SHAUMBRA HEARTBEAT

Getting
Unstuck

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Energy is always in service. It’s also very literal, and sometimes it communicates with such direct simplicity that there’s just nothing left to argue with. 

Right in the middle of the recent February Shoud, we were graced with an epic snowstorm. In just a few hours, the weather changed from a rainy drizzle to a white landscape eight inches deep in heavy, wet snow. The CC staff members visiting from Mexico were delighted! But after the pizza party, our local friends were ready to start heading out. The roads would be a mess, and their journey home would be much longer than usual. So, it was time to find shovels, brooms, gloves, and anything else that would help move snow so cars could get out of the unplowed parking lot. 

A few of us went out to start digging, first simply clearing pathways so people could get to their cars. One of the experienced drivers made a few laps around the lot to pack down tracks in the snow, then offered to get behind the wheel and coax each car out of its parking space. The rest of us were flinging snow left and right, excavating one car after another, and grinning in spite of our dripping hair and soggy shoes. It was an energized team effort that went on for over an hour as, one by one, Shaumbra got their cars underway and ventured home. But there was one experience that topped them all. 

The snow was so deep that some of the cars got high centered and stuck trying to drive out, and then we’d have to dig them out again. One of these was a cute little Volkswagen Bug. Its owner was ready to leave, so we got busy digging. When it seemed there was enough clearance, we went to drive it out, but it immediately got stuck in the slippery wet slush. Back to the shovels. Then another attempt to get it out, this time with several people pushing, followed by another slide into the snowbank. The parking lot is tilted slightly and after several repeats of the shovel-push-slide-shovel sequence, someone noted, “Dammit, we’re fighting gravity!” 

Adamus’ message about aerotheon and “expansional gravity” was fresh in my mind, and I yelled, “Come on Adamus, give it a rest!” But every single time we dug out the Bug and tried to drive it away, it just slid sideways deeper into the snow. Finally, it was jammed into a snow pile perpendicular to its parking spot, and still refusing to get unstuck. All of us were starting to wonder “What the heck is wrong with this thing??” 

Then an observant shoveler noticed that the back wheels didn’t appear to be turning. “Of course they’re not,” someone else pointed out, “it’s front wheel drive.” 

“Yeah, but they’re still supposed to roll!”

Realization finally dawned and someone checked the e-brake. All this time it had been set! No matter how much snow we cleared or how hard we pushed and pulled the car itself, we would never succeed until the brake was released.

We cleared away the snow one more time and finally – bye-bye Bug. The peals of laughter from every weary shoveler must have echoed for blocks around. Having just been told by Adamus to stop compromising, stop holding on, and just GO, we couldn’t have asked for a better demonstration of exactly what he meant!

Even the “heavy” aspect of gravity can be overcome, or at least compensated for, by things like a strong engine and good tires. But if my own inner brake is set, there’s no amount of helpful angels or life changing wisdom that can help me get out of my self-made stuckness. 

  • shoud snow storm: people in the parking lot clearing snow
  • shoud snow storm: people in the parking lot
  • shoud snow storm: snow falling on parked cars at night
  • shoud snow storm: tire tracks leading away from the studio

    • A lot of Shaumbra, including several at that very Shoud, have expressed intense frustration that nothing is really changing. No matter how much they want it, how determined they are to allow, and how tired they are of the games, they still feel stuck. Adamus felt that frustration and said,

    “Let’s blow through the old gravity, limitations, trepidations. Let’s get out of the mind and just do it. And if enough Shaumbra gather for this, have a desire for it, it will happen.”

    Well, there were plenty of people who wanted that car unstuck, and we made a little progress with every monumental effort. But in the end, it wasn’t the snow or the gravity or mass consciousness or anything else external that was the problem. It was the inner brake that had to be released before anything could really change. 

    Adamus went on to say,

    “Some of you are experiencing some barriers, things that are holding you back, and wondering if these are just fears of yours or if maybe you’re not ready. It’s the old gravity, of course, and it’s the human mind wondering. But we’re just going to leap over that. We’re just going to go beyond it. … The old focus would say that you need to do something, you need to work at it, you need to effort it. But that just makes for more old gravity.”

    Getting that car unstuck from the snowbank was a grand fight with gravity. The only thing we didn’t try was lifting it off the ground over the snow, which of course would only make the gravity issue more… pressing. But in the end, it wasn’t about working and trying harder. It was about releasing the e-brake. And what is that exactly?

    The emergency brake on a car is there to keep it safely in place where you left it, so it doesn’t roll down the hill or bump into something. The energy brake in a human pretty much serves the same purpose – to keep us safe – and we’ve set a lot of these internal e-brakes throughout our lifetimes on Earth. Originally, they were necessary to keep us from floating off into the other realms. Embodying into matter was like parking on a very steep hill; the natural tendency was NOT to stay put! And over time, we learned to set these brakes for lots of other reasons too. 

    Tormented for expressing ourselves? Set the e-brake to keep quiet. 

    Mocked for being weird? Set the e-brake to keep our head down and fit in.

    Heart betrayed and broken? Set the e-brake to keep intimacy at arm’s length.

    And so on.

    It has become an automatic reflex for me to set the e-brake when I park my car, even when it’s not really necessary. In the same way, our internal e-brakes become default responses that we don’t even notice anymore. But, when we’re surrounded by angels, everything is “go,” and we’re still not going, that’s a good time to check the internal settings.

    For me, I notice the presence of an inner e-brake by the feeling of constriction and restriction that comes up. It can be tied to an embarrassing memory or a bit of extravagance for myself or being noticed by others, displeasing a loved one – pretty much anything. A Master encounters those moments with clarity and neutrality and releases them. But in the human there may still be some resistance. When something triggers an inner e-brake, you can feel it! Some of the wheels aren’t turning; somewhere the energy isn’t flowing, and something inside is just clenching, even if all other systems are GO! 

    Now, this is certainly not to point out yet another thing you might be getting wrong. (I mean, the whole “getting it right” thing is just the e-brake set to “Don’t get it wrong!”) Our energy brakes have served us well, but when we’re finally ready to go beyond, we don’t need them anymore. And the process of discovering and releasing them is quite helpful, as long as we remember it’s not to “fix” things but simply make new choices. 

    So, if you’re doing everything you know to do – allowing, breathing, trusting, receiving and every other ‘ing’ we’ve been told – and life still feels stuck, take a look at the e-brakes that might still be set. Feel – and feel and feel – everything that comes up. A feeling isn’t right or wrong, it just is. Your senses are simply providing information. What you do with that information – accept it and change the setting or resist it and ignore the brake – is totally up to you. 

    Something odd happened as I was exploring all this the last few weeks. There are a few moments in my past that still make me cringe when I remember them; humiliations suffered at my own hand (usually in public) that I dearly wish had never happened. It occurred to me that the intense cringe I feel at these memories is akin to that little red light telling me the e-brake is on. So, one day I collected two or three of these memories and decided to take off the brake and let them roll. Recalling them in vivid detail, I decided to perceive them neutrally, as much as possible, without letting myself cringe. It was an interesting experience for a few moments, then I went on to other things. 

    Pondering it later, I noticed that one of the memories had blurred a bit, as if no longer so sharp and pokey. Cool! And that other memory… wait, what was it? The one that made me shrink in horrified disgrace whenever it came up… where did it go? What was it? 

    To this day, I cannot remember. 

    See, I didn’t set out trying to forget these embarrassing moments; that’s what I did by pushing them away for years and years. But now that I no longer slam on the brake at that intersection in my mind, it’s like they’re being gently smudged out of existence. Such is the effectiveness of unlocking the inner brakes and accepting ALL of myself. The energy unpatterns, the old skid marks dissolve, and it’s that much easier to roll on. 

    Author

    • As Crimson Circle’s Content Manager, Jean is fulfilling her life-long dream to shine light in the world. On a spiritual journey since childhood, she found Crimson Circle in 2002, joined the staff in 2008 and never looked back. Her first book is called “Stories from My Last Lifetime”. She can be contacted via email.

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    47 thoughts on “SHAUMBRA HEARTBEAT – GETTING UNSTUCK”

    4. Andre

      Thanks, somtimes the e-brakes comes on automatically, trigged by earlyer experiences. My hope is that as consciousness are rising we will be able to pull the fuse, so to speak, to de-energise this system of automatically response to the things life throw at us. 🙂

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      1. Martha González

        Querida Jean muy acertada tu publicación,el maldito freno es lo que nos a impedido tomar y cambiar desiciones, uno de ellos es el miedo en mi caso, la falta de seguridad en mi misma y la falta de valía personal, han sido unos abismos enormes que no me atrevía nisiquiera a asomarme pero tú y los maestros dejan tanta pero tanta luz que ya los estoy viendo como simples sanjas gracias querida maestra Jean un abrazo 😘💜💜💜💜🌹🌹🌹

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    8. Berta Rodrigues

      Love this Jean!! 😊 Was feeling compassion as I was envisioning Shaumbra at the CC Connection Center doing all that hard work shoveling while Shaumbra watching from home including myself were nice and cozy but another part of me was also wishing I had been there with all of you experiencing that team spirit, “we’ll get through this together.” 😂 And yes the analogy of a car’s emergency brake to our inner brake was great, very helpful- that’s it, releasing that damn inner brake – no holds barred. ❤️❤️

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    9. Tad

      GENIUS Jean Tinder: Your articles always hit me right where I need it — want it — and THIS one hit the bullseye! I’m grateful beyond words. And smiling all the way.

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      1. Carol

        For me, your articles are always the icing on the monthly magazine cake, clear, relatable and always so helpful. This one might just be the best one, for me anyway. Ya knocked it outta the park! Thank you thank you thank❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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    14. Sandra Roggermann

      Oh I love this analogy! You did it again Jean!!!! Making it relatable, breaking it up into simplicity so that the human mind can understand what’s happening.
      I so appreciate you and the new audio format is giving it a whole other dimension.
      Thank you!

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    15. Bogusława

      Bardzo dziękuję Jean 🥰 uwielbiam Twoje artykuły i zawsze rozpoczynam czytanie Magazynu od czytania Twojego artykułu . Pozdrawiam serdecznie 🥰

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    16. Leta Master

      Great analogy! Indeed, the mind has put on the energetic brakes for protection and it also allows them to be removed in the presence of the totality of being. Thank you!

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    21. Ângela Azevedo

      Obrigada por mais este artigo. Adorei a analogia. Tenho sentido que há coisas bloqueadas em mim que não estão identificadas. Este exemplo é muito útil para mim. Então a junção deste artigo com o do Geoff faz milagres. Obrigada Jean e a toda a equipa.

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    27. Wieke

      Thank you, Jean! A masterly perspective on embodied, practical , every day allowing! It’s so very true what you write and I can apply and unapply it immediately! Love, love LOVE your articles!

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    32. Todd

      Thanks Jean, Such a gift of the reminder of stepping back and observe any situation stuck or otherwise from the perspective you shared. I reflected on a fond memory reading your article and as you mentioned “Energy is always in service. It’s also very literal.” Sometimes taking a step back and seeing how profound looking at a situation as an observer can shed much light as you shine your light and perspective on the experience of such a memorable occasion. It brought to me how I can get caught up in the work of shoveling the snow, pushing vehicles, etc… as a matter of practice when what might be called for is a step back, observe without out an agenda and recognize what e-brakes might be engaged. Just because I’m not behind the wheel doesn’t mean the break inside is not engaged even if I’m not currently “inside” the vehicle. This week has had many reminders of how I’ve had hidden or rather unrealized e-brakes which are engaged. It has shown up in conversations with a life long friend where I noticed I had an e-brake on by being attached to maintaining a friendship whose time may have served is purpose and how I was attaching myself to maintaining that friendship. The idea of perceiving from an old, long standing friendship now being see as an e-brake which I had disguised as loyalty, friendship, compassion, and even a sense of comfort was still a brake no matter how “Light” intentioned it was. I could now see it as an engaged e-brake holding me back, protecting me, preventing myself from expansion not wanting to expand beyond. So many ways that e-brake can show up in surprising and unexpected ways once I observe from a different perspective. Thank you for sharing your gifts and shining light. Love it when things come together on so many levels!

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    34. Terry Maloney

      Sooo Excellent, as usual, Jean!!!

      I liked so much your sentence: “There are a few moments in my past that still make me cringe when I remember them; humiliations suffered at my own hand (usually in public) that I dearly wish had never happened.” I read a self help book a long time back that called these things “corks” because they pop up in your mind like a cork does in water.

      Back some 65 years or so ago in my high school years 5 or 6 buddies would cram ourselves into some overly trusting parent’s car and drive around aimlessly, when time would have probably been better spent doing homework. The “conversation” would consist entirely of (please excuse the expression) – “ball busting”
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      We knew each others embarrassing moments so well, that as soon as someone would bust your balls about, maybe some stupid thing you said to a cute girl in the corridor, you’d have a retort for them about the time a love note they wrote then lost, became public knowledge back in the fourth grade. All you could do in that bal breaking environment was join in the laughter and get over the embarrassment the story caused.
      I just met one of those guys, who lives on the other side of Florida, for breakfast, as we try to do at least once a year. This year he had just gotten out of the hospital, but still showed up to laugh heartily about what stupid little bastards we were back then.

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    36. Sunah

      Dear Master Jean
      As always – your articles are such helpful gems and always at the perfect time – Thank you for your wisdom and beauty 🙏❣️💎

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    37. Susana Piohtee

      Thank you Jean. I laughed and laughed and laughed! Been there many times and got quite a few tatty T-shirts with a variety of slogans along the lines of ‘TAKE THE F*****G BRAKE OF IF YOU WANT TO MOVE’. Thank goodness for Shaumbra sharing.

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    40. ANA DA SILVA

      Hola! Por primera vez tengo un carro sincrónico, así que se me ha hecho difícil aquello de los cambios de velocidades, pero no por casualidad el carro en varias ocasiones se ha apagado en las subidas, mientras intento iniciarlo de nuevo coloco el freno de mano pero por miedo a acelerar no lo logro y a cada intento se va hacia atrás, me ha ocurrido varias veces, ahora que leo tú mensaje he compreendido el porque de ésta experiencia repetidas veces, no se trataba de una simple experiencia, había un mensaje en ella; ayer me ocurrió lo mismo con el carro, era de noche, pensé en llamar a mi amigo para que fuera a mi rescate, pero luego una voz en mí me invitó ha salir de esa experiencia por mí misma, respiré y decidí observar un video de que hacer en esos casos y la solución era tan solo acelerar-avanzar, las veces que lo intenté cumplía con todo el procedimiento necesario en esos casos, pero por miedo, no aceleraba con las revoluciones necesarias para avanzar, luego de comprender esto: LO CONSEGUÍ!!!! el freno de mano me ayudó, pero ahora solo tengo que acelerar y avanzar.

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    41. Laura

      Beautiful insight. This reached me so tenderly….like you voice….. gently and gratefully. Thank you dear one.

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