Question: When I was working, I often ran out of energy after work, leaving little energy to take care of my little son. I took two years off, and this is when I learned the teachings of the ascended masters. I do not want to go back to work because I do not have enough energy to raise my son while working and also study spirituality. Since my husband’s income is enough to live, I want to focus on my spiritual path in my spare time after doing housework and taking care of my son, who is eight years old. But will this be simply an escape from reality? I have a feeling that it is not enough for me to just stay at home and take care of my son, but I also do not want to be stressed out at work. However, I still feel psychological pressure to return to work.
Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2025 Korea Conference.
Well, certainly if you have the opportunity to not work but to focus on your son and your spiritual growth, why not take that opportunity? You do not have to decide that this needs to be a permanent thing that lasts until your son is grown. You can just take it as an experiment that you do for a certain time without deciding how long that should be, and then use your intuition to tune in when it is time to go back to work. You need to recognize that when you feel pressure to go back to work, that is not really the kind of prompting that comes from your Divine plan.
Your Divine plan will be more of a silent or calm inner voice urging you to go back to work. This pressure, therefore, most likely comes from these subconscious selves that you have acquired during your upbringing or you may have carried from past lives that says: “You should go back to work. You should be at work.” Use our tools and teaching to discover those selves and overcome them. And then when you come to a point where you can be at home and be at peace about that, and then you start to once in a while go into a new state of mind and listen to your intuition, you may at some point get the impulse from within that now it is time to go back to work, but then you do not have any pressure.
And also, you can take the opportunity to consider: why do you feel stressed out at work? Why does it drain your energy so you do not have energy left over when you come home? This is again subconscious selves. If you spend the time you have off to work on this psychological aspect, you can at some point in the future return back to work without being so stressed about it.
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