THE JOURNEY OF TRANSFORMATION
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THE JOURNEY OF TRANSFOrmatioN

experiencing the shift to higher elevations of vibrational frequency

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I feel like my life is a journey that is an uphill climb and I live with the drive to constantly pursue higher ground.  It’s like I inhabit a limited range of elevation on the Live Beautifully Path and I’m constantly edging my range ever higher up a mountainside.
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I call the area that I currently inhabit my comfort range.  All that makes up ‘my life’ largely falls within the boundaries of this range.  My beliefs, my thinking, my choices, my home, my friends, my work, my finances, my attitude, my health…  all of the aspects of ‘me’ or ‘my’ or ‘mine’ are within this range.
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​Experiences outside of my norm, my comfort range, feel uncomfortable.  For example, if I were to stay in a hotel that was below my current comfort range, the experience would feel uncomfortable.  As well as if I stayed in a hotel above my current comfort range that too would feel uncomfortable.  I would have a sense that I don’t belong.
 
I’ve found that birds of a feather tend to flock together.  I seem to share some common ground with the people that are ‘in my life.’    When I encounter people that inhabit a completely different path or range on the mountainside I feel like we have little in common.
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​There seem to be many paths to take up this mountainside (many religions and practices).  I seem to be gathering wisdom and practices from many paths and using them to forge my own way on the Live Beautifully Path.  This is my transformative process of moving my range of comfort to ever-higher elevations of existence.  

​I am moving out of the depths of guilt, unworthiness, disease and anxiety and into the elevations where self-respect, worthiness, health and abundance reign free.  I am experiencing an on-going process of change, growth and evolution. ​
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​My transformative process seems to follow a pattern.  It starts with Inspiration.   I find myself thinking about something in a new way.  This is a leaning into higher ground in my mind.  I start thinking ‘What if…’ and if I continue down a path of exploring a new avenue of thought, I experience a dose of heightened energy.  I feel a sense of a new ‘high.’  Something to be strived for, climbed to…
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​At first the thought may seem far-fetched, like a pipe dream.  But then after I play around with the thought I may begin to consider it, to believe in a part of it, to put faith in the possibility of it.   And then I may start to act on the idea.  Do it.   Be it.   Believe it.   Embody the ‘new.’
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t this stage of the process I have that ‘fake it until you make it’ feeling.  I haven’t yet fully moved my comfort range to this new elevation by going there in spirit.  To fully go ‘there’ requires a shift in my comfort zone of mind, body & spirit.
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In order for me to not just dabble in the new, but to fully move forward, I have to go through the process of releasing in equal measure from the bottom of my comfort range.  It’s like I am designed to function in a limited range.  In order to move up and inhabit higher ground, I must go through the process of releasing in equal measure from the lower ground.


After I lean into higher ground in thought and action, I experience a crashing and burning.  Initially I saw this as failure.  Just when I got feeling ‘better,’ all kinds of ick would come up. I would experience doubt, unworthiness, yitziness, cravings, drama…  And often times I would revert to my old comfortable ways.  Now I just see the upheaval as a natural part of the transformative process that I must go through to move to higher ground. ​​
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In my natural inclination to strive for higher ground, there often seems to be something that is irritating me.  As I steadily lean into higher ground, the lower parts of 'my life' irritate me.  They don’t feel comfortable in the higher altitude that I am leaning into.    These thoughts, beliefs, patterns, circumstances and energies struggle to survive at the new altitude that I am leaning into.  Things flare up and I get a sense that I am being pulled back down. ​​
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​Sometimes it is physical parts of ‘my life’ that need acclimation to the higher ground.  Like an unorganized closet that suddenly drives me crazy.  Initially I didn’t see the correlation between things like my personal self-esteem and the organization of a closet.  But no part of my life seems to get left behind in this transformative shift.
​Sometimes it’s an ‘emotional place’ that I have deemed wrong that needs to be moved through to make progress on the path.  For example,  if I had believed that I should always be nice, and anger doesn’t fit into the nice category,  I may need to go through the upheaval of changing old patterns related to anger in order to be capable of getting through to higher ground.
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​Sometimes it’s energies within me that start driving me crazy.  I can get all yitsy inside.   There may be energies that I carry from emotions that were generated from lower realm experiences in the past…  old low frequency energies that are stored in my energy field.  These low vibrational frequency energies are challenged by   the new ground that I am trying to move into.  They get all uncomfortable in the higher range and they flare up as they seek to survive.  If these old energies are to survive,  I must continue to think,  act and be in the old range where they are fed the energies they crave.
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When I start thinking higher thoughts and practicing higher choices,   I inevitably find myself experiencing a barrage of repetitive thinking that seems aimed at pulling me back down to where these energies will get fed.  If I put faith in these thoughts,  I will generate the emotions and make the choices that will feed these blockages the energies that they crave.  If I am aware of the thoughts as just old black bean patterns that are trying to stay alive, they may weaken from the Light of Awareness and Acceptance and eventually dissipate. ​
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It’s like anything below my comfort range can be called ‘darkness.’  Awareness is a Light that dissipates the darkness.  The transformative process is one of seeking Awareness and then following up the Awareness with Acceptance.  Awareness followed by Acceptance has been my bridge to higher ground.

I think of my transformation as moving the width of an onionskin each day.  This is manageable.  Big shifts don’t seem to work for me.  The yearning for new higher ground seems to happen naturally for me.  The releasing of the old lower ground is the part that is the most challenging for me.  And so I have created tools that I use each day in hopes of moving the width of an onionskin on my gradual assent up the mountainside.
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​I am using this website to share tools that I have created for myself.  Please use them if they suit you or maybe get inspired to create your own. I believe that this transformative shift will gain great momentum as more and more people commit to the task of a daily devotion to expanded awareness and healing.  Together we will quite literally create a wave a healing energy that will affect all of creation.
With gratitude and blessings,
Doris

The Live Beautifully Apothecary

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