Today we will consider the topic of responsibility for using certain practices and methods. You will learn when tools stop working for your benefit and turn into «crutches».
Responsibility for using tools for spiritual growth
A tool is not a means of manipulation
A tool should not turn into a means of manipulation.
For example, when using Human Design, someone determines their type and stops at the level of “this is who I am, love me as I am,” refusing to develop.
You use a tool (e.g., Human Design) to learn about your strengths and weaknesses. Next, you learn to enhance your strengths and effectively use your weaknesses.
Different people (specialists) apply tools differently: each person puts themselves into the tool. Some have something to contribute, others do not. Some go deep, while others are satisfied with a superficial approach.
Universal truths are universal.
Different tools are different ways of speaking about the same universal truths.
The choice of language through which these truths are conveyed depends on the audience—on the language it speaks.
For example, if the audience consists of builders, then speaking about truths with this audience must be done in the language of builders.
A tool as a way to influence another person
You cannot influence your partner in any way to attract them to self-development.
If you live with a partner in the same dwelling, you can use the tool of the violet flame (the flame of transmutation/transformation).
(At any time of day) use this tool to cleanse the general home space.
A mandatory condition for attracting the help of the violet flame is your request – “with the permission of the partner’s Higher Self.”
If the partner’s Higher Self gives consent to your “intervention,” over time you will be able to observe certain changes.
If the plan of the partner’s Higher Self diverges from your desire, your intention is powerless. A person’s free will and choice are primary.
Why it is important to apply the acquired knowledge, tools
Applying the tool is your responsibility and your choice
To feel harmony, make an effort to feel it.
When everything is good, you accept harmony as a given. When you experience discomfort, it is your responsibility to create a feeling of harmony within yourself.
This is precisely why you need a toolbox.
You take any tool that works for you and use it to return yourself to a state of balance.
Most people, when in a state of disharmony, do nothing about it. Following their disharmony, they broadcast it into the world, automatically dumping their discomfort onto others.
In the same way, the impulse of disharmony spreads further – from person to person.
Thus, by the boomerang principle, the usual balancing of energies in the 3D world occurs: “they came down on you, you came down on someone else.”
Stop the impulse-chain of disharmony within yourself. This is your responsibility and your choice.
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What happens when you accumulate knowledge and do not apply it
Often, the stumbling block in development is not a lack of constant awareness, but a lack of application.
Simply listening or reading (i.e., absorbing information) without backing it up with action leaves what is perceived at that same level — the level of information.
For information to turn into experience, action is necessary. Information combined with experience forms Knowledge.
When you can declare: “I don’t just read, I live this way,” you will stop falling out of awareness. The more you “live this way,” the more awareness you have.
“Living this way” means radiating and transmitting into the world what has become your Knowledge.
Every person has a set (habitual) range of vibrations — from the peak high, which a person can rise to, to the maximum low, into which they fall.
Thus, each person has their own average indicator of vibration level, in which they predominantly reside.
During a quantum leap of consciousness, both boundaries of the vibrational range — the upper and the lower — rise accordingly.
Similarly, the average indicator of a person’s vibration level increases.
Those who have been in development for a long time often get carried away with raising the upper boundary of vibrations, without pulling up the lower one.
As a result, these people may experience hyper-falls, which manifest as heavy emotional states and similarly heavy external events.
The lower boundary of the range is typically tied to past experience and self-rejection.
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It’s not the tool that matters, but WHO uses it
Note that this effect does not depend on the tool itself in any way.
The tool as such does not determine success. The effectiveness of a particular tool is determined by WHO uses that tool.
The perception, interpretation, and features of the same tool will vary depending on the person (WHO) who practices this tool.
For example, let’s take the well-known tool of astrology.
Some astrologers work with the 12-Zodiac system, others with the 13-Zodiac system.
Astrology is a powerful working tool. But if the person practicing it has many limitations in their mind, even such a powerful tool will be used to harm (as a means of limitation).
The essence of any wonderful tool can be distorted by the limitations of the person practicing it. The tool is neutral in its essence.
The main thing is WHO works with this tool (their consciousness). The level of consciousness of a person/specialist determines how they use the tool.
When choosing certain tools for spiritual growth, ask yourself why you need them, what your goal is; whether they can help you achieve your goal.
When choosing a specialist who masters the tool you need, pay attention to what kind of person they are, how much they resonate with you, how much their worldview and outlook on life resonate with you.
A specialist may be a first-class expert in their field, but at the same time broadcast a limited consciousness.
It’s not about the tools, but about the people who use them.
You cannot simultaneously trust a source of information and fear the information coming from it. Your main guide is the feeling of resonance.
Fear by definition cannot accompany a feeling of resonance. Likewise, trusting a source does not relieve you of the responsibility to independently filter information and learn discernment.
Why it is important to rely on your own truth resonator
The desire to seek advice or help from a specialist at a certain stage of development is natural.
There is a time and place for every tool/specialist.
But the most interesting and valuable thing on the path of development is the desire to independently discover what you have prepared for yourself.
When you begin to feel your own power, you stop needing outside help and depending on anyone else’s opinion. You are the main person in your life.
Only you decide whether you need help, how much another’s opinion resonates with you, and whether to accept or not accept something into your life.
The truth resonator is in your heart.
Filter any information, guided by the feeling of resonance (vibrations similar to yours, the sensation of “mine – not mine”). In that case, you do not need proof, confirmation, etc.
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When a tool turns into a limitation
Any tool can turn into a “crutch” (limitation). Such a “transformation” echoes the theme of action/inaction.
Many people sit in fear, doubt, and hesitate in their choices, so they remain inactive. They are far from the “thought – did” model.
An ordinary person experiences many thoughts from the “need to do it now” series throughout the day. But they almost never immediately back up any of these thoughts with action.
Therefore, a person stays in the same place, not moving forward.
People with a pronounced “crown on their head” demonstrate one of the manifestations of pride. Often, life quickly knocks such a crown off their head.
False modesty, fear of declaring oneself, “invisibility” to others – this is the flip side of pride. For “invisible” people, the path to effectiveness is much longer and more winding than for “crown bearers.”
You were born human, and there is no need to strive for the maximum (perfect ideal). Becoming an angel/master is not difficult. Many of you could have incarnated as saints.
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Write, which tools are your favorites? Do you prefer any one direction, movement, or do you assemble your own toolkit from different methods? What works best for you?
The article is written based on a broadcast from the #conversation_on_the_couch section “About Tools”