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Written by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness

I was in a pretty bad place the other day, and I didn’t feel like I could climb out of my own negativity. Most of us have been there at one time or another, and sometimes, we reach a point where we don’t feel like we can continue on; where we just want to give up and let the world come crashing down around us.

This is how I felt, and I didn’t feel motivated to write, post to the blog or do any of the things I usually do, which made the situation a lot worse because I feel somewhat of an obligation to do those things. They’re part of my mission, after all.

After wallowing in my self-created negativity for what felt like hours, the realization finally hit that we have to stay strong – especially when we face so much negativity that we don’t feel like we can get back up.

We have to have inner strength, because without it, the difficulties we face each day will easily bring us down and keep us from shining our light.

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An intuitive message by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness

You have every reason to be joyful and celebrate your existence, but it’s easy to feel like you should stifle your excitement because of the bad things that happen on your world every day.

It’s easy to convince yourselves the world is an awful place to live, but life is what you make of it and if you’re willing to have a positive perspective in the face of every negative situation you face, you’ll realize that life doesn’t have to be as difficult as it’s been made out to be.

Your life on earth is precious, and you only get one chance to participate in the shift that’s taking place.

You’re encouraged to do as much as you can in your short time on earth, and when you don’t feel motivated to contribute, you’re encouraged to find some way to rekindle your spark and realign with the motivation and excitement that come with participating in a collective spiritual evolution.

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An intuitive message by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness

Your creative and expressive abilities can be clear and free-flowing, and all it takes is the willingness not to let the ego heavily influence your creativity or anything else you do to bring your planet into the light.

When it comes to channeling or conveying the intuitive guidance you receive from the greater aspects of your consciousness who want to help you spiritually evolve, releasing your mind-driven resistance and letting the expressions flow is the best way to produce a clear and coherent communication for others to benefit from.

Channeling or connecting with your higher self isn’t just meant to benefit the people who read or listen to the message later on – it’s meant to benefit the person who practices it by filling them with divine energy and inspiration and allowing them the creative freedom that comes with getting the ego out of the way and letting one’s expressions flow with no hindrances or barriers present.

Written by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness

While there are a lot of unique ways to express our spirituality, I notice that there are two primary ways people choose to express theirs. The first is from a New Age perspective, which promotes the idea that we’re physically and spiritually evolving into a higher state of consciousness and we can communicate with entities in higher realms who want to help us.

The second is from a more centered, levelheaded perspective that recognizes the importance of inner work and self-growth, as opposed to waiting around for things to manifest.

The New Age movement is often criticized by the rest of the conscious community, and if a spiritual practice or perspective seems misaligned with the philosophies of self-growth and self-empowerment, it’s usually called New Agey. It’s as if ‘New Age’ has become a term to describe a form of spirituality that everyone should stay away from.

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Written by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness

I feel inspired to encourage us to take a grounded approach to spirituality – an approach that doesn’t cause us to ignore our negative or destructive tendencies, but instead, surface them, explore them and flow with them.

I won’t encourage us to give up the practices that align us with higher aspects of our consciousness, but we don’t want to use them to hide from the darkness within.

Carl Jung told us that “one does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious”. I think ‘making the darkness conscious’ is exactly what we’ll want to do if we want enjoy our lives and our spirituality without hiding certain parts of ourselves from the world (or from our own attention).

They’ll get our attention one way or another, and they’ll get it in big, bold and destructive ways if we spend our whole life trying to hide from them. There’s no sense hiding from the aspects of our consciousness that could be seen as ‘dark’ or ‘negative’, and we make them worse by convincing ourselves they’re wrong or shouldn’t exist.