The Devoted Path

Healing Through Connection and Care

In this message, Chrysta explores the spiritual connection between humans, animals, and the earth, emphasizing the healing power of interconnectedness. She discusses how tending to others and embracing devotion can lead to personal and collective healing, urging us to move beyond outdated models of giving and receiving. The message culminates in a reflection on what it means to be truly alive and how to manifest that aliveness through connection and care.

Transcript

Hey, everyone. Something’s cooking. So we’re gonna see what comes through today.

We wish to speak about the spiritual connection to the earth, by the earth we include not just the physical ground, that is, the planet, the ocean, but earth’s creatures, the healings we provide for each other. So we see that in this dimension all life forms are interconnected in some capacity. This is not only in all the physical ways, but in all the healing and spiritual ways as well. We are here the vast majority of the time to take care of each other, heal each other.

We witness this across species, and across appearance of species. You’ll see with dogs, everything that’s a dog doesn’t look the same. You wouldn’t identify those at the same animal if you knew nothing, yet they know how to connect each other. They’re not made blind by the appearance of the other dog, but rather understand each other. Many people are fascinated with connections to animals across species, that we understand mothering. A mother horse will take care of a child, understand mothering across a species. We’re often more connected by role than we are by species.

Certain humans are healed to be healers, as are certain animals. Many people experience the radiance that can come when you really let a favorite dog, they’re showing, or cat into your heart, it has great healing potential. --I was trying to add cat in there, they’re saying, --cats can physically heal the human form as well. There’s a vibrational healing capacity. So it goes beyond the heart connection, they can calm the heart, drain people of particular diseases. That’s the nature, it’s the nature of the cat, that’s not to say it is all cats, but most seem to understand this call, this purpose on the greater planet.

We’re speaking of domesticated animals at this point, they worked side by side, been harnessed with humans for so many years, there’s a deep interconnectedness between the species. They need each other, we understand the more we live the natural rhythms of existence, the more we understand the healing capacity animals and humans have on each other, also this healing we receive when we tend to and take care of others.

The old lineage, the old lineage of healer and those that are receiving the healing is an antiquated model. --I’m saying, was it ever really true?-- They’re saying, this is complicated, what’s important to understand now is we’re healing as collectives in pods of people, when one steps forward to lead, as this one. They’re saying, you’re correct to say it is occurring within a circle. The healing is happening to all involved. It looks a swirling rose gold light, moving through, not just those in the group,-- but swirly, it looks cloudy,-- those alongside. Thus we amplify.

We amplify healing energy the more we love and tend to others, not when we’re pulling it out of our heart, a martyr, draining myself, -- like a string cheese? -- pulling the string out of my heart to give it to someone else, that’s inappropriately channeled energy. One should recognize when one gives, one receives, the old models of keeping a tally sheet no longer hold true. That’s not to say one should only be giving out a martyr, it’s like understanding that these circles and flows of energy.  It’s like, what does it even mean to give? All you are doing is holding, this is an extension of love.

--Of course, I’m saying, what about when you taking care of kids, I can feel my higher self, I’m folding my kids laundry, what’s going on? -- They’re saying, it’s an extension of this container of love. The laundry isn’t necessary, it doesn’t prove love, doing the laundry is devotion, devotion is related to love, but devotion itself is not love, they interrelated. This an interesting topic for a different day, the interconnectedness of those.

We lost the focus on devotion, they’re saying devotion as a spiritual practice, it’s not something we just want to take this chunk and have it come to an end. They’re calling it the never ending devoted path of a Christ-like lover of all those around them. This gets back into tending to animals to, the sacred path of tending to others, of mothering. This one would say, but mothering extends far beyond the role of mother and instead applies to all of us in the nurturing qualities we’re birthing forth as we continue to reevaluate, raise up the value of the feminine in this world.

After deciding for so many years that work was “tasks”.  Tasks were driving us forward to understand that tasks don’t make a life. We’re not speaking of the importance of tasks because it’s also a part of who we are, a masculine feminine thing. There’s tasks, there’s do, then there’s feminine, there’s nurturing, there’s be. They’re not separate, --they’re like, it looks a fabric, silk, completely intertwined—All of these are necessary things to meditate on, so that we have a greater understanding of what it means to be alive. Indeed, this a most central question. What does alive mean to you? How do you manifest aliveness in your existence on this plane?

So now go back to animals, it’s like a celebration of aliveness. Oftentimes, when we witness the playfulness of animals, the joy, uninhibited joy, the celebration, and also on the darker side, the fear, the trauma we can find, the fear. Animals aren’t afraid to show their own pain so often, humans are, so we experience pain unlike our own. Healing through helping animals heal through pain. Hence the draw to rescue animals, to save, we are healing ourselves, rescuing them, it’s never been about the animal itself, that wouldn’t make logical sense.

Life itself has a mind of its own, like a journey of its own, they said, we said, mind of its own, --how does that make sense? It has a mind of its own? --  They’re like, it’s big capacity, beyond our understanding. How we dive into that, --it’s like you’re diving into a deep, deep water—They are saying, reckless love beyond our own understanding, surrendering into the interconnectedness, and realizing in this time, more than any others, this important for us, this is a primary message as we move forward. This no longer about this superiority of humans, it’s us weaving together on this journey, the interconnectedness of all things within systems that sustain each other, not just in looking at not harming, but in understanding cycles of harm, forgiveness, patterns where we take in one place because we do by nature of being alive, thus somewhere else we must give, finding balance, in flow, in these cycles of energy that before we have framed as a give and take. It’s important we feel that with animals. We’re concretely spending money, and work to take care of something that brings us joy, we receive more than we give. Those who care for animals usually understand the value of that, stop keeping a tally sheet. Become more devoted to those you love through patterns of affection. But also this flow of giving, receiving, knowing that one is not separate from the other. That’s all for today.

Meaningful Quotes

"So we see that in this dimension all life forms are interconnected in some capacity. This is not only in all the physical ways, but in all the healing and spiritual ways as well."

"We are often more connected by role than we are by species."

"Many people experience the radiance that can come when you really let a favorite dog or a cat into your heart, it has great healing potential."

"One should recognize that when one gives, one receives. The old models of keeping a tally sheet no longer hold true."

"Doing the laundry is devotion, devotion is related to love, but devotion itself is not love, they’re interrelated."

"Mothering extends far beyond the role of mother, it applies to all of us in the nurturing qualities we’re birthing forth."

"Indeed, this is a most central question. What does alive mean to you? And how do you manifest aliveness in your existence on this plane?"