118. Release Pt. 1

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CXVIII

Requirement for 5DI:

Release and Letting Go

Lecture based Questions:

1. Draw or describe a reminder or symbol of one of your helpers.

Out of your hundreds of helpers, honor one for a moment with your remembrance & gratitude.

2. Why is it hard to let go of things?

It is a condition of the Astral World that attachments are easily formed between people and their strong emotional objects. We create chains or cords that extend from our Astral Bodies to objects of concern. Any person, thing, event, or idea that has a loud emotional resonance for you would be included in this category. Thus it is easier to feel attached to a subject that is connected to the emotion of shock than to any other type of situation. As long as you are incarnated you will have an Astral Body. As long as you have an Astral Body, the concern of attachment will always be an issue.

The cords with which we bind ourselves drain Astral energy from our emotional, vital, and physical bodies. Therefore it is a wise practice to cut all cords every day. They are easily reattached and easily severed.

3. Is it easier for some people to release than it is for others?

Everyone has special ties and unique tendencies to bond. These can range from habits that span multiple lifetimes to single-life challenges. When it comes to astrological signs, earth signs tend to shackle themselves with possessions, water signs tend to manacle themselves with people and animals, air signs tend to cling to ideologies, and fire signs tend to bridle themselves to their goals.

Often it happens that a spirit will become inspired to achieve something and it might take several lifetimes to make the happen. Then it might take several more lifetimes to not need it anymore. So, if there are any frustrated ambitions within you, know that your patience, persistence, and incremental building up of small elements will eventually serve to accomplish this dream that you seek. Understand that even this quest of yours is but a small episode in the vast adventure of your existence.

4. Is there a cycle that allows us to release things more easily?

Every astral relationship (good or bad) has a life cycle to it. These are the components of the duration.

•discovery

•interaction

•emotional event

•connection

•feeding thought form through the energetic relationship

•assimilating all available information about the thought form

•thought form ceases to be educational

•need for relationship becomes outmoded

•emotional juice from relationship with object becomes depleted

•attachment severed

You can see that there is a parasitic affiliation in the attachment process. However, this need not be a bad thing. Learning is always involved, and the person always emerges wiser for the experience. We cannot finish such a season prematurely, as the enrichment must be satisfied, either with this object or with a surrogate. In other words, if you separate yourself from an attached person, object, or situation before the interval has been completed, then you will seek out a similar target over and over again until you finally get the lesson.

The correct protocol of releasement is to pray for enlightenment upon the subject and then to honor your personal rhythm of learning. If you rush a lesson, you miss the points, and if you miss the points, then you have to get them another way. When all the emotional nourishment has been gotten from an object or a personal interaction, the need to have it will evaporate.

5. If I am connected to a negative object, how can I help myself by detaching in the correct manner?

Following is the process that allows severance and healing from bad relationships and addictions. It might take several repetitions of the steps for your Astral Body to accept the changes. Be patient and ask for miracles.

•Acknowledge that this cord is unsettling your mind and draining the success from your life.

•Acknowledge that your own hunger manifested this relationship.

•Ask for enlightenment without suffering so that, at its most basic and simple level, you can understand this hunger that drives you.

•Ask that all the points of knowledge to be gained from this connection now be revealed to your mental body and manifested into your life as wisdom and greater peace.

•Bless the object or person and say, “May all emotional energy between us nourish us in full, be used up, and be released from our fetters."

•In meditation, thank the subject for the energy and education and the share experience. Sever all Astral and Mental ties.

6. Are there such things as beneficial attachments? What about loyal relationships with people? Do we use them up and discard them also?

A living relationship with a person (human or not) that is mutually beneficial, and growing can last throughout eternity. The expression of virtue and support goes through countless phases and life cycles. The two friends constantly rediscover each other and nourish each other in fresh ways. So yes and no. The cycles of learning and release do work themselves through. However, in a good relationship, the cycles continue as both friends evolve together through choice, love, and shared history.

7. Why is it important to let go of things?

It sometimes happens that we become stuck in a cycle because of resistance, fear, neurosis, or other Astral wounding. The information has all been assimilated, yet the final piece refuses to fall into place. We become victims of replay mode. The logic that could release us has been switched off and we become comfortable in the stagnant bardo of this emotional jail. There is an endless universe of additional wisdom to be gained outside of this quagmire. It is beyond reach until we can get out of the muck and walk away.

This is what friends and therapists are for. They can see your situation and can channel the correct words and feelings to liberate you. Allow them to act as part of the Network of Light. Respect the sincere opinions of others, even if they sting. Then decide the course of action that feels healing and harmonious to your success.

During your Open-Key Period, this is very important. The more you are able to release from your Astral grasp, the less work your Guardian Angel needs to implement in your life. You can be more vulnerable and porous without the hammering from the Awakener (Remliel) Angel.

8. Exercise: I Can Fly

•Sit comfortably so that your body does not distract you. Breath deeply and slowly. Repeat the following affirmations.

•I release all negativity, doubt, criticism and fear from my life.

•I release myself from anything that makes me unhappy.

•I release myself from my restlessness.

•I release myself from my habits.

•I release myself from my hardened identity.

•I release myself from my desires.

•I release myself from my limitations.

•I release myself from my opinions.

•I release myself from my talents.

•I release myself from my abilities.

•I release myself from my structures.

•I release myself from my must-haves.

•I release myself from my scheduled agenda.

•I release myself from my outcome.

•I release myself from this moment.

•I release myself from this day.

•I release myself from destiny.

•I release myself into the boundless potential for unlimited satisfaction, peaceful appreciation, and happy existence.

•I am now and ever shall be cradled in the hand of loving eternity.