The Phoenix Trial

1. Step: BE

As you can probably already imagine: the Phoenix process is once again a cycle. There really is no beginning and no end. We turn or we live further and further up the development spiral.

But somewhere we have to enter the circle: we start with BEING. One of the most important realizations of life is that I AM. Remember, we've already had a very extensive I AM phase (including the 21 day I AM Manifestation). What a great moment when little kids say “I” for the first time. For the first time, they've realized that they are separate beings. It is the moment where we step into the "I AM" and where the creative power awakens. (Children are then often able to experience for the first time: that not everything they want to create can also be enforced and that means: welcome to the defiant phase. And yes, that's good. Creating also needs to be learned. In our free will to create we must learn to create in such a way that we do not harm anyone, not even ourselves. At the beginning of our I am it, the parents are welcome to help us.)

We enter the Phoenix Spiral: I Am. It doesn't matter whether we draw it consciously or just take what comes.

With this I AM we shape our lives. This is how we build our relationships with other people, this is how we do our jobs, this is how we fill up our free time. Always with the current I AM state that lives in us.

And this is more about a larger I AM state. Of course, we always have little "I am" states in everything we do: I'm sad, I'm happy, I'm at peace, I'm frustrated, I'm annoyed, etc. All little things in life, I am, always accompany us to accompany.

Great I AM states are, for example, the seventh year of life or also great stages of creation, such as I AM MOTHER or FATHER. For many years of your life you weren't and some souls choose never to be. Or I AM an apprentice, or I AM self-employed. Just like I AM RICH or the opposite I AM POOR. (beyond financial constraints)

These are the sections of being. Large sections where you define yourself (consciously/unconsciously). Sometimes we have sections where the focus is on the career, then sections for the relationship, sections where we can deal intensively with our family/parents, sections where money is at stake, sections where we ask ourselves what our calling and our could be life's work.

The moments of being where we have more intense experiences in one area than in others. Exactly where we have our big questions about these areas, or our biggest wishes, hopes and dreams.

In this area we go into the creative process (yes, once again: consciously or unconsciously. The goal is to come more and more consciously into the creative process so that the result leads us more and more into self-fulfilment) We often experience precisely in this area of ​​being there are also many ups and downs, drama and moments of happiness.

We are.

2. Step: PUPPY

When we have been in BEING for a period of time, the moment of pupation comes. It's the moment when we realize that we don't want to continue living like this. That we don't want to experience our relationship in this way or live out our profession. That we don't want to maintain family ties in this way, etc.

Pupation begins the moment we get the feeling: I don't want to experience it like this anymore or I want something else.

The soul has then had enough experiences in this section of BEING and is ready to move on. She is ready for new experiences, for a new state of being. But we seldom slip from one being state to the next. We usually go through the Phoenix process.

So, the soul has had enough experiences in a state of being and wants to keep growing. And just like a caterpillar then wraps itself in a cocoon, the soul begins to withdraw and go into seclusion. That often doesn't feel so good. What was just so beautifully bright and colorful in life can seem dull from one moment to the next. Because exactly at the peak of a state of being, the soul usually decides that the time has come for the next development step. Arrived at the highest point, one experienced the most beautiful thing one could experience on this mountain. Now it is time to choose the next mountain peak.

And the soul chooses by looking at what is not going well in life, or where even greater beauty lies hidden, which is not yet lived. That's why I also advise: Don't give up on relationships etc. too quickly when things start to wobble. First find out whether a Phoenix process isn't taking place here in order to be able to have even better experiences as a couple

Yes, sometimes you have to part ways because there is no better potential left, but it is advisable to explore this in peace and quiet than to throw everything overboard. This doesn't just apply to the relationship. Also for your job, friendships, hobbies, goals in life. Everything is allowed to change, change and some things can also leave our lives because the possibilities of good experiences have been exhausted and new goals are calling us to be experienced.

The more you consciously work with the Phoenix Process, the more you will be able to feel this exact moment of pupation. It often announces itself at the peak of a state of being.

Remember: the moment, before a thunderstorm, when everything becomes very quiet, almost completely peaceful? This is roughly how it feels when the time of pupation comes. A deep calm and the feeling "there is nothing to do right now". Enjoy this moment. He is sacred and very special. Then comes the certainty, i.e. the time of pupation begins.

The soul is constantly striving on and on. It has to pupate in order to be able to grow, to be able to experience it again and again.

In the pupation process, everything contracts. Everything will be small, cramped. The world suddenly turns gray and we often start to question everything in our lives, although everything seemed so beautiful for a brief moment. We are not invited here to organize a tabula rasa, but first to take a careful look inside, to perceive ourselves, to recognize ourselves and ultimately to make wise decisions for our lives.

This is important, because the soul plans anew here. She is looking for new visions, for bigger goals that she can realize next.

So she withdraws. But everything becomes very quiet and seems to die. Yes, the dying process of the old begins at the moment of pupation. The old has become obsolete and it is time to develop the new.

The new develops in the chrysalis and in the chrysalis process. We must first mentally play through the possibilities to find out what we really want to experience in real life. This is often a time when we feel very tired, listless, drained. We need places of retreat here.

We can take good care of ourselves at times like this. Sound out well whether we want to go outside or rather cancel everything so that we can give the soul space to create.

Don't worry, this time doesn't stay like this forever, even if you can get the feeling in the pupation stage. You feel trapped, restricted, life is annoying, too small, too frustrating. The search for your soul light starts here.

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3. Step: EXPOSURE

At the beginning of this soul work book, you were able to learn a lot about evolving and the gates of evolving, or working out of our own cocoon.

One must not forget: our pupating and depupaing always takes place as our life goes on. While we deeply yearn to just lie in bed during the chrysalis, most of us continue to go about our day-to-day responsibilities. Children want to be taken care of, money has to be earned, the partnership has to be nurtured, etc.

Very few of us are able to take a complete break. In the emergence process, it is also quite good that we are in the midst of life. Because from this we can draw very important conclusions as to how our new phoenix or our new color on the butterfly costume may look.

If we were to live completely isolated from ourselves, then there would actually seldom be a need for a change. Only in interaction with others do we get the opportunity to recognize ourselves. Perceiving our trigger points, seeing the moments when we are not feeling well, what hurts us emotionally or is tiring.

In interaction with others, we can explore where the next development or development may go. What we imagine, e.g. a really good relationship, a fulfilling or rich life, living out our calling, etc. Because these states of being are as diverse as there are people on earth.

My idea of ​​a good relationship and a rich life will be different from yours and in turn different from a multi-millionaire. That's so. But in the emergence process you get an opportunity to figure out where your next stage of development may go and what it should look like.

4. Step: burn

Then comes the special moment when we free ourselves and immerse ourselves completely in life again.

While we're in the chrysalis and chrysalis, life sometimes seems very bland, gray, and sort of like not being there at all. Yes, that's the way it is.

During the two phases you turn more inward and plan, think, feel, plan further, have visions, set goals, question your wishes and dreams. One is more on the side of the soul world.

But then comes the moment when the time has come to break open the tight covering of the cocoon or shell and step out into the world so that what one has recognized in chrysalis and chrysalis can also be implemented. So that the true development can also take place. We slip out and meet the full light. The old burns away in this light to make way for the new.

Life gets us back and may fill us with what is coming. But above all, let our cocoon, our shell, maybe even our snake skin that has become too tight, burn up, turn to ashes. It survived. Our old is gone and crumbling.

And yet this ash is essential,

because that's what we grow from. The past is as much a part of us as our present. Our visions and dreams for our future grow from the knowledge and experiences of the past. We draw our plans for the future from the past. That is why the ashes are so extremely valuable.

So I invite everyone to strive to make the ashes of their past as precious and nourishing as possible so that we can rise from it, glorious and beautiful.

Because that is the next step: from the burnt ashes of our old being we rise and unfold our new being. Don't worry, it doesn't mean that we "only" have to have good experiences and that the "bad" experiences also mean bad ashes. On the contrary, sometimes they are the strongest foundation for being full of light.

5. Step: DEVELOPMENT

We have been working to make our butterfly costume brighter and more colorful, so that we can experience a more beautiful life after pupation.

But now it is also time to unfold and spread these wings. The old has burned, we can't go back there. I know there are always moments when you wish you hadn't "awakened", when you just wish you could go back to where everything was supposed to be simpler and nicer. But the old is gone, the protective cocoon or egg no longer exists. We can now learn to dive into life with our new being.

In the unfolding section we stand on our past ashes and spread our wings and can see where a new splash of color shows up in our soul dress.

This stage is really pure, about the reawakening, the ashes under our feet, we standing on top, flapping our wings. You know everything is different now, new, unfamiliar. You don't know yet how it will be. You can compare it a bit like you just moved into a new apartment. The moving boxes haven't been unpacked yet, the kitchen has never been used, the fridge is empty, the shower hasn't been tried yet.

You're already in the new apartment, the old one has been handed over. There is no turning back. But you haven't arrived in your new apartment yet.

This is how you might feel after separating from your partner, after quitting your job, after starting your own business. This moment or this period of time can cause a lot of fears and insecurities. Old patterns and programs that you may have internalized for years no longer work. Everything is new and unusual.

We will have to learn to use the new wings. To use the new achievement of our soul existence and to make it usable for our wishes and goals.

6. Step: BIRTH

Then you leave your new apartment. Check out your new surroundings. Start unpacking your moving boxes. Because not everything is burned, or let's say rather seldom that a Phoenix process is designed in such a way that we burn everything immediately. That would usually be too much and overtax the system.

That's why we took old, loved ones with us to our new home. We are not, so to speak, born completely flat and empty into our new BEING. Some things, some achievements remain with us to continue working with. But other things are gone and we must learn to replace them with our new being.

You can compare it a little with a change in diet. Imagine you decide to live gluten-free from now on.

You will have to learn to cook in a completely new way, to shop in a completely new way, to be much more mindful and aware of the ingredients in the individual products, etc. You know that you can no longer eat gluten, perhaps because you feel how badly it is harmful to you. So you have no choice but to adapt to the new. But many of the foods you have come to love will remain with you, from which you may eat, which you may enjoy and which you may combine with your new diet.

This is also the case with a “soul development change”. A new state of being has been reached. The old, outdated Phoenix has been burned and now a new one has been reborn. Some "damaging" things are gone and a lot of the old has remained and we are now beginning to combine both and learn to deal with them.

A lot of things are therefore new and unfamiliar and it can actually feel as if you have been reborn, as if life is beginning all over again, e.g. after a separation from your partner, when the children move out, you are fired, change of location, the parents die etc.

Don't forget, besides all fears, look forward to your new being.

7. Step: BE

And at some point the feeling of "having been born again" disappears. Everyday life and normality have us back. The amazing thing: in this moment we forget our own creative power. We forget that everything was new and unfamiliar, how many fears, insecurities and worries we might have had when we were starting over.

When we get back to BEING, we have mastered a complete Phoenix Process and have liberated ourselves a little more. Because that is self-liberation.

Don't cut all the lines at once, jump off the cliff without rhyme or reason. No, again and again, little by little, we delve more and more into our self-liberation. We emerge more and more into who we really are, who we want to be and thus fulfill our soul's mission.

I love the Phoenix process, but you'll see that not everyone does. Many people are afraid of being “born”, of “burning”, of the cocoon. The process has many sticking points that we can face, where we can overcome our fears and worries in order to move forward, to be able to recognize more and more what incredible creative power lies hidden in our soul and more and more are just waiting for it to unfold in our favor.

But if you know the steps, if you know about them, then you don't have to be afraid anymore. If you know that there are times of pupation, when everything on the outside seems to stagnate and everything seems somehow bleak and almost lifeless, then you can immerse yourself in this phase much more "relaxed". Knowing that there are times when it gets "tiring" simply because we are about to break our shell or cocoon, we can work with so much more strength and joy to get out now.

Ultimately, every step is a BEING. We are always in each and every stage and always evolving to be even greater.

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