She said that she had begun to grind her teeth 24/7 and that she was planning on seeing a specialist...and...and...  I heard her say, "I'm hanging on by the skin of my teeth."  I pointed out that she might want to examine the issue from her greater awareness to reveal the underlying cause.  Almost flippantly, she said that she knew what it was; She had been thrown out a window in a prior embodiment and had to hang on for dear life.  The woman had recently been focused on major self-healing, which made her life about change—whether or not she was egoically ready, which is always the case.  The ego was using that memory (ego is always using the past to somehow maintain immobilization) to keep the woman hanging on the edge, terrified of letting go, certain that she would be heading in only one direction if she did.  I understood that, in fact, the woman was ready to fly, that she was way ready to step into a new phase of her life, but up against the ego, which was hanging onto her old ways "by the skin of its teeth".  Herein lays the classic struggle.

Of late, I see so much of this life-pushing-us-forward "syndrome," while the ego holds on with amazing resistance.  Another woman was suddenly forced to deal with the fact that her husband was seeing another woman.  This is not good or bad.  It's simply circumstances.  But the woman was "hanging on for dear life" to a situation that was already finished.  While she cried, raged and clung, her husband’s activities were actually her gift.  His choices left her having to address her life at a deep level.  It was clear that it was her time to awaken.  On the other hand, it was clear that, particularly at this advanced stage in the awakening process, the ego would try to exit.  Yes, without question her death wish was palpable.  There was no talking to her about her death wish--for many reasons. As called to do, I took a position of holding a space for her while she went through her "dark night". 

Weeks passed.  Every day I could energetically "feel" her waffling—to stay or to go?  I could see that the body was trying to starve itself to death.  (Isn’t it odd to think that we choose death in order to avoid living?)  It was truly her dark night.  There was no wrong or right in her choosing to stay or leave. 

Last week, she emailed me asking if I could help, that she was not okay.  I responded, saying that she was okay and that I could not help her.  But I could help her help herself if she raise herself out of her emotional body and make a whole-hearted commitment to her healing and growth.  In essence she had to grow up… and make a clear choice whether she was going to remain embodied or exit.  This is a brilliant being, I must say, but a brilliant being with a stubborn and powerful ego—like all of us. 

Ultimately, like the first woman mentioned, she knew that she was here to serve a greater purpose, that she was here to bring something to humanity during these changing times...bring something that is very much needed.  First, she has to "reconnect" to that which she was called to bring. 

I mention two individuals here.  I could mention a host of individuals who are at that critical point, that point of saying, "I'm here for a purpose.  It's my time.  I surrender my games, struggles, suffering, my earthly entrapments and am ready to be used for a greater purpose. 

Tonight, another woman, in the process of exploring from her greater reality, from an outer world, saw that living from the flow rather than from fast-forward was the next step in her personal evolution.  It was essential that she slow down the body.  She claimed she had no idea how to do this.  To slow down, she had to explore just exactly what kept her in fast-forward.  One more time, she visited her childhood to obtain the understanding.   Coming from a dysfunctional family, her fast-forward behavior (obsessive compulsive as she saw) was a means to survive her childhood.  Now, the ego was still using fast-forward to keep her "alive."   Alive being a survival perspective.  She had to let go.  She, too, was hanging on by the skin of her teeth.  She, too, thought she would die if she let go (slowed down in this case).  But it was the holding on that was killing her.  Letting go is death to the ego.  Hanging on is death to the spirit.  

Look around.  You will see someone or another or yourself—many—hanging on by the skin of their teeth.  Our lives as we live them are no longer sustainable.  Without necessary preparation, the winds of change will flatten us.  Like these people mentioned, if it's time to let go, it’s time to let go.  What we don’t know, can’t know, until we let go, is that we will fly and we will have the necessary winds beneath our wings.  In fact, the woman whose husband gifted her so perfectly, claimed when I asked her to tune into her guides, that she was afraid to state how many were there…maybe thousands.  Our guides—our heavenly support system—does not care about our suffering, our fear of letting go of control. They don’t see egos as real.  Winds of change can be a wondrous phenomena when we have the winds of guidance beneath our wings. 

Don't hesitate, for your sake and for humanity's.  Heal!  Let go!  No hanging on by the skin of the teeth.  Time to fly into a new realm of consciousness.  No one who does will "live" to regret it. 

What are you hanging onto by the skin of your teeth?