Hello again, here I am sitting by the fire, well aware winter is here. The dogs are at my feet, lying on an old patchwork quilt. Well one of them is, the other is trying to get some of it.
Each week I sit down to type and have no real idea of what is going to flow from the Masters.

Let's talk about perception. Our perception of what is happening around us can create beliefs and truths that don't sit with reality. How many of you are affected by the energy of those around you? You know you are affected and so this becomes a truth. So now lets put that into the context of ascension. Do the energies of others affect your ascension? And the answer is no.
Someone else's energy can affect how you feel. But this energy doesn't affect the dross and the karma in your chakras. We ascend by clearing our own dross and our own karma from the chakras. Others energy does not affect your ascension. Your ascension is yours. Ascension is one of those times when you can say - it's all about you!

So all those people around you and their negative energy and how it affects you is another issue entirely.

So can you see how it is easy to place knowledge from one area of perception and truth and apply it elsewhere and come up with an incorrect assumption. This happens a lot in the spiritual world. We feel, we categorise and so we create a truth in our own reality, which may or may not be correct.

Here is another example - Feeling something doesn't mean change is occurring, it just means you are feeling. A good example is holding a bottle of one of the Masters oils - lets say the Deva of Joy. While you hold the bottle of oil, you feel the joy. But that is all. The oil is meant to create change within you, and it must be applied to do this. But just holding the bottle and feeling the joy can make you think change is occurring, when it isn't you are just feeling. This can be applied to lots of encounters - how many times do you feel something and think change is happening when in reality you are just having an experience. Sound is a good example, the experience doesn't always equate to change.

Another example is a feeling of a sharp pain in the body - "I've been stabbed in the back" pain. You may think you are being energetically attacked. Or it may just be that your body is clearing a past life memory, the cellular memory has it's own story happening. Clearing past life trauma is a common occurrence as you ascend. So we then come back to - is it happening to us? or is it happening within us? More often than not it is happening within us, but it is much easier to attribute events to an external cause, because as part of our spiritual experiences we feel external energy.

And this is the major dilemma that faces those ascending- the experience is given importance, when in reality it is sometimes just an experience and just a feeling. Change, events and experiences are not always linked.

So what we are asking you to do here is to look beyond your personal perceptions. It is a murky world out there and our perceptions can make it murkier, scarier and more negative than it needs to be. Be discerning, if it sounds crazy, it probably is.

This weeks Ascended Masters healers were Lady Nada and Serapis Bey. They stepped forward for the Free healing sessions this week. These two Masters are a common working team. Today they addressed within each of those on the healing list - the battle and acceptance of inner truth. The story can create a reality that isn't true - self truth is a huge step in the ascension process.