I had heard about the Dark Night of the Soul in various places, but I had also read about the universal laws. I knew at some
level everything can be shifted or transmutted into something else because it was all energy. And we never really are disconnected from our higher guidance, it only feels that way.
It’s not possible to be disconnected. Connection is our natural state, regardless of what’s happening. We can be clouded or veiled from that connection but never disconnected. Solar activity, aka Space weather and the Cosmic planetary movements will have, sometimes, a tangible influence on experiences.
Sometimes we need to rest. Everything is an ebb and flow. Flow you feel connected and the ebb you feel disconnected.
The Law of Rythym “Everything flows, everything has its tides, all things rise and fall, a pendulum that swings to the right swings to the left in equal measure, what goes up must come down, rhythm compensates.’ The Kybalion
Each of us goes through phases along our journey. Sometimes our energy is high and light and feeling great and other times we feel isolated, in somewhat of a void or just plain crappy. A deep unease with society and humanity as a whole. Both are part of the journey. How we look at it, our perception of what is actually happening seems to be the difference. We have days where we are looking up information and reading and learning, then just as quickly we can be skeptical and questioning our own existence and sometimes our sanity. We can be out sharing our knowledge and growing, then even within a few hours retract into our space, sit, and choose to hide, alone.
I know this will sound cliche but being ok with every stage we are experiencing is what is being called for. We cannot deny anything any longer.
Being honest with the feelings we are experiencing is the key to slowly dismantling them and coming through on the other side of them.
The explanation I heard once that sticks in my head is that we think we are having a breakdown, but in reality, it is a break up in consciousness. A rest period, if you will.
I began to see these “down” phases as a processing period for the learning and growth I had just done. A sort of integration of new new energy due to the clearing of old patterns or beliefs. A mini death of the old self. I started saying “Oh! I see you!” I recognize you for what you are, a chance for me to process what I have been through. A new level of understanding is coming. I started to see that the more I recognized that, as what I was going through, the shorter and shorter periods of time I would spend in the dark night.
After I come out of the down time the process begins again. I start learning more or going into more depth of the things I had been learning previously. There is of course no right or wrong way to experience your journey, it is of course yours. Only deeper levels of healing, understanding, personal expansion, and higher vibrations. And higher vibrations means access to more and more cosmic information.
Even the universe has an ebb and flow. It is called the cosmic inbreath and the cosmic outbreath or Brahma. “As above so below, as within so without.”
It will pass. Recognize it as a time of rest, not a time of stress. Changing your thinking about being disconnected, see how quickly you can alter your life by your thinking. This is awareness, seeing and understanding and even saying to yourself “Oh I see this, it has happened before, it is a rest period, I know what to do.” Rest, relax, reflect and allow the ebb.
Contemplate what you have just been through since the last ebb and flow cycle. See what you have learned, look back on all the things that have come into your life or left. See the patterns and cycles you have broken free from. Acknowledging them, did you gain new insights into behaviors, did you forgive someone or something. A form that surrneder takes. Surrender is simply a stopping of arguing with the reality of an experience. It is what it is, cause it can’t be anything else. Honor that you are not the same person you were. Ebb is a time for reflection within yourself. Not a time for new information or guidance from without. Only you can do your inner or personal work and this is the time for it. As you begin to reflect, reality shifts faster and faster.
You are one with all that is, you always have been and you always will be. You can never be alone, only connected to your own personal ebb and flow within the Youniverse. You are the center of your own universe, just like I am the center of mine and so is everyone else at the center of theirs. I used to say to myself “I am all that ever is, was and ever will be.” Meaning connected to the oneness of all things past, present and future.
*Note : Feeling disconnected is a different level of awareness than experiencing “The Dark Night of the Soul” It is still often the feeling of being disconnected, but it’s either from shutting down from being overwhelmed by life/mentally/emotionally or it’s the first few times that you are experiencing the ebb and flow. It’s difficult to say because it will be different everyone. The awareness that it’s happening and the change of thinking about the purpose will help.
One thing I have found is that the sooner we recognize these cycles for what they are the shorter time they will last. Mainly the ebb cycle.
Sometimes,
When we receive an intense connection, going back to our “normal” for us connection feels like disconnected.
Jenn
Spirit Love Studio 