Holy Shift, Batman, How to Prepare for My Awakening

   5 Minute Read | Solid Q&A to help you prepare for your self-actualization, self-mastery and supraconscious awakening. Also, can we force a shift of consciousness within ourselves? Let's discover together. AWAKENING YOUR AJNE CHAKRA (THIRD EYE).

Shift Happens: Preparing Yourself for Your Awakening 

Energy Shift - Grounding - Self-Care - Embrace It

Awakening is the most profound shift in your energetic signature. It's helpful to understand what is happening, what mechanisms are in place for this, and what you can do to prepare. Following are incredibly practical answers to common questions about the process, the journey and what you can do to prepare.

Q. Can we force a shift of consciousness within ourselves?

A. Is it possible to make a shift occur? Or, is the shift or nexus out of our hands? Shift does sometimes spontaneously occur when God deems it to occur. That is what happened to me in 1997 as I was a part of the 2nd Wave of Harmonic Convergence. 

It's not so much what we do but rather, how we need to simply be. Doing does not factor into an awakening. And further, this is also not on our forced timing.

Yet, looking back, there were things I was doing to prepare myself for that spectacular moment. Following are helpful guiding tools that may help you as well.

Q. Is my third eye open or closed?

A. Having your third eye (Ajne Chakra, Eye of Horus) open is vital to stepping into an awakened state. A simple check-in will let you know how open your third eye actually is.

When you close your eyes … what do you see?

• Darkness
• Colors
• Flashes
• Symbols
• Images
• Ideas
• Are the images or colors coming towards you are are they moving away from you?

Acting as a natural connection or bridge between realms, your third eye supports your connection to the divine, your higher self and your human self, soul and spirit.

You use your third eye eight different ways all the time whether passively or actively.

1. Remembering or recalling important information or memories
2. Dreams
3. Visions
4. Fantasy
5. Long-term memories
6. Short-term memories
7. Gazing
8. Nightmares, yes, they utilize the third eye, too

In an awakening, your inner vision third eye are critical. In order to begin using your inner vision, or Third Eye, which is very different from looking at the back of our eyelids. We you need to access your imagination.

The main purpose of this is to gaze into your mind in order to see from there. For example, if I asked you to imagine seeing an apple in your mind, what type of apple would you see? What color is it? Red, green or yellow? If you can see an apple when you attempt this exercise, you are already accessing your Third Eye.

Using your third eye isn't only for gurus or masters, this is a natural ability you use everyday, but just aren't fully congnizant of. This article and many of the articles on this site can support you to strengthen it.

Q. Do I have to alter my environment?

A. Environmental conditions can often produce a hyper-sensitive empath which leads to your natural awakening and self-actualization. Depending on your subconscious, your third eye can open and close depending on your energetic alignment and environment can play an important role.

When  I came into the world, I was hyper aware. I acquired a hyper-vigilant survival mechanism of empathically needing to connect with everyone around me to gauge their behavior / mood / thought patterns, thus strengthening my "intuitive muscles" over time - making me in touch with my sensitive side. 

Being as aware of my surroundings as I was, as a baby, inadvertently set me up for my awakening moment later in life. All my life was a navigation towards my direct self-actualization moment.

Environmental conditions conditioned me thusly. 

Tense or challenging environments can produce the exact alchemy to eek out your potentials. Thus was my case as a baby. However, this challenging environment need not be your avenue.

You may in fact be in a wholly balanced and harmonized life circumstance. Looking at challenging environments through a lense of, glass is half full or finding the silver lining, can be an important and supportive way of working with the environment to your benefit.

If you are able, creating a harmonious environment of safety and nurturing gives you the supporting room needed for your own personal vision quest towards enlightenment.

Q. Do veils begin to lift in an awakening?

A. Yes!  In an awakening, veils will begin to life like the peeling of an onion. Layer after layer. Especially if you are actively healing yourself through different modalities; i.e., meditation, grounding, process work, shadow work, etc.

Q. What do veils look like? How do I identify them?

A. It is important to address the concept of veils or as some people call them, blocks. When you consider the myriad layers or realms of realities that surround us in our waking walking life it is a blessing to be sure that we even have veils. We can be thankful for our veils and the important task or role they play in our lives.

Veils are wonderful because when we can master them through an awakening we can lift them at will to take a peek into other spaces and places. VEILS ARE A STOP-GAP PROTECTION MEASURE. If we didn't have these natural built-in veils we would have a difficult time deciphering the layers or realms surrounding us, trying to differentiate between what is "our reality" and what is "another reality". You may be capable of 'seeing' for example several people sitting at a table yet we only see one person. Others are sitting there at the table with one person present, yet many are there. Some can actually see everyone there and to them, they all look 'real' and cannot seem to tell them apart from one another. I've associated this lack of veils or the ability to veil with those who are schizophrenic. I have run this concept/theory past psychotherapists and psychologists in the industry - all who thought my theory was plausible and a good explanation.

Lending further credibility to my theory is the article posted on Melbourne University's website about a University of Melbourne team who examined a group of people deemed to be at ultra high risk of developing psychosis and found those that went on to develop schizophrenia, rather than other forms of psychosis, all displayed the inability to identify smells. This deficit was present before the onset of any significant clinical symptoms of psychosis.¹

This observation makes sense. If a person had their veils in place they would also have a sense of smell. The old adages "the nose knows", "follow your nose", "it's right under your nose", "I smell a rat", "sniff out danger", and so on all lend a sense that we are using our olfactory extrasensory perceptive tool to facilitate or assist our inner knowing or perception. Without this, we are more prone to having our veils not only lifted but permanently damaged/removed.

In an awakening, the sudden onset of veil removal could be jolting and jarring, leaving you feeling vulnerable and raw. Careful and conscious veil removal is critical.

When I think about people who have rhinoplasty I have to wonder if they eventually suffer from something similar. Or perhaps this might cripple their nose's ability to not only smell the scents of the world as they had pre-surgery but also to sense the world around them.

Q. Can Veils be Misused?

A. Yes. If veils are used properly or identified they can clearly delineate the start/stop points of a reality or realm. They can be rather subtle and if I can attempt an explanation here, I will. Some however look at veils and call them blockages, blocks or barriers to their own abilities. I feel these are nothing more than beliefs or systems that are 'bought into' in order for us to feel we are not or cannot connect. Strangely, the belief that we are not connected is a misnomer - we are always connected no matter what we try and do. It is not possible to not be connected.

It definitely can be much easier to allow our own baggage or blocks to keep us from knowing. We must not confuse being veiled with being blocked as these are two different things altogether.

Q. How to Discern the Start/Stop Point of a Particular Veil

A. In the ancient art of Jin Shin Jyutsu, a 5000 year old modality similar in some ways to acupressure recognizes in its main central flow, the nose as a point on the path. Truly, the nose knows. The nose appears to act as a sort of inner antennae. As your veils are becoming easier to discern, through awareness and conscious attention, you may catch yourself inclining your head in a particular direction, sometimes its to hear the words being spoken or to catch a particular feeling being relayed, and yet all the time following an inner sensibility and trusting your built-in guidance systems to lead you in the right direction.

Q. In my awakening how do I traverse from veil to veil?

A. When we get into the space of traveling through the spaces there are a couple considerations: being in the veil and being between veils for starters. To be in one is to be engaged, simply put, in some form of communication or communion with another. To be between veils is to be taking focus off one space and placing it on another space. In a way it is like traveling on earth. We want to take a trip to Hawaii, we have to drive to the airport, hop a plane and travel thousands of miles until we reach our destination airport, and from there we hit the beaches. Within a veil there are many worlds or realms right in the same veil; there are veils within veils; like there are in an airport - within the airport there are shops, stores, malls, bathrooms, luggage area, check-in counters, video play rooms, all these spaces within one place, and of course the airport is within a city limit that has many other places to visit besides the airport itself. When traveling meta-physically you can really have a lot of fun discovering new places and meeting new people.

Getting from veil to veil feels as if you are simply placing your attention to another space. That is the gist of it really. If you get to the point of trusting that what you are seeing and experiencing is real and not an illusion then you will be just fine. It is those folks who distrust what their inner eye, or third eye, reveals; they trip themselves up by doubt and then confusion sets in. Stay clear and trust yourself, then simply turn your attention to another space and you are there.

Q. Can one get lost in the Veils?

A. Yes and no. It will be vital in your awakening, to keep yourself grounded and essentially train your CNS (central nervous system) to recognize an inner safety in receiving. As you receive information (or packets of light), you learn to trust yourself and what comes through. 

I once was experiencing an OBE (out of body experience) several years back when this was quite new to me. I laid there quite relaxed and unaware of what was happening. Suddenly I found myself separating from myself in a way that was very strange. I felt light and as if my real self was being pumped into a giant Macy's Day Parade balloon. This part of me was floating above my body like a balloon of higher consciousness. I felt waves of rushing relaxed kundalini warmth at the same time. Feeling secure I continued filling this giant etheric balloon not really knowing what was going to happen and so I remained quite curious throughout the process.

After a time I felt as if I was getting ready to do something more than just float above myself. It was then that I became afraid and thought I would lose myself in some way, the self on the bed. In a panic I quickly returned to my body on the bed.

After reflecting on this some time later, I realized how important it was to recognize that there were indeed tethers of silver cord connecting my physical body on the bed and the floating version of myself.

What is really important to remember is that while exploring veils you may think you could get lost but in fact you are never away from yourself. Nevertheless, if you remain timid try concentrating or focusing on the silver cord of connection that always exists between your higher consciousness self and your physical body, and actually connects with your other bodies (i.e., epikinetic, electromagnetic, and so on).

Q. How do I know when my third eye is active and balanced?

A. When your third eye is activated it will be balanced more often than not. Some of the ways in which you will recognize you are using it are

• Re-membering how to manifest from a sense of inner empowerment and balance
• Recognize when you are in receiving mode
• Feeling the sense of the aHA moment of clarity
• Receiving visions and discerning divine guidance
• Gaining a sense of deep knowing and clarity about people, situations, events

With these teachings you may find that they open up new vistas of understanding and they may also invite more questions. I encourage you to write me with anything you want to share. I am so happy to assist you in the deeper space inploration.

Happy Travels!

Deidre Madsen

Reference: 1. Media release 10/28/03 - Jason Major, Media Liaison, jmajor@uni melb.edu.au , 8344 0181; Dr Warrick Brewer, Depts Psychiatry and Psychology, 0412 109 330, 03 9342 2800, email: warrick uninews.unimelb.edu.au/articleid_1019