Reading Vibrate Higher Daily: On Transformation

Welcome.

I'm going to read out of my book,

Vibrate Higher Daily,

And I'm going to read out of a passage.

I'm going to read an excerpt,

And this section is called The Building Blocks of Transformation and Transmutation.

So this section opens up and says initiation.

Have you felt like you are in initiation recently?

Can you relate to that term?

And are you looking for the building blocks of transformation and transmutation in some way?

Because they can shift,

They can change on our journey.

But a few things do remain the same,

And a few things are a guiding post for us to know and to realize.

And so I'm going to read this passage to you now.

Initiation.

Like in a cocoon,

The sacred space where a caterpillar becomes a butterfly,

Being in the right environment during metamorphosis and rebirth is essential.

During the transformation process,

In the most divinely organized and necessary ways,

Your life,

Much like the caterpillars,

Will begin to self-destruct.

This dismantling initiates the transformation process,

Offering you access into a new way of being in the world,

A new life.

Your small daily decisions about what you give your attention and energy to start to add up.

Maybe you replace the phone or the laptop on your nightstand with a book of daily devotions so you start now in the mornings reading versus scrolling or checking your phone.

Maybe you start a regular practice of calling a relative or a close friend once a week instead of giving your time and energy to people who continually drain you.

Or maybe you decide to no longer fear the transformation process,

But instead to surrender,

To trust,

And to open your whole self up to it.

So where can you surrender?

How can you trust more?

And how will you open your whole self up to it?

It doesn't have to happen all at once,

And this can be an incremental process.

It should be an incremental process if that's what you need it to be.

So journey in grace with that,

But just know that the more that you dive into it and go into it and cocoon into your transformation process,

The dismantling,

The self-destruction begins to happen.

That happens to the caterpillar.

And it's nothing to fear.

I know the words self-destruct and dismantling can feel violent even,

But these are terms that can also be very positive,

Very positive.

If the dismantling and the self-destruction do not positively happen,

The caterpillar cannot become the butterfly.

And the caterpillar,

I've heard once,

The very creative way,

I would say,

Of talking about what happens to the caterpillar in the cocoon,

I heard this just recently,

Was that the caterpillar basically turns into soup.

It basically dismantles all the way into soup so that it can reform itself from this state of nothingness,

Basically.

It doesn't even look like what it used to be.

So it's in this liminal space,

You know?

And I speak a lot about the liminal space in my work.

And the liminal space,

Of course,

Is this place of you're not where you used to be,

And you're not totally where you're headed yet.

But it's this bridge,

And it's the space where a lot of people want to turn back or fear going.

And that fear of going forward can be due to many things.

It can be fear of judgment,

Fear of the unknown,

Fear of being carried and being sustained.

But that fear can be transmuted into energy.

How can we transmute the energy?

Can we think about excitement?

Can we think about gratitude?

And I've noticed,

I've challenged myself many times to take fear,

When I'm feeling fear,

And say,

This is really excitement.

It's just excitement of the unknown,

And I can transmute that into something that can move me forward.

And what helps me in those moments sometimes is getting somatic with it,

Moving my body and jumping up and down in place a few times,

Dancing.

And I had got that years ago from watching athletes,

Basketball players in particular,

Watching before they start a game how they're jumping in place.

And what they were doing is exerting this energy,

Letting this energy off,

This initial energy off,

So that they can really get to the energy that's going to move them forward.

So for me,

That initial energy,

Jumping in place or dancing is me working the fear out,

Giving it a release,

Giving it a job,

And giving it a chance to do something with itself.

So how can we move forward knowing in the liminal space that this is a good thing for us,

That this is a necessary part of the process,

That we would like to see the results coming after it,

The result of this,

Right?

Like me transmuting fear into courage or into excitement,

That births a whole nother process,

That births a whole nother timeline.

And so I invite you to think about your metamorphosis,

Your cocoon,

How can it become a space of excitement,

Of joy,

Of surrender,

All the things that's going to be required,

Right?

Think about that caterpillar when it has the,

At first it's not going to have the awareness of what kind of butterfly it's going to look like possibly,

But it knows that it's going to become a butterfly.

It doesn't know all the experiences it's going to have yet as a butterfly and all the encounters,

But it knows it's going to be a butterfly.

It knows that this is the process it's going through.

And so it surrenders to the state of complete,

I would say,

Not nothingness,

But this space of neutrality,

This space of total surrender of what was before.

Literally surrender like,

Here you go.

Here's my life as a caterpillar cocoon.

Now it's time to be the chrysalis and turn into the butterfly.

And so honoring that process,

It can look different for all of us of course,

But I think it's a beautiful thing.

And my goodness,

Coming out with your wings,

Your wings that can carry you further.

Now you have more wisdom.

You have more range because of what you've been through.

You've overcame and you've transmuted a lot of things in the process of coming across that bridge.

Your bridge is your chrysalis.

It's your cocoon state,

Your chrysalis state.

And yeah,

I want to support you there.

So I look forward to sharing more here,

Of course.

And my meditations here on Insight Timer are very much to support you in this process.

For instance,

Signaling a new timeline and inner gardening and sacred waters energy cleanse really support you in that state.

The caterpillar is you,

The chrysalis is you,

And the butterfly is you.

And when we can surrender to this initiation,

We're really now aligning ourselves with something happening greater than ourselves.

We're a part of something greater than ourselves.

And just like the trees outside my window and the trees around you,

We are in alignment with nature.

We trust what is happening.

We trust that what is happening knows how to happen.

And we just allow ourselves to be students through it,

But also to learn where we have mastered certain skills now.

We can apply our mastery here.

We can apply the belief that we have gathered,

The practice that we have gathered,

And we can journey in grace and we can journey in growth.

We can evolve.

We can not be perfect as we do it,

Right?

Invite yourself to just really feel the full range of what it feels like to be human in a body that's still learning,

In a journey,

And on a path that's still evolving and still gets to learn how to do it right.

The days when you don't feel like yourself,

Journey in grace and love yourself through it.

But if you're evolving,

If you're changing,

You are right on schedule.

You are right on schedule.

So trust that divine schedule.

It's happening for your good.

It's happening and we all need it on the planet.

You are making a difference.

You are a difference and you matter.

Your transformation matters.

So thank you for how you show up continually to your practice,

To the work that is before you,

To the life that is before you,

To the body you're in,

And thank you for being here.

Journey well.