Randi Botnick

Category: Higher Self

  • The Great Awakening is Upon Us

    Hello Dear Friends,

    You may remember a few years ago (7!) I wrote the book 4th-Dimensional Healing. One of the first chapters is called The Great Awakening. In it I described how we as a planet are waking up, ascending in our consciousness.

    I know it doesn’t feel like it. The actions of world leaders and powerful institutions belie the movement toward Oneness. As we wait impatiently for the Divine Feminine energies to arise, we are seeing the last desperate attempts of the Wounded Masculine archetype trying to maintain its stronghold on the world.

    You are OK. We are OK. The fact is, we must go through a dark night of the soul to reach ascension. This means accessing all of our emotions, even the deepest and darkest. This is what is happening on the planet now. We are built to feel and we have eons of stored feelings in our cellular memory. Let’s not be afraid to pass through the dark edges of longing, grief, anger, frustration, etc. It is by feeling that you know that you are accessing very important history. You are doing your work in the world.

    We are geared and trained to focus on everything around us: the external world, friendships, relationships, family, etc. But the Divine Feminine energy that is rebirthing now is about tapping into our own depths and recreating the entire world around us. That can only be accomplished through inner connection. We give the entire universe a gift when we keep our energy inward, dropping into the body… breathing… relaxing… and finding peace within.

    For eons, we have dissociated from our bodies, from the moment of conception, gestation and birth, to escape terrifying, heart-breaking emotions and trauma. It takes the greatest courage to come back to life and feel again. It takes the greatest courage to reclaim our physical bodies and the power of Love.

    Your most powerful contribution now is to get in touch with your insides. The Divine Feminine focuses on the heart, feeling, formlessness and vibration. It precedes mental thought and guides your life if you let it. Don’t shy away from your feelings. Drop into your heart and imagine the change you desire to feel. Move into your 3rd eye and imagine the changes you desire to see.

    By the way, I am republishing my book under a new title, Foundations of Energy Healing: Opening into the Quantum Field, and having updated the chapter, The Great Awakening. A link to that new chapter is here.

  • Anchoring in the New

    I don’t have to tell you how the earth is churning. How too many deaths, anger, hatred, fire, drought, flooding and more are both illustrating our latent fears and causing new ones. It is exhausting.

    We are in the midst of an experience that is beyond us. We are part of a much bigger, grander picture that is rolling the energy of the planet over on its head, ushering in the higher dimensions. These changes are beyond the individual. This is a planetary shift, affecting the whole of this creation — the Big Picture. Earth as Mother, as Nurturer, as the Child of human creation.

    Our Guides, Masters and Teachers have been helping prepare us for years. They have offered us the tools to see us through, while warning us of great environmental changes, viruses, and the 6th mass exodus. And here it is and here we are. How do we navigate our own needs, motivations and desires while we are steeped in a reality that is chaotic? Sometimes all we can do is wait for our turn. Timing is everything.

    Each of us has our own personal needs, wants and desires. Our Heart yearns. Our Ego wants. We want to know when these needs will be met. “What am I doing wrong? Why can’t I manifest what I want?”

    These times challenge our egos to their depths. Let us remember (or begin to know) the Truth of who we are — multidimensional beings who have accepted the unparalleled assignment of ushering in a new age for an entire planet.

    At the most difficult trying times, send your blessings to the Earth for her life and soul. Trust Universal Light to continue to raise the vibrations of each and every one of us — gently — and in so doing, cleanse us all of our fear, illness and belief in separation so that we may remember our fundamental connections. And bless, too, humanity and the human spirit. Let us all hold the faith that we will find our way out of this chaos and advance into societies of respectful collaboration.

    As always, we go back to our spiritual tools to help us clear, clean, align and still our hearts and minds. With that, I am offering a 5-week workshop, Anchoring Into The New, that will offer insights and practices to help navigate the chaos. Each week will delve into a different concern that prevents us from relaxing into the present moment, applying Eastern spiritual techniques and mind-body practices. The workshop runs on 5 consecutive Tuesdays beginning October 6th.  Please click here to learn more.

  • Moving Towards Inner Peace

    I want to confess something to you: I’ve been deepening my connection to my Higher self —that part of me that is my connection to Divinity.

    It is my belief that we are beings of God, and that this beingness lives on in our cells and DNA. The most important task we have in this (or any) lifetime is to control the ego and connect as much as possible to our own sense of Divinity, and what that means to each of us.

    Here are three steps towards making that connection:

    Recognize your story;
    Release your story;
    Sit in the energy of Surrender.

    To being with, it is important to understand that we each live in our own story. This story incorporates the things that have happened to us that have shaped the way we protect our hearts and the steps we do and don’t make in our lives. I read an interview once about a Buddhist monk who had been imprisoned and tortured for many years. He said he moved past his trauma by repeating his story over and over again, until it no longer had any impact on him… it no longer felt like it was about him. It was just a story.

    Know your story so well… tell it as many times as you need to… until you feel unattached to it. Yes, tragic things happened. Yes, you were hurt, betrayed and broken. All of that needs to be honored, understood and held in compassion. It has made you who you are today.

    And yet, at some point, it is important to move beyond that.

    One powerful way that I have found to redirect toxic memories and emotions of trauma has been to bathe myself in the energy of Surrender. I know that, for some, this idea can be rather abstract, but hear me out.

    Surrender is about letting go of what you want to change. Surrender is about relinquishing the desire to control people and situations. Surrender creates the state of allowing. Allowing is like the Buddhist saying: “Be in the world and not of it.” That means watch and listen, but don’t get too caught up in the illusion.

    Here is the practice: What does surrender feel like to you? What does it look like? What would you do or say if you surrendered all of your worry, fear, anger, resentment, etc.? Use your imagination to create this sensory perception. Once you have the imagery of it, bathe in that sensation. Sit in this energy for at least ten minutes once or twice a day.

    Surrendering the need to have things different brings us so much closer to Divinity (your Higher self) and so much farther away from drama unfolding around us.

    And even if you want to change the drama you see, why stay attached to that stress? The change you desire may actually come more easily from being different, rather than doing different.