Interesting piece to discover our own inner selves in correlation to the outer 
selves. I found this very interesting and voluminous in regards to our various 
actions and reactions towards one and other. This might sound true depending on 
one's perception. There is always a lesson or message all around us but only if 
we are interested to recieved or to understand. On the other hand, there are 
different message to different people and you know straightaway at the recieving 
end; no matter who the sender or the author is. I therefore thank God the higher 
one for His/Her assistance rendered to me in this regard. Edi
This is a time of many changes, and you feel it especially at the energetic 
level.  Some of you may feel much energy freed up, and you are learning to adapt 
to this higher level of energy, to function with much more energy than you have 
known in the past.  Your world is opening to you more and more in ways that 
still surprise you.  Things are manifesting more quickly, there is less 
resistance, and everything is happening more quickly and easily than you 
expect.  This will continue, as the energy increases and things seem to happen 
more quickly.  The ease you’re experiencing is a result of your bodies being 
prepared for operating at this higher level of energy.  The energy is not 
meeting resistance, because you have purified your physical, emotional, mental, 
and etheric bodies.
 
If there is a place that has not been purified, the higher energy will activate 
that place.  It’s somewhat like having a blockage in a hose.  The higher energy 
is like water moving at a greater pressure through the hose.  It will activate 
whatever resistance it encounters.  So you may experience symptoms of this 
resistance.  There may be unpleasant physical symptoms, difficult emotions, 
bothersome or negative thoughts, or energetic disruptions.  Whatever it is 
you’re experiencing shows you where you still have some work to do, something 
that needs releasing because it’s blocking you being a clear vessel for the 
higher energy.  So you can make use of what comes up, even though it may feel 
challenging, as a guide for where you can focus your energy for healing, 
release, growth, and change.
 
Know that whatever comes up in your “outer” world is always a reflection of your 
inner world.  If you feel a disturbance with someone else, it is a reflection of 
something within you that you are not accepting or that you want to change.  So 
use the disturbance to guide you to what you will work on in yourself.  It is 
difficult for you to see yourself, but easy to be aware of the things you react 
to in others.  That can be a support for you, as long as you don’t get fooled 
into thinking it’s about the others.  That will be a trap, which will keep you 
stuck and distracted from your true work.  And that is where many of you reside 
in your consciousness at the third dimensional level.  You spend much of your 
awareness meditating on what’s wrong with others.  Some of you who are dedicated 
to spiritual growth have a variation on this, which is to focus on what’s wrong 
with yourself.  But that’s really just the same process, because in doing that 
you’re relating to yourself as an other.  That’s not the same as working on your 
blockages.  That’s still a diversion.
 
How can you know the difference?  When you are judging yourself, you’re in your 
mind (your lower mind) and you are coming from a place of righteousness.  You’re 
telling yourself you “shouldn’t” be doing something, that it’s wrong or bad, or 
that you “should” be doing something else.  You are trying to control yourself 
and your actions, but it’s not based in your heart.  This is like tying more 
knots in the hose to try to get the water to go the way you would like.  It’s 
hard work, coming from your will power to try to make yourself do the thing you 
think is right.
 
What I am suggesting is different from that.  It starts with two things, and 
they’re both about openness.  One is openness in your heart, in your 
feeling-being.  In order to be open in your heart, you can’t be judging yourself 
(or others) as being wrong or bad.  It’s a kind of acceptance, but it’s based 
primarily in feeling rather than ideas.  Can you feel the difference?  Feel what 
it feels like in your heart when you tell yourself that you or someone else is 
wrong or bad.  It feels like a closedness, or no-feeling.  Now feel what it 
feels like in your heart when you open to whatever you or someone else is doing, 
with no judgment of wrongness or badness, but simply the disposition of 
acceptance.
 
What comes up for many of you at that point is fear, fear that acceptance means 
you’re saying that whatever is happening is acceptable and you don’t need to 
change it.  But that’s not what this is about either.  Your mind might want to 
tell you that.  If so, reassure your mind lovingly, like you might reassure a 
family member who loves you and wants to protect you, but perhaps doesn’t 
understand what is happening.  Let the mind rest for now, and later you will 
engage the mind again in whatever action you choose to engage.  Actually, you’re 
calling your lower mind to rest and open, so that your higher mind can be 
engaged.
 
And this is the second aspect of the openness you must initiate.  It is an 
openness of your mind, along with your open heart.  This openness requires you 
to release any ideas of “rightness” or “wrongness,” “good” or “bad,” that you 
may be holding onto.  This does not mean that you will be liking whatever is 
happening.  Judgment is different from preference.  Judgment is based in ideas 
of what’s right and wrong, good and bad.  Preference is based in your actual 
experience.  For example, you might not like peas.  That’s a preference.  Saying 
or thinking that peas are bad is a judgment.  A preference is about you and your 
experience.  A judgment is about the object or other.  In this dimension, you 
all have preferences based on your experience.  To deny that is to deny the 
life-force in you.  That life-force is one of your best guides as to what will 
support you in your life-path and growth, so to deny it is not to your 
advantage.
 
In this case of someone or yourself doing something that you don’t like, it’s 
your preference that has guided you to focus on this experience.  That’s a 
gift.  Simply don’t take it into judgment in your mind that something “out 
there” (including yourself) is wrong or bad.  Instead, simply notice and feel 
what it is that you don’t like.  For example, let’s say you asked someone to do 
something, and they do it while also expressing criticism of you with a tone of 
voice that you perceive as angry.  If you were to judge them, you might think 
that they’re difficult, complaining, angry or resentful, ungrateful, 
uncooperative, lazy, selfish, unsupportive, or whatever else you might think 
about them.  The important thing to notice is that it’s all about them.
 
If you notice how you feel while you’re thinking all this, pointing your mental 
finger of judgment at them, you’ll notice that you feel angry yourself and 
closed off in your heart area.  Your energy is in your head, and possibly in 
your solar plexus, which is your power center.  This is where conflict comes 
from, and this is where a lot of your world operates from, the head and the 
solar plexus.  There may also be some uncomfortable feeling in your belly, which 
is a sign that your emotions are stirred up.  If you’re very sensitive and 
aware, you’ll notice that at the emotional level you’re actually afraid.  You’re 
afraid that you’re not going to get what you need on some level, whether it’s 
help, kindness, harmony, understanding, joy, cooperation, support, or whatever.  

 
The other thing to notice is that if you’re involved in judging what’s wrong 
with the other, whether it’s someone else or yourself, your heart is shut down.  
You’re not feeling your heart.  And that’s where you can start to turn this 
around.  You can start with breathing, especially breathing to and from your 
heart.  Actively relax the energy of your thinking, and instead focus on your 
breathing and feeling your heart.  If you continue this, you’ll start to feel 
not only your heart, but your whole body.  You’ll start to naturally relax 
tension that you’re experiencing in your body, and you will re-connect with your 
whole body.
 
This is a wonderful first step.  And it’s the first step of working with 
yourself, rather than getting caught in the illusion that the other is the 
problem.  Instead of trying to fix them, you’re now working with yourself.  Any 
problem that you perceive happening in your “outer world,” is fundamentally 
about being cut off from what you think you need or want.  And it’s reflecting, 
first of all, that you’ve cut off from yourself.  That’s why it seems like a 
problem.  As you breathe to and from your heart, opening your heart and from 
there your whole body, you reconnect with yourself.  This sets the platform for 
the next step, which is to feel (rather than think).
 
Now you begin to feel what’s happening with you.  Let’s return to the example we 
began with.  In this case, you might be feeling irritated because you really 
wanted them to do what you asked.  You may also notice, as part of opening to 
your feeling, that there’s some defensiveness going on in you.  You may be 
telling yourself that what you asked for was reasonable, or the best course of 
action, or something like that.  If you feel deeper, you’ll feel a kind of 
tension in two directions.  There’s a tension of trying to make someone do 
something because you think it’s right or best, and there’s a tension of 
defending yourself, trying to block out any sense that what you did wasn’t right 
or best.
 
So feeling has led you to a deeper level of awareness of judgment, your internal 
judgment that what you did was right and that what you did wasn’t wrong.  The 
root of this is fear again, fear that you’ll be somehow cut off from life and 
love if you did something wrong.  Perhaps this is what happened when you were a 
child, and now you relate to life this way.  But you’re not going to be cut off, 
especially from God.  God does not cut you off.  Your ideas cut you off, but 
underneath your ideas, there is God.  So let’s say that you could let go of your 
fear of being wrong, and then you can feel and notice what’s beneath that layer 
of defense.
 
Now you notice that you were actually thinking that in expressing what you 
wanted originally, you were essentially giving an order, telling someone what 
they “should” or “must” do, regardless of how nice your words were.  So the 
person reflected this back to you.  They did it because they thought they had 
to, but their words and tone of voice told you that it felt bad to them.  And 
this, too, was a reflection for you, because the disposition of giving orders 
feels bad to the one giving the order, if they let themselves feel it.
 
So all of this can be a gift to you if you take it inside as medicine.  Now you 
can see what else you could have done.  You could have expressed what you wanted 
and why you wanted it, without assuming that you knew what they other “should” 
do, or assuming that what you wanted is the most important thing.  You could 
have had the disposition of openness, respect for the other person’s choice, 
caring about what they were needing that you might not have realized or been 
aware of.  If you were to ask in this way, you would probably get a very 
different response.  And even if you got the same response, you would probably 
take it in a different way.  Instead of being angry or offended, you would be 
curious and caring.  Your heart would be open.  You would be loving and 
compassionate towards the other, as well as yourself.  And you wouldn’t be 
wasting any energy on judging who is wrong or what’s the matter with them.
 
Can you feel this?  This is a very important step for most of humanity at this 
time.  It is intrinsic to the process of spiritual growth that is before you.  
Your lower mind is a tool for support, but judging others or yourself is not 
helping you.  It’s a distraction from your connection to life, a defense.  
You’ve been taught to do this, but it doesn’t support you. Instead of judging 
rightness and wrongness from your mind, use your experiences of feeling in your 
emotions and body.  Use your preferences of experience to re-connect with 
yourself, your heart, your body.  This will connect you with life and with God 
and with all others.  This will guide you to compassion and love, as well as 
guiding you to your next step of growth and change for yourself.  What a 
marvelous design, a self-guiding mechanism, the universe is.  It’s like a master 
plan that always gives you your next step, as long as you understand that it’s 
all about you and that it’s always rooted in love.  The universe wants you to 
succeed, because it’s a manifestation of God.  And God loves you.
 
And God lives in me, and in you, and in all of us.  And I love you, too, and 
support you, and celebrate with you in your growth in God and love.  I see you 
as God, and know you as God, and love you as God, and give thanks to you as God.
 
With blessings and love, 
I Am Mary Magdalene

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