Stages of Faith - Stage 5

The last blog talked about Stage 4 which is the adolescent phase where teenagers are trying to figure out who they are and how they are perceived.  This is a time of experimentation which can be quite challenging and create difficult drama that needs to be worked through later in life.

Stage 5 (Fowler's Stage 4) is the Individuative-Reflective Faith (typically 20's but can be much later if at all) - To move to Stage 5, reliance on external sources of authority must be interrupted.  Some young adults will move to the opposite stance of their parents or those they previously thought were authority figures.  This allows them to move away from external authority being in charge of their lives to an internal authority.  A new sense of self is developed during this time frame which is critical to being a mature adult.   This includes thinking in a whole new way meaning a new value system emerges based on their own inner truth.

If this stage happens naturally in your 20's, then the transition from Stage 4 to Stage 5 is relatively smooth since you're recently on your own.  Its a natural progression into your own way of thinking about your life and the world.  If it doesn't happen during this time frame, major life events can prompt you into Stage 5 such as a divorce, death, loss of something important to you such as a valued job.  If a crisis pushes you into Stage 5, it can be a rough ride into a new perspective and sense of self since you've already based your relationships and your roles on your previously held viewpoints which are based on the "group think."  Extricating yourself from this can be painful and challenging and take some time--perhaps up to seven years.

If you find yourself still in Stage 4 and want to move to Stage 5, how can you do this relatively painlessly if you're now in your later years?

A big part of this is being open to change and being willing to look at things differently.  You may need to see a therapist to do so since therapy helps significantly with looking at old outdated viewpoints and finding new ways to view self, your family, and your world.

Another thing to do, which I've found extremely helpful, is to ask for a perception and attitude adjustment or change that will move you into alignment with your Higher Self (HS) creating your own internal value system.  Meditating with this as the intention allows the brain to get out of the way so that a new insight can drop in from your HS.

To meditate, sit quietly in a chair or in a lotus position on the floor and focus on your breath or bring your attention to your heart or 3rd eye.  You may find your brain ruminating and going over the grocery list as you meditate but keep bringing your focus back to your breath or your third eye or heart (which ever method makes you feel more centered).  Some days you may have great success keeping your brain out of the way; other days you may not.  That's okay.  That's normal.  The more you do it, the more results you'll get.

Healing Process For Moving into Stage 5 and Preparing for Stage 6

• Do the healing processes given in the previous blogs on Stages 1 - 4.  Wait a few days or more inbetween each healing process/each blog exercise given unless you have done a lot of energetic/healing work already geared towards raising the vibration/consciousness of your physical body
• Ask your Higher Self (HS) to direct and your optimal spiritual team to assist (spirits in the other realms/dimension that are more advanced than our human existence and have contracted to assist you in this lifetime).  Ask for an energy of protection and energy of invisibility so only those spirits and guides that are optimal can participate and see in.
• Ask that all the work done is throughout your soul's history and beyond, all levels of your Being (your mind, emotions, and body) and all grid systems/energy fields that effect you using non-linear time to process.
• Ask that a white energy comes into the aura (the egg shaped energy field around you) and into the etheric body (the blueprint of your mind, emotions, and body) "waking you up to new beliefs about yourself, your family, your work, your culture, and your new role in life."  Ask that as many vibrations/energies come in as needed to begin the process of what has been asked for.
• Ask that an energy comes in to break down the barriers of who you think you are.
• Ask that an energy comes in to revitalize the area(s) in your life that have been traditionally challenging.
• Ask that an energy of invigoration comes in to activate a positive direction for this challenging area(s).
• Ask that a new energetic structure comes in to lock-in and activate the positive energy and direction.
• Ask that a positive energy comes in to clear out thoughts and fears that do not fit with this positive direction.
• Ask that your brain creates new pathways and and pleasure points for a happy, creative, fulfilling life based on your soul/HS's best and optimal life.
• Ask that a strengthening and stabilizing energy comes in for optimal health and vitality so that your body accepts all positive changes as a positive with your HS deciding what that is.
• Ask that all grid systems/energy fields that effect you are restructured and recalibrated into the pattern that reflects the work you did today throughout all time and space and beyond, all appropriate dimension or until no longer needed.
• Ask that a no time, no space cocoon (kind of like a caterpillar cocoon) goes around you (you are asking that your brain moves out of linear time into what most of the universe contains--non-linear time) for a fast processing and upgrade of your energy system.
• Thank your HS for directing, your optimal spirit guides for assisting.  Thank them for continuing to assist throughout completion of this process and beyond with your HS directing it.

It is important to become the master of your own life.  We are moving into a new era/portal of change so its never been more important than now to do so.  Not only do you want to be the own master of your life/your reality, you want to create a totally new reality for yourself that is NOT based on the past.

Allow your Higher Self to guide you towards what this means for you.  Allow your Higher Self to let go of the past as you know it and create an optimal present and future that hasn't been thought up by your brain before--something new, fulfilling, and life changing.  Only your own Higher Self can bring that forth for you.  The time is NOW to do so.

After all, you're a Divine Being having a human experience.  You have all the makings of a wonderful new life!

Maureen Higgins owns Wings of Freedom, an alternative counseling and coaching business. She helps people be their best selves and recognize they are part of the Divine. Maureen has developed numerous energetic healing systems you can learn through her classes. Some of them are turned into audios that clear your energy field like a one-on-one session. Visit her site to try the free sample “Activating your Divine Light Codes. https://www.schoolforhigherconsciousness.com/energetic-healing-audios. Learn more about learning energetic healing at  School for Higher Consciousness