 Everything in your world is created by repeating patterns. Starting with the zygote at conception, cells divide millions of times. This process is responsible for the development of all physical bodies. In fact, all of life is based on various kinds of duplication. If you study a plant closely, you see that the leaves contain arrangements of energy that recur over and over again. This is also true in the realm of construction. Buildings and houses are all composed of rhythmic designs of brick, mortar, steel and so on. Your physical experience is generated by the repetition.
Patterns are powerful when the results that are replicated are sound, good and positive. It only becomes a problem when the process does not lead to a desirable outcome. Like a computer program running with an error, you will continue to create the same negative effects until you fix the glitch. To correct your energetic mistakes, you must dismantle the old paradigm and replace it with an improved one.
Three stages of transformation
This is done in three stages. Stage One is to become aware of or identify the offending pattern. Whether it involves an unhealthy body, lack in the material world, or unsatisfactory relationships, simply recognize it on an impersonal level as something that has gone awry. Be objective and perceive the unhappy condition with neutrality. Nothing is working against you. Your program just has a flaw that needs to be repaired.
Stage Two is to understand the origin of your habitual behaviour or way of thinking. Patterns are adopted, whether from your early childhood environment, previous lives, or present social conditioning. Try to locate the source, because this helps you see how this situation has served you in the past and why you embraced it in the first place.
Once you are aware of an undesirable pattern, recognize that it first exists as a mental vibration or blueprint held in your subconscious mind. To change unwanted habits, you must alter this internal energy framework and establish the updated one in its place. This is accomplished through consistency. It is not enough to think positively from time to time. Instead, you must permanently replace old cognitive habits with new ones, resisting any temptation to return to the outmoded way.
When dismantling obsolete patterns and trading them in for more desirable ones, recognize that they have simply outgrown their usefulness. The key is not to judge any of your behavioural or thinking modes as bad - just accept that they are no longer appropriate given your current wishes. If you condemn them, you become emotionally hooked, which makes them stick like glue. Judgment attaches, while non-judgment detaches, so do not be critical - just observe.
Stage Three is to let go of the emotional responses that went along with the original mental blueprint and embody new ones that correspond with your higher intention. Stop reacting automatically, and instead choose an approach that reflects your new desire or purpose.
Our task on Earth
You transfer programs from one lifetime to the next, letting go of bodies and circumstances, but not behaviours - at least not automatically. You can only consciously change yourself by shattering the old pattern according to the three aforementioned stages. Your most fundamental soul lesson on Earth is to quickly transform what no longer serves you.
This is the only place in the Universe where you can break self-defeating, restrictive habits and learn, through trial and error, to become the Creative Immortal Light Being that you are.
Once you decide to shatter a pattern, the Universe immediately steps in to support you in the form of synchronicities, inspiration, opportunity, and renewed vitality. God cannot impose your Divinity upon you; you must choose it. The minute you do so, you open the way for heavenly power to serve you.
You are the master of your life, but you do have guides, angels, and our Loving Creator available to aid you. Change paradigms with the knowledge that the Sacred is working with you. There is a saying that goes something like: ‘When God is with you nothing is against you.’
Humour helps you transform behaviours faster than any other energy. Laugh at them - with affection, of course - but do have a chuckle. None of them really holds any power over you. You give them influence through your attention, but you can also take it back. You might struggle to do this, but you do not have to. You can detach from the pattern far more easily by making light of your habits. Other ways are effective, but using wit works much more quickly.
Have patience, for shattering patterns and implementing new ones takes time. It is like changing what grows in your garden: You must first uproot the old plants, then put in the seeds and wait on the Universe. It may take several seasons before the old shrubs and flowers are completely cleared and the new ones are fully in bloom, but it will happen.
Before the Light Beings began to pour onto the planet to assist your collective soul purpose, a person would normally experience three life cycles before successfully dismantling one self-defeating behaviour. However, the earth cannot support such slow progress any more. That is why we encourage you to laugh at everything that is no longer desired, because it elevates the spirit and the world more quickly. We are giggling with you!
Having said this, we understand how difficult it is to be mirthful when your soul is in pain. Yet suffering is the greatest catalyst for your evolution. After all, when everything is going well, you are less inclined to connect with your true nature. It is only when you ache, feel sorrow, and experience loss that you become genuinely interested in making changes.
We hope that you will alter your perspective on anguish and see it as a spur to transformation. Reposition it in your mind as a teacher and friend. When you observe or experience affliction, evaluate it accurately. Do not judge it as ‘bad’. Simply accept it as your indication that it is time to grow.
As a spiritual being, you are connected to everyone and everything in the Universe. Consequently, you deeply affect others - and vice versa. Your pain is another’s, and theirs is yours. Look at any suffering, past or present, as your personal opportunity to transcend for the whole of humanity. You carry the hurt for all, and you transcend it for everyone as well. Going beyond your heartache and becoming a joyful being of light is the highest contribution you can make to your fellow humans. You become a living example of what is possible that others can follow. The more tribulations you overcome, the more love you bring to others. As you know, your greatest purpose is to serve the whole as an enlightened ambassador. And the only way to do so is to work through the hindrance and darkness of outworn patterns and move on to a higher vibration.
From Soul Lessons and Soul Purpose, © 2007 by Sonia Choquette, published by Hay House.
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