One Day: My Soul Journey In The Gaia Tribe Part 5

Chapter 5: Fifth Dimension - We continue our exploration of Consciousness (Love) with a description of the fifth dimension. I use the word "explore" to explain the shift in energy we experience as we transition between the fourth and fifth dimensions.

This phase of the journey is filled with introspection and a deep self-analysis about who we each are... separate from the identity we have known all of our lives until this point. I call it "individuation" as a way to explain the growth experienced internally. It is a powerful healing process that has no set timeline.

Join me as we continue this powerful conversation together.

Music: Healing Piano by Sarah Parfett (a fellow teacher here on Insight Timer!)

Transcript

One day,

My sole journey in the Gaia Tribe.

Chapter 5.

Fifth Dimension.

Explore.

It's funny,

As I was recording the audio for this section of the book,

My one-year-old puppy Star kept whining at the front door,

Wanting to go out and just looking at the door.

Why is it still closed?

I could almost imagine his thoughts of,

Wait,

Wait,

Wait,

I'm tired of waiting.

Why do I still have to wait?

Which is exactly what it feels like when you are in fourth,

Knowing there is something right there.

If you could only remember it,

Feel it,

Sense it.

You're pacing around like my puppy was doing,

Waiting,

Waiting,

Waiting for someone to open the door.

And then,

It just,

It just suddenly opens one day.

That is what it feels like with fifth dimension.

Just all of a sudden,

Consciousness gracefully expands,

And something shifts inside of you,

Inside of your heart.

And suddenly,

You just know that life is good.

You know that everything is going to work out for your higher purpose.

You know that you are love.

You have always been love.

Everyone you know is love.

But you didn't believe it,

Or allow it to go all the way through your body,

In the way that it does when you step into the fifth dimension.

And it does feel like a stepping into.

There's a conscious choice that happens when you step into the fifth dimension of,

I claim it for myself.

I know this to be true.

There's a feeling of being at a crossroads,

A threshold.

And you either are going to stay where you are,

Or now choose to go left or right,

Or straight ahead.

Which way to go?

The fifth dimensional shift is,

I'm choosing my highest path.

I'm choosing my highest purpose.

Because the momentum of life,

Of consciousness,

Will eventually keep moving you forward.

You'll never be less than.

But when you choose to deliberately step into this next dimension of energy,

Of thought,

Of creation,

It's within knowing that you have something unique to bring to the world,

That nobody else does in your way.

That you as a soul have a specific ability,

Or gift,

Or magic that you agreed to share with humanity.

And you're ready to start exploring what that is,

Now.

And so saying yes to the fifth dimension,

Choosing the new path that looks really scary,

Will completely thrill you and terrify you,

All at the same time.

That choice is what activates the consciousness shift.

For me,

It was the choice to leave the coaching partnership that wasn't serving me anymore,

That was holding me back from what I knew I could bring forward in my gifts.

The choice to step into my own business,

Step into my own way of doing my coaching work.

That choice was my activation into fifth.

Despite all of the internal and external resistance,

I said,

Yes,

I'm doing this thing that feels risky and crazy.

And I also know it's in my highest purpose to find out what my deepest work looks like next.

That choice was an activation.

That's why I use the words,

Stepping into.

It is a step across,

A step forward,

A step into the next level of understanding.

It isn't a default of,

I just happened to be in fifth.

I just happened to choose this path.

It's an active,

Conscious choice.

When that happens,

It feels a bit like when you step from a rocking boat onto solid ground.

It takes a while to find your land legs.

There's a shifting from one platform to another platform,

From one dimension to another dimension.

The third dimension has probably felt really stable and predictable for years.

Even though it's heavy and dense,

It is still familiar.

Then the fourth dimension has felt like a yo-yo,

Up into the possibilities,

And then back down to earth,

Up and back down to earth,

Bouncing until you finally are ready to shift again.

When you step into the fifth dimension,

It can still feel a bit wobbly as you get used to the changes.

You know something is different inside your heart,

Inside your soul,

But your physical body is going,

Whoa,

What does this mean?

What is happening?

Why is this going on?

It is a time of letting go of old attachments,

Letting go of those things that you experienced in a state of fear in the third dimension.

There is a full release that happens throughout the fifth dimension of those old ways,

Old beliefs,

And old stories.

So naturally,

Relationships begin to feel rocky or feel a little different.

I noticed this happening especially in my own parent-child relationships.

For me with my parents,

It was a time of drawing back into my own space,

Not being as communicative as I had been with them on a regular basis,

Needing to explore spiritually,

Who am I as an individual?

Not just the daughter of Tom and Cynthia.

Who am I,

Vivian?

Completely separate from all of the old definitions of who I have been before.

What it looked like in the activity of my life was less time with my parents,

Fewer interactions,

Not because they did something wrong or because I didn't love them anymore,

But because I needed that cocoon,

That internal space to figure out who I am separate from them.

It was also a time of more independence within my immediate family of my husband and children.

It was a time for me to claim this is how I want my schedule to look,

How I want my business to run.

These are the words I choose to use to describe myself.

These are the images that align with how I see energy,

How I see life,

How I see my gifts.

Those were all of my identifications being created in a physical manner,

Playing out through the establishing of my business.

If your activation to the fifth dimension is also through the separation of a relationship and claiming of your own space,

You might be exploring different aspects of individuality.

For example,

If you choose to separate from your roommate or partner and need to move,

Where do you actually want to live?

What type of home do you prefer?

What furniture would you use to decorate your home?

What types of food do you actually enjoy cooking?

Do you even enjoy cooking?

We are redefining who we know ourselves to be.

It can feel confusing to those people with whom you're in close relationship if you become more internal.

It can feel to them like you don't want to be around them,

Or there's something wrong with them,

And that's why you're not hanging out as often.

But it's really so much about your own internal journey,

Your own internal sorting through things,

Deciding,

Is this belief I've always had about myself,

Is it even true?

Or is it just what I inherited from what people had always told me to be true?

One of the identifications that I played with all of last year was the contrast or balance of my internal strengths of love and spirit.

For much of my life,

I've seen myself as being very heart-centered and flowing so much love to everyone.

And while that is true,

There is also this huge spirit side of me,

This old soul that sees and knows things.

When I have identified myself so strongly with love,

Love,

Love,

Love,

Heart,

Heart,

Heart,

There isn't always enough room for the spirit side to step in and offer,

But I see,

And I know,

And I trust,

And I can guide.

Finding ways to allow both to flow through and merge in an even more empowered way was fascinating.

This deep identifying and reevaluating of self,

It is an incredible time,

An incredible process and unfolding that happens.

It can feel scary,

Or you can look at it as an adventure,

As a time of the most amazing discovery of self.

This remembering of your soul and other lifetimes you have lived,

Other projects you have been pulled towards,

The gifts that you know intuitively in your soul,

All have space to come out when you create a little cocoon for self-discovery.

My transition to fifth.

I shifted into the fifth dimension in October of 2015,

Followed through on my choice to leave my friend and business partner in November,

And then really just huddled into myself for the next month.

That December was a beautiful healing time for me,

Sitting quietly with myself,

Journaling,

Talking to friends,

Meditating,

Sleeping,

Still doing my work with my clients,

But mostly a lot of introspection time.

In the beginning of the new year,

I set the intention that I would meditate every day for an hour.

So for those first four or five months of 2016,

I was just sitting quietly every morning,

Meditating and questioning.

What are my gifts?

What are the things I love to do?

Not based on what everyone has told me to be true about myself,

But what do I feel?

What do I know to be true about how I like to communicate?

What would I say to clients if I was fully trusting my own intuition?

What tools are natural for me to use in my coaching work?

It was an amazing time.

My meditations changed daily.

The information that was starting to come through would arrive as I was ready for it.

For example,

I would get a nudge to create a meditation about breathing.

So I created Purifying Breath,

A 40-minute download from Source that flowed through on my 45th birthday.

And then by March,

I was guided towards practicing 30 days of meditation by showing up each day in front of my computer with my microphone,

Just recording whatever came through.

30 days for 10,

15,

Or 30 minutes each time,

I would sit and tune in to simply flow through whatever energy wanted to move.

And magic happened every time.

All of this creative information that I hadn't accessed before,

I had time and space to explore it in the fifth dimension.

I trusted that I was safe.

I had physical support around me with my husband,

My clients,

My friends,

My children,

My family.

And so there was a safe,

Quiet space for me to go in.

I also needed more sleep as all of this was changing so quickly.

I didn't want a full busy schedule,

So I slowed my life down.

I wanted time to meditate and feel into whatever was moving inside of me.

I wanted the slower pace.

But I also started running a lot physically every day to help move all of this new energy through my body.

Music was still guiding me and I started expanding my library of music.

Listening to the lyrics of the songs.

That was when I surrendered to Source being the guide on my playlist.

I just handed it over.

I would hit shuffle on my phone as I started my run and allow Source to move through technology and play music to me,

Sing the songs.

And of course,

It was always perfect.

The song I needed came right through each day with wisdom to help me resolve questions about work or relationships.

And yes,

The sunshine.

I noticed that I really craved light at that time.

I wanted to be in the sun more than I'd ever remembered needing it before.

I was becoming more present in my own life with myself and with others.

I was slowing down.

Navigating this shift.

This is my greatest recommendation to anyone finding themselves now in the fifth dimension.

Slow down the pace of your life in the physical.

Slow down how much you're doing and how many people you're doing it with.

And create a quiet mental space where you can pause the chatter of life,

Of activities,

Of deadlines,

Of tasks,

Of busyness.

Fit quietly with your soul.

Make that a daily practice.

A half hour,

An hour if you can do it.

Trust.

Even if you're sitting there for a few days or a week or two and nothing comes through and you're frustrated because you're sitting,

You're doing what you said you would do and nothing is happening.

Give your body,

Your soul,

Your spirit a little time and space to come into alignment.

Perhaps use guided meditations at first if the quiet is too intense.

Listen to a guided meditation for 15 minutes and then sit for another 15 or 20 just quietly and allow the thoughts to move through.

Sit in nature.

Just watch.

Watch the birds.

Watch the trees.

Watch the waves if you're lucky enough to be by the ocean.

Watch the clouds.

Lay in a field and watch the clouds.

Allow yourself to just be present,

To feel any emotion that is moving through.

This is usually when your subconscious is going to bring forward the things that need to be looked at and released or healed.

So you may lay there for 5 or 10 minutes feeling peaceful and then suddenly there's an image of a person that used to bully you or that you got into a fight with when you were 5 or 10 years old.

Just sit there and allow the memory to gently have space.

Feel the emotions that come up from that experience and then use your breath.

Breathe the emotions out.

Run that energy down to your feet and release it into the earth.

Set up these cocoons,

These pockets of time and space where you can just allow life to be an experience that you have had and are still having now without judging it or evaluating if you did it right or wrong or if that person was good or bad.

Just let it be emotions that move through.

And again if you need more support,

Talk to a friend,

A coach or your spiritual guide.

If it feels too heavy or dense to navigate or if your emotions feel too overwhelming,

Get support.

This space in the fifth dimension is a time for all of those old attachments to unravel.

Those cords that have had you wrapped up,

Tied up and believing all of these old things to be true.

You're allowing space for that to unwind so it can look and feel messy.

It is a time of healing for your soul.

The fifth dimension is also an activation of the throat,

The fifth chakra energetically.

Using your voice and activating the unique sound that is your identification in this lifetime,

In this body,

In this moment.

In this self-discovery phase,

There are expressions that your throat chakra will want to share.

Perhaps start by sharing those with people you trust and love who can receive them and reflect gently back to you,

Supporting you as emotions are coming up.

As you get clearer in the fifth dimension,

You move towards the space of wanting to express your throat chakra in louder ways.

So you start to find these opportunities or they will find their way towards you,

Where you can express your beliefs,

Your emotions,

Your stories and your knowing from this lifetime and all lifetimes.

You can begin expressing that truth out in small groups if that feels right to you first and then bigger groups.

The stronger,

The more solid you become as you move through the fifth dimension,

The more your voice will resonate outwards to other people,

The more impact your throat chakra can have.

This is also an important time to ground your energy,

Which allows you to feel solid in your body and solid in this moment,

To feel connected to the earth,

Trusting that what is coming through serves you and serves all of humanity.

The fifth dimension is a beautiful place to play and explore and try out new things,

Especially if you're not attached to the outcome.

For me,

I was playing with all different ways to teach meditation and then exploring how I felt as I was sharing that gift,

How it was being received by others,

Where there were needs that weren't being met in the collective energy of the world.

It can be a fascinating time.

Inspired guidance.

It also feels like in the fifth dimension there is access to a higher collective field of consciousness that you can't quite feel in the third and fourth dimensions.

For example,

I found clarity on who my immediate soul guides were,

My spirit guides who were actively working with me.

Then it was amazing to trust the messages that they would send me,

To sit in my meditation and hear the energetic voices,

The words,

The guidance that they were offering.

My journal became filled with notes,

Messages from what some might call the other side,

But what I call simply energy,

Love,

Or consciousness.

These messages would clarify wisdom for me and then that information would guide my next steps.

Trusting and acting on your intuition is a big part of the growth in the fifth dimension.

Can you receive a message from your guides,

Feel the specific next steps from the collective consciousness that aligns us with source,

And then act on it?

The more that you act on that pure guidance,

The more guidance can come through behind it,

Because the trust is being built within yourself and around you energetically.

The more you trust your intuition,

The more you receive support.

The more you trust that support,

The more support you receive.

It just keeps growing.

And so you eventually feel like you're just floating downstream.

There's no swimming against the current or work or effort that needs to happen.

There is just this pure,

Clear guidance and you're surrendering to it over and over and over again.

Your life is just flowing and aligning in ways that you couldn't have created.

It is a really playful,

Fun,

Delightful time.

How long does it last?

Until you are ready for the next shift.

For me,

The fifth dimension lasted from October 2015 until June 2016.

But there's no set time frame for any person to follow a certain pattern.

Your soul knows when you are ready to expand.

For those nine months,

I was exploring,

Detaching,

Releasing what I'd always believed must be true about life,

Work,

Jobs,

Businesses,

Client-coach relationships,

Money,

Time,

Health.

There was so much letting go happening.

I felt like I was pushing the boundaries of my comfort zone so much during this time.

There was so much expansion happening and I just trusted how I was being guided.

I had majored in business in college and worked for several successful businesses in my career,

So this unknown operating plan didn't make any logical sense.

But I trusted.

I kept following what I was being pulled towards.

I absolutely was and still am being divinely supported through the whole process.

The income I needed would come right when I needed it.

The work I needed would be teaching me exactly what I needed to be learning in that moment.

There really was this beautiful alignment and flow that was happening in all areas of my life as I learned to pay attention to my own inner voice and the wisdom of my guides.

I became more transparent with my beliefs and the kind of healing work I wanted to do.

For me,

So much of this time was about becoming more transparent,

Which can feel scary and also so,

So exciting.

The possibilities feel wide open for who you can be,

How you can look,

What you can share of your truth.

The next shift from fifth to sixth is the claiming of what your unique individual work is that you're here to do in this lifetime.

One of the many soul gifts you bring with you,

But the claiming of the first main thing.

When you claim it,

There's this whoa as you start moving into the next dimension.

It's so good,

So good.

Afterglow,

One of my client friends who taught me so much when I was really learning how fun and fast this energy work could be,

Referred her partner to me after a sudden death in his family.

And so I was introduced to Mike,

Who felt like an old friend from our very first conversation.

We had layers of grief and family chaos to work through in the density of his third dimensional reality.

And it took a lot of patience and commitment on his part to keep coming back to look at those painful stories.

But something shifted after five months of regular sessions,

And it was immediately noticeable.

He had moved into fourth.

I shared with him the description that my 13-year-old son had just offered me about the fourth dimension.

It is soft,

Like a puppy's ears,

Fed as my son was stroking his puppy's ears.

Yes,

Mike agreed.

This experience of life felt gentler.

It feels important to say here that Mike already moves pretty fast in his life.

I had been teaching him energy tools during our sessions,

And he was integrating and refining them before he would come back for the next session.

He also had picked a partner who moves energy as a pro,

Seeing patterns and stories clearly,

And who was willing to share those reflections with him.

So a slow ride through consciousness was not his chosen path.

Within one month,

Mike transitioned into the fifth dimension with ease and grace and allowing the support of bodywork integration in his hometown.

Now he's viewing his connection to his family,

Work,

Health,

Spirituality differently.

He still works in a very demanding role with about 100 employees reporting to him,

But now he's finding that clarity and answers flow easily to help guide his actions.

In our most recent session,

Two months into the fifth dimension,

Mike shared that his greatest pleasure in this journey he's taking through consciousness is the shift in his relationship with his children.

He feels more empowered and sees his role with them now as a solid,

Grounded guide.

He can tune in to what they need from him energetically and provide it.

Yes,

Fifth is fun,

And there's more.

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