Keeping the Balance Keeps Your Connection

The importance of balance is essential to establishing a deep connection with yourself. Without valuing yourself, there’s no way you can receive the value you’ve created in your life.

Many of you are overextending yourselves, going so far out of balance that you find yourselves feeling irritated, frustrated, and involved in conflicts. Did you know that you are the producers of these conflicts because you are in conflict with yourselves?

When was the last time you devoted as much energy to yourself as you have to all the tasks you’re managing? When we say "live consciously," we mean recognizing the signs within yourself that are creating your life. If you’re feeling irritated, frustrated, or encountering conflict, it’s your own self calling you to value yourself.

The moment you observe your emotions and stop making them about the mirrored results you’re seeing in the world, your life will begin to change. If you are irritated, you likely need more solitary time. If you are frustrated, you need more consideration. If you are in conflict, it may mean you're being pulled in too many directions at once.

Alignment occurs when you become a master of feeling, not by condemning or judging your emotions, but by responding to them with understanding. You recognize that your feelings are part of your experience and are meant to create a preferred state of being. You align with that preferred state by becoming a match to it, loving what you feel.

There is a clear difference between selflessness and self-sacrifice. In selflessness, you feel valued and good about serving. In self-sacrifice, you feel unappreciated and uncomfortable with what you’re offering. In both cases, the Divine receives you exactly as you feel. Many of you talk about the sacrifices you’ve made as though they are badges of honor, but anything offered in love will never feel like a sacrifice. This is a key sign of how the Universe is receiving you. Too often, people get caught up in the acts of service themselves, rather than how they feel while doing them, or how others perceive their actions.

Let your motivation come from a place that feels like love. In self-sacrifice, there is an expectation of return for what has been given. In selflessness, there is no such expectation. These examples are offered so you can more clearly view yourself and understand the mirrored returns you are getting. There is no way you will receive an undesired mirrored return unless you have held something within that has brought it to you.

It is crucial to recognize the difference between conscious creating and unconscious creating. In conscious creating, you will love the mirrored view you see. In unconscious creating, you will dislike the mirrored view and try to look away from it.

-Athena