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Volume 10 Issue 4 ISSN# 1708-3265



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Returning to Wholeness
by Jessica Agnew

As I was sitting down to write this article, musing on the topic of "connection," it came to me that our natural state as humans and as spiritual beings is one of connection — of Oneness with all that is. I look out my window and see how Nature works so perfectly in harmony with itself. It's all connected, every aspect of it supporting and nourishing everything else in a beautiful rhythm, and we are a part of that.

So if this is our natural state already, why don't we experience that in our daily lives? Why do we go around so stressed out and worried trying to pay the bills, take care of our kids, getting ahead in our careers, never feeling like we have enough — enough of anything — time, money, or love. Somehow we got disconnected from our natural connectedness, and the question is, how can we get it back?

Children have it, young children especially. They experience life with pure openness, awe, and wonder. Somewhere along the way growing up, we harden into these "adult" beings, with a fixed way of thinking and experiencing life.

We form a framework of beliefs, habitual thoughts, and expectations of ourselves, other people, and life that all of our experiences filter through. When this happens, we are no longer living in direct contact with Life itself, as we did when we were children. We are living separated from Life, within this framework of who we think we are.

This framework is not for nothing. It serves a purpose. And that purpose is to protect us from the unresolved emotional hurts of our past. It's like a shell of protection we create to ensure we never have to feel that way again, because we never learned how to express and feel our feelings in a healthy and safe way.

So we go along in our life, trying to be the people we think we should be in order to avoid further pain. We treat people the way we think we should treat them to avoid rejection. We make the choices that maintain our current view of reality, because even though it may be unhappy, at least it's safer then opening to what is true deep down that we don't want to face.

But our Soul can only take that for so long. Eventually it calls us with its still-small-voice in the heart and says "It's time to wake up! It's time to face the truth. It's time to heal. It's time to remember who you REALLY are! You weren't meant to live this way, there is more to you then this!"

If you are reading this article, then you have already answered that call. And so the healing journey begins. Our quest for the real — to know ourselves as we actually are, not just as we've been conditioned to think we are, and remember our connection to the whole.

One of the common traps when we start on a spiritual journey of personal healing though is we come at it with an attitude of "I want to know what is real… but only the good stuff. I don't really want to know the dark stuff, the painful stuff in me that might rock the boat of my reality too much if I fully face and deal with it".

But Life (the Divine) loves us so much that it wants us to have it all. It wants us to know our wholeness on every level, and feel connected to All that Is, and safe enough to fully show up in our bodies and in our life.

So what does Life do? It brings us challenging situations and people that trigger us, that cause the unresolved emotional pain we've carried around for years to come to the surface, so that we can have an opportunity to heal it fully and have it be released from our cellular memory permanently, leaving us more free, whole, and embodied than ever before.

Again, it's the unresolved emotional energy that gets locked in our bodies that causes us to feel disconnected from the One, from the Divine, from Life. Life is constantly conspiring to bring us back into resonance with that place, to how we were as children, so we can experience ourselves as a part of the miraculous whole, holy and unique, and free to express ourselves however we choose.

So what's the most gentle, loving, and easy way to cooperate with this process when Life brings us those opportunities for healing?

The simplest answer is — just open to it.

Not that we should go around in life completely boundary-less and take in other people's toxic energy they may be projecting at us, all in the name of "opening to it". That is not a loving or healthy thing to do. It's important to have discernment, and make the most loving choices for ourselves with our boundaries and who we choose to spend time with.

But we open to ourselves fully in that moment, to how we feel as a result of whatever is going on, and let that energy surface, be witnessed, embraced with compassion by our own loving heart, and released.

There's a practice I use called Heart Breath which I'll share with you here.

Heart Breath Meditation

  1. Event occurs and triggers an emotional reaction in you. Notice the feelings arising and how they feel in your body.
  2. Put your hand on your heart and start to breathe slow and deep, directly into the feeling, as if you are breathing the energy of that emotion up and into your heart.
  3. As the energy starts to come up into the heart, you will notice it begins to shift. The heart is like an emotional recycling plant, it can transmute the energy of that emotion, releasing it from your body. Just notice this happening and be willing to let go.
  4. You may feel like expressing the emotion in some way, through tears, sound, physical movement, or shaking. This is part of the process as the energy is being released from your body. Just witness this, and allow whatever expression feels right in that moment to come out.
  5. Emotions come in waves, so stay with the breath until it feels like the wave has passed through, and all the energy has been released from your body. More might come up later when you think about or encounter the triggering event again, and that just signifies that there is a deeper layer coming up to be cleared. Repeat the process again, as often as you need, until there is no more emotional charge around the situation.

Life gives us every opportunity to know our inherent wholeness, and remember our Divine connection to the love that we are. We just have to accept those opportunities, and be willing to let go of our fixed framework of reality so we can see and experience the truth.

With willingness, and the courage to face, love, and accept ourselves just as we are, we are transformed, reborn, and able to experience ourselves in a whole new way — as a precious, whole, and unique gift within the greater Whole of Life.

Namaste.


Jessica Agnew is an Intuitive Healer, Angel Medium, and Transformation Coach. She lives and practices in Seattle WA, working with people across North America to find deep healing, empowerment, and awakening to the truth of who they really are.

From a young age Jessica had intuitive and mystical experiences which led her to becoming a deeply devoted student of all things spiritual and healing related. Through a series of spiritual awakenings, Jessica was guided to start offering intuitive readings, channeling the wisdom and love of the Angels to assist others on their path. Now, incorporating her natural intuitive giftedness with the practical tools for navigating the human experience on an emotional, physical, mental, and energetic level, Jessica offers a unique synergy of spiritual coaching guided by Angelic wisdom called Intuitive Transformation Sessions.

These sessions are powerful opportunities to get to the root of whatever you may be facing in your life, and heal any barriers to you knowing and experiencing yourself as the love, freedom, and wholeness you already are.

You can contact Jessica via email or by visiting her website.



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