To work in a traditional job or to stay home and develop

AJ Adams asks for guidance with these words: I am at professional crossroads in life. I have gone back to college and obtained a degree, and while it is a very marketable, well-respected degree, I have little desire to work a traditional 9-5 job. While I am far from lazy, I feel no strong pull to engage in any work right now. I'd love to spend some years taking care of my family and developing myself. Problem is, our current financial situation demands I work.

I believe I am an old soul. It wouldn't surprise me to know my end calling (work) is in the line of helping people through metaphysical means (education, maybe even healing), but currently I am at a loss as to what to do. I have a business idea I could pursue (not sure how much time this would take me away from my family or if it would even be profitable), I could go to work in a traditional setting (feel suffocated), or I could stay home (I'd be happy, but this would handicap my family financially). Do you have any guidance? Thank you so much for your time and thoughts.

Blessed one. You are afraid. You are afraid to fail. You are afraid to radiate. You are afraid to be totally in all ways. You have created blocks and hurdles in every way. In some ways you fear success, yet you speak the words of what you want. It is true you are overwhelmed right now and very tired. And it would not be a bad thing to take some time--to heal, to be with yourself, to understand some of your actions and your great pursuit to attain certain things, and why when you achieve it you are somewhat afraid of it, you find that it isn’t quite enough.

Oh blessed one, just be still. See all that is with you. Understand that you could do any work to bring in money to help your family, if that what makes you happy. But you are, right now, so overwhelmed by many things, and so many experts, and so much information and people demanding—that you are afraid to let them all down. You are afraid to even speak your true heart.

This creates a state of discord within yourself, so and you won’t be able to make a clear decision on what you need to do. So why not choose some small, unimportant job. Don’t put all the emphasis on it at this time. If you need to feed your family, that is important to you. Do that. But I fear you are just choosing one burden for another. And so I make no choices for you, for this is a time when you need to just be still. Hear that that is growing within you of what you need to do. Know that there are many that will help you. Many.

Thank you. I’ll pass this information on.

Feeling the weight of the world on one's shoulders

This question is from Blaine. He writes that he is having difficulty with an energy that has attached itself to his upper back. He says he’s meditated to try to move it but he doesn’t understand its purpose. He says he wants to let it go but doesn’t know how to do this.

Blessed being, what a wonderful, wise being you are. You know you feel the weight of the world on your shoulders. And it is truth. Many times you have absorbed the energies of others and tried to do the work for them. You have truly taken on much more than you needed to. To release this you must…well not backtrack, but have an understanding of what you have chosen, and now choose for yourself.

It is a state of truly manifesting in the physical form that that your conscious mind felt it needed to do. But it doesn’t need to carry this energy. Your body needs to stand strong and tall, filled with joy for its own path. For you have given so much. The energy very often pouring through your body towards others is immense. And you enjoy this. But instead of leaving some of that energy to heal yourself, you drain yourself—thus very open and feeling the sensitivities in the overbearing weight of other people’s responsibilities.

Take a deep breath blessed one, and release all of that that is not yours. You do not need to carry the growth of others. In fact you cannot grow for them. You can only make choices for your own being. You are only responsible for your own growth. Oh this doesn’t mean you cannot extend a wonderful hand for those that are in the darkness. But only if that hand is full of strength, and right now you have given so much there is very little left for you. Take time to heal your being my dearest one. Take time to think in the clarity of who you are, how you have become who you are. Understand the attitudes you have. Understand the different concepts of things. It is a time of great awakening. That is why you feel this so heavy on you. Your body speaks to you that the weight must be put down. Listen to that voice.

It doesn’t mean you cannot listen to other voices or advisors that might try to help. Allow touch--it’s very important for you. Allow others their growth—allow them to give to you. Do you understand that you must hear your own voice right now? There are tears, there are fears—all of which you mustn’t be afraid of. Seeing them, understanding that they are part of you, and that you, a being of great love, stronger than all of this, are able to feel it. Breathe deep my child of light, and know that you are loved.

Thank you.