward all the time.”

After all, most of us perceive time as linear even if we don’t think about it consciously. We wake up in the morning expecting the rest of our day to fall in line from beginning to end. Sunrise to sunset, event to event.

That’s a fine way to look at things, but what if I told you that sometimes, things don’t always work out like that. Some people will automatically see where I’m going. I may have just lost everyone else, but that’s ok, isn’t it?

That’s the point.

Your day may have been going along rather smoothly before this point.

Or this point.

Or even this point.

Now you may be starting to question the way things are going to work within this blog.

I assure you that this is all going according to plan. Who’s plan is completely up to your intuition.

I woke up this morning, just like I have the past few days. Only to sit at my desk and wonder what I’m going to do with my day. You see, I’ve had a lot planned out these past days, and I’ve made a lot of changes to how I operate.

These rapid changes in my life seemed to be leading me to what I call, the next season of my epic TV series, that you all just happened to be a part of. I say it like this for a reason. You see, like all popular TV shows, there’s a protagonist or hero, and then there’s the antagonist or villain.

Sometimes, it’s as clear as that guy at the door who’s trying to keep you from entering your favorite restaurant. Other times, it can be far less clear.

A few weeks ago, I was drinking up to a whole pot of coffee a day, I was taking in a lot of nicotine from my e-cigarette, I was stressed, distressed, and just flat out a mess with my emotions. Even though I was thinking these things would help, time after time they just never seemed to work with me completely.

What changed for me you might ask? Reiki.

You see, up until the point of realizing my healing journey, I didn’t have a daily practice or study. I was pretty much just walking by the heels of my shoes, with my feet barely in, and I was waiting for my miracle to happen like a little kid waiting for Santa Claus.

I refused to accept personal accountability for some of the things that went on in my life, even though I was great at deflecting or rewriting a situation in my mind to suit what made me feel better about it.

As a result, my lifestyle seemed to remain in this flux where I secretly knew that things would only improve just long enough for my hope to be shattered before my eyes.

It wasn’t that I was a bad person, I walked in the light and all that comes with that. Every day wasn’t inherently bad for me, but my perception of the day is what would always torture me.

It’s this logic that I was always fighting a constant battle between myself and my inner demons, and the belief that their strength would eventually trump mine is what led me to a victim mentality and caused me to allow for my personal power to be whittled away.

Finally, it all caught up to me.

You see, while I was waiting for this miracle to happen, I wasn’t paying close attention to the abundance and wonder that was accumulating all around me. My son, who was attuned to Reiki while my significant other was pregnant and already developing to be a pretty hefty empath, had begun to understand himself more and more by the day.

My significant other was starting to make some big changes in her life and aiming higher and higher each day. Meanwhile, there I was, a hermit in a cave. I liked my cave for its ‘safety.’ I secretly knew that once I stuck my head out of that cave, it would be time for me to change as well. It would be about time for that next season to come.

I feared that next season so much because it meant that I would be a much larger blip on the radar. I couldn’t make the same childish mistakes of the past without facing some big consequences. I guess you could say that I have a Peter Pan complex, afraid to grow up and come into my own power.

Even then I knew that it would be necessary for me to work at my best and shed as many of my bad habits as I could.

That’s when I was called to begin teaching Reiki again. I knew that I was only at my best when I was practicing on a consistent basis and helping others. It’s like my blood would begin to run cold if I wasn’t helping others.

I had wanted for a long time to try working out a sliding scale to help people out who couldn’t afford the lessons or the sessions, but it was troublesome because I never felt as if I should be charging others.

Not for lack of self-worth, but for lack of desire. I just didn’t feel that Spirit wanted me to get compensation for my services at the time. The less than positive feedback from my associates only made the weight on my shoulders that much heavier.

I remember what happened next like a lucid dream. For the first time in over a month, I had finally lined up a 1-on-1 class with a good friend of mine who I’d been talking to about learning Reiki for about as long as I’d known him. Not even a day later, I had another 1-on-1 class lined up with someone else I was called to teach who I’d known for a while on Facebook.

These classes and the events to follow would come nothing short of fantastic.

That next week I had them both attuned to Reiki I and was proceeding with daily follow-up chats to make sure that they were receiving the attunement well and keeping up with their studies. In that same week, both mine and my significant other’s moms fell ill and ended up in the hospital. Another one of our friends was also making a trip to the hospital for surgery.

As I was called to work more on the infrastructure of my Facebook group I was also coming across a good number of requests for healing.

For the first time, I ran a distance Reiki session for multiple people at the same time. I would then go on to do several other distance sessions over that span of time. I would say that at one point in the week I was doing at least 2-3 a day for about 20-30 minutes at a time.

It would be shortly after that week that I began to feel odd. I had less control over my emotions than normal, and I felt my energy leaking right out of me. My thoughts all seemed to become negative, and before I could even fully process anything that was happening to me I knew I would need to assume the worst.

That for the first time in a long time, all of that negative energy that was being stored up in the corners of my mind had begun to flow freely. It had been revealed to me to help me heal more.

I knew that I had to take action, but I wasn’t confident that I could do it by myself. As I continued to find any source of light inside or outside of me to abate this sensation feeling like it wanted to engulf me, I reached out to whoever I could think of to help me.

Every time I started to reach out, I felt my mind splitting apart at the act, attempting to rip my hands back from the keyboard or phone. It had started to get worse and worse over time. After I had gotten the last message out, I felt in my heart that nobody would reach me in time.

I had to make a choice.

Either let this feeling wash over me and take me, or assume a meditative posture, lock my body up, and fight with every ounce of light I could muster up.

So I turned on my Himalayan salt lamp, put on some appropriate music to meditate to for the occasion, turned it all the way up to drown everything else out, and I went to work chanting the symbols and channeling Reiki in prayer.

I was in deep meditation for about an hour and a half before I would come back to my body. During that period of time, I experienced the greatest crucible I had ever faced.

So many times, I felt my mind and astral body being tossed around, ripped apart, smashed, burned, and much more. It was almost like the dark night of Siddhartha as he meditated under the bodhi tree.

Every set back made it harder and harder for me to will myself back together and continue. I felt like I was fighting a losing battle. That I had too much negativity in me to fight off. This was it, my last crusade. In my final moments of these thoughts, I felt the ascended masters and angels speaking to me.

“Stop fighting with your will, heal with your spirit!”

It was at that moment that I stopped feeling sorry for myself. I stopped thinking of this as a simple battle of brawn and I saw it for what it really was. My grand opportunity to heal myself on the deepest level I could fathom.

I called every ounce of light within me to my hands, every bright and happy moment of my life, every bit of hope and faith in my goals and aspirations, and that night I discovered depths of my capabilities with Reiki.

I channeled it not only into that darkness but to every corner of my mind that was still in pain, every memory that just needed some love and light to grow into something better.

When I came back, I wasn’t anywhere near the same. I felt completely healed on all levels. Over the course of the next few days, I would severely cut down on my caffeine and nicotine consumption, change my diet, and experience a deep reprogramming of my mind and thoughts.

By the end of this time, I would have cut out coffee altogether. I felt a sense of peace and serenity in my mind that seemed to be waiting within for the right moment to come out.

This is a recollection of events during one of my meditations:

“I was journeying to the furthest reaches I could take my astral journey when I first ran across it.

Vibrant streams of energy, huge and dense constructs that felt like other planets super far away, entities that could perform a perfect telepathic connection with such high vibrations (all of them).

We conversed for quite some time before I began to test the limits of my trance with this energy. I was able to move my body in ways I haven’t in years and function at a MUCH higher volume than I’ve ever been capable of.

There were a few odd things that happened though. The more I accepted this developing power within me as mine, the stronger the connection I became between my son and Twin Flame.

I was given the impression that any form of conflict that would occur on this level would not only affect me, but him, her, and even my blood family and ancestors as well. I was even warned quite a few times as the level of the connections slowly escalated to a peak.

The oddest thing that happened to me at that time was a technique called, “Understand.” Several of the entities I encountered used this technique on me. I was able to not only sense their power afterward but peer into ‘them.” Highlights of their existence, where they came from as well as their power and the distant extensions of it.

I would almost always come into a sense of apprehension eventually as if I had a choice to make about whether or not to accept or rebuke the energy. I only rebuked what felt like negative or harmful intent, and simply allowed the rest to be. Then something even odder happened.

After being exposed to this “Understand” technique so many times and allowing myself to exist at my highest potential (mainly to be prepared for anything to go bad), I noticed that I literally had no limits. I could most likely continue to tap my energies for as long as I needed to. Like I was connected to a deep source of unlimited energy.

After a good many times being tried with “Understand,” I began to get how it was being done and I began to exchange this technique with them. It almost seemed like they were trying to teach me after a while. Like they were helping me become more aware of my capabilities, but beware of other entities out there with similar capabilities.

Eventually, I felt it time to ground and come back, but I still feel like I’m a part of it now. Like there are aspects of me that have expanded into a much deeper pool of knowledge and capacity.”

After that, I began to accept and embrace my path in other ways as well. I meditated more and began to expand my consciousness, from the universe that we know to the multiverse that we only dream of.

I have since this time went back and learned more, but that journey is far from over.

This was my step forward.

It took a few weeks, maybe months, but I started to feel drained yet again. This time has been different. I had stopped drinking coffee, but I was slowly gauging up my tea consumption. I’ve felt stuck in a loop and run down. At first, I just thought that I was exerting too much energy during these meditations and that I needed to rest and recharge. After a while, I knew that it was more complicated than that.

Well, the easiest thing I can say is that I finally broke down. I finally made a pot of coffee. The hard part is to say that I needed to take a step back with a lot more than that so that I could move forward later.

At first, I felt a bit down, that I had to depend on something other than my own will to get my engines going. I didn’t see or understand what would come of it because I was too busy worrying about the broken promises, or the step back.

Looking at things now as I write/speak to you, I would say that I needed that step back in order to move forward.

I needed to take another look at myself and my ego and realize that my goals are too important to allow myself to be bogged down by the weight on one step back knowing that with that step back, I am now ready to take a giant leap forward.

This is something we all experience in life at times.

When you admit that you were wrong in an argument to heal from the experience. When you have to wait and pay for your car repairs so that you can finish your vacation or get to work. Even when you must reevaluate everything that you’ve ever thought was right in order to walk the path you’ve always needed to be on.

I’m here to tell you, that not only has it been done before, but it WILL be done again. By you, by your friends, by your family, by your neighbor.

And that’s OK.

Instead of coming from an inner/outer place of judgment when those times finally come, it’s important to have faith in the situation working out for the better.

Thank you all for reading.

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Love and Light Blessings Everyone!

I hope you all have a wonderful day.

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Harmony in Light/Dark – As Recorded on Spreaker

Light

Want to listen to this blog instead?
Check out my recording of this article from my Spreaker Podcast: A Healer’s Musings  

What is your next big step with developing yourself and your spiritual practice?

For me, it was looking for a way to help others discover Spirit and find their Light.

This was the major goal I had for myself when I started this path. For me, that meant learning how to push through everything that had broken me down before. A way to heal and use my experiences to help others heal.

 

For those of you who have been curious about who I am behind the screen or speakers, let me take a moment to introduce myself. I do this in hopes to inspire others to do the same.

“Beginning my journey in spirit from a young age, I’ve always dedicated myself to furthering my studies for the purpose of helping others develop in spirit. This path would not be trekked easily though, and definitely not without hardship or sacrifice.

I would experience many lessons during early life that would shape me into someone capable of compassionate leadership and grace. I was commonly misunderstood by my peers for having a different view of the world. I would befriend people from various walks of life, speaking what wisdom was gifted to me by Source to anyone who would hear me.

While this got me far more attention that I would have liked (being called weird, being shunned and outcast from the ‘popular crowd,’ even being bullied and neglected by my peers), it also granted me valuable experience in public relations. 

My beliefs in a broader spectrum of thought and existence were one that would be wrought with mixed understanding. Put simply, the kids my age just didn’t get me, and those who did had no idea what to do with me because of how old I was.

I had the air of a philosopher by age 12 and was quickly aspiring to be a great counselor or psychologist by the time I finished high school. I studied Psychology at Delaware State University because I believed that by understanding the mind, I would be able to help others unlock their potential to develop within Spirit. This would only be one aspect of my path, however.

Months into my college career, I would develop serious issues with anxiety and fatigue that would force me to leave my studies prematurely. Lost, and without that greater knowledge I sought to help others on a deeper level, I began to grow tired of the place I once called home. It just didn’t sit right with me to stay there and allow myself to slowly deteriorate as I pondered the trials and tribulations that brought me to that point.

Instead, I looked towards developing the mental discipline and leadership skills in a way that I felt only the military could provide. I knew that this was my way of meeting an end that constantly seemed to elude me. Before shipping out to Basic Training for the United States Air Force,  I would be guided to meet the first of many spiritual mentors who would lead me to a fated meeting with my first Reiki Teacher during a weekend event in Pennsylvania.

I was introduced to Reiki in a way that was so elegant and simple that it quickly attracted my attention. It would be during my attunement to Reiki, that I was granted a vision of my future within its Light. I would stay in the Air Force for a short time before falling victim to more health issues. This time depression would accompany the anxiety and fatigue I had hoped were long-gone.

At the time, I had no major support network. I was away from all that I once knew, and many things had changed within me during my service. I realized that I knew nothing of who I was anymore or why I was even on my path anymore. I was truly in the wilderness of my mind, grasping at whatever I could to hold onto my life.

Fallen, and feeling hopeless, it would be the call of Spirit that would reignite my desire to continue to push forward. It showed me in ways that one day I would be shown an even greater Light, and that I would stand stronger than I had ever been before. That I would begin in full force, the path from the vision. I knew little of the miracles of Reiki at the time, but I felt a pull to continue walking down that path.

In my heart, I felt that it would be my compassion for others that would grant me my greatest healing and help me release this doubt and worry. I would spend quite some time in Texas shortly after leaving the military.

It would be there that I would begin recovering my facilities, learning what I could about Reiki and the old ways of Spirit, as well as receiving my attunement to Reiki 2. I was attuned to the level of Reiki Master for the first time in September of 2014 after a major shift would guide me from Texas, back to my home in Delaware, to Montana on what would be a great trip, and finally to Colorado.

I received my attunement through a video by Steve Murray as quite some time had passed since I had found a Master to train me, but the call of Spirit is ever persistent. I had already begun to feel stronger, but I feared the opinions of my peers for “taking the quick path to mastery.” So I would keep this accomplishment to myself until I felt unequivocally that I had indeed achieved a state of mastery with myself.

I studied diligently from that point on, reading, watching, and practicing Reiki whenever I could. Being attuned to the various levels again by different Masters as my spirit felt was necessary. It would be July of 2016, after a second Master attunement from my current Reiki Master, as well as a third attunement performed by myself and the Deva of Reiki in meditation, that I would feel a sense of completion with my initial training with Reiki.

To me, mastery is simply a completed step on the path to deeper understanding. Days after receiving my final attunement, I would begin to be gifted with the knowledge of healing and practice during my meditations, that I now refer to as Hakuyama (Spacial Cleansing) Reiki.

I’ve been a Reiki practitioner now for over 9 years. From humble beginnings in a campground in Pennsylvania to the many opportunities placing me in several different states across much of the United States, I am known to have worn quite a number of different hats. Now I move for the guidance and well-being of others as well as the development of the Light that lives within us all.”

 

I am also a Healing Minister as you all know. I received my credentials through the Universal Life Church in Modesto, California. This title and what it carries has left me feeling in somewhat of a vulnerable position compared to other practitioners of my kind.

I have found it pretty difficult to put both of our feet on the table, lean back into the couch, and just RELAX.

Being yourself as a minister, your true self, is one of the hardest things for some of us to do. To bare yourself, in all of your essences, to an entire crowd of people who rely on your words and even actions to some degree is not only an extremely difficult challenge, yet it’s also why some don’t last very long in my profession.

In trying to be the ‘ideal’ Minister, I felt that I must constantly be aware of myself and who I portray myself to be. Over time, I’ve found this very taxing. It’s why a while ago in a conversation with a respected peer, I decided that it was best to drop this idea of being the ‘ideal’ Minister, and just be myself at all times.

It is this type of dogma that I personally want to transmute by writing this blog and sharing my story. I want to show you all how to be yourselves while continuing to grow as Lightworkers and Healers.

So allow for me to speak to you all in a manner most consistent with who I am on the inside; A dude.

A blade of grass in this massive world that exists not only for my own aims, but to be a part of the collective. To be one with ALL of existence. How does one do this most simply, but by simply being what I have always been? A dude.

I don’t want to bore any of you with poetic rhetoric or even uncommon dialogue, so let me speak simply.

The moment when you realize that you can be EXACTLY who you are when you are with friends and family, in front of those we call our Soul Tribe of Lightworkers, or even the general public AND continue to work in a manner consistent in the Light, that’s when true progress can be made with standing in your full power.

Now some of you may think that this is a tall order, something too difficult to accomplish because of one reason or another. Today, I’m here to tell you that YOU CAN!

 

Light And Dark:

When we think about these aspects exclusively, there’s going to be separation, anxiety, maybe even resentment or guilt. Why is that?

Why are these two concepts so foreign to each other, and yet so necessary for each other to exist in their greatest respects? This is because of something called cognitive dissonance.

Cognitive dissonance is when there are inconsistent thoughts, attitudes, or beliefs. Basically, everything that causes us to believe that something is foreign, different, or even unique in its own respect. It’s our perceptions at this point that make these things so abstract as they begin to relate.

We simply don’t want to admit that not only do we need light to be light because of dark, but the opposite holds true as well. We need dark to be dark because of light.

When you are in the grocery store, are you not looking for the best experience ever?

On the shelves, you notice all kinds of lights and darks. ‘Bad foods,’ ‘good foods,’ fruits, snacks, even those things in between like over the counter medicine.

Some of these things may be completely unnecessary for your growth and development as a person, but let me ask you this? Would you have noticed all of those ‘bad’ or ‘good’ things had they not taught you something valuable to think of them like that?

We need our bad ‘apples’ just as much as our good ones. We need our multivitamins just as much as we need the money we save by buying them instead of the fruit and vegetables that they’re based around.

If we stop looking at the groceries for a second and start looking onto ourselves, we’ll notice that sometimes you’re angry at the person teaching you a valuable lesson the hard way (as universally prescribed), and sometimes we are ourselves that ‘bad’ person teaching someone else out of Love.

Being a Lightworker doesn’t have to mean being holier-than-thou at all times, some Lightworkers understand this and are very quick to tell you exactly what’s on the 11 o’clock news regarding your life and situation.

It’s all about a choice. It’s all about serenity; Serenity in making the choices we make on a moment to moment basis.

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Love and Light