“Elevate consciousness, choose a source, the sooner we do that the sooner we will awaken to the matrix and ascend,” Richard Miller (Richard readings).  I liked this take on ascension and stepping up into who we are.  When we have a guiding light, it’s easier to make decisions because we know the direction we must go.  That guiding light is when we choose to follow our hearts and let go of what we have been told we need to do.  We are meant for more, we are meant to do more.  It isn’t about being better than the generation that came before us—it’s about applying what they new and expanding on it.  This universe is meant to grow us and evolve who we are—meaning we need to grow and evolve with it.  Our growth is contingent on taking what we know and questioning it, thinking of ways to improve it, or really taking the time to understand all the implications of it.  We can’t do something new by repeating old patterns so it’s our job to determine the new path—that implies doing something new.

The patterns that we are so familiar with are illusions of what we think needs to be done because they worked for someone in the past.  We create this idea of who we are based on what others tell us first—there are a few lucky ones who are able to confidently step into who they are from the time they are young.  They have an unshakeable awareness and they are here to grow themselves and others from the beginning.  Most of us take some time to figure that out.  Breaking patterns is never easy—it takes bold action, often unknown steps, and certainty in ourselves/our faith to walk into that.  We aren’t meant to be replicas of the times before, we are creators of the time to come.  We honor those who did their best and we improve on it for ourselves and others. 

At the simplest level, consciousness is an awareness of our actions and the impact of those actions.  It is the ability to make a discerning decision considering the outcomes.  It isn’t an all-knowing thing, it’s an all feeling thing.  We step into a different awareness and we maintain a different perspective.  Things lose their jagged edges and they no longer seem to be directly pointed at us.  We understand the actions even if we wouldn’t react that way.  We don’t judge what happens, we process it and we move forward with it as is.  It’s an acceptance—not a condoning, but a realization that it is how it is.  Once we see that all things fall together as they should, we can release our hold on the outcome, the attachment to the way we think it should be—that’s ego.  We can find presence and awareness not by controlling the outcome, but by understanding it as it is.  Once we operate with that level of certainty, fear slips away and we begin to elevate.  Find our guiding light and we find the way on our path.  Don’t be afraid to follow that—there is no wrong way.