Understanding Ascension: A Roller Coaster Ride of Personal Growth and Transformation

Join Rachel Garrett as she explores the dynamic journey of ascension—a roller coaster ride of personal growth and spiritual transformation. This episode offers valuable insights for healing practitioners and seekers focused on awakening, spiritual growth, and soul healing practices. Discover how spiritual mentorship, inner light work, and aligning with your soul purpose can help you navigate the challenges and breakthroughs on your ascension path toward higher consciousness and holistic healing.

Ever woken up feeling like you've been on a roller coaster, without ever leaving your bed? You're not alone, and it might not be your physical health causing the commotion. Join us, Jake , Rachel and  Melissa, as we unravel the phenomena of ascension, the often turbulent but transformative process that many are experiencing. We'll share our personal stories, our headaches and our heartaches, as well as our triumphs navigating through this profound energetic shift.

If you've felt more sensitive to energy, noticed more feathers on your path, or have been battling tension headaches, you might be undergoing an ascension process. We'll explore how this process ties intimately to personal growth and the role our ego plays in responding to these changes. We'll also discuss how our connection to spirit can send us hints during these times. So, buckle up for a roller coaster ride of self-discovery as we unpack the complexities of awakening and ascension.

Finally, we'll touch upon the importance of carving a sanctuary for ourselves during these periods of evolution. Drawing on insights from 'The Mastery of Love' by Don Miguel Ruiz, we'll discuss how this book can guide us towards inner peace and connection during transitions. Plus, we'll share some practical tools to help you manage your ascension process, from grounding techniques to the art of journaling. Whatever phase of growth you're experiencing, we're here to support and guide you through this exciting journey of self-discovery and transformation.

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:50

Hello everyone, welcome to our episode of It's Me, not You, hello Melissa, hello, hello Jake.

Speaker 2 0:57

Hello everyone. It's me and you are you. That one didn't work.

Speaker 1 1:05

I like Jake's little intros. Now He's coming up with his own intros. He's like forget whatever we say, it's whatever Jake goes by, it's what we're going to do for the day.

Speaker 2 1:13

So for it's We're workshopping it.

Speaker 1 1:16

Yeah, It's work in progress. So for today's episode we wanted to talk about ascension, what it is, what may be some signs and symptoms that you're going through ascension and how to kind of because there can be some disconcerting feelings when you're going through ascension and maybe feeling it not very well. but, yeah, how to handle that, how to manage it. So I'm going to tip this off to Melissa, because this is a topic she wanted to talk about.

Speaker 3 1:43

Yeah, i've been getting a lot of questions from people just kind of reaching out to me like is that a sign? Why am I seeing so many signs all of the time, whether it's like a feather on the ground or just something kind of coming across their path or a lot of you get like an ascension headache, people asking about that or just kind of overall with how they're feeling. And we are going through a big time of ascension right now. Ascension happens differently for everybody, but we are kind of between that wheel of the year, with the solstice before Lugnasa in that's like August 1st. So it's kind of is like a doorway, a doorway time period right now.

Speaker 3 2:35

So for me, ascension what it means is that you're rising to a higher vibrational state, but that doesn't mean that it feels good necessarily to get there. So you might all of a sudden like your gifts you're just downloading all the time and you can feel really frayed. You can feel like almost like your nervous system is a little shot because your ability to feel energy and I mean that in all types of ways whatever, claire, you have, whatever energy work you do it's more sensitive. So that also means you can be more sensitive to people's reactions to like being in crowds. I know for me.

Speaker 3 3:14

I was in crowds last weekend and I'm just like I can't do this I need to go home, and normally I'm a very extroverted person like I love doing that stuff. So and ascension headaches is a thing, do you guys get those?

Speaker 1 3:28

Yes, but they also it's also like into an ascension flu and can feel like you have the flu like symptoms, and usually, if you do get the ascension headaches, it means you need to strengthen your root and you need to ground in more.

Speaker 1 3:42

That will help to manage your ascension headaches. I like to fly around. That's not fun. I'm just saying if you are getting an Ascension headache, in order to not have the headache, it means, yes, you're going through a vibrational shift, but you need to root in more and it helps you to expand out your vibration.

Speaker 3 4:03

When you have a vibrational headache, where do you tend to feel it? Rachel, in my head. I mean, for me, it's really my third eye. Do you get it that specific, or is it all over? You're so smart.

Speaker 1 4:20

OK. So it depends on what I'm doing, because if I'm doing energetic meditations, which I do three times a week, it can feel like it's coming down right over my crown And it feels like I'm in a column of light. And it just depends. It comes in all over the place for whatever is going on. But I'm also super, super energy sensitive. How about for you, jake? It feels in your head, it feels like it's going to totally break my face, i'll show you headache.

Speaker 3 4:53

Remember when.

Speaker 1 4:53

I said I could smack from a distance.

Speaker 2 4:59

For me, i feel it. It's definitely not like a subtle one or anything like that. It feels like two grilling tongues are just like pinching the brain. You know what I mean. That's what it feels like. It's sharp and it's really quick, it doesn't last very long, but it like you're going to be like ah, and that weird expression comes with a two.

Speaker 1 5:20

And then you're like, I'm sending.

Speaker 3 5:21

It feels like my third eye is giving birth. Like it's just the pressure of opening And I wanted to ask like how you guys all feel it so that our listeners know like you know, maybe you're just having a regular headache because it's hot out and whatever else is happening.

Speaker 1 5:36

I usually feel some sort of like vibrational energy that comes with it. If I'm getting like a tension headache or like a migraine coming on because of like the weather or my allergies or something like that, like I'll feel it in the back of my eye or I'll feel it in the back of my head. If it's like, for me, if I do kind of equate, like ascension or higher break rate, it feels like a column, a column of energy just plopping in. Melissa, maybe that's where the hair What has came from?

Speaker 3 6:08

maybe Never know. Well, that's the pharaohs, you know, the like Egyptian, the really tall.

Speaker 2 6:14

Oh, it was sent.

Speaker 1 6:16

I know even ascension cones, feeling it.

Speaker 3 6:18

I sent you in Come. She's up at like a half o'clock in the morning and she just will not sleep. There's just too much energy around for her.

Speaker 2 6:24

That's because Maggie's a mystical queen. She's got a big fish to fire right now.

Speaker 3 6:29

Oh she is Or in a transition period, She has to take care of me, which is not easy right now either.

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Speaker 2 6:34

Sweet girl. But I feel like they're even like during like times of like, you know, shifting or attention, things like that. I feel like it's always like I'm always the last person to know that I'm, that that's the space that I'm in, because I think that there is that sense of kind of just like whirling around and just kind of floating around ungrounded And that for me kind of can last like a week or two before I'm really catching on and like becoming cognizant of it. You know, I feel like there's that floating feeling, that you're just kind of like flying by the edge of your seat And you're like, why does everything feel like so like disjointed, or like why am I feeling irritated? But for me, in those times I feel like it goes so full tilt, like so ungrounded, that you're almost like leaning forward in the day and you're not like stepping back just to observe, So like for me it'll go on for like a week or so and I'll be like Oh my God, why do I feel this way? What is everything being so funky for, Like what is everybody's effing deal? You know what I mean. Like it's just like one of those like what the hell? moments And then it all kind of just like starts plugging in, or eventually it's just like things just like start to crumble.

Speaker 2 7:36

You know what I mean. Like situations come to a boil and they start kind of coming to the top of things, like a conflict at work or a social situation that you're kind of observing, And it's in those moments that I realize, Oh, I see what's happening here, But not really. But usually for me I don't necessarily notice that that's the space that I'm in until that kind of tower card moment is happening. We're finding that like structures are dis, are breaking down or routines are becoming And that's hard to kind of explain, but it feels like things that like long standing routines or agreements or kind of relationships, dynamics around us. You know, you'll find that they kind of start to dissipate And that we kind of almost for me I almost feel like I inadvertently welcome it, Like it's this organic kind of chaos, but at the same time, when it settles down, you're like all right, well, that went left for whatever reason. I'm good with that, though, You know, in a way there's always that sense of relief.

Speaker 1 8:34

I will say though And don't you also kind of liken it to things? I also feel like it's. We're shifting, you know, out of our ego self into our more divine self. Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 1 8:49

Like we're getting out of like self-centeredness and things about ourselves and we're becoming more compassionate towards others, and I also feel like we're not triggered by certain situations that we may have been so in the past. For me, i like an ascension to kind of learning. You know lessons and dissolving limiting beliefs and you know things of that nature. But let me ask you this question Do you think that ascension and awakening are they interchangeable words for both of you?

Speaker 2 9:22

I feel like awakening is, like I would equate better with, like the first leg of your journey, like maybe the moment that you have the aha step back moment. You know right, you know clouds, power, the ocean separates all that Or what, metaphorically or physically, i don't know, but I always I feel like awakening is a little bit more of like a beginning leg of the journey, or at least like that first mile marker that kind of sets you on your, on your path, and then the ascension. I think ascension is an intermittent experience, like it happens. It happens every once in a while, every six months, every year, some people may be only every couple of years.

Speaker 2 10:01

You know it's honestly, it's all dependent on you know what stride you're taking, and I think, like the willingness to be flexible or the willingness to be fluid in those times of change and in those times of chaos, you know we can accept it, roll with it and just let it kind of go its due course, while keeping our center, or we can, you know, actively fight back and try to hold on to a system that you know is also trying to disassemble itself. It's again all goes back to ego, and if we're ready to shift or if we're ready to accept that change or will we fight it. I think that that's ultimately like the ultimatum that it always kind of boils down to will I embrace the change or will I start seeking out the answers that I need right now? Or will I resist it? Mm, hmm, you know what are some like?

Speaker 1 10:49

maybe some signs for anyone that is through their spiritual awakening and now they're going through an ascension process. What do you think are some signs? or maybe some aha is like oh okay, this may be ascension for you.

Speaker 3 11:04

Well, i think it really depends on the person. You know, every ascension is a little different. Some are more subtle than others, and some it's like you don't recognize until you look for your safety net and it's not there, and then you freak out. So, for example, when I was reopening my gifts, when I wanted to ask if something was right for me, my third eye would burn. That was my yes, and then, all of a sudden, i couldn't get it to burn.

Speaker 3 11:33

I was hearing things, though, and seeing things, but where was my like, where were my training wheels Right? So I think that's one of the things to pay attention to. Is that subtle differences in? you know? I even had somebody say I don't feel things vibrate as much anymore, right, because you're just knowing they don't have to be like ring the doorbell, they're just there and it's and it's happening. But a lot of signs from spirit really depends on your relationship with spirit. So, if you're an outside person plants, animals, feathers, that sort of thing, you know. But if you're internal and city kind of, you might see, i don't know, like a red car all the time, and that means something specific to you or just things that are in unexplained places. It's going to be something that pops out, that's not part of the normal, that's trying to get your attention, or it's, like I said for me, i get the headache. That's usually my sign that something's coming Then?

Speaker 1 12:37

do you have increased awareness, heightened intuition, greater feeling, more connected, those kind of signs.

Speaker 3 12:45

After it's done, i do, but during the vortex spinning around, i'm a little more afraid. not afraid, but afraid sensitivity. Like too much, too many people. I need my plants I need, so I start doing more walks and doing more of that stuff to get me until I'm done spinning. It's like riding the roller coaster. That's what ascension is. You're going through all your twisted turns, getting everything out of it. Then, when you get off, you have this whole new way of being. but you really do have to buckle up, at least in my opinion, for that ride if you want to get the most out of it.

Speaker 1 13:21

Have you guys read any books or anything about going through an ascension?

Speaker 2 13:26

No.

Speaker 1 13:27

So I read this book. It's called the Complete.

Speaker 2 13:29

Ascension No, I can't say.

Speaker 1 13:30

I'm like I'm cutting you off, Jake Great, It's the Complete Ascension Manual.

Speaker 2 13:34

That's fine.

Speaker 1 13:35

How to achieve ascension in this lifetime. This is what the cover looks like. It's like a pretty fascinating book And I will say that there's actually like a meditation in it that kind of will walk you. It doesn't like you're not going to be fully ascended. I do believe that we're always going to be ascending, just like I always. For me, awakening is also kind of peeling back layers. But I will say that I didn't like this book. It was quite fascinating And I'm actually going to bring up the. I read it a couple of years ago but it's like goes through, like all the different keys, initiations, like what are the lessons you're supposed to learn as a soul, like it's a quite I guess it's just say it's actually quite intense book.

Speaker 1 14:19

And the meditation, the meditation that's through it. You're just like, like when you read it it's actually really long And you're like, oh my God, i don't know if I'm ever going to achieve this. I don't know if I remember going to be truly compassionate for every human, like I don't know, but anyway you know it's, it's nice in theory, but also I mean it could.

Speaker 2 14:40

I'm sure it could be kind of ceremoniously, you know, like in those different periods that you're having. You know, i always like to my kind of advice for people that are in that space. I, i mean, always come back to my roots of, you know, working with the cards and working with Taro. One of the favorite practices that I have is called path working, where. So you know, if you're in this place where you're just feeling just asked for certain corners of life right now, or if you're feeling like I, like you need to step into a new space, mindset-wise or psychologically, all that stuff, i always love to go into the deck and I always find, you know, what do I want to be right now? Where do I want to be in this life?

Speaker 2 15:20

Am I trying to embrace, you know, the emperor, or am I trying to lean a little bit more into the sun right now? Yeah, am I looking for connection? Maybe I'll chat, i'll reach into the star and I'll have that kind of moment where I meditate with that card and I imagine myself stepping into it, integrating that change or that kind of seed to churn the wheel, you know, and I might spend a couple days with that, because you're kind of trying to actively visualize. Okay, where does this bring me? What's the other side of this kind of look like? And you know what are the first kind of couple steps that I can do to start kind of bringing that in, to usher myself into that? For me personally, i always feel like I don't know about you guys, but I always feel like there's this weird sense of deja vu where it's like I should know something right now, but I don't know what I don't know, you know, in those kinds of periods, But, you know that, you don't know it, so you're wicks.

Speaker 2 16:13

Yes, and it's just that odd feeling, and I think a lot of people, a lot of clients that I have worked with, have always mentioned or alluded to having that kind of situation, but they it's always like this I feel like I'm missing something. I feel like I'm missing something And I feel like there's something to be said for, like the sign in that where it's like okay, maybe it's time to step back and stop trying to overanalyze and just kind of be a little bit more present, see what's presenting itself organically to you or get your shit together.

Speaker 1 16:43

So have you guys also like, as you've been ascending and going through ascension, like maybe tapping into, like I always hear about, like disconnecting from the matrix, disconnecting from, you know, artificial programs? Have you guys done any of that type of work or been in your realm at all, like I like to disconnect from the aging matrix, but you know what I mean I do.

Speaker 2 17:13

I like to disconnect from the working matrix. I'm like I'm disconnecting from that matrix.

Speaker 1 17:18

Like you know what I mean. Like have you guys ever like disconnected or kind of like I've like seen things fall apart? or you know, maybe belief systems or anything like that?

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Speaker 3 17:33

Yeah, i mean I can't say that there's a specific name to it, But, yeah, every time I ascend I take what I need from what I've learned and the values that I have are at my core, but I do evolve and and grow with them And I try to stay open to you know, change. It's not easy to let things go.

Speaker 1 17:51

It's not like time, it's just an illusion. Yeah, but I've always thought that Well then I mean as part of the ascension is realizing that.

Speaker 3 18:00

No, that was just not like physics All right.

Speaker 1 18:06

So let me, let's just spend this for our listeners What, what kind of advice or anything you would give for someone that maybe is going through an ascension, like just right, the wave. You're going to be okay. You may feel ungrounded. You know what are maybe some pieces of advice, Melissa?

Speaker 3 18:23

Well, if you just heard that thump, Maggie just brought me the four agreements book the box that you just heard fall over. So Maggie says to read the four agreements is a good place to start. She's now trying to pick it up and hand me all four books.

Speaker 1 18:38

Sage do you think that the four agreements go with ascension. That's more of like just you know. You know not taking things personally, but I think that that's that. That's part of it, you know, because it is hard when you're, you know, be a person of your word, not, you know, being peckable with your word, not taking things personally.

Speaker 3 18:57

And if you are those things, ascension is easier. Like I don't think that it's just because, oh, it's Halloween, like we're going to ascend. It has to be that you're in a place of preparation, of that. You've done some you know work to get to that point, to be ready to ascend.

Speaker 1 19:15

I think part of it is. it's taking it from all the focus on you and making the focus more on others. And how can you be more passionate and be of service and, you know, really being part of that unity consciousness to kind of raise up the consciousness of the entire planet? How about for you, Jake, any, before we wrap this up, any piece of advice you may give to somebody that is going through an ascension and maybe is having a hard time with it?

Speaker 2 19:47

Yeah, i mean, for me personally there isn't exactly a formula to like how to like overcome those times of that uncertainty or that transition period. So for me I often feel like I'm going backwards and forwards. You know, some days it feels like I'm really kind of ahead of the game, really making progress in this period, but then sometimes I feel like I'm not learning anything, i'm not seeing the bigger picture and I can get frustrated with that and you know I could get into my head about that and find reasons be like oh, that's because you're doing this wrong or that's because you Reactive this way a bubble block. So for me I really just say that a lot of it really is. You kind of have to just take this like active viewing seat during it all and In a way, kind of let it ebb and flow as it naturally should. You know, have you find your systems that make you feel grounded, find your systems that make you feel connected to your path, your passion, things that make you just comforted, your comfort movies, the books that you love to rely on.

Speaker 2 20:42

In these periods I think an incredible amount of self-care is always important during these times as well, because, again, we can't necessarily do things physically to usher that momentum forward. You know So there is that delicate, that delicate hand that we have to take to it, where we actively observe it, embrace it, but at the same time I can't physically manipulate it to rush ahead or skip over the next couple of tribulations that are supposed to happen first. You know, so it's, it's. It can be difficult, but I would say, find your systems, think of a couple handful Things that are in your reach that you can pull on when you are just feeling depleted or feeling like you need to get some clarity.

Speaker 2 21:26

Find a space that you can dedicate to that. Have a little cubby, you know. Create a little safe space in your home to a fort of some sorts, if you need to, i And really just be easy. But also, maybe try to journal, keep notes, keep track of, like, what your experience is, so you can reflect on this at a later date Or you can read it back and at least see where your mind was at and where were your first go-tos. Did you go to the ego first, trying to problem-solve? you go to a certain childhood event? Did you remind you of a certain version of yourself in life? You know, there's a lot of opportunity to really be observing and learn a lot from yourself and how you react in these periods too.

Speaker 1 22:05

How about for you, melissa?

Speaker 2 22:07

That's what I got.

Speaker 1 22:08

That's what he got.

Speaker 3 22:10

Nothing, really. No, i'm just kidding.

Speaker 3 22:12

I do a lot of the journaling and write Like cuz my headache really is my way of knowing Okay, this is happening, so I need to pay attention. And When you're ascending up for something, so say, like You know, i'm ready to hold boundaries on people, on my time Especially. You're gonna find a lot of challenges to those boundaries, like, are you sure, are you sure you're ready, are you sure you're good with this? and the universe kind of keeps giving you tests until You really can be, you know, kind of in that balanced Place with anything. But I do like to go back and read my journal, just like Jake said, and see how did I change, how have I grown? How have I gotten better at handling ascension? And yeah, it really is about finding your space, your place to just take that breath, Um, that place to be. You know, whatever it is that makes you feel connected.

Speaker 1 23:10

Yeah, and I think one of the things also is that safety comes in, and when you feel safe within yourself, you will be able to kind of manage a big shift, a big change, you know, and you can also recover from a big change when you're definitely going through Any type of this if you have a safe space. So when you feel safe within yourself, you'll definitely be able to kind of navigate that, that energy.

Speaker 3 23:36

So this is the book that Maggie pulled out from the board mastery of actually the mastery of love one. Okay, you managed to get it out of the, the little book finding.

Speaker 1 23:45

We'll make sure to link the mastery of love in this recommendation. All right, perfect, all right, everyone. Um, i hope you have a great day and thank you so much and bye, bye.

Speaker 2 23:59

Look at Sunday.