Resistance on the Path

Many of us who are walking the spiritual path day to day experience a great level of resistance to the things we want or need in our lives. I have often heard it said that the higher you go, the greater the resistance, perhaps this is correct, as this would make perfect sense and is what we experience. However, what if the higher we go (in our vibration) the more we encounter the resistance that has been there all along?

For the most part nothing has changed. Our bodies are exactly the same inside and out, all we are doing when we fast, detox and cleanse is remove layers of dirt, poison and toxins that clog up the delicate inner machinery. This debris has slowed us down, stopped us, made us sick, tired, unbalanced and discouraged us from continuing on our journey's, it feels like a low level of constant frustration.

When you are detoxing, of course you are tackling these toxins and stripping them away each day you devote to clearing out your body. Along with this physical detox then comes a significant amount of processing or sifting 'through' what is being removed and why. As well as examining how it got there in the first place.

Some of the poisons and negative energies that we all carry around might astound you, but then again, most of us are never surprised at what is buried deeply within the body. If we look at the basic premise of 'as above, so below' or what is outside of us also exists inside of us - then all we need do is look around the world and see how much of a mess we have made.

However, that doesn't mean to say that doing this work is therefore futile - quite the opposite in fact. If just one of us starts to clean up and spends time removing rubbish, picking up after themselves and being careful to not create more refuse, what a difference this makes in the world. And it might inspire others to do the same.

Now, imagine if thousands or millions of us around the planet were doing the same thing - inside and out. Cleaning, detoxing and leaving nothing behind them, but a trail free of litter and debris. What we are doing is breaking down the resistance to higher consciousness one brick at a time proving to ourselves that it can be done.

Today is day three of my mini cleanse and I am working through some of the resistance in my body and life, disposing of the opposition to my hopes and dreams.

Have a lovely day,

April

Cat in the garden - sun finally broke through! 

Fear Dominates Life - When You Ingest Toxins

Having touched on this topic a few times here, it is amazing how I keep coming back around to it. Fear has been so deeply embedded into the DNA of our species, mostly through the food and water that we are taking in. Today I wanted to share with you a bit more about the changes that I have made and continue to make to remove this negativity. 

I remember when I used to eat a 'typical' diet and live a 'normal' life - layers of toxins and negativity dissolving anything good. For those who still listen to the news and steep themselves in negative information that comes in from official sources, a little more poison in the food probably isn't that noticeable.

It is not until you begin the process of removing some of these nasty toxins from your mind, body and soul (because you want to lose weight, heal, move forward spiritually etc.) that you realize the toll they have all taken on you. However,  you can also see how each one of these contaminates added and intermixed with the others creating a brew of something horrible.

Years ago I started out slowly eliminating many unnecessary 'foods' from my life including all the usual ones like sugar, dairy, wheat, alcohol, caffeine. With each layer taken away my thinking got clearer, my intuitive abilities stronger and exact, of course I also felt far better and my body healed.

Even with these anti-nutrients taken out of my diet, I still could sense a certain level of toxins coming in, being an intuitive and a health investigator by trade, I stopped at nothing until I discovered what this was. It turned out to be a group of fruits that I have since come to know as the most anti-spiritual things on the planet and indeed the Night Shades (potato, tomato, aubergine, chillies, peppers and gogi berries), had a hold on my spirit which was causing concern, because I was dying a spiritual death inside. 

If I were to back up a bit here, many years before this time, when I had made a few select changes to my diet and lifestyle, I found myself in Findhorn, a spiritual centre in northern Scotland for a conference. As often happens in places such as this, a complete stranger who turned out to be a Naturopathic doctor from North America approached me with a message from spirit.

Back in 1997, she informed me that I was to stay away from all Night Shades and only then would things become clear for me (my destiny, purpose, mission). At the time I was mystified, these were just vegetables/fruits, how could they possibly interfere with my spiritual life and the work I am doing?

However, her words stayed with me even though it was a few years later before I finally relented and stopped including them altogether in our diets at home. I had come to my own conclusions by that time, but it was quite clear, the Night Shades and their toxins were to be added to the list of poisonous foods. 

It was only then that my life changed completely, entirely and utterly - moving onwards at incredible speed into new areas. The first thing I remember changing for me was the fog lifting, within 72 hours of clearing the house of these foods, even the energy of the place had lifted.

Since that time I have learned, understood and detoxed these noxious fruits out of my system and never looked back. When it comes to spirituality, if something is toxic or poisonous to the body, there is no difference for the rest of our being. Harming the body is the same as hurting mind and spirit.

Whenever there is poison present in your body several things occur;

• fear dominates the mind
• harm is being done to the body
• an energy block forms in the field
• patterns of negativity and anger control everything 
• feelings of confusion 

However, once these toxins begin to be eliminated from our bodies, and detoxed out of the delicate systems (through Master Cleanses etc.), the body heals and all can be restored. Of course, this takes time, commitment and dedication to fully walking the spiritual path. 

Perhaps it is time to take a step forward into the light

April

Barley Cove Beach, West Cork