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As each of us expands in our own understanding and consciousness, that growing level of awareness raises the level for everybody on the planet. The trick lies in how to open up to your true identity and power so that you can live from the heart without losing your mind, right!

Opening up to Higher Truth requires the ability to peck your way out of the primordial egg of conditioning. With each peck, you break out of rigid structures and beliefs that are no longer appropriate to birth a new you, more aligned with your Truth and power.

This process looks different for each person. And rightly so, since each one of us is a unique combination of body, mind and spirit. Your consciousness always seeks to express itself in ways that are aligned with the totality of your being. When you practice inner awareness and honor the voice of Spirit within, you evolve; when you suppress it out of fear or some such emotion, you devolve.

While everybody’s process of growth looks different, there are some similarities that can serve as helpful mile markers on the journey of becoming. There are three areas which, when addressed appropriately, can be of great help during this time of unprecedented change, growth, and transformation on our planet.

The Buddha taught that the root of all imbalance arises from three toxins – three expressions of ego in our lives that take the form of attachment, ignorance and aggression. When based on these emotions, we engage in actions, speech and thoughts that lead to suffering in our lives, just as planting a seed gives rise to fruit in the future.

These three poisons are the reasons we get caught up in the dramas of life, whether they be spiritual, emotional, or physical. Their presence is seen in the imbalance, dis-ease and suffering in our lives. The conditions in our lives today represent the outcome of the seeds we have planted yesterday.

To remedy this situation we need to transform the three poisons. The process of transformation includes intervention, detoxification through forgiveness or physical cleansing, and a renewed dedication to our spiritual growth.

First, everyone faces attachment of some form. Do you think you are somebody? If so, you are attached to what you think you are. Do you think that you are nothing? If so, you are attached to what you think you aren't. It is only when you realize that you are a part of everything through the presence of Spirit in you that you can finally let go of attachment and find the grace to stand in compassionate detachment; the freedom of your Higher nature.

To free yourself from the bondage of attachment, let go of that which no longer serves you. Realize, as you do, that letting go does not always mean that you are getting rid of that person or object of affection. It simply means that you are letting go of your attachment to expectations and outcomes. Letting go frees you to act from a place of compassionate detachment.

Second, we need to transform our ignorance. Ignorance itself is not evil; it is the actions taken in ignorance, that cause untold pain and misery for humanity.

In truth, everyone chooses the good as perceived through their level of ignorance or awareness – and therein lies the catch. To bring about better choices, we need to raise awareness first.

As we open our hearts to new ways of seeing and experiencing life, we open up to higher levels of awareness. Ignorance is rooted in limited understanding and awareness; the more we come to understand higher levels of truth, the wider our eyes open to the limitless nature of our souls. And when we fully understand that, miracles start happening!

Third, our lower nature uses aggression to defend its limited, ignorant actions. Feeling aggressive toward some person or situation? Try asking yourself what you are afraid of. Aggression is a camouflage for fear.

When we give up the fear, we let go of aggressive defensiveness and open up to the broader interconnectedness of life. Our drive toward aggression is transformed through surrender to the hand of a Higher Power. We align to Higher Truth. We stop resisting and feeding the very thing we hated or fixated on. Instead, our hearts open up to embrace new ways of seeing, being and doing – and we are transformed.

Ultimately, it is not our need but our view that needs to be transformed. Higher Truth will untangle our warped thinking and enable us to align with higher levels of awareness. As we grow in understanding, we move away from the poisons of attachment, ignorance and aggression to embrace the higher states of compassionate detachment, awareness of our True nature and alignment to Higher Truth.

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