The process of becoming a human is no simple thing. Before taking on human form, you were hanging out in another dimension (or multiple as we always are) and you needed to transition somehow from your non-physical Soul / Higher-Self beingness into physical human form down here on earth.
It’s a tricky transition that involves multiple steps, and because everybody needs more sports metaphors, let’s compare the process of becoming human to going to the ice rink to play a game of ice hockey.
Before I start, my apologies to all of you who live in places where nobody plays ice hockey, which is most of the planet that is not the cold, frozen part where I live. You can substitute basketball, football/soccer or water polo instead.
Now when you go to play ice hockey, you have to leave early for the rink along with your big bag of hockey equipment that you load into your car (or bicycle) along with your stick. You drive to the rink and walk inside with your gear to the dressing room where you say hello to all your teammates and start getting dressed for the game.
As you’re getting ready, you chat with everyone in the dressing room about the game you’re about to play and what to expect from the other team; what worked well in the last game, what you might try different in this game. You might have a coach, or multiple coaches who discuss deeper strategy and maybe draw up plays on a white board while you are taping your stick.
You tie up your skates and fasten all your equipment – pants, shoulder pads, elbow pads, shin guards – before putting on the jersey and helmet and stepping out onto the ice for warm-ups. Everyone skates around a bit, stretches, takes a few shots at the goalie, and passes the puck around before the referee blows the whistle for the game to begin.
Once the puck is dropped you get your game face on and become totally focused on every play, every outcome. You scream from the bench, you swear at other players on the ice, you get penalties, yell at the ref. You are joyful when you score a goal and pissed off when the other team gets one. The entire rest of your life – your family, home, job, hopes, dreams and fears – are all forgotten for an hour or so while you sweat and swear and grind it out on the ice trying to put a small rubber puck in the other team’s net.
But after the game, you shake hands with the other players then head back into the dressing room and start taking off your gear. Maybe you have a beer or two and talk about the game a bit before you shower, get dressed, then head out to the car with your stinky bag of equipment and drive home.
All of which is a metaphor for your own human lifetime that follows a bit of the same pattern.
Prior to popping into the human form where you find yourself today, you had every intention of making it happen. None of this was a mistake or the result of random circumstances. You assembled everything you needed in your hockey bag and drove yourself to the rink.
The rink was some type of pre-boarding location in the Astral Plane, the neighboring dimension surrounding this physical world we call “reality”. Many describe a large variety of pathways into earth-human physicality depending on your higher-dimensional expressions of the Soul and/or Higher Self, and you no doubt took one of the possible routes into this place or you wouldn’t be here.
But there was some pre-planning involved, taking some time in the dressing room getting your gear on, discussing the game you were about to play. Your other teammates in the dressing room may have been people who surround you in life now, your friends and family who you chose to incarnate with in order to share life experience and challenges. Discussions about life strategy, themes, obstacles, potential outcomes and the different roles (or positions) each of you were going to play were lengthy and detailed.
“Ok, so I’ll be the daughter, you be the Mom, you’re my brother and you can be the neighbor next door.”
“No, I want to be your schoolteacher.”
“Ok, let’s give it a try.”
The coaches in the human-life dressing room, also known as Spirit Guides, helped you set some personal goals as well as overall the team goals. What skills or facet of the game will you focus on improving this time around? What is the overall life mission?
When all the plans are in place and everyone knows their roles, it’s time to put on the uniform and assume a human identity.
When you begin skating around on the ice of human reality, it takes a while to warm up. We’re not super functional as infant and small humans; it takes us a while just to focus in on this reality and learn some basic motor skills and mental acuity before we can really start playing.
But when the game starts, and your life starts moving along, you forget everything else that came before outside of your present human lifetime, and you become completely absorbed in the action. You fight, slash, hack, do whatever it takes to score goals and win the game. You left your phone in your locker, so you’re not checking messages or being concerned with anything else in your life right now. All you are doing is playing the game the best you can.
And despite the challenges of the game, the intensity of the competition and the injuries that can occur, it is exactly as you knew it would be before you arrived. You agreed to all the rules in advance, in fact it’s the structure of the sport that makes it so appealing.
If everyone had to decide on the rules of the game every time before playing a certain sport, it would kind of suck. The familiarity of the game is the attraction, knowing the rules and the strategies for being successful, not knowing the outcome. Being able to practice in advance then test your abilities in a familiar competition with others is what makes it exciting, stretching your limits and working hard to create a desired result.
The game of human life has many rules, many variables, many possible experiences and outcomes. And we may even have a different value of success when viewing life events from our Higher Self/Soul level than we have down here in limited human form. What appears to us as failure may be a valuable life experience your Higher Self wanted to have, despite its distaste on the human level.
The human notion of “awakening” and “liberation” from this realm becomes a bit silly when you realize you planned to be here. When you plan a vacation do you think about leaving as soon as you arrive? What is there to be liberated from when you chose to be here in the first place? You can always leave the ice, go back to the dressing room, take off your gear and drive home. On some level, no one is forcing you to be here. But it doesn’t feel that way once we are in the middle of the action.
“Awakening” is just a metaphor for playing the game better, being more successful and happier while you do it. Once the game is over, you will go back to the dressing room, have a few beers with your friends, shower and drive home with your sweaty gear in the car. This experience is temporary, and you have a more expanded and awakened life outside the confines of this limited human experience sweating, spitting and swearing while playing the game on the ice.
When you have gotten everything you can from playing the sport of human life, you can leave and play other sports in other realities. The choices are unlimited. The Universe is one great sports complex and workout facility with unlimited options for training and competition.
And there’s also many other sports you can play here on earth as a human. Hockey, to follow the metaphor, is just one of them. So come back and play as often and much as you like, you have nothing else to do. There is nowhere more important for you to be out there in the Universe, no other appointment elsewhere that you have to get to.
Maybe you stay until you get good enough to finally win the Cup, or until you’ve fulfilled your own goals whatever they are. Maybe you just get tired of playing the same game and eventually want to go do something else. It’s good to keep everything fresh.
But right now, it’s OK to be content exactly where you are doing exactly what it is you are doing. You don’t need to be anywhere else. You’re playing the sport of Earth human so just sweat, spit, yell, bleed and swear all you want. It’s what make it fun.
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