Expanding the level of consciousness is the third basic aspect of transformation. Read about the first two aspects in previous articles.
In this material, we will examine expansion from different perspectives, in the context of transformation. Read about why it is important to expand your consciousness, why it is important to develop and evolve.
Expand, Don’t Reject
The third basic aspect of transformation can be formulated as follows: expand, don’t reject.
In three-dimensional reality, governed by the laws of duality (where one thing opposes another), the principle of “either… or” operates.
Here, a person always chooses only one of two options – either one or the other. In principle, there is no assumption that besides the two visible options, there is something else.
Since the focus of attention for most is turned toward lack, toward what is missing, people accordingly choose from “bad” and “even worse.”
If you belong to this type of person and choose only from two mutually exclusive options, then learn to choose from good and better.
But the mind is inert and does not stretch in this regard.
Expansion as Overcoming
Expansion is always overcoming.
It is overcoming your current beliefs, all the “boxes” in which you have packaged all your knowledge and understandings, your comfort zone (that is, everything familiar to you).
You cannot expand if you do not step over certain internal, and sometimes external, barriers.
For some, the main barriers are their convictions and beliefs (mental level). For others, it is their emotional state or physical limitations. For some, their spiritual concepts cannot stretch.
As soon as you encounter this innermost resistance, know that this is precisely where you have a chance to expand and go beyond it. There is no way to bypass the overcoming.
Christine Clemmer:
«Expansion requires intimacy, a willingness to confront current beliefs, facets, and limitations in order to expand and break through, shattering old behavior patterns, old definitions, while discarding the old identity, or rather, the attachment to old identities, like a pioneer charting new territory through unfamiliar, unexplored potentials.
Expansion requires trust and faith in the unknown, a willingness to dissolve, sometimes tear apart, those old muscle fibers and habitual patterns in order to regenerate and reorient in a new space of manifestation.»
As you can see, there is no talk here of remaining in a state of rest, doing nothing, and blissing out.
Accordingly, when everything is great for you, you do not have this inner urge to expand and change something.
Expansion equals overcoming. You step over a barrier, do what you have never done before, try to react differently – in a way you have never reacted.
See also How to transition to a higher level of consciousness
What do you choose – forced or natural expansion of the level of consciousness
If most people were left alone and not disturbed at all, they would hardly take the path of expansion. For this reason, in the life of an ordinary person, «something always comes up.»
What stagnates, does not move, does not develop, dies. There are only two paths: either you degrade, or you move toward development. There are no other, often desired, intermediate states.
For example, you have risen to certain laurels and rest on them. Either endless development, or degradation begins. There are no other options for existence on planet Earth.
At the same time, development does not mean you must constantly do something or constantly think something over.
You can remain in a state of being, but this being is active. You actively contemplate, actively participate in ongoing processes. You either develop or degrade.
Therefore, when you stall, try to cling to something and say, “now it will be like this forever,” you receive a magical kick—a good acceleration in some direction.
This direction depends on what you have been focused on recently. If you have been focused on lack, you will be kicked precisely in that direction. If you have been fixated on how bad and terrible everything is, you will be kicked in that direction.
The only way to bypass such “gravity” is to focus on the best choices, on positive potentials and changes.
Even when you see some nonsense, instead of ruminating on how bad everything is, you refocus on the exact opposite—the same thing, but from a positive side. And that is what you hold in your mind.
Then natural opportunities for expansion begin to appear.
See also: Restructuring thought processes from linearity to depth and expansion. What is the basic role of the mind
Once again about conscious choice
It is very important how you react to a particular situation. The principle of reflection (curved) mirrors implies the presence of an emotional reaction in you.
In other words, if you react emotionally to something, it means that this situation is reflecting something specifically to you.
Regardless of what happens to you (you received a kick in the pants or you got the result of what you were generating earlier), your reaction is important – how you perceived it.
One option is that all your “trolls” are activated, your inner critic starts chattering, and you go down the beaten path. Another option is that you choose a different reaction, focusing on a positive change.
There is a tiny time gap during which you can choose how to react.
The ability to make that choice in time is precisely that skill of co-creating which you can use in your daily life.
If you don’t like what has turned out, instead of getting upset, blaming yourself or your loved ones, you need to urgently remember that you are a creator, and the keys to your paradise are in your hands.
Only you choose what to invest your energy in at every moment. Those who constantly invest in negativity or lack find it very hard and difficult to make such a conscious choice.
It is not easy to constantly control your own thoughts and emotions. At the same time, a huge number of people have already switched to a new approach. Thanks to constant effort, quantity begins to turn into quality.
This is not some magical technique.
For example, you participate in a group meditation, after which everything somehow resolves and falls into place by itself.
Conscious choice becomes your way of life, your new norm. You live this way. Ideally, such switches should happen automatically.
As soon as you blur, fall in vibrations, you pick up your toolbox of instruments with which you quickly restore yourself (including physically).
Every time you choose to continue being offended, emotional, or aggressive, at that moment you give away your keys, convincing yourself of your own helplessness. But this does not in any way negate your status as a creator.
Many years ago, Steve Rother said that all people have long been in the 5th dimension. But since humanity has no pre-written paths and landmarks, people—being powerful creators—reproduce 3D reality over and over again.
See also How to make a higher choice and focus on it
Perfection vs development
Some people have a question: if I, from the point of view of spirit, am perfect by definition, why are all these transformations needed?
When a person loses the meaning of life, they go through a powerful spiritual transformation. Besides spiritual, there can be emotional transformation (when the emotional plane is involved), mental (at the level of the mental plane, beliefs), and physical.
Compared to other transformations, spiritual is the hardest. What you believed in is falling apart at the seams, and you have to put everything back together.
I went through a similar transformation in 2018. It was connected to my mother’s death.
At one time, my spiritual development began with the belief that my own advancement in spirit would help me keep all my loved ones, particularly my mother.
When my mother died, I had to redefine again why I am engaging in spiritual development, maybe it was time to wrap it all up.
Many people think that “perfect” means “ideal,” and therefore nothing more needs to be done. Or “if we are perfect there, then why all this.” Perfect already means ideal, so there is no development here.
In order to manifest itself through physical reality, the infinite, boundless spirit, whole and perfect in itself, must contract.
To do this, it must become finite, make friends with time (without time the Game cannot exist), that is, limit itself.
In the world of spirit, there is no time or distance, no difference between what you think and what you experience, no hierarchies or limitations. The main thing that drives everything in the Game of limitations is development, evolution.
Here the Higher Self evolves, your spirit evolves and gets to know different facets of itself. After all, there are so many different facets and so many different things that one wants to know, see, and experience.
On Earth, there is no law of perfection.
According to the channels, as soon as something becomes perfect, it disappears, because the perfect cannot exist in the three-dimensional world.
People are accustomed to considering themselves deeply flawed, separated, abandoned, etc. They try to transfer this incompleteness, this lack of wholeness, to everything. This is especially noticeable in the topic of relationships.
A self-sufficient woman who can financially support herself often wonders why she needs a man then. But building relationships begins precisely with your completeness and wholeness, not the other way around.
A partner is not needed to patch up your gaps where you lack something.
Answer for yourself from a perspective of expansion: if you are fulfilled in life, what do you need a partner for?
The mind is also limitless if you throw out the limitations from it. Development, evolution, cognition – these are the main driving forces of the spirit’s game on earth.
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On expanding perception
Imagine that you are in a two-dimensional flat world where you can only move along width and length. When you live in such a plane, even if a three-dimensional (that is, volumetric) world exists, you do not see it.
In the same way, you do not see those who “walk” next to you, but in a different reality.
According to scientists, the difference between the 3rd physical and 4th physical dimensions is at a 90-degree angle. If a person can make a certain “jump,” they will find themselves in another dimension.
There are places on the planet with similar space-time fractures. For example, the Bermuda Triangle (an area in the Sargasso Sea).
Overall, a person has a very narrowed range of perception. The reason for this is the limitations imposed by the mind.
Your reality and parallel realities always intersect. The more open you are, the more you are able to perceive.
In order to see something new, this new thing must be tried to be noticed, observed. If you are extremely focused on something, you see only that.
For example, you really want a red car and you see exclusively red cars driving around the city. But there is a flip side to this coin. When you are strongly focused on something, you stop noticing everything else.
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Expansion of the level of consciousness and everyday life
Once I placed some recently purchased new items in a visible spot. After that, for at least two months, I could not find them. The house was turned upside down, but to no avail.
Then, the other day, while in internal processes of expansion, I saw a broader picture, and in this expanded, “somnambulistic” state, I move through the apartment, and suddenly a thought comes: “Look over there.” And I suddenly find what I could not find for two months.
Thus, I was clearly shown how an expanded state of consciousness can easily resolve your request.
In the same way, you can transfer your own expansion to simple everyday things. This is exactly how reality works now.
You expand to a certain level, a certain vibration. At this expanded level of vibration, what was previously unavailable becomes accessible to you, and it manifests.
Note that in the case of lost items, I did not need to search. On the contrary, while I was searching, there was no result.
Many will have the following reaction to this story: fell into a parallel reality, a poltergeist is joking, etc. All these “versions” are stereotypes from the past.
Discard such stereotypes. Look at the content of the current moment, discarding interpretation. Do not let the mind decipher anything.
New tools, new possibilities, new perspectives on what was are manifesting.
All of you have long been in the 5th dimension. But because the mind continues to project stereotypes, templates, patterns, and laws of the 3rd dimension, you do not see the new that surrounds you.
At the same time, the “demonstration” of the new dimension unfolds for you in the simplest things from your daily life.
Many such events occur in each of your lives. If you do not interpret them but look at the content, you will see that these are events from the new reality.
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Share your insights! What perspective on expanding the level of consciousness was previously unfamiliar to you?
The article is based on a broadcast from the #couch_conversation section “The Third Basic Aspect of Transformation”