Earlier this week, we had our first snow; the higher mountains are beginning to be covered in white. I hope that the words in this newsletter give peace, comfort and hope wherever it is needed.
I have a private practice for clients who are seeking profound spiritual growth and connection to Source; however, I regularly do 'world work' with the primary focus being to lift human consciousness to bring about world peace.
Please know that I wish each and every one of you the most beautiful holiday season ever.
When we are incarnated in human bodies, which we chose, we are often confronted with significant challenges. We tend to have emotional reactions to those challenges. These may include such emotional reactions as, "Why me?", "What did I do to deserve this?", and so forth.
The answer is: You chose it.
Even as the so-called "victims" of our choices, we are the beneficiaries. It is how we respond to our challenges, our perceived failures and the stress of whatever situation we chose to experience that results in the growth of our souls.
We choose the family into which we incarnate in every lifetime. There are no mistakes just as there are no coincidences. That brother who provoked us to anger as a child was fulfilling a pre-life promise to us to do just that. The parent that tried to push us to do something our inner Guidance was saying 'no' to was honoring a pre-life commitment to us to give us a challenge so we could grow.
When we are under the veil of forgetfulness, we rarely remember all the planning and choosing that our soul did prior to entering a new infant body. We are born and the action starts.
As a human being, we are frequently socialized to blame, judge and fault-find with others; sometimes we do this as a natural talent -- we don't even require socialization. Part of our soul's journey is to stop that nonsense. There is no one else to blame; we are all one being. That being is our Creator.
We learn our lessons of the soul through many lifetimes with various challenges, often grueling ones. The growth of the soul is often escalated by the duress we experience, which is the very reason we chose it.
Buddha is a great teacher of those souls who are willing to learn what he taught and modeled while he was incarnated. One need not become a Buddhist to learn what Buddha taught. We can connect directly to him and learn through downloads or "empowerments" as well as a committed practice. One of the Four Sublime States that he taught was equanimity, which is mental and emotional calmness rooted in insight while under stress. This elevated state is one of the core lessons our souls must learn.
It is often our emotional reactions and over-reactions that get us into increasing difficulty while we learn to manage our emotions under perceived stress. When we step back and observe the vicissitudes of life, we see that it continually moves between contrasts: success and failure, rich and poor, happy and sad, healthy and ill, happiness and sorrow, delight and despair, disappointment and satisfaction, hope and fear and more.
Nothing that happens to us comes from an "outer" hostile world foreign to ourselves; everything is the outcome of our thoughts, words and actions. Each soul -- on varying timetables -- comes to understand that karma is the dance in which we are engaging.
During the course of our many incarnations our souls tend to enjoy the drama, particularly in our earlier lifetimes. We fight wars with gusto, we get women pregnant and desert them, we treat our children abusively, or we chose a lifetime where we experienced abuse as children, we get into accidents that disable us, we become severely ill, and so much more.
We choose all of it for the experience, for the growth of our souls because we are developing toward our ascended state of being, where nothing at all can shake us from our calmness, our equanimity, our inner peace -- and our love.
Letting go of our drama is part of our soul's journey. So is forgiveness of ourselves and everyone else for all perceived transgressions. As long as we hold tightly to the drama that we ourselves co-created, we are stuck. Our learning journey has hit a wall. Only we can choose to let go, to forgive and to move on.
The reward in each lifetime is to get to that place of inner peace. From that state of peaceful being, we have access to far more of our potential, talents, gifts, courage, strength -- and the ability to hear the Divine clearly.
High Beings of Light have said that the number one thing that makes it difficult for them to offer us comfort, guidance, and help is our fear. It jams our circuits and apparently causes us to become hard of hearing.
To the extent we let go, forgive and develop our inner peace, we are balanced and centered to co-create Heaven on Earth.
I knew the moment I heard about Dancing with Source that I was going to study it and become a Master Practitioner. I was introduced to Ashley by another DWS student and began participating in the Sunday morning Meditation conference calls. One day Ashley asked me to stay on the line after everyone else disconnected.
We chatted for a couple of moments and then Ashley asked, "So, Juan, when are you going to start studying DWS?" Long story short, I joined the next workshop series.
When I began the workshops, I was in a fairly weakened state. I had been attending UC Berkeley and experienced a collapsed lung, which was very painful. My focus in the early workshops was to rebuild my health.
I smile when I remember that Ashley's focus was for me to develop my assertiveness while I rebuilt my health and learned the DWS processes. Whew! She is a fun teacher but she is not an easy teacher.
It worked! I am assertive -- and have been for quite some time. I am extremely healthy. I am a Master Practitioner and continue to grow my skills and abilities in that area. I graduated this past June with my BA degree. I am now working for Apple and loving it.
Learning DWS systematically changed my life for the better. I learned to identify my disempowering core beliefs and work with Source to change them to empowering beliefs. I learned to explore my "Library of Rules" and to keep what serves me and transmute the rest. I became expert at working with Source to heal past lives, identify patterns, programs and attachments and transmute them. I learned so much more than this but to find out what that is, you need to study for yourselves.
Most importantly, I learned to hear Source clearly. That is the most empowering thing of all.
Thank you, Ashley, for bringing this body of knowledge to Earth and teaching it to those who are ready to learn it.
Juan Manuel Ramirez is a DWS Master Practitioner. He received his BA in Business Psychology from Palo Alto University in June, 2016. He is currently working at Apple.
Through the workshops offered in the DWS mystery school, all are empowered to identify incongruencies with Highest Good & congruencies with what is not, create clear two-way communication with the Divine & transform past lives, trauma, disempowering genetic & behavioral inheritances through family bloodlines, disempowering core beliefs, karmic, mental, emotional & egoic patterns, programs, attachments, fragmentation of soul, personality & separation from Spirit, identification & removal of Dark Teachers & implants, as well as dynamic relationship work with the archetypes, concepts, ideas, people, places & things that hold us back from moving into our Light Bodies.
When we clear these & other 'buggy code' from our field we become progressively able tohold more Light & can be of greater service in the uplifting of human consciousnessin preparation for the Ascension.
We do this through advanced energetic healing workshops, private sessions, speaking engagements, and spiritual retreats in partnership with Source, the Archangels, Ascended Masters, and All Beings of Light.