Ask Higg(in)s

Note from Cheryl: This is segment seven, if I’m counting correctly.

Question: I find myself wanting to ask for and look for clues that something toward my desires manifesting is actually working to avoid frustration or discouragement. Is this a good thing or is it better to just have blind faith?  Sometimes it feels like nothing works and never will, but that is an emotion to just go through.  It can be difficult when money is going out faster than it is coming in, but in the meantime there is time to either just enjoy life or look for a job out of fear. What would you recommend?

Higgins: Friend, we never encourage any of you to do a thing out of fear. We encourage you to do a thing because it brings relief or better yet a feeling of positivity. (Like happiness!) We know that you would like to be able to just enjoy life. We also know that if you are entertaining the possibility of looking for a job out of fear that you are not considering two compatible energies–meaning you couldn’t just enjoy life if you tried because you are too far away from that vibrationally. Instead, while you would definitely enjoy the freedom you would worry about money and that would repel the appearance of the very thing you’re wishing for more of: money.

So what would we recommend? We recommend believing in yourself and the positive potential of the creative universe. We recommend believing that you have set your good intentions for the past year. You have become ever more clear regarding what sort of things you wish to do with your life, how you want to spend your time, the sort of people you want to be around.

We recommend you go forth with eager anticipation ever looking for clues that you have made progress towards manifesting the life of your dreams. Await, with enthusiastic expectation and anticipatory wonder, the magnificent job that next aligns for you. Look each day to see what, of the things you thought you were creating this past year, are actually manifesting and enjoy the surprise when it’s better than you thought, if unexpected.

Blessings upon all of you as struggle and tremble and worry and finally stagger to metaphorical feet realizing that all is well that all has always been well and that finally you can relax into the wonder that is this physical place.

Received October 27, 2011 at Lake Goodwin, Washington

Note from Cheryl: This is segment six. I apologize for mislabeling the last entry as six, it was five. I’ve highlighted the section they will discuss.

Question: I find myself wanting to ask for and look for clues that something toward my desires manifesting is actually working to avoid frustration or discouragement. Is this a good thing or is it better to just have blind faith?  Sometimes it feels like nothing works and never will, but that is an emotion to just go through.  It can be difficult when money is going out faster than it is coming in, but in the meantime there is time to either just enjoy life or look for a job out of fear. What would you recommend?

Higgins: Most of you view money as an obstacle to meeting your wants and needs. If there is not enough of it to meet your needs life begins to look uncertain thus the fear you are experiencing regarding money.

Think of money as water. There is a flowing river of it that passes through your home but over time the river has slowed to a trickle. You have no idea what has happened to the flow of money so you walk upstream a way where you find a dam. On the other side of the dam is a huge reservoir of money but you cannot bust open the dam. It is simply too solidly built.

That is exactly what you are experiencing when you feel money just will not come in fast enough. You have, in some way, built a dam to the natural flow of money into your life. This same scenario works for anything. Relationships, jobs, happiness, good health…all these things flow in a steady river and it either flows through you or it doesn’t but it is always there.

Dismantling a dam piece by piece takes time so start now dismantling your dams. A little at a time is all that is needed to gently pry open the dam you’ve accidentally created.

Some suggestions for dam dismantling: yoga, meditation, exercise, occupy your mind with topics that are fun for you such as reading, music or conversation or yes, even by filling your time with a new job.

Received October 25, 2011 at Lake Goodwin, Washington

Note from Cheryl: This is segment five. I’ve bolded the segment Higgins will respond to today.

Question: I find myself wanting to ask for and look for clues that something toward my desires manifesting is actually working to avoid frustration or discouragement. Is this a good thing or is it better to just have blind faith?  Sometimes it feels like nothing works and never will, but that is an emotion to just go through.  It can be difficult when money is going out faster than it is coming in, but in the meantime there is time to either just enjoy life or look for a job out of fear. What would you recommend?

Higgins: Welcome, Friends. As always we are pleased to communicate with you in this way.

This question is long and varied in its emotional direction. We have, therefore, chosen to respond to the emotion more than to the question itself.

You ask, “Sometimes it feels like nothing works and never will, but that is an emotion to just go through.”

Let’s offer another option regarding emotions. Emotions are directional arrows. Consider that you might embrace emotions.

Emotions are offered to you as guidance. Most of you suffer through them hoping they will go away soon. Many of you suppress your feelings with food, alcohol, sex, work or drugs (either prescription or illicit, the result is the same). Next time you find yourself with strong emotion consider finding a comfortable, quiet place where you can explore your emotion.

Let the emotion fill you. Revel in it until it passes. It will pass. With the release of the emotion new thoughts and ideas will come. The thoughts that follow this sort of release are stronger than the emotion that brought them.

(While any thought or action that arises will be stronger, if it encourages you to harm yourself or another then it is not in harmony with your Truth. Wait. Better will come.)

Contemplate the ideas that arise. Measure them in your heart. Thoughts and ideas that are harmonious with your broad Truth are always uplifting and positive. It may be difficult to grasp the Truth, to incorporate it into your cells and into your beliefs because the Truth of your own beauty in these times will be an emotional distance away that you can’t quite reach. Yet somewhere inside a flicker of recognition will occur and from there you are on your way to emotions that feel better.

As with all things, practice will make this easier so from now on you can welcome all your emotions.

Received October 25, 2011 at Lake Goodwin, Washington

Note from Cheryl: Higgins is answering this question in segments. This is segment four. I’ve bolded the next segment.

Question: I find myself wanting to ask for and look for clues that something toward my desires manifesting is actually working to avoid frustration or discouragement. Is this a good thing or is it better to just have blind faith?  Sometimes it feels like nothing works and never will, but that is an emotion to just go through.  It can be difficult when money is going out faster than it is coming in, but in the meantime there is time to either just enjoy life or look for a job out of fear. What would you recommend?

Higgins: Segment four.

Sometimes it feels like nothing works and never will,

This is a magnificent statement. A statement like this is extremely clear about where you are emotionally, and therefore vibrationally, regarding your desire. This is a statement of hopelessness. Hopelessness is a very good time to make some heart statements to yourself.

“I have compassion for myself in this moment of discouragement.”

“I have compassion for myself in my not knowing.”

“I have compassion for myself as I blunder around on the Earth feeling lost.”

“I have compassion for myself as I practice applying the laws that I am learning.”

Make up your own statement. One that feels good to you and lifts your heart in the moment of your despair.

Received October 22 and 24 at Lake Goodwin, Washington

Note from Cheryl: this is clarification upon segment three.

Higgins: We suggest that any time you notice disharmony in your life that you immediately stop what you are doing and remedy the disharmony.

It is only possible to slide one or two vibrational units from wherever you currently are. One slides up or down (and sometimes very quickly through many emotional/vibrational units), but only one or two units at a time (think of a trombone slide vs. a piano keyboard). Understand, therefore, that ‘remedy the disharmony’ does not mean that in a moment we expect you to erase a negativity that has arrived in your life. We do mean that in a moment we expect you to change how you feel about the negativity that has arrived.

Set your intention to represent the happiest truth of who you are. Then sift through possible emotional options and physical responses. Choose the one that leaves you with the most power.

For example, let’s say you back your car into another car. The driver of the other car is not around and no one sees you do this. This is a negative moment. Now is the time to assess your vibration. Driving away may feel best if the worry of financial obligations or other consequences is overwhelming. However, once you drive away from the situation you must live with your actions. How do you feel then? We know that 99.9% of you will have a residual nagging regarding your decision to drive away.

That residual nagging (guilt) destroys your power and is a lower vibration than fear, in this case the fear of the possible consequences of backing into the other car.

We would have you choose the fear option for it is the stronger vibration. It doesn’t feel good but in choosing the fear option you have remedied the disharmony. The nagging guilt will go on and on but the fear option will be over very soon. (Possibly into other negative emotions but in any case, of higher vibrational frequency than guilt and the highest possible vibration is always what you are trying to achieve.)

Remember that you may change your mind at any time. For example, should you choose to drive away you may always go back to the location later and make amends.

Further, should it not be possible to make amends later, you may always, always think this thought to yourself, “I have compassion for myself in my not knowing. I have compassion for myself in my fear. I have compassion for myself as I let go of this feeling of guilt. I have compassion for myself for I always do my best no matter how feeble and unsteady it may seem to me now.”

We encourage you to feel about these words. Sit with them and work through this scenario in your own emotional mind until you grasp the truth in these words.

Received October 22 and 23, 2011 at Lake Goodwin, Washington

Note from Cheryl: Higgins is answering this question in daily segments. I’ve highlighted todays’s segment within the question.

Question: I find myself wanting to ask for and look for clues that something toward my desires manifesting is actually working to avoid frustration or discouragement. Is this a good thing or is it better to just have blind faith?  Sometimes it feels like nothing works and never will, but that is an emotion to just go through.  It can be difficult when money is going out faster than it is coming in, but in the meantime there is time to either just enjoy life or look for a job out of fear. What would you recommend?

Higgins: Segment three.

I find myself wanting to ask for and look for clues that something toward my desires manifesting is actually working to avoid frustration or discouragement. Is this a good ting or is it better to just have blind faith?

We encourage you to monitor every moment of your life for your thoughts and beliefs are unfolding before you at all times. In the moment that disharmony occurs we suggest you stop immediately. Assess your vibration, your current emotion. Remedy the disharmony immediately before proceeding. As you become aware that your emotions, your thoughts, your desires, your beliefs, your actions, your words create your life then you will know and knowing is far more powerful than blind faith.

We will discuss how to remedy the disharmony next.

Received October 22, 2011 at Lake Goodwin, Washington

Question: I find myself wanting to ask for and look for clues that something toward my desires manifesting is actually working to avoid frustration or discouragement. Is this a good thing or is it better to just have blind faith?  Sometimes it feels like nothing works and never will, but that is an emotion to just go through.  It can be difficult when money is going out faster than it is coming in, but in the meantime there is time to either just enjoy life or look for a job out of fear. What would you recommend?

Higgins: We need to answer this question in segments. This is segment number two.

I find myself wanting to ask for and look for clues that something toward my desires manifesting is actually working to avoid frustration or discouragement.

We ask you to simply switch your viewpoint upon this. Consider that you may not be avoiding frustration or discouragement but instead moving towards positive reinforcement.

Consider that actions on your part move you towards a feeling of relief. Relief is always a lighter vibration than whatever emotion you felt before relief set in so when you feel relief you may know that you are headed in the correct vibrational direction.

Remember that other’s reasons for existence may lead them to feel emotions different from yours upon the same topic.

Received October 21, 2011 at Lake Goodwin, Washington

Question: I find myself wanting to ask for and look for clues that something toward my desires manifesting is actually working to avoid frustration or discouragement. Is this a good thing or is it better to just have blind faith?  Sometimes it feels like nothing works and never will, but that is an emotion to just go through.  It can be difficult when money is going out faster than it is coming in, but in the meantime there is time to either just enjoy life or look for a job out of fear. What would you recommend?

Higgins: We need to answer this question in segments.

I find myself wanting to ask for and look for clues that something toward my desires manifesting is actually working 

We are delighted to know this for this is the beginning of reading your personal book of life. If you will practice looking for signs that your desires are on their ways to you, you will begin to notice that signs and manifestation are the same thing. That which you are calling ‘signs’ we call ‘metaphor’ and ‘manifestation’. The signs you are wanting to see are metaphorical versions or aspects of the thing you want.

As you practice you will begin to read the signs and know which way you are headed, either towards or away from your heart’s desire. And that is life: a continual and perpetual unfolding of manifestations that you have created by your thoughts, words, actions and most importantly, the emotions you emit while committing those thoughts, words and actions.

We wish for you to absorb this and thus will answer your question in segments day by day. Read the answers slowly, word by word. Allow your Self and your Spirit Guides to assist you with deep understanding.

Received October 20, 2011 at Everett, Washington

Offering from Higgins:

Do not give up.

Do whatever you can to make your dreams feel close.

Do not give up.

This is the recipe for success.

Received October 16, 2011 at Lake Goodwin, Washington

Offering from Higgins:

Do whatever you can to make your dreams feel close.

Drive through neighborhoods like the one you’d like to live in. Look through magazines for pictures that feel desirable to you. Read books or watch TV shows that depict life the way you want to live it.

Whatever you want it is only a matter of time before it is yours so do whatever you can to make your dreams feel close. This will hasten the arrival of your desires and make the waiting sweeter.

Received October 16, 2011 at Lake Goodwin, Washington