Adrian just learned high five

I taught my seven and a half year old dog a new trick: I taught her high five.

She already knew shake, so I simply paired shake with congratulating her when she did it with “high five” in a really dynamic, excited yyyeah!!! voice. She learned after only one reward to respond to high five without “shake.”

In truth, we can also recondition ourselves in ways that set us free to be who we are in our everyday lives without shame or guilt or distortions that come from those who want to co-opt truth and give us something like yellow 5, calling it Turmeric or Daffodil.

We can uncondition triggers that no longer reflect our authentic next iteration of self by pairing our original feeling state with the space of our own self-love, with every increasing compassion and more surrender to Source. We can correct distortions by giving ourselves this love while we reassess whether there is an imbalance in the equation of sovereignty and unity as two sides of the same coin. There is no prefab, house-delivered on wheels for how authentic sovereignty and unity are going to look in any given moment. Yet our freedom is most served when we are free to be who we really are, in the fullness of both our divinity and our humanity.

As humans, the space between stimulus and response is the extent of our freewill. When we’re tired or triggered, it is only when our Higher Self is able to highlight where we have some space to hold for our own feelings that we can adult enough to become childlike without being childish. Will power may be there, but not if you already spent it trying not to eat the donut or limit your scrolling.

When we consecrate our human free will to Divine will, it’s like someone has inserted an inner stop where there wasn’t one before. We still get our soul lessons, but it is more like being the follower of your Higher Self/Source, rather than trying to lead the dance. And we start having a feeling when something isn’t ours to do. Like a car that is operated by our Sovereign Divinity, outside the limitatons of our monkey mind, Soul breaks become a thing. And so do Soul gas pedals. And I’m not talking about the chili an hour and a half after you eat it.

I’m talking about the kind that births star nurseries from gas nebulas and coalesces into the fuel for our Divine Expression, which often looks nothing like how we planned. Triggers, once processed, make more gas. They may actually move your digestive system as you process, but it is also the fuel that births the newest YOU that is shiny and sparkly like a star swaddled in Christ Consciousness, ready to grow up into more of YOU, which is to say, more of God shining through and as you, while recognizing that it’s the same with everyone else. That doesn’t mean taking on their journey. Or their stuff. They are free too - free to surrender or not surrender their human free will to Divine Will. You do no need to take responsibility for their free will choices to recognize they are made of Divine Soul Stuff just like you - but with their own unique essence that expresses that Divinity uniquely.

The more we consecrate our lives - and our human free will to Divine Will, the easier it gets to recognize the Higher Path and to actually feel averse to anything else.