Question: I have practiced the teachings of the ascended masters for over 10 years. I feel that I am making progress, experiencing significant shifts and overcoming negative attachments and self-destructive emotional reactions. That allows me to put more time into studying the teachings than before. Despite all of my attempts to use the books on spiritual trauma, I still feel defined by the birth trauma of the primal self. I have studied the masters teachings given before and after that many times and want to ask how I can best apply those teachings. Should I give again the invocation for freedom from your birth trauma and the other invocations in that series of books or should I focus on earlier teachings while participating in the current vigils? Are there any recommendations you could give me?
Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar
Well, as we have said before, whenever you are in a situation like this it is because there is something you have not seen. You need to look at what you have done so far and try to do something different. When I say do something different, I do not mean that you give particular invocations, read particular books or participate in vigils. I mean that you attempt to shift your perspective. It is not a matter of what you are doing, it is a matter of what you are seeing or rather not seeing. So if you have the same mindset that doing the outer things, the outer rituals will automatically produce the change, then that is what you need to shift. You need to realize that it is not a matter of blindly doing the outer things. You need to be willing to look at yourself, look at your own state of consciousness, look at how you view yourself. We have given teachings on this, even in the book “Healing Your Spiritual Traumas” and other teachings. But so far you have not seen them because you have not realized that you need to shift your perception. And this will not happen automatically. It will happen only by you consciously looking at your attitude, looking at your approach. And you can use the teachings to help you, but it is not a matter of understanding it intellectually. It is a matter of studying a teaching until you really see what is being said and therefore you shift your consciousness.
I am realizing that this is not the answer you are hoping for. Many people are not willing to make that shift, but it is the only way to overcome these traumas. The whole idea of these traumas, as we have said, is you were in a situation that was unbearable. You created the subconscious selves to push the situation away from the conscious awareness so you could still live psychologically, survive psychologically. And this was necessary because you were at a lower state of consciousness when you were exposed to the trauma. But now that you have risen to a higher level of consciousness, you are ready to start looking at what you have not looked at. But this requires you to be willing to see something you have not seen before. And you have subconscious selves that resist this and therefore you need to look for those selves. Ask for our help. Use the teachings. Try to see what you have not seen. Many people have done this. What one has done, all can do. But you have to be willing to see what your subconscious selves do not want you to see. And that means being willing to question your entire approach to the spiritual path, your approach to yourself, your approach to life on earth.
It can be done. I know it is not easy, but it can be done because I have done it and ascended masters have done it and ascended master students have done it. You may benefit from communicating with other students and see what helped them.
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