How to Move Deeper into Your Soul’s Awareness

The most essential shift in perspective to best serve your inner journey is to begin to know yourself as a soul. When this occurs the way in which you view your experiences changes. Instead of viewing life as happening to you, you begin to see that it’s happening for you…

You begin to see that every experience is meant to support your soul’s growth in your awareness. The things that you may have previously viewed as happening to you are now seen as pointers to lessons that bring the truth of what you are (pure love and light) into your conscious awareness.

Choosing to see your experience in the physical world as a schoolroom aimed at revealing the truth of who and what you are allows you to find the hidden treasure in each experience…

All lessons are aimed at dissipating fear—the dense veil of unconsciousness that blocks us from fully knowing the truth of what we are. We are here to learn the needed lessons to consciously know our divine nature.

Viewing life from this perspective has helped me tremendously. But, still, I forget this is my primary purpose. I get confused and I think I’m here to be an author, blogger, speaker and coach. When I get confused about why I’m here, I start to cling to needing things to unfold in a way that supports me in these roles.

This creates a dysfunctional relationship with the role (author, blogger, etc.) and the intended purpose of the activity (lessons to support the soul’s growth). When we confuse why we’re here (to awaken) with the roles we play, a veil between knowing ourselves as the role and knowing ourselves as a soul is created.

When we think we’re the roles we play, we believe that those roles must be in place to know who we are. This, then, fosters a desire to make these roles permanent (or, at least, sustainable for some time).

There’s an underlying fear that says, “If the roles that we believe ourselves to be are not made permanent, how would we know who we are?”

This, then, sets into motion attachment, clinging and all manner of needing things to unfold in a manner that supports the sustainability of the roles we believe ourselves to be. All of these things work in conjunction to create a veil between believing we are the roles we play and knowing ourselves as a soul.

This has (and continues to be) a huge lesson in my own journey each time my desire to sustain my self-imposed roles of author, blogger, etc. overrides my desire to know myself as a soul. I begin to cling to wanting things to unfold in a certain manner instead of focusing my energy and attention on the lessons I’m meant to learn through the exact experiences that I’m having.

In the past few months, I started to notice how much energy and attention I’d been investing into the idea that I needed these roles to become sustainable. It quickly became evident that I was heavily invested in knowing myself through the sustainability of these roles.

This attachment was causing my inner journey to suffer, which meant it was the biggest lesson that I needed to face in order to move forward.

The lessons that offer the greatest polarity in our experience open us up to the biggest boons in our inner journey. Be willing to face them…much light can be gained in doing so.

As I began to take note of the way in which my energy and attention was being consumed through this attachment, I started to internally process what it would feel like to completely let go of being in these roles.

First reaction = major fear…that’s how deep my attachment was.

The governing force in my awareness (fear via attachment) said that I had to be these roles…

There was no space for me to know myself as a soul having experiences where I showed up as an author to write A Call to the Heart, a weekly blogger for the time being, or a speaker when the opportunities presented themselves.

Instead, there was a clinging to needing these experiences to continue in order to sustain the roles that I’d become identified with.

When we identify with our soul (instead of our roles), we’re able to show up in a deeper state of surrender. When this happens, all of our experiences, regardless of how they turn out, are meant to serve the soul’s growth. We may continue doing activities that support a particular role or we may move onto something else.

The more detached we are from defining ourselves through roles, the greater our capacity to know ourselves as souls…the greater our capacity to move in sync with the flow of life.

Surrender becomes the name of the game when it comes to knowing our soul-nature. With this as our goal, every experience offers us a chance to look at where we resisted surrendering or where we could deepen it.

So much can be done through us, but the moment we need it to be done through us, surrender has been lost. Be willing to step forward when called to do so, but be mindful of falling into the trap of depending on the role, activity, or other people’s response to the activity to know who you are.

In internally processing what it would be like to let go of these roles, I opened myself to exploring the attachment and fear that had been consuming my energy and attention. In doing so, I deepened my ability to surrender.

Be willing to go into your own roles as a way of understanding any attachment and fear that may be blocking you from knowing yourself as a soul. Sit with what comes up. Explore its roots. Break apart the energetic components that are holding it in place.

Then, determine if the energetic pattern (attachment) is serving you in knowing yourself as a soul. Be willing to let it go if it isn’t and allow the freed up energy to deepen your awareness of your soul.

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To knowing yourself as a soul,

Shanna

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