Dear Ones,
Questions. There are always questions to be asked. How often do you find yourself asking questions for which you hear no answer? How often do you wonder about something and wonder, too, where to find the answer?
Or are you the other kind of person, the one who has answers and is just waiting for someone to ask you a question so that you can share one of your answers? If you are not the person with all the answers, do you know that kind of person?
We would tell you that curiosity is a good thing for a human being to have. On Planet Earth in the 21st Century there are many situations about which it is appropriate to have questions. For too long many have been complacent and uncurious about what is going on around them. For too long many have fought to isolate themselves and their resources to protect them from some intrusion by another entity: government or enemy or other human being.
People who have not been asking questions are stagnating in old energy that is no longer appropriate for Planet Earth. Only the curious, those who question, can move forward. If one accepts the ‘status quo’ as perfect then one cannot grow, cannot expand awareness, cannot move into a more enlightened state.
You probably know the kind of person who has no intellectual curiosity and is thus easy to mislead into believing something that is not true. This person is content to live in an unenlightened way because they are afraid of ‘upsetting the applecart.’ It is sad to see a person who believes they know the answers even when they are not asking the questions that they should.
It is sad, too, to see people living in fear of asking questions. What if the answer might be disturbing? What if the answer shakes up preconceived notions about how things are? This would be devastating to someone who is wedded to the notion that everything is fine as it is and that there is no necessity for change.
Think of the world you would be inhabiting if all the people of Earth had adopted this attitude through time. You would not have automobiles or computers or telephones or televisions or radios. You would not be connected around the world instantaneously via satellites and the internet. Your life expectancy would be much shorter than it currently is. Now some might say that not all advances in technology and science are good for society but we are not addressing that part. Intellectual curiosity compels the human being forward in development. The decisions about whether or not a particular advance is good for society is a different question but that question should not always be answered with a resounding ‘no’ merely because the advance indicates change.
Intellectual curiosity impels a person to ask questions about the greater parts of Life, like Death, the origin of the Cosmos, relationships, and philosophical questions. Intellectual curiosity is especially important in spiritual matters because one’s purpose on Earth includes expanding awareness, developing greater consciousness, for Self and all of humanity. To stay in one place, without the curiosity to explore beyond that place, stifles the human brain and the essence of Soul development. To believe that all has been revealed keeps one from making that next discovery, that next ‘aha’ that would take the person and the world into another stage of development. This is true not only in the larger scale but also in relationships, in one’s work, in discerning patterns in life and the world around one. There is always a next step.
We would ask you to consider ways in which you have stopped being curious about Life. Is there some aspect of Life about which you feel you have already decided all the answers? Is there something you are afraid of learning more about? How are you pursuing the curiosity that you might feel? Who are you curious about? A loved one? Have you asked and really listened to them lately? A prominent figure or situation? Have you done any research into it?
Keep yourself curious. That is how a human grows. A child’s curiosity contributes greatly to their developing understanding of the world around them. Be childlike about everything around you. Expand your awareness and ask questions. Only then can the evolution of human consciousness continue to expand. Do your part by remaining curious.
And so it is.
Mystic Messages 
MUSE-INGS: “Seek the Light in the Dark Feelings” by Rosemary Bredeson
December 21, 2010 — RosemarySadness? Grief? Loss? Who wants to think about those things?
But, if we are committed to living a Conscious Life, then we must be aware of our feelings for they do represent important guidance for us along the path of personal growth. How comfortable are you with those feelings in yourself? How about in another person? Is it hard for you to experience another’s grief or sadness and really be present to them when they are feeling those feelings?
I know it can be hard to stay with what is uncomfortable but that great growth is the blessing in learning to do this. There is always Light on the other side of that which appears to be darkness. The Light is in there somewhere. Searching for the Light requires that sometimes we must make peace with the darkness. It is like allowing your eyes to become adjusted to the lack of light in a room. Once you have adapted, you can see far more than you could see initially.
It’s the same with feelings that we might be tempted to judge as ‘dark.’ When you stay with that feeling, keeping your eyes open and seeking what is available within the feeling to help you grow, you will become immersed enough for your vision to clear and show you the lesson.
A good friend will be present with you when you are feeling these feelings. A really good friend will hold you in a healing space and help you to stay in the feeling long enough to learn the lesson. The temptation to joke or lighten up the mood takes us away from the honesty of what we are feeling. And honesty is the necessary quality in order that we might go deeply enough into our feeling to learn the lesson that lies there.
Can you give yourself permission to be honest with yourself? Can you suspend judging yourself and those around you for feeling what feelings are coming up? Learning to recognize feelings and to work with them becomes a part of the process of personal growth. A very important part.
Feelings emerge from a place deep within us. Often feelings look as if they are about something going on around us at a particular time. But sometimes those feelings are attached to something from the past and we are fooled into thinking that they belong in the present moment. If you have suffered a hurt in the past and something arises that brings up that past hurt, you might be tempted to react as if the past and the present events have merged into one. This can increase the feelings so that they are no longer appropriate for that one moment.
Losing someone can be linked, in the unconscious mind, to previous experiences of abandonment and the feelings of loss can be increased because of this linkage. Becoming conscious of the source and depth of our feelings puts on in a place where we can be effective in learning from the entire experience. If we know that there might be something in the past that is still begging for our attention so we can learn the lesson then we owe it to our self and to our personal growth to stay with that feeling until the lesson is revealed.
But all of this does not mean that we must wallow in sad feelings and cling to them while ignoring the life around us. As in all things, we must find balance in our lives. Clinging to feelings without doing the processes of working with the feelings, learning the lessons, is a form of self-centeredness that can drive people away from us. Feeling the feelings, working with them, moving forward in our personal growth – this is the path with the most reward. For when we choose to actually DO the work of growth then we can move through and beyond the feelings that we are feeling. It is in refusing to do the work that we become stuck.
Decide today to choose growth over being stuck in your feelings!
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