Softening, Opening, Allowing, Receiving - Lessons From Spring

Slow down and soften has been the constant message I’ve been receiving this Spring. Relax and open to receive. Easy to say, harder to do if you’ve been raised in Western society, where productivity is king and self worth is measured by how well you can fulfill the needs of others. As a collective, humans have been out of balance with the natural flow of giving and receiving for a long time. Our energy has been almost entirely focused on projecting externally, making things happen and moving forward through sheer effort and willpower. While all of our energy and attention has been going outward, we’ve also simultaneously shut ourselves off from the natural flow of life force energy. Through our desire to control our experiences rather than trust the intelligence of the system we are in, we have cut ourselves off from the beauty and harmony of all this life has to offer us in exchange for an illusion of safety and control. This has put us in a position where, because we are cut off from the natural flow of life, we must TAKE what we need rather than just allow it to come to us. This false reality of needing to work hard and make things happen through external action in order to survive and thrive, is a self re-enforcing loop that can only exited through re-membering our true nature and allowing those parts of us that know how to receive to soften and open.

Many people think of being receptive as a passive state, but it is not. Just like a rose is not passive in its’ blooming phase, cultivating a more receptive energy in your being is not a passive act. It takes intention, presence, and a deep surrender to everything that comes into your field. When you choose to soften and surrender, you are surrendering to the divine wisdom of this reality that we live in. You are acknowledging that there is much more happening than you know about and allowing the loving nature of the universe to bring into your field what is needed for you to step onto your highest timeline. This means that you must receive with gratitude all experiences that come into your field, not just the ones that fit the reality that your ego and conscious mind prefer. 

We live in an infinitely wise system that knows how to balance itself and is always acting to maintain balance and harmony. However, maintaining that balance doesn’t always look harmonious in our every day lives. There is a massive collective shift in consciousness happening on our planet at this time, and it requires us to integrate back into wholeness parts of our collective selves that have been cast off, demonized, and suppressed. This is not always going to feel good. It’s not always going to feel like love and light. We do have to go through the process of feeling the pain and suffering that we each carry as a result of these tears in the soul. However, the only way out is through, and it is clear that trusting the intelligence of the universal flow of life is the least painful way to process these collective traumas, although it may not feel very nice in the moment.

As we move through this process, it’s important to understand that what needs to happen in order for this rebalancing to occur can’t happen if we are clinging for dear life to some semblance of what we know, what we are used to, our past lives. The only way to step into a truly new timeline is to open to receive from the universe with full trust, not knowing what will come, but trusting that everything that comes is here with the purpose of calibrating and clearing your system to shift into a new timeline. The New Earth already exists. Nothing needs to be “done” to create it. Our job now is to soften and open to receive so that we can achieve the energetic balance necessary to be in resonance with the New Earth timeline. As we become more receptive, our outward actions will be directed by divine inspiration, by the space of the heart rather than the mind. In this way our actions will not be based on information from our past experiences, but in the resonance of the present moment, in perfect alignment with this new reality we are here to co-create. 

My invitation for you is to ask yourself, how can I fully surrender to what the universe is presenting me in this moment? How can I fully receive it with gratitude and allow it to direct me to my highest timeline? How can I become just 1% softer and more open every day? Invite softness and receptivity into your being and see what takes place.