Just sharing a link to an absolutely wonderful, spirited conversation I participated in last week with Christina Renee of the Conscious Conversations podcast! The two primary focuses were how to keep perspective about fear in an often fear-provoking world, and the importance of being one’s authentic self.
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A Walk in the Physical 
Hey Christian
Just wanted to say that at some points in the video you really sounded like Bashar.
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“And to you good day!” 😉 (Just being a bit silly there!) – There are only so many English words, I find that any who attempt to speak on these matters end up using the same ones. While I do not resonate with every single thing Bashar has said, in general I find his content to be powerful and helpful.
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Excellent conversation! 😊
“Why can’t you be yourself?” – your response to the question at the end regarding what you would ask of others
For me, whenever I go too far into my ego story again, I try to go way back into the mind of the person I was at 4 years old and try to embrace that joy of my being. At that age I know I still remembered because I remember the moment I forget. I still remember that split second of joy that went through me as I was in complete amazement at my consciousness in this physical body understanding how I’m consciousness within the elements as this creative being. A split second, but I remember a knowing I forgot until I started to get glimpses of it when my own awakening process started (or perhaps amped way up) about 3 years ago.
As with many of us, it took a long time to process the muck that got in the way of knowing myself again, but I’ve got pretty good at metaphorically diving into the deep end of lemons and making some pretty tasty lemonade in terms of this life (but deep piles of lemons will get mucky and one needs to work through some things).
For me, holding that state of being requires some level of daily practice to sustain. Sometimes meditation. Sometimes exercise in nature. Sometimes a loving connection. Sometimes an experience of learning. Just with that presence, intent, and consciousness. Not always easy though. It’s dense AF here. 😳
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Yes, it is dense AF here! 🙂 I also feel that a daily practice is almost required. It’s amazing how quickly we can become deeply re-associated-into the density; it’s amazing how quickly the “form density momentum” mounts. Frequent moments of pause, release, and even play are so important.
Wonderful comment! 🙂
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Hi, Christian:
I’m grateful that you had the courage to share your experiences. Listening to you has been tremendously helpful.
I kept bumping into “I don’t know” whenever I posed the question “Why can’t you be yourself?”
This morning while journaling, I considered what if “myself” isn’t a form or a thing. What if it is a unique expression in unique circumstances. So a more accurate question for my very literal mind is: Why can’t I participate fully in this moment?
Answers came easily to that question.
Thanks for extending your kindness and support to us. I appreciate you.
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Thank you for sharing silence, inbetween your words.
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“Myself […]. What if it is a unique expression in unique circumstances.”
Beautiful!! 🌹
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OooOooh…that festival in August has me intrigued! I will have to find some more info on it.
“Why can’t I be myself”? My immediate answer is: I can… I am. I am myself. But, in the 3D world, it is a decision I must make. Sometimes second by second. At least lately.
Wonderful conversation! It sparked a lot within me.
Danielle
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Thank you for your comment Danielle! Yes, it often is about “decision”- that is, making a choice/ wielding an intention within a context. Time and again as we do this, the path in the grass changes!
Regarding the conference in August, here is a link to the conference information in case you happen to be near Phoenix AZ! 🙂 : https://conference.iands.org/
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I don’t know if someone here can relate to this: After re-watching the last few minutes of this conversation, and evoking the image of me literally dropping those metaphorical ‘bags’, I realize that a lot of them are actually filled with grief. Grief over all the lost opportunities, and half a lifetime of not actualizing the richness of the world within.
It feels like this is a step in the right direction!😊🙏
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Thank you so much for sharing Isa!
Truly as we awaken we can fully (yes actually fully) forgive ourselves for having been asleep, or having lived in rejection of the now. And the same even if and when we fall asleep yet again. In an important sense there is nothing to forgive: the sleeper was sleeping until they woke up; shifting our relationship with form takes “time.”
This may not be what you are pointing towards in what you described, but just to share, what comes to mind for me when I read your comment is: the grief of separation itself. That is, by being separate from the Whole, we are constantly in something like a state of mourning. We are always searching, always grasping; and we may even mourn how we have aligned with the emptiness and the ego traps rather than embracing the now. In my own case I have found the full acceptance of this profound “gap” to be an integral part of re-discovering our true nature. (Even rejection of the “gap” is a separator itself, whereas even the “gap” does not need to be rejected.) Just something that came to mind! 🙂
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Yes, it is probably all of this. And it doesn’t really matter. The sadness itself might show the way to its root, or it might not.
It is a beautiful sadness, in a way.
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I feel that the “beautiful sadness” is an intuitive sense pointing towards the fact that all experience, even our poignant longing, is “made from” the beauty and joy of Being.
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Yes, you might be completely right.
And hoping that this is relatable to someone else here, I’ll say: On a surface level though, I’m just incredibly happy to feel an EMOTION instead of fear, for once!😄
And this emotion leads back to the 4-year-old @Sarah mentioned above, who is being told that it is not OK to be joyful and lighthearted and full of trust all the time, and that the world, allegedly, doesn’t work that way.
And I cite you, Christian: “Not in alignment with the truth of who we are!”😀
Much love to everyone! 🙂
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Could it be possible we continue this process of being physical into infinity? Could we not potentially be every one? This would be continual, would it, as there are more “humans” created daily? This world is exhausting though and I can’t say regret is something I feel often, but it is not an alien feeling as I am human and full of choices and mistakes made as I hurt and hurt others too. How do you feel about signs from loved ones? I feel when I am “in the moment” they are more likely to be seen in my awareness. Almost akin to the book in the library that you find when needed but it’s been there all along.
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To your first few questions I would just comment briefly- we are already everyone, Source is knowing all. The population of humans is a very, very tiny subset of possible physical experience opportunities in our universe alone, not to mention many other universes. Linear time is a creation: evolution ever unfolds, and yet a given system of form does have limits (an end). Yes, we can receive signs from loved ones, and they are more perceivable when we are present and alert. The “library” is indeed there the whole time, when we are not focused so deeply into the world of form. Despite the great limitations we may experience here I hope you have a wonderful day experiencing being human!
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This conversation is EXACTLY what I needed to hear today. I’ve spent so long being stagnant and miserable, and looking back on my life so far, fear is the recurring theme. Fear of being judged- fear of unknown – thinking that I am worthless. It’s like I always want to magically be better and at the end of these issues – but since I haven’t found any quick fix i’m stagnant. I love toward the end where you mentioned the importance of silence of the mind. I have started meditating the last few months, but very inconsistently, so trying to get some time in every day.
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