Soul expansion is a ginormous topic I could talk about for days!
Therefore, I avoid subjects like these in a single article format. However, I have noticed plenty of people around me and I are experiencing much disconcerting unpleasantness in our lives.
Whilst we all go through these phases of expansion in one way or another at various times in our lives, you wouldn’t think that is the case if you scroll through social media. Pretty much all that one can find there is life as usual, with everyone seemingly absolutely fine without a care in the world.
We are accustomed to only sharing the positive with our fellow followers, negating the dark times or preferring to keep them private. I completely respect that. But it can feel very lonely if you are experiencing darkness, and there is nothing to reflect that as being perfectly normal, too.
Hence, I thought it would be valuable to dedicate this month’s ponder to addressing this topic somewhat, with some helpful tips to help you navigate this intense time.
And if you don’t find the tips helpful, you will at least know you’re not going through this alone. Countless others and I are experiencing similar events in our lives, too.
So, let’s delve into this expansion together.
Embracing The Enlightenment Journey
As we journey along this educational adventure we call life, we periodically go through bouts of evolution in our physical lives as we align and integrate into the greater depths of our souls.
This process is often not all rainbows and unicorns, even though bliss is our final destination.
Instead, it is more like experiencing a never-ending hurricane with intermittent bursts of fiery tornados whilst walking through quicksand blindfolded. Not exactly fun. Nor does it feel like love and light, as the new age spiritual community may like to singularly convey.
Are there moments of bliss and elation? Most certainly! Otherwise, it would not be worth journeying in the first place!
But, the road there is often treacherous and wrought with darkness and ferocity as we are pushed beyond our current limitations into a more expanded version of ourselves.
Considering the direction we are going in, both astrologically and from an enlightenment perspective, this is only likely to happen more frequently as opposed to less often from this point forth.
It would serve us exceptionally well to get comfortable with these growth spurts of deep intensity. The more efficiently we can navigate them, the more swiftly and comprehensively we can emerge renewed and further elevated on the other side.
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” - Carl Jung,
Understanding Ego Death
As we evolve in this game of life, we will consistently experience ego death. It will likely be even more frequent if we do the inner shadow work required for expansion.
An ego death is shedding and grieving an older version of you. It is an act of purification from your soul’s perspective, as a layer of identity and limitation is purged from your human self to be integrated into your Higher Self, allowing more of You to be embodied.
Sometimes, life circumstances will force us into the situations and soul evolutions we need to experience to bring this about, which is the case for most of us. We’ve possibly all been there. If you’re in extreme discomfort, it’s much easier to change and evolve than if you are not ecstatic but comfortable in your current life situation.
Although the term is ego death, it’s more of a liberation as a part of our ego integrates into our Higher Self. However, a part of us does die - the part of our personality self attached to an identity or the old way of being, seeing, and experiencing things so that it can merge into the higher version of Itself.
This process is painful, uncomfortable, chaotic and heart-wrenching. Breaking free from habits, addictions, situations that are no longer serving us, careers and relationships we have outgrown, etc, is harrowing. Our hearts and heads often disagree, and the process can be incredibly exhausting.
It is generally excruciating, but the result of enduring it to the finish line (for that particular challenge) is ALWAYS worth it. This is how we can keep going and persevering forward, continually reaching for the magnificence that awaits us on the other side of our torment.
Welcome to life on Earth.
At the worst times, which equal the points of most significant expansion in your life, this can often materialise as everything and some blowing up in your face and situations spiralling out of control despite your best efforts.
This is often accompanied by sadness, anxiety, depression, confusion, grief, exhaustion, lethargy, illness and whatever else is needed to facilitate the dissolution of the part of yourself that is ready to be upgraded.
Additionally, this often goes hand in hand with the feeling that you are losing your mind. Because, to some degree, you are. I don’t mean to alarm you, but the ego is part of our personality, which directly links to our mind. If you are doubting, think of Multiple Personality Disorder (MID) or Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) as it is now referred to. The ego-mind and the personality are inextricably linked.
Essentially, you are partially losing your mind to make way for your soul to have higher influence and greater embodiment in your current incarnation.
Although getting there is genuinely tumultuous, once the situation rebalances and you are out on the other end of this upgrade, you will operate from a higher vibrational level.
I guess that is why they coined the appropriate term ego death: to illustrate our partial self-disintegration, which enables us to integrate more of our Higher Self.
Death and life are inextricably linked. We die many deaths in this life as we continually evolve into different versions of ourselves.
“Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.” - Chögyam Trungpa
Levelling Up Into Your Soul’s Expansion
The chaos you will experience will depend on the magnitude of the upgrade, which could be anything from minor to major.
The more substantial the expansion, the more intense the unravelling before it will be. This will prepare you for what is coming next by clearing out all that is not in alignment with the upgraded version of you that is ready to take centre stage.
The more present you can be with your current turmoil, the greater the insights you will glean and the more profound your expansion will be able to be.
So take the time to be with You and tune in to what is happening underneath the surface of what is playing out in your life.
Embrace it. Thank it, and ask what it is here to teach you.
Tune in to what is being asked of you in this situation. Very often, we are requested to look at out-of-the-box solutions to the situations we are in. Usually, that involves taking an action we would rather avoid. Such as asking a family member or friend for financial assistance, which can feel incredibly frustrating and somewhat humiliating, especially when you’ve been working so hard to make things work for yourself, and yet here you are again, having to ask for help… Or whatever the situation may be for you.
But in any case, being vulnerable and opening up to the solutions that are being provided, even and especially when you don’t like them, is the key to your next level of growth and will allow for the pressure of the turmoil to reduce as you move forward along your life path. Until the next time… Lol!
You must have a sense of humour; otherwise, you won’t leave this life alive!
Tips To Navigate Through the Intensity
Self-care is critical to stabilise within the disarray.
Even though you will probably insist that you don’t have the time or the headspace, self-care is essential during these trying times.
When we feel we don’t have the time for it is precisely when we need it the most and must make the time!
Implementing self-care practices will allow us to return to balance more swiftly and make the process as smooth as possible.
Here are some self-care guidelines to assist you:
Get sufficient rest. Ensure you are getting enough sleep and downtime.
Move your body to circulate the energy through you, whether via Qigong, yoga, a fitness class, or just dancing around your living room!
Spend time in Nature to stabilise your vibration. Even a brief Nature walk will do if you are tight on time, which will also get your body moving.
Keep an eye on your nutrition to ensure you give yourself all the nutrients your health requires to provide the energy you need.
Let off steam from your overloaded mind. Write in a journal or share your current stresses with a loved one or a professional to relieve pressure.
Create quiet time to sit in silence or meditate however you want. Time in peace and solitude will allow your intuitive voice to be louder with fewer distractions, making Its guidance easier to hear and decipher. It will also bring some peace to your day. The longer, the better, but even 5 minutes could suffice if that’s all you can manage.
If you can have a salt bath, book a massage or an energy healing session to cleanse and reset on all levels and help shift your energy into a more relaxed state.
If you find yourself in an old, repetitive thought pattern, do your best to witness it without judgment. Then, shift your focus by tuning in to what you want instead of dwelling on what is not working in your current experience to break the pattern. Arresting your mind from repeatedly spiralling into what you don’t want by switching your focus to what you do can be a huge game-changer. Put your whole focus on imagining the best, not the worst.
Before you sleep and as you awake, take some time to connect to and immerse yourself in the feelings and experiences you wish to have to break out of the old patterns further by calling forth the new. Doing so energetically will make you feel better by elevating your frequency to the new and assist in transpiring it into your physical reality, together with following the action steps from your Higher Self via your intuition.
Don’t forget the importance of reaching out for help on the physical and spiritual planes to help you get through whatever life throws at you. Even though you know it is all for your remarkable evolution, there’s no reason for you to go it alone. Have the courage and humility to ask for help, and it will be given to you.
Remember that there is nothing wrong with all that you are experiencing. All of us experience this time and time again.
It is an integral part of our soul’s journey to shed all layers of identity (ego) to reveal our true Selves as we journey this life on the Earth plane.
Beauty always awaits us on the other side of the pain.
We just need to keep moving forward.
You are not alone. You never are.
We are all in this together.
Infinite Love,
Ponder Woman
“The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.” - Albert Einstein
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