Dear Joshua
Question on the back of answer to question 91:
How do I tap in to who I really am? How do I find out who I really am? How will I know that I'm not being who I really am, or that I am being who I really am?
Maybe you just answered in the part about appreciating, but could you give me more details, examples, guidance, please? This is a big subject.
Of course, I know the theory: a powerful unique creator energy... But at a more practical day to day level? Is "just looking to feel good" the way?
Thank you,
Kate
Dear Kate,
Who you are is a pure positive being of love and acceptance who operates in full and complete alignment with the forces of the universe. Who you really are is one who understands that this adventure in physical reality is made so that you personally will expand through contrast and experience and you will do so in joy.
It seems like the purpose of expansion through contrast conflicts with joy. How can one face contrast and still feel joy? Isn't contrast a negative thing?
Contrast is not negative or positive, it is neutral. You might have a feeling that contrast is bad because contrast exposes you to negative emotion and negative emotion feels bad. This is only because you have been used to operating in the old approach to life where you believe that negative emotion was created by bad things. You did not understand that the bad things were simply contrast which will cause you to expand and you came here to expand. Expansion is your primary reason to be here.
You expand through contrast and experience. Some experiences are fun and others are painful. But the pain is simply a message that you are resisting the expansion. It's not the emotional discomfort that causes the expansion. The expansion is happening and your perspective creates the pain. If you were to diminish the emotional pain by choosing a new perspective, you would still expand, but without the pain. Therefore, you could simply expand joyously. It's all a matter of the perspective you are choosing.
You are on a path to becoming who you really are. You are always moving forward, never backward, no matter how you feel. You will become who you really are when you transition to the nonphysical. In the nonphysical, you do not carry your fears, regrets, resentments, or any emotional baggage. That is all left behind. You do not bring your insecurities or doubts. Those are all based in fear and fear does not exist in the nonphysical. Who you really are is who you are right now, but without all the fear. Become fearless and you become who you really are. Remove your fears layer by layer and you become who you really are. This is a process and the process is aided by feeling good. Feel good and you move rapidly toward being who you really are.
If you can be a being of love in any moment, that is who you really are.
Joshua
