in your body. But it’s important to be able to return one hundred percent after such a journey and for your soul not to get stuck half way.
Living spiritually isn’t about ignoring your physical body. Your body is not a punishment, on the contrary it’s something really amazing! We all wanted to incarnate here into three-dimensionality and so, in accordance with this wish, we received a physical body. We’re therefore called upon to appreciate it and accept it gratefully.
Resolving stress
In order to find peace, it’s also important to resolve the stress in our lives. Today we live in a society in which stress starts at school, where children are already exposed to enormous pressure. And when they finally leave the stress of school, they immediately fall into the stress of the working world. When people are under stress or time pressure for a longer period of time, they become ever more estranged from their soul connection. All they see in front of them is their daily to-do list, and as they work through the many points listed there, they find no time to listen to their soul and what their soul actually wants. This means that most people today – at least in our culture – have no time to concentrate on themselves and on the wishes of their heart. They have no choice but to ignore the connection to their soul in order to somehow survive the stress of everyday life. This is exactly why such pains are taken to maintain the hectic pace of life in our society: to distance people from their soul connection and in this way block their development.
I think that we sometimes take the whole thing with time pressure a little too seriously. I often travel by train, and as I was sitting in the train again the other day waiting for it to depart, I heard them announce that we’d have to wait another four minutes. Most of the people on the train took this pretty calmly in that moment. A little later we were told we’d have to wait another ten, and then twenty minutes. Finally, we were told that the train wasn’t going to run that day at all and we should all get off. I saw that many of the people reacted by becoming totally stressed, because they were probably going to miss their connecting trains and their appointments. Some even panicked.
But this stress is somehow pointless, because we can’t change the situation by being stressed. If a train is going to be late, we can’t stop it being late, that’s just the way it is. Instead of getting stressed, you could broaden your horizon in such a situation and recognise the advantages – for example that you’ve now unexpectedly been given some time for yourself. But many people are in such a hectic mode that they don’t even notice when they’re suddenly given time for themselves. This is also because this hectic pace of life and this stress is anchored in the collective energy field of today’s society.
That’s why I think it makes sense to become an optimist and try to see the positive in everything. The world is just the way it is, and certain things simply can’t be changed. We can only choose which eyes we look at the world with and how we react to it. Being optimistic and seeing things in a positive light allows us to see the meaning of our lives much more easily.
Many people would benefit from more lightness and more fun in life. You don’t always have to take things so seriously. This also applies to your own learning themes you still have in front of you: Just laugh at yourself! Take a look at the long way you’ve already come, and enjoy it. In this way, you’ll find inner peace.
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Grounding
Why good grounding is important
What’s special about an incarnation on the Earth is that here we can develop spiritually while being in a physical body at the same time. Being in a physical body means that we feel isolated and separated from each other. But spiritually, we can move to other levels where the consciousness of oneness and connectedness with all things exists. That’s why life as an Earth person offers us time and time again the unique opportunity to choose whether we want to feel separated or not – we can switch back and forth between unified consciousness and separated consciousness. That is the special and fascinating thing about inhabiting a physical body here in the third density: we perceive ourselves as a multidimensional being that lives simultaneously in the physical and in the subtle. That’s something that isn’t offered very often in the universe.
However, it is important to be well grounded here. This is the prerequisite for the soul to be able to dock onto all the cells of the body and use the body fully. We all consciously decided to take on a three-dimensional physical body in order to be able to inhabit and use it here on the Earth. Our body comes from the Earth and is therefore also connected to the Earth. A good grounding forms the foundation of our incarnation on which our existence is built, here in three-dimensionality. It’s like a house: we can’t build a solid house without a good foundation.
A lack of grounding can be recognised by the fact that the person concerned is constantly daydreaming, for example, and somehow “unavailable” at times – as if they were not fully present on the physical plane. It may really be that the soul is not completely inside its physical body, but is dancing around outside the body a few meters above the person’s head. In some cases, this lack of grounding is an escape because that person can’t cope with today’s society. Traumas, shocks or accidents from the past are also a frequent cause of the soul not wanting to completely incarnate physically in the following life, so as to avoid having to experience these injuries again at close quarters.
Besides daydreaming and mental absence, signs of a lack of grounding include: low body awareness, perception disturbances, weak physical manifesting power, retreating and isolation from other people, difficulties with social structures, little basic trust, low self-love or statements like: “I never really arrived here” or “I’m never really understood by the world”.
In our spiritual development, there comes a point at which progress is only possible if we’re fully grounded. Expansion of consciousness and holistic development doesn’t only involve a connection upwards, to the spiritual spheres, but also downwards into the heart of the Earth. This is essential if we’re to function and act in an optimal manner as human beings. The soul has to be one hundred percent integrated into its physical body if it’s going to be able to implement on the physical level all that it has set itself in its soul plan. Both are therefore necessary: that we’re physically well grounded and that we connect subtly with higher energy levels. This is the only way we can fully fulfil our soul plan. The better we’re grounded – that is the deeper we’re anchored in our physical body – the higher we can move upwards into the subtle spheres. This is because a good grounding allows us, firstly, to vibrate more beautifully and harmoniously, and secondly, to have a stable anchor point so that, after excursions on the subtle level, we can land again properly each time in three-dimensionality. However, being well grounded doesn’t mean becoming the element earth ourselves, because that would slow our vibration down again. Grounding ourselves well simply means that we connect to the energy of the Earth.
If a soul isn’t integrated into its body, but is either next to its body or behind its body, or floating a few meters above its body, it is still connected to its physical body, because otherwise the person would be dead. But this is similar to the situation of coma patients, where in many cases the soul is outside the body, while the energy connection to the body still exists: the soul is then still connected to the body with a kind of silver thread. In death, this thread would have been broken and the energy connection would have been dissolved so that the soul could travel on.
In the case of people who aren’t sufficiently grounded, their soul may not be completely outside their body, but it may not be completely inside the body either. For example, it’s possible for it to be properly integrated only into the right half of the body and to be only half integrated into the left. Or vice versa. The right side always stands for the male energies and qualities and the
