Monday, September 12, 2011

To share or not to share…a lesson on the ego

An interpretation of a Spirit Bear teaching
Humans are naturally great transmitters and receivers of energy. In this energy there are often many fragments of information. Sometimes, depending on the two human variables this energy information is recognized in the form of feelings, emotions, a sense of knowingness, in a vision or dream. As we progress along our spiritual paths many of us become higher conductors of this information energy. The more one works with this psychic energy the more sensitive they become to it and the more easily one is able to transmit and understand it.
Once we learn to recognize these bits of information and who they are for, we must determine still whether or not we should share the information. Just like any information that we gather in life these bits of psychic information must also be evaluated before we share them with others.  We should at first treat them like psychic rumors. We must evaluate the source from which the information originated and then one must consider the impact, or lack-there-of, of the information we hold. After we believe the information is valid we must evaluate the reason we feel the need to share the information. Many times we run to tell people every thought, dream, feeling or vision we have had.  Rarely do we take time to understand our personal reasons for wishing to share it. Most often we share this information (or psychic rumor) to feed our own egos to feel “special” or “gifted”. We must recognize that as long as we feed our egos, we will not progress to becoming strong spiritual communicators. Along with this thought, we must also realize the universe does not need to communicate though us. There is no shortage of ways for the universe to prove its point and not one of us is needed for this task.
We should not let our ego convince us that we must share all of our information with others. Beware of thinking whatever information you have is for the other persons higher good. Seriously, the higher self of another person is the business of that person and god. ..they do not need our help to determine what is good for or correct…Just as we must remember no one can tell us our higher good. Beware of any one who claims to know what is your path, for your highest good or motions to be a middle man between you and your higher self or god. Be critical of anyone who claims they are able to decode for you what the universe is “trying to say” or who is not trying to empower you to hear it for yourself.
Currently I am guided to a discipline where I do not share any information that comes. It doesn’t matter how important it “seems”. I am comfortable in understanding the universe does not need me to communicate on its behalf. This is a new discipline for me. It was just not until just recently that I began to question my practice of sharing information with others when I gathered information about an individual I cared deeply for which would have been very uncomfortable to deliver. This message made me question the reason for the information, my position with the other person and how that would change and how if the person would even be receptive to what I had to say. In light of all of this thinking I chose to not share.  This has taught me a very intense lesson in my psychic development and has moved me one large step towards being a true healer and strong spiritual communicator. Looking back I think that I was under some false impression that if I chose to not share information that I gathered with others that the universe would stop giving me it…like it was some form of being ungrateful and like a child who did not do what they were told I would be punished into some sort of psychic silence. What I have learned is that we gather more information and more important knowledge when we prove to the universe that we are capable of being trusted to not hurt others, including ourselves, with the information that is acquired. I am thankful for this most important lesson and I am looking forward to gaining the deeper meanings of this discipline that I have not yet realized.