Highest Timeline
We’ve heard this term, but what does it really mean? I believe it refers to the life we can be living if we connect to our hearts and make decisions that are in alignment with what we know to be true and right for ourselves. When we have awareness of our programming, learn to notice when it comes up and make the decision to follow our intuition instead, we start to feel excited by life again. Our days are full of wonder and joy, and our burdens are lifted. Even if you’re in a situation that you can’t change in the moment, if you change your perspective about it, you feel differently.
Our emotions, and many times our ailments, are our body’s way of telling us when things are out of alignment. If we don’t listen to our initial gut feelings, our body creates symptoms to amplify the message. If you’ve ever been in a job that doesn’t resonate with you, or a relationship that keeps hitting a brick wall, the anger, anxiety, pain, or sickness you may have when conflicting circumstances arise is your inner wisdom telling you that this is not for you. I had a job once that I was not cut out for. I knew I wasn’t happy there, but I kept at it because it was a “good” job by society’s standards. Eventually, every time I walked into the building I had an allergy attack. It took a while before I realized that these things were correlated. I was miserable and my body was expressing that through sneezes and coughs! When I quit that job, my sudden onset allergies stopped.
When you’re living out of alignment, you’re on a lower timeline in which your life is a projection of what other people expect of you (sometimes disguised as what you thought you wanted), rather than what you really want. When we find ourselves in these lower timelines, we can feel trapped… and making adjustments seems impossible. If you only take one thing away, let it be this…WE ALWAYS HAVE CHOICES! It may not seem true at the time, because after all, you may have invested a lot of time and energy in your current path. At an unconscious level, you may even feel like if you let this person or this job go, you won’t be able to survive. BUT THAT IS NOT TRUE. In Byron Katie’s work, when faced with a programmed response, it’s helpful to ask ourselves, “is this true?”
To start making progress toward living on our highest timeline means to get centered and feel your way through to another path. It seems hard at the beginning because you might think “I’ve made this bed, now I have no other choice but to lie in it.” It may mean disappointing others, changing jobs, moving locations, changing your relationship with people, or even letting them go from your life. I know, these are not small things. But instead of looking at it with black and white thinking, consider your options and think them all the way through, even if it’s uncomfortable. Nothing, is impossible. One last thing here, once you start to move in the direction of your highest timeline, it will get easier to make decisions that are aligned with what you want. When you put your heart in the driver’s seat, without needing to have everything figured out, possibilities you can’t even imagine are invited to come your way.