Day: January 26, 2022

Opening and Closing Your Third Eye

Hello again, beautiful Starseeds, and welcome back to another blog of Expand with yours truly, Elizabeth April. Today, I am addressing a very peculiar topic called “Aphantasia.” Now, this is apparently a neurological issue and medically backed. I believe that a lot of Starseeds tend to have aphantasia for some reason. Let’s get into what exactly aphantasia is and why I believe it’s directly related to Starseeds.

The definition of Aphantasia is the inability to picture images in your mind. Now, I’m not necessarily saying that you have this, but this is something that affects a lot of old souls and Starseeds. Typically, as an old soul or a Starseed (a cosmic soul who has lived many, many lifetimes), you would assume naturally that we have heightened abilities. I believe that we do. One of those heightened abilities would be the ability to see visuals. 

I believe that I have the opposite of aphantasia, which is a condition called “hyper-phantasia.” That’s an actual thing as well, where someone has extremely vivid mental imagery, almost too much. I also have something that is called “synesthesia,” which is the ability to mix up your senses. In particular, for me, I can visually see sound, which is bizarre. It’s something that I definitely had as a kid, and then I rediscovered and identified much later on in life. Throughout the day when there are sounds, I’m not seeing visuals all the time. It happens when I’m in a really quiet headspace and my eyes are closed like when I’m just about to get to bed or meditating. If a loud sound happens in that situation, it will come through as an explosion of colour and light. Every sound, pitch, and frequency comes through as a different colour and even a different visual representation, and so that’s synesthesia. It’s like being able to smell a colour or feel a letter. I believe that a lot of Starseeds have synesthesia as well. Because we are not encouraged to talk about it and because this isn’t normalized, we usually suppress it. 

I just looked up “aphantasia,” and it is considered a condition. It’s not a disease. It’s considered a condition that was originally coined in the 1800s along with hyper-phantasia, which is the opposite issue when you see too many visuals. I’d be really curious to maybe read some peer-reviewed articles on what is the comparison or the differences between hyper-phantasia and say schizophrenia. Because I know that certain conditions like schizophrenia or psychosis involve visuals and clairaudient abilities. 

Aphantasia is the inability to picture images in your mind. This is not the inability to be psychic, the inability to astral travel, the inability to speak to your spirit guides, or anything like that. It’s the inability to actually picture things in your mind. I’ve had quite a few listeners and followers reach out to me and say over the years that they literally cannot for the life of them imagine or picture anything. For me, it’s a bit tough as a teacher, at least it was in the past because I am so clairvoyant and see those images. I think because that’s what I can do and that’s how I describe my experiences, people who follow my channel just assume that they also should be clairvoyant. Back in the day, I didn’t know that there were different kinds of clairs or clairvoyants. I didn’t know that everyone had their own ability, which we do. We definitely do. Now, I try to teach things from all different perspectives: from an empathic perspective, from a clairaudient perspective, from a clairvoyant, and from a clairsentient perspective. There are a lot of angles to spiritual gifts and abilities. 

Going back to aphantasia, it is a condition where you lack the ability to see imagery in your mind’s eye. An example that I often use in my YouTube videos is to picture a Christmas tree in your mind – a brand new one. This imagined tree is not one from previous years nor a memory from the past. I ask that you picture a brand-new Christmas tree. It can be anything you want it to be. It can be tiny, it can be huge, it can be pink, it can be green, or it can be white. What does it have on it? It’s a Christmas tree. Does it have lights and ornaments, and what colour are the ornaments? Does it have presents underneath it? When you imagine a Christmas tree, what does that look like to you? You may be thinking to yourself, “Yeah, I can’t do that. I can’t just imagine a brand-new image in my mind and see it clearly.” Then you, my friend, might have aphantasia. I want to actually describe why you might have aphantasia, and why I might have the opposite – hyper-phantasia. 

I believe through all of my explorations, my navigating, my research, my sessions, and my past life regressions that we, as Starseeds, as helpers, as healers, as light warriors, and light workers, were very open in many past lifetimes on this planet. We had clairvoyance, clairsentience, empathic abilities, emotional knowing, intuition, and precognition. We had extrasensory abilities. We had frequencies and abilities that went above and beyond the five senses that we have been taught about. Because we have and have had those abilities in the past, we got to our mission from a very early age in past lifetimes. I’ve seen many lifetimes where there is a seven-year-old child in the 13th century giving healing, and this child is known as a prophet. They’re doing healings on animals, on plants, on crops, on humans at a very, very young age. As we know throughout history, the individuals who have tapped in and who have been connected have been persecuted in these past lifetimes. It is through our ability to see beyond that makes us a threat. Because we are recognized as a threat, we were persecuted, we were jailed, and we were killed. That is what has happened. 

If you have a hard time visualizing, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you have a block or that you’re the issue. Most likely what it means is that you have been traumatized in past lifetimes, and that’s leading you to continual trauma in this lifetime. You may be retraumatizing yourself with these thoughts: to blame yourself, to think that you don’t have these abilities, to convince yourself that you’re not good enough, to think that you can’t tap in, which is not the truth. That’s actually a lie. You can tap in, you are good enough, you are psychic, all of you are psychic, all of you are clairvoyant, all of you can see that the reason why you may have aphantasia is that you are choosing to blind yourself. You are choosing that for a reason, and honestly, I don’t blame you for choosing that either. It’s hard being here, and even more difficult when we’re different and when we don’t fit in.

The only reason why we don’t fit in is because we want to give back. Because we want to help the collective. In a society, in a system, no matter what country you are in, that is seen as a threat. It’s a threat to the top 1% who want to control, who want to depopulate, who want to confine, and who want to suppress. You, my friend, have been a threat before. That is why in this lifetime, you play it safe. You purposefully shut off your abilities. You quiet yourself. You quiet your skills because you are scared. All you want is a nice life without ruffling feathers. You want to just be here to watch the ascension unfold, to grab your bag of popcorn, and just to watch the show in peace. Once again, I don’t blame you, my Starseed, for doing that. However, I’ll tell you right now, that you’re not helping the world or yourself by making a choice out of safety. That’s really the only other option that is presented to us in this crazy, fucked up world. It’s fight or flight or it’s safety, and the safety is running away from the fight or the flight. None of those options are good. None of those options help you speak your truth and stand in your power.

I want to let you know that just by understanding this condition, aphantasia, and the circumstances surrounding it, you may find some clarity. You have had many lifetimes where you have been tuned in and where you have been awake. Most likely, those lifetimes brought you lots of trauma, lots of pain, lots of doubt and uncertainty for yourself and your loved ones, so you chose not to go back there. I want to remind you that this lifetime is different. That you will not be persecuted, and that’s not to say that you won’t be tested. Because trust me, you will be. We are still living in a 3D polarizing world but not for long. The more that you remind your body, your human, but also your soul that you are safe to be free, that you are safe to speak up, that you are safe to expand, the easier it’s going to be for you. It will be easier to ascend to a new vibrational level and unlock that trauma that you’ve had in that third eye.

This statement and this understanding will have profound effects on how open or closed you are. It will allow you to let go and unleash everything that you have been holding back. This is your calling Starseed. This is your moment. With this knowledge, it’s time to choose. Don’t choose safety or conformity. Choose being your unique self. Choose expressing yourself over keeping yourself hidden. Choose empowerment over disempowerment. Choose your soul and your human in the highest vibration. Whenever you are ready to unlock this block, this condition, you can. You’re not locked into anything in life. All you have to do is say, I am safe to expand and that’s it. It’s really as easy as that. I am safe to expand. When you do, when you start expanding, it is going to be incredible. 

Now, if you start expanding or unlocking too rapidly, and your third eye is blown open, you may feel overwhelmed. You may be like, “Whoa, whoa, whoa, I didn’t sign up for this. This is too much. Sorry, EA, I can’t go down this road.” If you’re feeling too overwhelmed, do not worry. All you have to do is close your third eye by making this statement, “I choose to close off my abilities for the highest good of all involved in this moment.” Doing so is not out of fear, it’s not out of past trauma, and it’s not a projection or attachment. It’s just based on your comfortability and intuitive levels at that moment. So never feel bad for wanting to close them off momentarily, and never think that just because you say “no” in one moment means you are saying “no” indefinitely. That’s really important as well.

I’m going to leave you with that. I hope that you do a little bit of research on aphantasia or hyperphantasia. I believe that I am on the hyper side of the phantasia because I have dealt with a lot of the trauma from a lot of past lives for quite some time. I am to the point where I feel comfortable opening and accessing my abilities without hesitation, but I’ve also practiced for pretty much my entire life. I have practiced how to shut off my abilities and how to feel comfortable in my skill of opening and closing my third eye. That’s allowed me to feel as comfortable as I am today with what I can do.

Check out more about aphantasia, and just know that you’re not locked in for life to this condition. You are just experiencing a momentary delay. Understand that you are the only one holding yourself back from these abilities because of safety. Understand that you are safe in this lifetime to open up and expand. The dark side will not come after you, try to kill you or suppress you because they don’t have enough resources. It doesn’t mean that psychic attacks and other things don’t happen. It just means that we are 10 times more safe in this life than we’ve ever been before on this planet. 

As always, thank you so much for being here, Starseed. Keep up the good work. I am sending all of you so much love. Thank you to everyone from all over the world. Anyway, have a great week. Have an even better day, and I will see all of you in the fifth-dimension frequency.

The Downside of Generational Parenting

Today, I want to write about my observations with generational parenting. Yeah, this is a big one. No matter what generation you are in, you are really going to resonate with this content. There is definitely an observation that I have witnessed a lot in the past couple of months. This year is really showing and exposing the truth in plain sight, right in front of our eyes. We can choose to look at it, listen, and change, or we can choose to look away and continue our lives. Either way, I am glad that you are here and reading this blog.

I want to address the topic of parents these days then move onto the older generations. It’s all basically the same theme. This is what I’ve witnessed, not necessarily in my own life or maybe partly in my own life, but mostly in the outside world. Now when I was taking clients, I really enjoyed that part of my life. I did it for quite some time, probably eight years. Then, I got to the point where it was really exhausting for me to do what I was doing. However, I learned so much from it. 

I had clients whose ages ranged from 16 years old all the way to the oldest client who was 92 years old. I think actually the youngest client that I ever had was around 10 years old, obviously someone’s child. So I had clients from 10 years old to 92 years old. That’s pretty awesome. I gained perspectives on the topic of parenting from the side of the child and from the side of the parent many different times, from different ages, and from different generations. I received both sides of the story. What I found was the biggest trauma and pain, the biggest issue in many of these clients’ lives was always family issues. I have my own family issues. Luckily for me, my family has been very low maintenance as far as drama and issues. I’ve been really, really lucky to be in the position that I’m in. Thanks, mom, for being so low key and being such an amazing parent. I really do love and appreciate you. 

Here’s what I’ve observed. Let’s address the millennial generations and then the baby boomer generation. Take it or leave it as always. I’ve observed that a large portion of the baby boomer generation really struggled because they’re post-World War II babies. A lot of them had immigrant parents. Not all of them, but a lot of them had recent immigrant backgrounds. Some of them really grew up struggling in a variety of ways and for a variety of reasons. 

A lot of baby boomers struggled specifically with the way that their parents parented them and also what they didn’t have access to as a child. Typically, there was a lot of poverty, a lot of struggling, but it was also a kind of post industrialization time. There were also a lot of parents not at home, working a lot, and many mothers entering the workplace full-time as well. It was just a changing dynamic. 

Now, the biggest thing that I’ve observed in the baby boomer generation as parents is that many boomers felt like they didn’t have access. A large portion of boomers felt like they grew up with emotional lack, financial struggles, or lived as lower middle class families. They felt like they didn’t get the childhood they wanted. What I’ve observed is that the baby boomers feel obligated and in a sense, pressured into giving their millennial children everything and anything that their children wanted, desired, and needed. Because of the boom in the economy, because of other ways of making money, and the strength in the financial market, they were able to provide these material things to their kids.

Think about the Walmartization of the globe. The fact that Walmart has this price model that drives down all the prices of everything because everything they sell is mass produced. All of a sudden, these baby boomers were able to give their kids everything. There’s a fun little nickname that the millennial children have, which is “Generation Expectation.” There’s also some funny jokes about millennials. One  of the ways that millennials are poked fun at is about the participation ribbon. The idea and sentiment behind it is this: “Oh, good for you, honey. You participated. So you get a ribbon. You get a reward for participating.” It is about raising children with this kind of over coddling, over optimistic, over giving sort of parenting. Once again, I believe this is because the baby boomers parents lacked A) genuine nurturing and B) any sort of support as children because many families were just focused on surviving and making a living. They bought into the idea of material wealth as a way of saying, “I can now give you not only my love, attention, affection, and pride, but I can give you material things as well.” This created an overcompensation of overgiving. That is what I have observed. Unfortunately, this has created a generation of kids who are prone to be spoiled and living at home until they’re 26, 28, 30. Once again, no judgment and to each their own. It’s just an interesting dynamic to observe. 

What I’ve noticed about the current millennial generation is that they feel like they didn’t grow up with technology as young children. I’m a millennial. I don’t know where I sit on the millennial scale. Actually, I think millennials ended in 1990. I think it goes from 1980 to 1994. I was born in 1992. I was 14 when I got my first cell phone, and it was a crappy flip phone where you T9 text. From my observations, I think that a lot of millennials did not grow up with early access to technology. In response to this, millennial parents are exposing their kids to technology right away. It is crazy when you see a four-year-old playing with an iPad better than you can. It really blows my mind when you see six-year-olds coding. There are all these crazy kids games and different things where you can teach your kid how to code or create a website at a young age. It’s mind blowing, which is really cool but scary. Now, an iPad or a cell phone can replace the babysitter. Now, parents can just turn on some cartoons and wait in the line, grocery shop, and entertain their kids at the same time. It’s wrong in so many ways. I know that I’m not a parent yet, and I know that my perspective might change when I see how convenient it is. For me, limiting screen time is going to be a very important thing, which is 100% hypocritical because I’m probably in front of the screen way more than I should be. I honestly think we all are in front of the screen way more than we should be. 

Now, the millennial generation is having kids and oversaturating their children at young ages with technology. Four or five years ago, I was so worried. I was so triggered, so disgusted, and so worried about these poor kids. I’m thinking to myself that these kids are not going to have any sort of social life. They’re not going to understand proper communication. Their eyes are going to be messed up. Their neurological patterns are going to be messed up. They’re going to externalize their reality through a screen, and I’m really scared. These are the future presidents, and leaders, and influencers of the world. 

So I tapped into it one day. I was so stressed out about the future of the generation of humanity that I had to tap into it. It’s funny because I don’t forget that I can channel, but I think my human self gets so worried or focused on something that I forget that I can just tap into it. So I did that. I’m like “Oh, screw this fear, screw this worry. Let me tune into the future of humanity. Let me tune into the future of this generation.” And I did. And guess what I saw? I saw that the children of the millennials are going to grow up solidly with technology, but at a certain point in time at around 18, 19, 20 years old, they are going to be sick of it. They are going to be absolutely done with it, and we are going to start to notice a trend that all of them want authentic, real, organic, in-person experiences. 

Now, I channeled that long before COVID, long before this pandemic. Now that I see kids wearing masks and doing online school, I’m all about homeschooling. I am concerned about the lack of socialization. They would rather hop on a video game and talk to their buddy down the street rather than get out and kick a ball around. You know what I mean? The parents are enabling this behavior unfortunately because it seems easier, it’s less dangerous, creates less worry, and it’s more “safe.” Basically, what I saw is that all of these kids of millennials, called Alpha Generation or Generation Alpha, are all going to want to ditch technology or allow technology to assist in having real, organic, in-person, live experiences. This made so much sense because when you have something pushed on you so intensely, all you want to do is swing the other way.

This is what we’ve seen generation after generation after generation. If hard work is pushed on you over and over again, all you want to do is slack. If slack is pushed on you over and over again, all you want to do is work hard. There’s going to be a natural swing. Look at most of the millennial generation who was really given everything material. We are now starting this movement of being entrepreneurs of all wanting to work for ourselves. It’s changing the workplace as we know it. It’s a very exciting time for the workplace and for future careers. So it’s fascinating; it’s so interesting.

I want to just swing around to another concept. There’s no judgment here because no matter what age and no matter what generation you’re in, there’s going to be this pushback from your children. It’s weird, but I had a flash forward the other day about being with my kids and them getting frustrated at me for not understanding where they’re coming from. This really blew my mind in the future because I thought I was a very compassionate, very emotionally intelligent, very tuned in, and very understanding parent, and they were still blaming me. I laugh because no matter where you’re at in your life, there’s going to be this push-pull with your kids. It is what I’ve seen generation after generation. The children say, “It’s not enough. You’re not giving me what I need. It’s not enough.” The parents say,” I’m giving you more than I’ve ever had. I’m giving you what I lacked as a kid.” I am noticing that this kind of parenting is coming from a place of lack. I didn’t have this, so I’m giving you more of this. Then the child who grows up to be a parent is like I had too much of this, so I’m giving my child less of this and more of this other thing. It continues to spiral over and over again with the extremes of what you had too much of and what you didn’t have enough of. 

As I’ve said in prior readings, the parent is often in this position of “Elizabeth, I just don’t know what’s wrong with her. I’m giving her everything that I can possibly think of. I’m doing all the things that I can think of doing.” Well, what about just listening? What about just asking what she needs? What about just being open rather than parenting from a place where you think you should be parenting or giving what you think that you should be giving based on what you didn’t have? It is true that the generations are changing very rapidly. Human beings are evolving so rapidly, spiritually, technologically, consciously that it’s hard to keep up with what our children need at that moment. We have to be in a place where we are not attached or jaded, just really listen to what they need, and tune into that. It’s so, so important.

The children may feel, “Well, it’s not enough.” The parents are struggling and feel like “Well, I’m giving everything.” If you’re a parent, obviously you’re also a child, and you’re a kid of someone. The biggest advice that I could give you is to understand that your parents only have so much that they can give you. I’m sure that you’ve already thought about this, but maybe you need to think about it again. Understand that they are limited by their own parents and background. They only have so many tools to give you. You chose to be with them as their child to learn through the experience of what they couldn’t give and the surplus of what they gave you. The best advice that I could give to you is to understand where your parents are coming from and forgive their lack and limitations because they really just don’t know what you need. They really don’t know. They don’t have enough tools. Some of them admit that, and some of them definitely do not admit that. For those of you who are potentially moving into parenthood or are a parent right now, remember to always just listen and have balance in your parenting abilities. Don’t overgive, undergive, or assume that you know what your child needs.

Definitely, limit, monitor, and understand screen time. Allow your children to connect with nature, bring them up in a world where energy, consciousness, and dreams are real. It’s real. Don’t shy away from contentious topics or topics that could be frightening like light versus dark energy. It’s important that we understand that children, especially today are not just kids. If anything, it’s most likely that your children are older than you, are wiser than you are, and more attuned. If we’re downplaying their gifts, their connections, their knowledge, and their abilities,it’s going to be to your detriment. If we’re condescending towards them or not really listening, it is going to be potentially harmful to them and to the future of humanity. Seriously, there have been a lot of traumas throughout many of the generations. I want to remind you that your job as a parent isn’t to make your kids happy all the time. It’s to help your child be more human. That means experiencing all aspects of this polarized reality. 

With that, beautiful Starseeds, thank you as always for being part of my community. Keep up the good work. Be sure to stay tuned with my blogs, listen to the podcasts, subscribe to my YouTube channel, and check out my Instagram feed. And of course, share with your people, your friends, your community, other parents who need to read this, and other children who need to be supported and heard. I will see all of you in the fifth-dimension frequency.