Transcending Worry & Fear









































































































TRANSCENDING WORRY AND FEAR

From Mary Magdalene on October 15, 2010

Transmitted through Mercedes Kirkel
(www.intotheheart.org, 415-359-6882, aloha@intotheheart.org)

Beloveds,

Greetings again from Mary Magdalene. I have heard your call and I am here to help you.

Many of you are worried about what is happening in your society and in the world. You’re worried about your leaders and the politics they’re engaging in. You’re worried about your financial systems and about your financial well-being. You’re worried about the Earth and how she is being cared for. You’re worried about the changes in nature you are witnessing. You’re worried about your physical well-being. You’re worried about change in your world on so many levels that you sense and don’t fully understand. You would like to have more trust and reassurance in your own safety and well-being, as well as the safety and well-being of the larger society and of the world altogether.

You are correct that there is a great deal of change happening in your world. Many of you have been protected from this kind of change and uncertainty in your lifetime previously. You had a sense of order and stability and protection. And now that seems to be eroding, dissolving, falling away. And this is going to increase for most of you. You are involved in a time of great change. You are part of a great transition that is underway, on the Earth and within the cultures and societies of the Earth, and within the individual beings that are on the Earth. You could see it as a death of the old ways, the old structures and forms, and a rebirth of new ways and structures and forms. As with any death/rebirth process, you must let go and surrender to the death, into the unknown, before you are reborn into the new forms and knowingness.

There are things you can do to either obstruct this process and make it more difficult for yourself, or to flow with it and allow it to do its work of transformation and change, which can also be a great gift to you as an individual. It can support you tremendously in your personal growth and change. This great wave of change that is building and sweeping through your world has great power to carry you forward much more quickly and easily than if you were simply doing this on your own, without this kind of energetic movement occurring. So you have an opportunity, a great and somewhat rare opportunity, to participate in this great movement of transformation, this wave of change that is sweeping over the Earth.

You must become conscious of what you are doing that is blocking this flow. And worry is one such thing. Many of you may not think of yourself as worrying, and yet there is a subtle (or sometimes not-so-subtle) tension in you of resistance to what is happening. You may see it in your speech, of talking about how bad things are, focusing on what “they’re doing” that you think is wrong or bad or destructive, whether the “they” is your leaders or your neighbors or your boss or your friend or whoever.

Some of you are aware that this is not in your highest good to think this way or speak this way, so you try to suppress this energy or speech, deny that you feel this way. And that is not the way either, for the energy of negativity is still there within you, and now you’ve added another layer of suppression on top of that. So you simply have two repressive forces going on, the first of trying to repress others or the outside world, and the second of trying to repress yourself.

The way out is through consciousness and honesty. First, you must become conscious of any negativity within yourself. By negativity, I mean any belief within yourself that things are wrong or bad or shouldn’t be occurring as they are. This is a very deep-seated belief within many at this time, a sense that you “know” what’s right or good or how things should be. This is a confusion for many.

I would like to speak to this confusion. There is a sense within each of you of what is of light and love. And there is an inherent longing for that light and love. This is real and something that you can trust. However, it is not the same thing as judging something to be right or wrong, good or bad, appropriate or inappropriate, positive or negative. That act of judging is fear-based, an attempt to control or superimpose on yourself or others through force, even if it’s just the force of will or intention. This is what has created so much problems and suffering for you in your world for so long.

And the opposite of simply allowing everything, to not exert any will, to be completely passive, is no more enlightened. That is simply giving up, and that is not what you are here to do.

What you are called to is to first return to light and love, always. Ultimately, it is to stay in light and love, to abide continuously in light and love. But at first it begins with returning to light and love, again and again, when you notice or become conscious that you’re not coming from that place.

And so you begin with noticing. You may notice that you’re judging or that you’re worrying or that you’re simply not filled with light and love. When you notice that, don’t immediately jump out of that into the opposite, or whatever you think you “should” be doing, for that will simply be a reaction, and you haven’t addressed the root.

The root is that you’re in your mind and you’re disconnected from your heart. So begin by noticing the symptoms, whatever they are in the moment, of being in your mind and disconnected from your heart. In some form, you’re rooted in fear, which may be subtle or fairly gross. Another way of saying that is that you’re not feeling trust and openness and peace in the moment in relationship to whatever is happening.

The process then is to re-connect with your heart. And that begins with feeling. Rather than thinking that something is bad or wrong or shouldn’t be happening, shift into experiencing your heart and your feelings. You might be feeling scared, or concerned, or anxious, or sad, or hopeless, or powerless, or confused, or some other feeling. Whatever it is, let yourself feel it at your heart. It won’t be about what someone else is doing or the rightness or wrongness of what’s happening. It will be a pure emotion or sensation within you, with no sense of rightness or wrongness to it.

That is the beginning, and for some of you this is a huge step, because you’ve been systematically trained to disconnect from your feelings, to the point that you may not know what you’re feeling. Your great help in this is your body. Go to your body and your body’s experience, and it will tell you what you’re feeling. Feeling is the foundation of the heart. It is the basis of love. You can only love if you are open in your feeling dimension. Feeling is what allows you to love.

So it begins with feeling, which is often feeling some form of pain. And then the process continues, for I am not simply telling you to be in pain. In fact, that is what many of you fear, that if you feel your pain you’ll be stuck in that forever. In fact the opposite is true. If you don’t feel your pain, you’ll be stuck in it forever. This is the very thing that is supporting so much of what you don’t like in your world right now. You experience something you don’t like, and instead of feeling your response to it, you go into your head and judge it. And if you have the belief that you shouldn’t be judging, you try to suppress yourself from doing that. But you’re still in your head, only now you’re trying to use your will to suppress it. This very act of being in your thinking mind, or reacting to your thinking mind, is actually supporting the very things you don’t like. You are giving power to them through your thinking, even if your thoughts are in opposition to those things. Whatever you think about you empower.

So the way out is to feel. Feel the pain of what you don’t like. Open to it through your feeling. And then let your feeling take you all the way to its source. For example, if you hear on the news that a candidate for office is taking a position you don’t like, perhaps a position that social services should be cut back, you might feel disturbed and anxious. If you let yourself simply feel those feelings of disturbance and anxiousness (rather than going into thinking about how bad that is or any other thoughts), you will eventually get to the source of your feelings. In this example, the source might be that you want to trust that the government will be supporting people who need support. The source is your longing for trust and support in your world.

When you get to the source, you will have arrived at what I call the “inner Divine qualities.” These are qualities that are always beautiful, because they reflect the beauty of the Divine. These qualities live within each one of you. In this example, the qualities of trust and support are aspects of the Divine. God is the essence of trust and support. And when you’re connected to God or the Divine, you experience trust and support. These are beautiful qualities, and experiencing them brings you into the peace and beauty of connection to the Divine. Then you are connected to love and light, through your re-connection to God.

This is the purpose of your feelings, to lead you to their source, which is your inner Divine qualities. And these simply reflect the beauty of God, as you are a reflection of the beauty of God. Then you are ready to act, because you’re now connected to love and light, which is the same as God.

Your actions may be to bless others, bringing love and light to them. Your actions may be to take care of yourself, or others, or your world in some way or other. But these actions won’t be based in fear and judgment and avoiding your pain. They’re based on your connection to love and light, to God, and you will be guided through that connection as to what you should do that will support that love and light.

This is how to navigate through this time of increased change. And it’s really never any different. This is how to navigate through any moment, so that you stay connected to light and love. As you do this more and more, you become more skilled at it. It becomes more natural and easier and happens more immediately. Eventually you will experience less and less fear or sadness or other permutations of those emotions. But do not focus on making fear or sadness go away, as that will simply block the process. Focus on staying open to feeling and following your feelings to Source. Over time, as your engagement of this gets stronger and stronger, you will more and more simply be abiding as the qualities of Source. And that is part of your growth, part of what this grand wave of change and energy and transformation is leading you to.

Welcome the change and make use of it to take you to God. Open your feeling and your heart to your experience, and let that lead you to love and light. And then be the marvelous vehicle of love and light that you are and are being called to be. That is your joy and your destiny, as it is for all. I call you to that and support you in it most fully. And I reassure you that it is most definitely worth it.

In joy and love and blessings for all of you on your path to light and love,
I AM Mary Magdalene.

Copyright 2010 Mercedes Kirkel, www.intotheheart.org, All Rights Reserved. Please copy and share this article as long as the information is not altered, excerpted, or added to; credit of authorship and my e-mail (aloha@intotheheart.org) and website address (www.intotheheart.org) is included; and no money is exchanged. It may be published in journals, magazines or public print with permission from Mercedes Kirkel. E-mail: aloha@intotheheart.org.

Mercedes Kirkel is a channel and spiritual guide, bringing forth messages and instruction from Mary Magdalene, Lady Mary, Archangel Michael, Isis, Yeshua, and other beings of light, as well as Akashic Record Readings. She is currently working on a book entitled Messages from Mary Magdalene.

Mercedes offers workshops and private sessions in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is also available by phone and skype, or to travel to your location. For more information, go to www.intotheheart.org, or contact her at 415-359-6882 or aloha@intotheheart.org.