Stage 12-Community

Receiving and Accepting Gifts

Celebration of Oneness through Diversity

We experience our involvement with humanity and recognize that wholeness comes from bringing our individual gifts into community.  This occurs in our internal and external communities.  We recognize that all of our choices are spiritual ones and affect all beings.  Our dialogue runs as follows, “At times I recognize that we are each other’s medicine, and that first, I must be my own medicine.  My life and success in life is a function of the relationships that I share with others.  I celebrate and receive divergent energies and help them to join, transforming them into new possibilities and love.  I seek those parts of my body and life that have become separate and invite them into new possibilities and love.  I seek those parts of my body and life that have become separate and invite them to join the community of self and of selves.

—SomatoRespiratory Integration Workbook

I feel that the summary above more than sufficiently describes Stage 12, so I’ll try no to ramble on too much.  In Stage 10, you experienced complete merging with Spirit that allowed you to understand the Divine connection within the Universe.  Stage 11 brought that connection to a more embodied state so you had the capability to share yourself and your gifts.  Stage 12 is the process where you actually share your gifts.  Community is not just a place where you visit; you actually DO something while BEING in connection.

In Stage 12, you are committing to actions that connect with the later stages of healing.  The key point in Stage 12 is that there is the understanding that we are each other’s medicine, bringing our gifts to each other.  But first, we must be available to ourselves.  In your inner community, your body produces its own antibiotics, insulin, pain medication, chemicals to achieve altered states of consciousness, and other elements we need to heal, grow, and function.  As a result, your body can express the perfection of the dwelling spirit that forms the core of your existence.

This afternoon, Alison James, a local professional psychic medium, provided a great example of Stage 12.  Alison was sharing incredible stories of her life (for those of you who don’t know her, she is a very gifted storyteller as well as psychic).  She told of one incident where she spontaneously went into her trance medium state and helped a young lady decide whether she wanted to stay in her body or cross over.  This story is a great example of Stage 12.  Alison knew she must utilize her gift to help this young lady because it was for the Higher Good of the Universe–no questions, no judgment, no doubt…it simply was.

Realize that being so connected to your community, you often will begin to experience more suffering that is happening in whatever circle you have decided to create.  You may find yourself back at Stage 1–Suffering/Disconnection.  This is perfectly good, as it creates another opportunity for you to progress through the Stages once again and gain a greater understanding of who you are and your place in the Universe.  The circle of your understanding of community will broaden until you really do see “Community” as all existence.

Stage 12

Primary Concept of Stage 12	Experiencing the range of the continuum of energies and expressions through the body Embodying all 12 Stages and the wisdom and gifts we bring one another Giving and receiving are not separate or different, but flow from one into another as we are all part of the same one
Questions You Ask Yourself in Stage 12	How can I receive others/circumstances with gratitude as gifts? Where is the gift in this? How can we be each other’s wisdom/medicine?
Common Emotions Experienced	Coming home Acceptance of others as fellow souls or travelers Passion for synchronicity Total spectrum with foundation in benevolence and gratitude and conscious experience

 

Next Week:  Integrate–The Fourth Sacred Season

Stage 11–Descent

Gift Giving/ Prophet Like

Sponsorship/Service

When you first hear “descent,” you probably automatically think hellfire and damnation.  Not the case this time…

If you read my last entry, Stage 10, you learned about Ascent, when you experience nothing but pure immersion with Spirit.  You are then able to incorporate this experience and understanding into the deepest aspects of your being.

Now being in this experience of actually BEING love and light and actually BEING one with The Universe, do you think you would be able to DO much?

Probably not…

Stage 11 allows you to take the experience of Stage 10 and bring it to a more embodied place.  Your motivation is a pure desire to share your gifts with the world to give the world a more complete experience.

We really are all One, and you act with this understanding as your basis.

We are renewed beyond our limits and sense of self and enter into the world again.  We know that we are part of all we perceive and responsible for all that we know.  We live without being attached to our circumstances.  We love and we serve.  We participate in a larger circle of life, knowing our gifts and having a burning desire to effortlessly share them with the world, in service.  Our inner thoughts and desires are magically and naturally matched by our outer experience.  For extended periods, irrespective of external circumstance, I can find a place and experience compassion, empathy, love, forgiveness, and altruism.  I long to serve others with the gifts of my soul.  This is how I am, when I do what I do.

—SomatoRespiratory Integration Workbook

 

Adapted from The SomatoRespiratory Integration Workbook

 

Next Week:  Stage 12–Community

Stage 9–Light Behind the Form

Energy Beyond Form

Filled with Love/Filled with Light

From our place of emptiness and gratitude, we can truly appreciate our energetic fullness.  Our inner sense runs as follows, “I sometimes feel the energy within my symptoms, underlying my emotions, within my spirit.  Sometimes I feel the energy between people, and the primary organizing subtle energy fields to which my body is connected.  I feel the energy in people’s words, their eyes, or their being.  I am more sensitive to love as a basic energy of the universe and find it all around me, and within me.  I am grateful for this energetic awakening.  I experience gratitude for the love within me and in the universe.

–SomatoRespiratory Integration Workbook

OK, so you released all of your old “stuff” in Stage 7, and you felt the emptiness and gratitude in its space once the “stuff” was gone in Stage 8.  When you feel emptiness and gratitude, what is left to come in and take over?

Love, light, and energy…

In Stage 9, you begin to feel the energetic connection that flows within yourself and between yourself and others.  Your thoughts begin to dissolve into energy–at this point, there are no words.  Because you are SO connected to others, you often begin to experience psychic and intuitive events.  You might begin to realize that you are not who you thought you were–that there is more to you that you have ever experienced before.  You truly understand that YOU are responsible for your vital life force and how you express it in the world.  You acknowledge and feel gratitude for your energetic flow rather than manipulate it.  This experience of energy is filled with awe, wonder, and a simply observe and experience it.

Stage 9 feels very similar to Stage 8 in the essence of gratitude.  However, the experience of energy is more specific in Stage 9.  Filling the emptiness of Stage 8 with the love and light of Stage 9 allows to you have the ability to experience the energetic strands within the events, circumstances, and people around you.

“Thank you for this life force and may it continue to flow through me.”

“Help me experience my energetic connection within myself and others.”

Next Week:  Stage 10–Ascent

–Written by Dr. Katie Fahnel, D.C. of Body Harmony Chiropractic, a partner of The Healing Loft.  Visit the Contact Information tab above to reach Dr. Katie.  Comments are welcome to this post!  Please leave them in the comment section below.

The Season of Awaken

Awaken is about joyous and grateful acceptance of reality, rather than the CONCEPT of reality.

So if you’ve made it this far…congratulations!!!  You’ve sorted through a lot of “stuff.”  With the last stage, Stage 7, you finally realized that the “crap” you’ve been carrying around until then doesn’t work anymore–and GLADLY released it!!  This marks the transition from Transform into Awaken.

Awaken is about expanding beyond yourself, beyond the things and people who will benefit you.  It involves the experience of the space around you and within you.  Your thinking mind drops away, and you can experience the true nature of reality beyond the form of structures as you know them.  Your focus is on the energy of life and love.  You no longer feel you have to get love but instead give love, live in gratitude, and find the gifts in your situations and relationships.

You truly connect to your gifts and feel your responsibility to share

these gifts within your community.

When in Awaken, you remember your core nature and honor the same in others.  Your relationships, experiences, and awareness of the Energetic deepen, and you feel the field of Oneness.

**DISCLAIMER:  People involved in the spiritual world are quick to jump into Awaken.  Of course!!  It feels wonderful!  It’s lovely!  It’s heavenly!  You’re singing with angels and communing with the world, and, yes, it’s an absolutely beautiful space to be in…when it’s APPROPRIATE!!  If you falsely try to jump to Awaken (more accurately “pseudo-Awaken” before you’ve done all the work up to then, most likely you’ll end up back to Discover–and very quickly!!  The more you have the strategies and refinement in place within your nervous system, the more aware you are of what Season is appropriate…more about this when I discuss the Season of Integrate.

Next week:  Stage 8–Emptiness in Connectedness