Question: Dear Masters, how can I let go of a desire? I feel I have some desires that pull my attention during the day. I find myself thinking of them, whether it is about playing video games, sex or doing other things. I have tried a mix of doing them in moderation since often they do not offer the pleasure or satisfaction they promise, and doing invocations and journaling to try to demystify them. And I wonder if there is not a faster way. I sometimes feel I cannot let go of a desire until I fulfill it, but I do not have enough time to do them all until the experience is exhausted. Can you give me some pointers on this?
Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2025 New Year Webinar.
Well, to give you a relatively short answer, you can look at two kinds of desire. You can look at a desire that springs from the outer personality, the human personality, even the physical body, and is driven by subconscious selves. And this can be a desire that has any kind of object in the world. The subconscious selves do not have a desire for spiritual growth, but they have a desire for worldly pleasures, worldly possessions, worldly experiences, worldly accomplishments. And what is the characteristics of these desires is they can never be filled. You can never have enough of it. You can always have more sex, more video games, more money, more power. And you see many people who are, their entire lives eaten up by this quest to get more and more and more, and it is never enough. So, as a spiritual student, obviously you want to identify such desires and overcome them. And you do this partly by making the calls to Astrea, Archangel Michael, for your protection, to be cut free, for the Violet Flame to consume the energies in your desire body, your emotional body, that pull you into the desire. But on a long-term perspective, you need to look at the subconscious selves that you have, that the desire is centered in, and you need to resolve it by looking at why you created that self in the first place.
Now beyond this, there are certain desires that come from the I AM Presence, where the I AM Presence sent the Conscious You into embodiment on earth because it desired to experience certain conditions. It is not only that an avatar came here to help hold the balance and bring the planet forward. The original inhabitants of the earth, their I AM Presences, have desires for experiencing what can be experienced on earth, whether it is this or that or the next thing. This is not to say that the I AM Presence desires to experience everything that can be experienced on earth. The I AM Presence does not desire to experience clearly perverted desires that are harmful to others or harmful to yourself. But it can have legitimate desires. And there can be people whose I AM Presence has a certain desire for experiences on earth, and the I AM Presence has not fulfilled that desire. And therefore, you need to pursue that desire. And you need to be careful you do not, with the outer mind—because you find the spiritual teaching—decide to override the desire of your I AM Presence. You need to tune into this intuitively. But we can say that most desires, especially most unbalanced desires, come from these subconscious selves. And if you are sincere about making your ascension, then of course you need to transcend these desires. You can do this by using our tools and teachings. You will of course also at some point have to make a decision to let the self die, to let the desire go, and to simply decide: “I have had enough of this experience. I do not need this anymore. I do not want this anymore.”
But you have to be careful here. There are many, many people who have come to look at a certain desire as wrong, something that should not be there. But they feel the pull. So, they are trying to force themselves to stop the desire, to obliterate the desire, to cover over the desire, to restrain the behavior. But this is not the highest approach, even though it can be necessary sometimes. But the highest approach is that your Conscious You seeks to resolve the subconscious selves related to the desire, and then you use your intuition to tune in to your Divine plan and see that there is actually something else you want to do.
In other words, instead of trying to eradicate a certain desire, you replace it with a desire for something else, something higher. There is something you desire more. And you realize, of course, the limitations of the physical octave are that you cannot do everything, because you cannot be in two places at once. You can gradually then raise your desires up, so they become more and more spiritualized, if it is in your Divine plan that you make a certain spiritual progress in this lifetime, or that you qualify for your ascension in this lifetime.
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