[The following is a channelled communication from Maitreya, spokesperson for The Ascended Masters, in spirit.  These higher spiritual beings offer guidance to those who are ready to hear these messages]

Maitreya: You think you are alone on your journey on this Earth plane.  Yet you are surrounded by hundreds of souls who help you along that journey and who care so very much about you.  You call out in the despair you have set yourself, "Why do you do this to me?"  Yet you do not realize, you do it to yourself!

All of your suffering is chosen.  Yes, to many this may seem terrible.  "How can we choose such terrible experiences?" I can hear you state.  You do not realize that it is but an illusion; it is an experience only, it is not real.  It SEEMS real, and everything on the Earth plane makes it look real, but only when one has raised the vibration and moved away from the Earth existence, can one see through the illusion.  It is your emotional body: your fear, your doubt, insecurity, and other emotions, which keep you in the illusion.  You think what you really have is reality, but in effect it is all illusion and only when you come home to us, can you see through that.

Do you think we enjoy watching you suffer?  Do you think we enjoy watching your pain and your life experienced?  No we do not; we feel all that you do and more!  We have deep compassion for all who experience pain and suffering, and do all we can to assist in giving healing and spiritual support to those who need it.  Each one of you has many souls on our side of the veil who help you in your times of need and pain and suffering.

However, we cannot interfere with your destiny, the path you have chosen, yes, which YOU have chosen.  Nobody else can be blamed for your life experiences; all was chosen before birth.

Once you accept and understand this, then life itself becomes easier, the struggle being not so hard, and there is an understanding of life and destiny.  One cannot at this stage see through the illusion, but one has an understanding of it to enable one to move forward to see through it.

Do not blame anyone else for your problems in life, do not blame the energy you know as God, so many do.  This energy loves you, knows every soul and their destiny and life path.

Once you can control the emotional body and the mental body, look within, and you will find all the answers are there as to how, why, who, and what.  We have so much love for you; it is you, however, who often do not have the love for us!

So many of you have a hatred for yourself, so many of you do not like who you are.  Why is this?  It is because of many issues.  Past life experiences deep in the subconscious mind are often at the root of these issues.  Until they are removed, you keep attracting the same conditions over and over; it is as if you are running around in a circle whipping yourself.

You say to yourself, "Why do I keep having the same experiences?" "Why do I keep attracting the same kind of people?"  You do this because you live the majority of your life in past life energy, and within this energy lie the emotions of so many past incarnations.

All you have never expressed or released is buried deep within your soul, waiting for the time it can be released when you finally realize you want to let go of it.  Some of it is buried so deep you have no idea it is there.  It is only the energy of what you know as God who can help release that energy and enable you to move forward.  Those experiences are like the layers of an onion, and there are many layers.  Each layer is like a raw wound, which once it is removed, needs Earth time to heal and recover before another layer can be removed.

The layers of unused energy stop the flow of Divine love from the Creator; it is like being on the Earth plane without the sun.  Without the sun there is no light, and without the light there is darkness.  This love is the love that feeds you and assists in releasing the stored up past life energy.

This energy also stops love from being experienced.  Only when one can remove the layers of the onion, can one begin to love oneself truly!  When the light enters the darkness, then slowly, love can be experienced.

Do you realize you are never alone?  From the moment you are born, you have a host of souls in spirit who watch over you and assist you in your daily life.  These souls speak to you through your intuition, but often you do not hear them because you doubt that intuition.  How many times have you heard a voice, or had a feeling about something, and not followed it, but it has turned out to be correct?  I know this will resonate with many of you reading this.  Not only do you have a Guardian Spirit who is with you from birth, but you also have many other souls who also help you in your life.

Many people know these souls as angels, and they are angels, they are very special souls who choose to work with you.  It can be very arduous work for them.  Many times because of your negativity and negative energy, they have to withdraw and have a rest, the Earth plane energy is very hard for them to bear.

You are never alone, NEVER!  If only you would trust your 'feeling and knowing' you would be able to work with them a lot better.  The (Lower) Self though is constantly working to confuse you, it will tell you it is your imagination, or it is not possible such a thing could happen.  Often one can fear one's intuition in case one receives a message about death or illness.  You only have to tell your Guardian you do not want this kind of message and you will not have it again.  Try to listen to the inner voice, do not have fear about it.  Tell your Guardian you wish to have clearer messages and you WILL listen more, and be amazed at what you receive. 

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