Clarification on choices

QUESTION: Masters, please can you clarify something for me? Last year I agreed with my guides that I would stay on Earth to work with my husband to help him with some learning. I was ill, and wanted to leave the physical. I was told it was going to be difficult but I would get through it. It is really hard and now I seem to have lost my spiritual connection and can’t seem to grasp how to proceed. We are in some very challenging circumstances, and I know I am learning a lot. Will this situation improve soon, and will my guidance come back? I feel lost and overwhelmed. I do so want to be here, but I need a little relief from the hardships we are facing. ~Bernadette, England

ANSWER: You are still here because of your freedom of choice. Faith in yourself and what you still had to learn kept you here, and you now know that you wish to remain. Some questions have arisen in your day-to-day activities that have lessened your faith in yourself and the process you are undergoing. You were advised that the way would be difficult, but you are fighting it instead of going with the flow and taking advantage of the lessons as you enter into them.

Souls rarely plan to undertake more than they are capable of dealing with. At the moment you are taking a breather. When you separate from your learning you feel lost and alone, but your guides are right there with you waiting to be asked for guidance. They do not tell you what to do but give you the options. Take one step at a time.

The first step is to accept that you have the ability to have the same interaction you had before your illness. You need to know you can be open to your advisors by going into that quiet place where they dwell. You have become so frantic in trying to control your environment that you have not stopped to be present in the moment. Your guides can’t go back into the past or predict the future; they can only help you see the possibilities of the present.

The main difficulty for you is allowing in negativity, which hides the hope for the future. You have the ability to manifest that which you desire, but you have let the nay-saying energy around you take hold. Start being aware of any negative thinking that appears, and banish it by bringing in positive feelings that project your wishes. All is not lost—it just has a layer of dust obscuring it. Go and do some house- and head cleaning.