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Regarding your brother’s comment…I encourage you to consider what others perceive, but always reference your own rational mind and inner wisdom. My experience is that I have a strong connection with some people, while I don’t feel as much simpatico with others. Rather than focusing on “blocks,” I like to just place my intention/attention on what I want. Sure, there’s a time to “work on stuff” like blocks, but it’s kind of hard to drive by looking in the rearview mirror.

1.) Being able to blend with person (or place or thing or idea) and share the experience of the other. More “other oriented.”

2.) Being able to clearly know your boundaries and be in your own energy. More “self oriented.”

I feel having a CHOICE is important. Personally, I want to consciously be able to connect and ALSO consciously be able to separate. I use my intention to focus my attention. “Where attention goes, energy flows.”

What I don’t want is for my energy to blend with people, places, things, and ideas in an unconscious way that isn’t good/healthy for me and others. Yes, again, at the highest levels of experience, we are one. But I don’t need to run EVERYTHING through my body, mind, and emotions. I have boundaries. I know the who, why, how, what, where, and when of MY life. My self.  I know where I stop. I can ground. From that centered place, I can consciously use my intention to direct my attention and include into my experience many dimensions beyond my individual self.

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Hope this helps. The difference that will make is a difference is your on-going PRACTICE. What I’m describing above are techniques and skills. They take much practice over many years, and few master these realms.

You’re expressing a model of reality that makes distinctions about different types of “angels,” including providing names and descriptions. Certainly, many authors have done the same, and for millennia, creating a number of folk taxonomies.

My current view is that our universe is unfathomably vast and we know next to nothing, which includes all of the spiritual, religious, philosophical, metaphysical, and esoteric texts yet written. Beings may exist that fit a profile of cherubim or seraphim, but there are trillions of forms of sentient life in the universe. We know very little about existence, a teeny-tiny fraction of one percent.

From your perspective, you informed Lea that she can be classified as one of the types in the model you’re using. I respect your right to create and use whatever models of reality you feel serve your purposes. From my perspective, the universe — the multiverse — is a vast mystery and our knowledge and understanding are at the infant stage of development.

Instead of telling people what’s “true” about them, I prefer to “suspend premature certainty,” ask questions, and refer them back to their own first person experience. This way, they can intuitively sense, feel, hear, and see (perhaps even taste and smell) their own truths from the inside out. When people receive information from the outside in, it can create the illusion that they’ve found “the answer,” when they’re actually just beginning the search.

I’m happy to hear you enjoyed this article. I enjoyed the dialogue.

Regarding your question, many of us have the same difficulty. What I find works in my life is to add one “small step” at a time. I choose positive practices, build them as habits, and then continue to add new ones. Part of the key is to be realistic relative to the time commitment. For example, it’s better to meditate for ten minutes per day than feel guilty about not meditating for an hour or two per day. It’s better to walk for a half hour three times a week than feel guilty about not running five miles per day.

I find tracking helps, so I’ve developed a form I keep nearby so I can record the promises I make to myself, then hold myself accountable to take actions relative to what I’ve declared I want to create in my life. We can learn to become our own “coaches,” balancing the tough self-love of “just do it!” with kind nurturing and encouragement.

Over the years, I’ve improved all aspects of my life using this approach. One new habit a month is twelve per year. In five years, we’re talking about sixty positive habits. Even if those habits are “small”–like drinking some extra water or maintaining better posture–they really add up!