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Blue Workbook

A Spiritual-Mental Gift, Masculine
in Nature: The Natural Teacher

You might be a blue if …

When in their giftedness, blues tend to …

(According to Joseph Crane)

When in their traps, blues tend to …

(According to Joseph Crane)

Reflection Questions

While answering these questions, refer back to the information you just read about the gifts and traps as necessary.

  1. 1. You and your soul-ray color are both gifts, and as such, you have gifts to share with the world. This makes you a master, or expert, on how this gift is done. How do you see yourself living in your gifts?
  2. 2. Which aspects of your gift seem new to you? (Maybe you’ve never thought about them before.)
  3. 3. Which aspects of your gift would you like to embrace more fully, now that you are consciously aware that you have special access to them? What would be the result?
  4. 4. What traps do you currently struggle with in your life? Traps are not “bad,” however, they may feel inconvenient or unpleasant. Traps occur when you are not turned toward the light.
  5. 5. Can you identify triggers that move you into your traps?
  6. 6. Can you set a goal to become good at recognizing when you are in your gifts, and when you are in your traps? How long do you think it would take? Which do you want to accomplish first?
  7. 7. What questions do you have about your gift?
  8. 8. Do you have any insights about what it is like to have this gift? No one knows your gift like you! Please share your insights below.
  9. 9. To you, what does it mean to teach?
  10. 10. Speech, or communication, is very important to a blue. After all, the blue gift comes through the throat chakra; in order to teach, one must communicate, and communication is the primary means by which blues teach. Teaching can also be done in other ways, yet verbal skills are always readily at hand in any situation, and that makes talking the most versatile teaching method. Describe how you may have found yourself—on an impromptu basis—teaching either friends or strangers in the past.
  11. 11. Who is a teacher? Our conventional view of teachers is that they must go to school to obtain a certificate and be taught to teach. Yet blues are the natural teachers—when they are shown how to teach, they will still resort to their own strategies of speaking off the cuff, not needing materials to be pre-prepared. They were born with a few tricks up their sleeves. They have innate ability they’ve developed on their own. How do you teach?

Put a blue in front of a classroom of willing students, and without a teaching certificate, they will do just fine. Do they know everything about how to reach every misbehaved child with certain information with the institutional settings in our public schools? Maybe not without specific training in classroom management and reading strategies—but that is not the way we are talking about teaching right now.

My position is that the blue spiritual gift defines teaching, not that the teaching field defines teaching itself. Look to the blue spiritual gift to see what it is teaching is all about. We’re talking about enlightenment here.

Institutions do have a lot to offer us as teachers, yet the bodies of knowledge in these places was constructed by both blues and non-blues, and various motivations come into play when you have a view of teaching that has been put together by people of all the gifts (since so many different people of different soul-ray colors want to be teachers for a career.)

  1. 12. Can you embrace yourself as a teacher in spite of the fact that you may not have a formal teaching degree? How would that change your attitude about how you approach others? What would that do for your confidence and self-expression?
  2. 13. What if you thought about all the communication you did as teaching? What if you stopped thinking of it as just talking and started honoring the many-layered messages instead? How would that change you and what you have to share?
  3. 14. People everywhere are in need of wisdom for their life. You receive messages from the divine and are prompted by your own internal leanings to share them. You have been spending a lot of time collecting information, truth, and wisdom to share through the books you read and observations you make, too.

You are good at perceiving what others need to hear in any situation. Though it can feel like it, nothing random is going on. You are in the right place at the right time. Perfectly positioned to see into that person, and receiving of the knowledge you need to give them. The only question is, will you teach—will you share what you know? Or will you hold back? God put you there.

Because you sometimes experience a sense of stage fright with regard to interacting with others on the basis of cosmic knowledge, take some time to consider when you may have held back your gift. You can see, based on past experience, how the knowledge you share will impact a person’s life. Haven’t you seen what happens when you don’t share the message? What could people be missing out on?

  1. 15. Now, let’s look at what happens when you do live in your gift wholeheartedly. When the teacher teaches, she is in her gift. When she will not teach, she’s in a trap. Write about some of the times when you enlightened someone about what was going on in their life, or life in general, and it made a big impact. Did that person thank you later? What did they experience? Do you see how you brought in the light?
  2. 16. Now that you’ve thought about what happens when your teaching does and does not happen, how would you like to adjust when and how much you talk, teach, or enlighten others? What kind of commitment are you willing to make when prompted?
  3. 17. Did anyone ever tell you that you were not a good communicator? Or that you were not a good teacher? How did that make you feel? Do you still carry either belief? Write down the belief you would like to hold and how you can act to practice it every day until it becomes something that you deeply know.

Examples:

I am a great communicator.

I am a good teacher.

Come up with your own variations of these beliefs below.

New Core Belief 1:

New Core Belief 2:

New Core Belief 3:

List ways you will take action to help integrate your new beliefs

  1. 18. Blues would do well to be open to going anywhere and doing anything in service of their teaching gift—not limiting themselves to where and when they would teach. They can teach about topics they know a lot and a little about. This is because they are constantly being given (and looking into) more information about what is happening. What would happen if you were more open to teaching in different situations? Can you think of jobs or projects you might take on? Settings where you might speak up?
  2. 19. It’s good for you as a blue to “let the wild horses run,” or let your energy go where it needs to go. How can this metaphor help you on your journey? What does it feel like when you contemplate doing that? How does that spiritually refresh you?
  3. 20. Sometimes blues talk too much in their traps. Can you think of times when you have done this? Write about that here. My definition of talking too much is when you’ve held the floor far longer than anyone else and eyes are glazing over. What are the signals that let you know when you’ve been talking too much? (They may be internal or external. You may hear words, get a feeling or a knowing, or make some observation.)
  4. 21. If you notice you’ve been talking too much, what can you do?
  5. 22. When blues are in their traps, they might get angry or resentful. This is because the teacher can see what is going on, but not everyone else does. When other people don’t see how consequences fit with actions, sometimes it makes them behave in an immature manner. You tend to assume that others have your knowledge. But they don’t. That’s why they have you. Take a moment to reflect on how you can use your awareness to be a resource rather than feel put out when people confuse you. Have you noticed yourself feeling bitter when you focus on other people’s actions and how they could have improved? How can you take responsibility for yourself in those situations?
  6. 23. When you’ve done your gift from God and shared what it is you wanted to share, can you let go of the outcome? Is it possible to passionately deliver what people need without needing to control their behavior?
  7. 24. Every teacher needs someone to teach and something to teach. There is a difference between teaching a single person at a time and teaching a group. Let’s take a look at how each situation brings out your gifts. Compare how you feel when you are enlightening one person versus when you are working with a group. Where does more power occur? Does it change what you say and how you say it? Can you see yourself shining in your light during these times?
  8. 25. Blues are great at speaking in front of people. Even if you feel apprehensive about it, you were built to speak to large crowds of people, five hundred or more at a time! Have you ever noticed yourself in your own intensity around others, talking in a loud voice? That’s the blue that wants to come out and teach the group. Do you have stage fright? If so, can you think of or research ways to move past it?
  9. 26. What teachings could you give in a group setting that would be different than those you could accomplish one-on-one? Who could you reach? With what message or messages?
  10. 27. What do you most like to talk about? One big source of your teachings is yourself, your own life, and your experiences. When you talk about yourself, what do you usually learn? Most of us have favorite topics and themes. What is one theme you’d like to study in order to be able to learn, and then share more about it?
  11. 28. When a person has enthusiasm and natural, projective voicing, it’s important to intentionally develop a one-on-one way of relating to people. If you find you blow people away with your intensity, write below about how you’d like to be one-on-one. The first step is creating a goal for yourself.
  12. 29. Blue energy loves to expand. This means you can create a lot, very quickly. Sometimes, when this process of expansion is over or at rest before the next expansion, it can leave you feeling lonely or like you are not enough. Not feeling like you are enough is another blue trap. Imagine what integrating the belief that “I am enough” would do for your life.

Blues engage others with general speech. They are smart. Listening to the divine and working with others at the same time requires you to be more esoteric when you speak. Sometimes blues can be judged for the language they use and even told not to use it.

Then again, there can also be times when a blue falls into the trap of being aloof and arrogant. This is getting into a habit of knowing it all and lording it over other people, however subtly: you know it when you do it. This is the ego at work, which takes things in relation only to the self; it’s you making the words about yourself instead of about the other person, as a means of transactional understanding.

  1. 30. I’d like to invite you to think about both scenarios. Where did you see that you were judged for using language that is just second nature to you? You used the words that you needed to for the time:
  2. 31. Have you ever held yourself superior to others in your language and bearing, or were so high in the stratosphere they couldn’t understand you?
  3. 32. To stay at their best and to live in the light, blues must be balanced. When you do something to balance the overall mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual parts of yourself and bring them into sync, you will be living in your light. The four bodies are like the legs of a table. When one leg is shorter than another, you can’t function well. Visualize them. Which one seems compromised right now, if any? What can you do about it? If you found that one of them was out of balance and it’s been weeks or more since it became that way, can you create a long-term strategy to bring yourself to alignment?

Visualize those four legs of a table: body, mind, emotion, and spirit. Which one seems compromised right now (if any)? What can you do about it?

  1. 33. A blue needs to have a spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical experience each day to stay balanced. If a blue spends most of his or her day in mental activities, such as for work, then the rest of the day should be more focused on the other types of explorations or activities. Describe how your life and schedule must change in order to accommodate this new information.
  2. 34. My ultimate advice for standing in the light of who you are as a blue is to keep your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual balance, and violate it for the sake of no one. This means no matter what friend, boss, or program leader asks you to go out of balance, you don’t, for you know that balance is your everything. Obviously it’s a process and sometimes we’ll drop the ball. The point here is for you to stay strong in your commitment to yourself to live in your own light.

To compare to other gifts—if an orange gets out of balance, it isn’t going to affect the giving of that gift in the way that a blue will be affected by the same. What works for other colors doesn’t necessarily work for blues. So take time to write down activities that keep you moving in each of the following areas. I’ve included some examples just to get you started.

Activities That Feed Me and Keep Me Whole

Physical

Mental

Emotional

Spiritual

Eating.

My

preferred

exercise.

Reading.

Conversing

with friends

and family

on topics of

interest to

them (this

gives you an

opportunity

to teach).

Hanging out

with friends or

significant other

face-to-face and

sharing emotions

when you relate.

Feeling and

dialoguing

emotions to

see where they

are coming from

and what they

tell you.

Engaging in a

spiritual practice

or process.

Reading a

spiritual book.

  1. 35. How do others handle your wisdom? Do you believe they recognize it as such? How could you help them listen even better?
  2. 36. As a blue, you have certain core teachings that you tend to share. What are some of them?
  3. 37. The way out of a trap, for a blue, is to give yourself the gifts you give to others—love and wisdom. Holding onto the power of love, according to Archangel Michael, can make every other emotion take a step back. How would your life change if you brought more love into it? There is a meditation at the end of this workbook to assist you in giving yourself love and wisdom. I invite you to try it and see what happens.
  4. 38. Blues are great at communicating but not always so great at listening. The gift puts the blue above the conversation; however, it’s important to be able to receive in addition to give. How could you become a better listener?

Sometimes you get on a roll. You might lecture. And some people need that. But sometimes we also need to have a conversation. Try this exercise: Practice saying something to get a response. Then be quiet, and let the person respond. Repeat. Only say things to connect and get responses. This will give you an idea of what it’s like to be in the conversation rather than above it.

  1. 39. How will you balance lecturing and conversing in the future?
  2. 40. Blues will often want to hear information from another blue to verify its veracity. Can you think of other blues in your life who you have gone to for information, mentorship, or understanding? Every blue needs other blues in his or her life, because blues understand blues on their own terms. Any color does. List your blue friends here along with their strengths.

There is another soul-ray color that blues are very in tune with. Purples are blue’s official reciprocal color because they remind us of the importance of love. This is important because blues focus so much with their mental faculties. In addition to this, purples have an innate respect for the teacher archetype and do seek to be taught.

  1. 41. Read about the purple spiritual gift in the appendix and reflect on any thoughts you have about that gift here.
  2. 42. Do you know any purples? How can you tell?
  3. 43. Talk about what it’s like to interact with purples. What do they do for you? What can you do for them from your perspective?
  4. 44. Now, review how blues and purples benefit from each other’s company in the Reciprocal Chakras section of the Light Partners chapter. People of the purple and blue master chakras make good friends and colleagues and also ideal romantic partners due to this dynamic. What are some insights you have about this? How could being in a relationship with a purple affect the way you live your life?
  5. 45. Your answer is perfect for you. What energies or patterns would need to change in order for you to attract a person with a purple master chakra?
  6. 46. How do you feel about being blue? What is it like? What do you like the best about it? The least about it? If you were to describe your gift to someone else, and let them know what it is like, what would you say?
  7. 47. Honoring your gift is very important. The more you honor it in yourself, the more others will honor it in you. The less likely you are to be walked on or your gifts disregarded. You will gain more respect for who you are and your light will shine more brightly because these things will be present in you. In fact, they already are in a much deeper way, simply because you’ve engaged this much with this information so far. What commitment are you willing to make regarding honoring yourself in the future?
  8. 48. How can you honor yourself for your own greatness?
  9. 49. Envision by drawing or writing what it means to be a blue and what you will accomplish in the future with your gifts.

Daily Practices

The following sequence of questions will help you notice your gifts more and how you share them. It will help you grow in your light, the light of who you are, and avoid pitfalls you may have or be experiencing on a large scale. You can continue these practices for as long as you wish, to check your awareness about how much you live in gifted states of being. The more aware you are, the more you will be able to avoid your traps and their associated consequences.

Reflection on your soul-ray color:

  1. 1. In what ways did you live out of your gift today? Be specific. Please refer to the overview of the soul-ray colors in the appendix when completing this section.
  2. 2. Did you catch yourself going into any traps today? Were you able to avoid these traps?
  3. 3. Are you in a trap now and not aware of it? If so, what would you like to do about it? Make a decision and a commitment now. Either give yourself your gift right here and now, or make a decision to take action in this regard tomorrow.
  4. 4. Simply coming into awareness of your gifts and traps is a large feat in the beginning. Consider memorizing your gifts and traps in order to be able to know the nuances and when you must shift from one to the other.

The following list is a reminder of how to exit from the blue trap. Because blues can shade green or purple once in a while, blues can be in a trap of either of these two colors. If you suspect this is happening, you may use the following list to remember how to remove yourself from the trap of the other color.

List of exits from blue’s traps …

More Aspects of Your Gift

Now, let’s talk more about that aspect of being a blue, which is that blues can shade green and purple in order to become who they shall be. Reflect now on how, why, or when you shade green and purple, the chakras on either side of your master chakra. Read the description of greens in their giftedness and then answer the questions below.

  1. 1. When do you most often find yourself utilizing green?
  2. 2. Could you expand this ability to serve a purpose?

While no one can be a purple like a purple, blues can prove very familiar with this territory because it's right next to them on the chakra system. Your teaching can be more creative when you visit your purple chakra and integrate its gifts. Read the description of purples in their giftedness and then answer the questions below.

  1. 1. When do you most often find yourself being purple?
  2. 2. Could you increase this ability to serve a purpose?

Meditation to Bring in Love and Wisdom

This is a meditation to assist you in exiting from the blue traps. When you are in a trap, you can do this meditation to bring yourself into the light.

Imagine a column of white light coming down from the heavens and through the top of your head, and meeting at your heart.

Connect with your guides and angels. Say, “I consciously connect with my guides and angels now and ask them to assist me in this process.”

Feel the love you have in your own heart, for yourself. Feel the love your angels and guides are giving you.

Imagine a ball of grace (God’s love) at your crown chakra; begin to breathe in that grace, and rest it on your heart.

Put out your hands. With your right hand, invite wisdom. See wisdom as an image or form of a person, place, or thing, and put that image in your right hand. Stay with it for a moment.

Bring your right hand to rest on your heart, absorbing this wisdom into your being, letting it become one with you.

Now, put out your left hand. Imagine a red heart of love in your hand. Bring as much love to your hand as possible. Place your left hand over your right hand on your heart. Allow this love, of all that is, to permeate your being.

Now see a heart, with the word “wisdom” written over it, move to your high heart (upper left shoulder). This connects you with divine love. Breathe in divine love and grace.

Continue to merge, with intention, with the love and wisdom. Do this until you have the answers you were looking for regarding any situation that was troubling you.

Take this love and wisdom into the world, and do whatever you wish with it.

This meditation can be done until it feels automatic and repeated if you feel out of balance. You can learn to connect with your love and wisdom any time.

Connect with love and wisdom each time you feel yourself out of balance emotionally, spiritually, physically, or mentally. Give this gift (which you give to others) to yourself. It points you toward the light and releases you from the bondage of your traps.

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