This was a channelled message I received from my guides about following the soul’s guidance. It is also guidance on learning to trust that guidance and how to recognise when we have gone off-route. Learning to work with the soul consciousness takes time and trust. The personality, or ego, is the part of us that interfaces with the three-dimensional world. The more sieve-like we become, the more our soul’s light, intelligence, and purpose can shine through.

We become sieve-like by doing our personal healing. Clearing out old patterns and woundings. Many times, it is these energies which prevent us from manifesting what we want … and keeping what we have created.

Our evolutionary path, is to fuse the personality with the soul and bring more love into the world. This is where we are all headed. Fusing in this way takes years of development, sometimes lifetimes. Cultivating an attitude of trust and adventure helps with this process – along with meditation, personal healing and energy work.

In my endeavour to continue my journey, learning to accept my soul’s guidance and direction, I received the following from my guides. This came at a time, a couple of years ago, when I had chosen to look after my father, and I wondered where I was headed. Because we truly do create our own reality, I was very aware that I was creating mine, and living in his creation. But was my soul doing the choosing? Was this stopover point my soul’s intention, or were unhealed personality issues fueling my desire to look after him?

I was trying to manifest a good life for myself, but I was also acutely aware that my soul’s plan might be different. Or was this an intentional part of the journey because things were still in the way of my creating the better life I wanted? Unhealed issues, when we are in a process of self-development and healing, need to be gone through. We can’t skip over them. They cannot be avoided. They will slip through no matter how much conscious control we try to exert.

My guides gave me a good analogy about how our unhealed issues can get in the way of our ability to create a good life

In my home in Winchester, we spent years creating a lovely garden. We planted apple trees, plum trees, and fig trees. We had herbs and bay trees, wisteria and lilac and created the whole based on Gaia Method energies, creating a sacred space. And we loved it. We could sit out in the summer. I sat on the back doorstep and read and drank tea. It was a lovely sanctuary.

And then, when I came back from Egypt in Nov 2019, COVID happened and I chose to help my father who was unwell. This anchored me in Winchester for longer than I expected. And because I knew I’d be here until Dad wasn’t, I decided to get chickens.

I have had a long history with chickens, but had never been able to raise them from egg to end of life. I experienced too many painful things around chickens as a child and was never able to keep them for long. My emotional desire was to have them now. So I bought an incubator and hatched some eggs. In Egypt, we had lots of hens, and I really missed having them, so here was my chance.

I didn’t realise, however, just how destructive chickens can be in a garden! They ruined it! We could no longer sit out in it because they shat everywhere, and scratched out all the plants I loved. The back garden became a back yard.

My unhealed emotional issues around having hens fueled my need for them. To heal the childhood loss around hens, I had to have them until they died of natural causes. I was invested in them having a good life, to have freedom, so that became more important. I gave them the run of the garden.

If I had not had those painful experiences around chickens when I was younger, I would never have got any, and my garden would still be beautiful. Unhealed issues will do that. It is very hard to manifest what we want when unhealed traumas need healing first.

I obviously needed to have the chickens so I could heal from needing them. Now, five years on, I know I don’t need to do it again – as lovely as it is to have our own eggs. And thankfully, my garden can regrow and be well-manured into the bargain. But I’d rather not ruin my creations again because I still have unhealed emotional needs from childhood.

Was it my soul’s desire that I heal this issue? Did I need to get it out of the way to understand this lesson, so it wouldn’t ruin future creations? I don’t know. Was it simply my personality’s emotional need? Again, I don’t know. But I manifested it either way. And I healed and learned. The hard way.

I question these things because I have been on this journey of Soul-fusion since the mid nineties. At sixty three, I continue on it. I want my sieve to be a holey as possible.

To help me understand how we can manifest our creations with the soul, my guides gave me an exercise and told me to share it.

But first they gave an explanation:

Contrary to popular belief, the manner in which things are manifested is not simply a matter of wanting them. There may be many things in the way. When you work with your soul, it is the soul’s journey you are on. What does the soul require?

Let me tell you how to manifest from the soul’s perspective. You and the soul are One. Firstly, you, as a personality, are the car. The Soul, the real you, is the driver. When the soul wants to go somewhere, it puts the destination into the phone/GPS and then you, as the personality that the soul works through, follows the instructions.

Many times, your personality thinks it already knows the route, so if the GPS tells it to take a route that is unfamiliar, its immediate response is to question the wisdom of this new route. It decides to ignore the GPS and reroutes.

Sometimes the routes to manifestation can feel the same. Your soul GPS is sending you down a route that cannot possibly be right, so it feels as though you are heading in the wrong direction.

However, if you trust the guidance, you eventually find yourself exactly where you had originally intended to be.

Working and manifesting as a Soul is like that. You need trust and an open heart.

Exercise in manifesting with the soul’s GPS.

Pick a place in the world that you would like to live in someday, or that you would like to visit. Now imagine you are in your car. You have packed for the journey & everything is ready to go. You put your coordinates into your GPS, and you start the car. You leave with confidence and excitement. You know exactly where you’re going.

However, twenty miles into the journey, your GPS tells you to turn left. You hesitate (feel the feelings). ‘This isn’t the way’. You say to yourself. You ignore the instruction, and two miles further on, you find yourself stuck in a traffic jam.

One hour later, realising that the GPS knew ahead of time that this traffic jam was going to occur, you double back and take the original proffered route. Even though you feel unsure, you again start to trust that you will get there … somehow.

You continue the journey, feeling okay but still watchful.

The terrain changes as you drive, and you do not recognise it, and doubt set in again. Now you are utterly convinced you are going the wrong way. But then you remember what happened last time, so you follow the instructions, nervous, and you finally come out on a road you recognise.

Imagine that this happens all the way along your journey, and as you proceed, your trust grows and you relax and enjoy the new vistas being presented to you. A sense of adventure grows inside you now with each route change. You have transformed a goal-oriented, anxious viewpoint to one of exploration. You are no longer in a rush to get to your originally intended destination but discover along the way that not only have you learned to trust but that there are many possibilities you had not seen before.

You stop off at a viewpoint, to reconsider. You recognise that because you were too stuck on one possibility you had not considered there might be many more. And that perhaps there is a better place than the one you originally intended to end up in. Maybe this place you have stopped to rest in might be a place to rest for a while.

You are still on your journey, but now you are enjoying the detours, trusting the possibilities, and more importantly, the wisdom of your guidance.

Perhaps with all these new possibilities, a new destination has presented itself. One that feels more aligned with your soul’s desires. In trusting your guidance, you have learned to be an explorer, an adventurer, a time-traveller. You have a world of possibilities to explore. All you need to do is get in the car, program your GPS to see where it takes you.

Most importantly, you have learned to have fun, even if some of those stopovers mean staying a while to help someone, or to complete an old contract or lesson. Remembering that each stop will teach you something, but will also propel you ever onward.

Remember too, that when unhealed personality issues arise and as a result you ignore your spiritual GPS and go off-route, simply reroute. Understand that you need to trust the wisdom of your soul. It knows the route because you designed it yourself before you were born. Your soul knows the way; you just have to trust it.

Which is really trusting yourself.