SPIRITUAL RESPONSIBILITY

In a nutshell, spiritual responsibility is all about stepping up to your soul’s path and working through your soul lessons in this lifetime.

This could be anything from learning life lessons, healing aspects of yourself or a relationship and developing and working with your spiritual gifts in a responsible and ethical manner.

I see the theme of spiritual responsibility coming up a lot in the collective at the moment, and many of my clients are dealing with issues around it.

A past life came up the other day for one of my regular clients. I saw him ten thousand years ago in a boat on the River Nile in Egypt, long before the days of the pyramids and pharaohs. He was a very important and powerful priest, and was travelling on the river with a priestess, who was as powerful as he was. I felt they were not human but were from Sirius.

Both had achieved a high level of spiritual mastery and power, but while the priestess was using her powers for good, he was using his to grab more power for himself. In doing so, he was harming others. He felt invincible!

As I watched the scene, the ship struck a rock and sunk, taking both priest and priestess to their death by drowning. As he drowned, he realised that he was not invincible after all, and regretted allowing himself to be taken over by his hunger for power.

After death, his soul had decided he would not allow himself to be influenced like this again, so had vowed to avoid all spiritual responsibility.

This was reflected in his day-to-day life, where he had allowed his parents and wife to take over and direct his life path, even down to handing financial responsibility totally over to his wife. He was spending all his time at work to avoid looking at difficult emotions that were coming up.

Fortunately, he is committed to healing from this, and hearing about the past life allowed him to put all the pieces of the puzzle in place. Sometimes just understanding where an issue stems from can allow the client to process it and see a way forward.

As patterns of behaviour come up in our lives, they show us what lessons we are here to learn. If we try to sidestep that spiritual responsibility, the lessons become harder and more obvious until we get the message!

Similarly, if we need to heal something either in ourselves or within a relationship, our soul will provide ample opportunities. Whether we step up and deal with them or not is another matter.

I have recently been working with a horse which the owner was concerned about. After a few sessions, the owner remarked that all the horse’s issues mirrored hers. She had a session herself where painful childhood memories came up, which she was not ready to address.

I explained that the horse and her had been brought together to help each other to heal, but she would have to take responsibility and commit to her own healing. At the moment she isn’t quite ready to take that step.

Something I see quite often in regular clients is the development of spiritual gifts, particularly if they have done a lot of healing. As the saying goes, ‘with great power comes great responsibility’, and there comes a point when we have to face our fears of developing spiritually.

As I have said before, it is not a path for the faint of heart. It can be painful, confusing and lonely. Some of the reasons people refuse to take spiritual responsibility for developing their gifts are:

*Fear of messing up

*Lack of motivation/laziness

*Not feeling ‘ready’

*Fear of others not understanding, or losing friends and family

*Issues from past lives where a block has been put on taking spiritual responsibility

*Fear of actually being successful

‘When the student is ready the teacher will appear’

Often if we have gifts to work on in this lifetime, our Higher Self and guides will conspire to ensure help is available in the form of a teacher or mentor, who if given the chance, will help us to learn and grow into our gifts.

Spiritual responsibility is recognition of, and gratitude for this assistance. The best way to repay the kindness is to work hard and practise your skills.

On the other side of the spectrum are the people who pursue spiritual development relentlessly for the purposes of Ego. They are refusing spiritual responsibility in a different way:

*They may be doing it for self-aggrandisement and to impress others

*They may see it as a way of making money

*They have a poor sense of Self and use it for validation

*They want to escape from reality

*They use it to manipulate and control others

Listening to guidance from your Higher Self and guides is one of the best ways to tune in to your path. If you are following their guidance, things generally will flow smoothly, but fighting against opportunities for development will cause problems and issues.

It is very common for people to have blocked Higher Guidance channels, either from fear or trauma (eg. past life where the person was persecuted or even killed for their gifts). Healing can remove these blocks and restore connection to your own guides or to the Divine.

I cannot write about spiritual responsibility without mentioning spiritual bypassing. This is where someone chooses to focus only on ‘love and light’, refusing to acknowledge darkness in all its aspects and forms.

The Law of Balance is one of the Universal truths, and we cannot have light without dark: we all have shadow aspects of ourselves to work on and heal, as has the World in general. Refusing to acknowledge and face this is refusing to take spiritual responsibility, and in my opinion shows immaturity.

I know some healers who will not deal with difficult clients- such as those with spirit attachments or addictions- because they do not fit with their ‘love and light’ worldview.

I feel that often those that have come from (or are still in) dark places deserve compassion and healing just as much as anyone else.

I have dealt with clients who have been suffering from Satanic attacks and demonic attachments, only to be attacked myself later by the same attackers. Many of these people have been turned away by other healers because they did not have the skill or inclination to get involved and help.

So where does all this leave us on our own soul journeys? Do what you came here to do, do it well, and learn as much as you can along the way…

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