Look at all the things happening in your world, such as shootings and worldwide stress levels becoming more intolerable. Many of you don't understand what is happening energetically, and you resist it. You don't allow yourself to painfully open, which is necessary for the healing process to take place. No one teaches this to you in your world, so many of you end up having to go through hell until you awaken yourself and understand that this process is much larger than one individual. This is a sign of species evolution, but it isn't fun. It is the process of moving from polarized consciousness into that Big Eye state of non-duality. It is a big change from the egoic way of navigating through reality, and it requires a lot of disassembling. Many of you have the erroneous belief that the process of awakening or ascension is all about angels singing and unicorns jumping over rainbows. 

When your heart opens & you feel euphoria, do you also feel pain more?

The Dark Night / The Pain-Fear Band 

Moving further along the quantum map, we want to look at a layer we call the pain-fear band. Actually, several layers on the quantum map require you to confront your fears and move through your pain. On the map below, we have added a wavy line that represents the pain-fear band.

As you move beyond the ego and head toward the jelly band, you might encounter a paradox: incredible love and joy as well as incredible pain and fear. The emotional pain is just a layer to move through; it is not caused by this experience. The pain is representative of what has protected you from merging back into your true, integrated state of consciousness. When you encounter the pain, it is easy to think you have done something wrong or that a "negative entity" is causing it, but that is not true. It is simply unhealed, unresolved energy — you could call it shadow energy — that you must integrate into your consciousness before you can go deeper into the quantum states of consciousness.

If you allow yourself to move through the pain or fear and not / resist it, you pop through the pain-fear band. Consider this band like a jungle path. The first time through is the hardest, like cutting through a jungle with a machete. Each time you encounter it, the path gets wider and easier to cross. Fear and pain become your teachers, which is a necessary step on the path of integration. If you experience any resistance to this process, your inner guidance keeps you working here until you move on to deeper quantum levels.

The linear 3D aspect has to be released to allow more emotion to rise. This process dissolves the crust and brings you more in touch with your emotional body. But when this happens, you might think you are going crazy or that something is wrong with you. You berate yourself and say, "Why am I so sensitive? Something must be wrong with me. My spiritual practice is failing me because I feel this pain." But in reality, a sign of your integration and opening is when you become more sensitive during this adjustment period. If you resist, it lasts a whole lot longer. The evolutionary cycle asks you to slowly drop the armor. Some of you will do it willingly, and others will not.

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