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Copyright © 1997 by Carol Heideman
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Twelve Star Publishing, P.O. Box 123, Jefferson, MD 21755
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Copyright © 1997 by Carol Heideman
All rights reserved. Inquiries should be addressed to
Twelve Star Publishing, P.O. Box 123, Jefferson, MD 21755
Carol Heideman has channeled the entity Michael since 1987.
Her column conveys a practical and timely message from Michael.
From our perspective beyond the physical plane, we
find it curious how much energy human souls use to struggle with
the shadow side. Negative energy and emotions, illness and death,
selfish and evil deeds -- all these are aspects of the shadow
side. All these are a part of life. Harder still to accept, all
these are a part of each soul, a part of YOU. Struggle to eliminate
all negative from your life and you will be severely handicapped
-- as well as too exhausted to bring much light and love into
the planet!
Put fresh batteries in your flashlight, children, and together
we'll investigate those scary shadows that appear when the lights
go out at bed time:
Realize that you can NEVER eliminate negative energies. Like the head and tail on a coin, positive and negative energies create a whole. When you move far enough into either one, you emerge in the opposite polarity. All new beginnings eventually lead to some sort of conclusion; each conclusion makes space for a new beginning. Energy is never lost, it is simply converted into a new form.
Negative emotions and physical problems alert you to changes and adjustments needed in your life. Ignore such a message and it will persist, getting louder . . . louder . . . LOUDER over time. Chronic illness, persistent depression or anger, even injuries from accidents are all indications of where your life is lacking harmony. When you acknowledge a message and make the appropriate course correction in your life, the screaming buzzer shuts off abruptly. This is particularly true for negative emotions, which often respond rapidly to a change in thinking alone. Physical problems usually take longer to respond, as these mostly occur when a signal is ignored for an extended period of time.
Negative energy is a necessary component of the time/space
continuum. When you leave the physical plane, the beneficial aspects
of the dark side are much easier to comprehend. Negative energy
is what creates the "death" of each moment, its conclusion
and passage into the past from the present.
Without shadow energies, you would have no sense of growth or
movement through life - your entire lifetime would exist within
an extended moment of Now, masking your feelings of progress and
transformation. Time is a construct, and negative energy is the
wall holding back an ocean of other times and places, allowing
you to tightly focus your awareness into THIS moment of THIS day
during THIS lifetime.
Following a complex lifeplan can be tricky. Learn to monitor subtle negative energies and you can move smoothly through job shifts, relationship changes, any adjustment in your life where something ends to make way for something new. For some reason, humans tend to resist change, often causing the negative energy to "squeeze" you harder in order to get you moving. Most of you spend years in a job you hate before taking action to build a new career or even find a new job of the same type. Instead of ignoring a negative, observe and question it. Open yourself to the message it brings. Couple the negative message of what is NOT WANTED with a sense of anticipation and excitement that guides you toward what is positive and harmonic.
You draw to you what you fear, so do not fear the shadow. Whatever
you resist grows stronger, so do not resist the shadow. If you
abhor some aspect of the shadow, you are still resisting it and
you give it power. At times, your own shadow nature will appear
-- a fascination with violent movies, an enjoyment of discordant
music like heavy metal, a powerful interest in details of a big-name
murder trial, a compulsion to watch a particular soap opera. These
are all ways to express your shadow nature without creating negative
consequences in your life.
Since positive/negative energies are opposing aspects of a single
energy, realize that as you increase the light in your life you
also experience an increase in your shadow energies. Imagine a
skyscraper reaching for the clouds -- and beneath that building,
huge support structures extend deep into the earth. Your efforts
as a lightworker intensify your shadow energies; listen to their
messages, and learn to express your shadow aspects in acceptable
ways in order to keep your skyscraper of light standing tall.
This excerpt is from the book Searching
for Light: Michael's Information for a Time of Change,
by Carol Heideman. ISBN 0-9643455-0-1, $12.95.
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