Liberation From Survival Consciousness

At present, survival consciousness is the predominant level of consciousness being expressed in our world. Survival consciousness was part of our evolution process but we got stuck and have been repeating these patterns for thousands of years.

Many humans live out their daily lives not knowing there are higher levels of consciousness or a different way of engaging with life. These higher levels of consciousness express equality, deep soul connection, empowerment, being ‘responsible to’ and being sovereign. In survival consciousness, the predominate patterns expressed are inequality, separation, powerlessness, being ‘responsible for’ and fighting to have power over. These patterns are destructive to self and to the whole of humanity. The first step in expanding your consciousness is by becoming aware of the patterns and then understanding how these patterns express through you. With that understanding, you can then release your attachment to them and expand your consciousness. It is a process, and when you choose to become aware of and focus on transforming a core pattern — the unraveling of the tapestry of story — its beliefs and patterns will begin their natural unfolding. This is a path of liberation from survival consciousness.

One of the core patterns expressed by survival consciousness is being ‘responsible for’. Women are conditioned to be ‘responsible for’ through caregiver roles. When you feel ‘responsible for’ another, you are actually saying I need to control this situation. I need to make sure everything is okay for them and then I will be okay. Being ‘responsible for’ is a pattern of self-abandonment and is self-destructive.

To help you understand the ‘responsible for’ pattern, let’s draw an illustration. I invite you to get a paper and pen and draw a small circle with the word ‘child’ inside the circle. This represents your inner child. Outside the child’s circle draw a larger circle. The large circle represents the world around her. Now on the outer edge of child’s circle write your name. You are her adult self. You are ‘responsible for’ her needs being met. Now draw an arrow from your name pointing into the outer circle. You are facing away from your inner child and keeping your focus on the outer world to protect you. When you have your back to your inner child, you can’t hear her, feel her or see her. You view her as separate from you and you don’t know what her needs are. You’re focused on the fear of not being able to keep yourself safe, so you do what you have been conditioned to do to feel safe: you control your environment and resist anything that may be perceived as a risk to your safety. You close your heart space to lower the risk of being hurt. You live small to keep yourself safe. Your inner child may be feeling alone, abandoned, filled with fear, overwhelmed and wants to know everything will be okay; however, you can’t hear her. You are doing your best to keep yourself safe but it is not working. You are exhausted. It is hard to keep everything under control. If you are reading this and you are saying, “This is me”, I have good news for you: you can liberate yourself from this pattern. The medicine is self-love, and through the process of loving self, you reclaim your abandoned child self. You learn a new way of being where all your inner child’s needs are met and you are empowered. This new way of engaging in life is being ‘responsible to’.

Being ‘responsible to’, means believing in and trusting yourself, respecting your values and living aligned with your soul truth. It means having a loving relationship with your inner child, respecting her autonomy, nurturing her in a way that encourages her to trust that her needs will be met. She is your key to being empowered.

To help you understand the ‘responsible to’ pattern, let’s draw another illustration. Like before, I invite you to draw a small circle. This time, write your name with the word ‘little’ in front of it, inside the circle. Then outside your inner child’s circle draw a larger circle. Now write your name on the outer edge of your inner child’s circle. In this illustration, you are ‘responsible to’ your inner child and her needs. Now draw an arrow from your name pointing toward the child. You are now facing your inner child. You see her, you feel her, you can hear her and listen to her. Your attention is on her, and you love her unconditionally. She feels safe to open her heart and to receive love and to give love. She is in your heart. She is one with you. You are nurturing and supporting her to grow and expand. You trust yourself to meet her needs. If she feels insecure, you have honest conversations with her and let her know when you feel insecure and assure her that you have the tools to work through that insecurity, and if you need help to do that, you will ask for it. Fear is no longer in the driver’s seat of your life. You feel worthy, empowered, and confident, and you trust yourself to move with what is unfolding in life. You have purpose. You invite life in and fully engage with it. You know you are the creator of your own life. You are living your soul truth and you are living from your power.

You have the power to liberate yourself from survival consciousness and be the sovereign being you came to be. The gap that you may be seeing or feeling between those two illustrations can be closed. In my experience, having guidance from guides who had already closed the gap for themselves, quickened my transformation and made it easier than relying on myself to figure it out on my own. My ego was insidious, and I greatly appreciated my guides’ clarity of vision and how they called me to my soul truth when I got caught in the ego trap. The helped me break the pattern of being on repeat, and my personal evolution accelerated.

I invite you to explore my website. I have developed a process to guide women to birth their true selves. If this process resonates with you, I would be honoured to support you in closing the gap and liberating yourself from survival consciousness.

Your sovereignty is your freedom, and it is your soul birthright.