There is Something More, and It is You
Written by Michelle Vidal, President/Founder
Michelle Vidal is the Founder and President of Resonant Essentials Esoteric School of Metaphysics and a leader in consciousness-based education. With over five decades of study, she transforms metaphysical principles into practical tools for clarity, resilience, and real-world decision-making.
Have you thought, even once in your life, “There is something more, I am something more”? If you have, then take heart, the answer is yes, you are something more. What that something is often gets caught up in the spellbound thoughts of our past, rearing its head in a moment when we are ready for that “more” to manifest within our lives.
The stories we inherit
Truly, this is a breakthrough I wish more people would have. Too often, we are happily walking through our lives working from the teachings of our youth. The thoughts that shape our lives are conditioned in us by parents, spiritual leaders, television, and teachers. They accumulate like so much lint and dog hair in the lint trap of our dryer.
“You must work hard for your money, you are nothing without a wife or husband, I’ll give you something to cry about” are just a smidgen of messages we are given. These messages bring us to feel inadequate, misaligned, and wrong about the life choices we make that do not support the teachings we were brainwashed into believing. If we recognize those feelings, who is doing the recognizing? Feelings come and go, but the thoughts that created them often continue beneath our awareness, quietly shaping our choices. Remember, we scurry past the choices that will actually say, “I am who I am,” to return to the more aligned ones we were taught were healthy, responsible, and, above all, aligned with values from a reality we no longer live in.
Living someone else’s script
Fear is the contributing emotion that has us by the throat. Fear comes before all negative emotions, just like love comes before all positive ones. The irony that is consistently brought to my table first by my own dawning realization, and now by my students, is that we create our lives predicated on choices that stem from our emotions. It would be wonderful if we could create from positive emotions, but alas, that is not how the world works. It is from fear. Fear that we will be deemed unacceptable by our societies, our family, friends, coworkers, and neighbors. Have you ever paid attention to where the fear is felt and what triggered it in the first place? What part of you watches the fear? If you can observe fear, then maybe, just maybe, fear is not who we are. Perhaps it is simply passing through our awareness. Learn more about the neuroscience of fear responses.
The observer behind the fear
Just think, all those people in your world are also making choices based on what they were taught to believe. This means that we become aligned with the same type of conscious awareness of “I’m not good enough.” What if, instead, we quit basing choices on our past that we “hope” will jettison us into an abundant, loving, coherent future where we actually love the job that only this morning we hated?
Not to sound repetitive, but what if we came to use our intuition to help us as we become more aware of who we are and how something makes us feel, either positive or negative, before making the decisions that will create the next moment of our lives. This is where we start creating our joy. Yes, we will still have bad moments in our lives, but we will not have a bad life. Just one where the decisions we make help us to remember the joy and fascination of participating with each other on earth.
Could this be the duality of humans? The positive and negative expressions that help us align could be seen reflectively as experiences, neither good nor evil. Because truly, we are not in the garden of good and evil, we are just in our moments of experience that show us where we are misaligned with our possibilities.
Many powerful people have talked about this. Yet, most people who agree with the alignment of our hearts fail to choose to make their lives more positive. Why is it, do you suppose? Personally, I think we have been blessed to experience this time where things transpire, and the world is moving at lightning speed in technology and innovations that will change the way we have lived over the past 2,500 plus years. This, unfortunately, has its drawbacks as well. People think that just knowing a thing to be true means they are operating from those truths. In reality, they haven’t built the necessary foundations into their lives to stand firm in those truths. Ergo, they run around looking for wisdom from spiritual leaders, intuitives, astrologers, and all manner of future-seers they can, in order to find those answers.
Reconnecting with intuition
There are foundational tools we can start utilizing in our lives to strengthen our connection to our intuition. Start each morning with gratitude. We all know gratitude brings us blessings and joy, but we get busy with our to-do list. So, before you leap out of bed, breathe, put your hand on your heart, and be grateful for a day of wonders yet to come. Why is this important? Most of our to-do lists don’t spark joy in our hearts and minds. The to-do list generally sparks dread, and that is the position you will take for the rest of the day, dread.
Spending the day checking in with our intuition starts building the connection. Soon, if we consistently commit to doing this one thing, checking in, we start having our intuition speak back to us, guiding us. This is the first step, the most powerful step of learning to live in the present moment, reminding us that all that we have pushed into our future by using words like “I want” becomes “I have.” Read more about trusting yourself and your intuition.
Awareness changes everything
As an instructor of metaphysics, if I were to give one more step, which I am, it would be the step of awareness of our words. After my son passed away, I dwelt in the abyss of negativity. Grief will do that. It will also bring isolation, by choice, by vibration, and by our words. At first, when people asked how I was doing, I would either cry or say, “not good.” I realized one day I wasn’t getting better, so I changed my dialogue when they asked to “I’m getting better every day.” This rephrase altered my consciousness, and I slowly started the arduous climb back to my destiny. In our awareness of our experience, our words will create what we say. One reason is that that is all we will see in our lives, but also because that is the level we align with vibrationally.
I ask you, is your name, “Cap’n Gonna,” and your last name, “Yeah but”? If it is, then may I remind you. “There is something more, you are something more.”
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Michelle Vidal, President/Founder
Michelle Vidal is a leader in metaphysical education and applied intuitive training, with over five decades of experience translating higher principles into practical, real-world tools. She is the Founder of Resonant Essentials Esoteric School of Metaphysics and author of Mastering Metaphysics, guiding individuals to clarity, resilience, and conscious decision-making.
