Roadblocks

[VoodooChile]

Hello everyone,

I am new to this forum, and this is my first post. My name is Brian and I am 23 years old. I remember reading one of Erin's blog entries about roadblocks. In a nutshell, she said that sometimes our spirit guides put roadblocks in our way to show us that we're not on the right path. Basically they are supposed to be a nudge in the right direction.

I feel like I may be experiencing one of these roadblocks in my life, in a very extreme way. I started going to college when I was 18. Within one year I
started to have health problems. They progressed to the point that I had to stop going to college by age 20. For the next three years my health problems progressed. I was diagnosed with celiac disease and multiple food allergies, along with abdominal pain with no known cause. By June of this year I was 100 pounds and could no longer eat. I was hospitalized for 10 days, during which I was put on IV nutrition because I couldn't eat. Almost 6 months later, I still cannot eat, and I am still on IV nutrition. All I can do is drink liquids.

I feel like my health situation is a massive roadblock meant to guide me in the right direction. But the only thing is that it has progressed to the point where I don't know how I will ever get out of this situation and move on with my life. I was wondering if anyone else here has had health problems that they felt were roadblocks. If so, were you ever able to overcome it and move on?

I have also done some extensive reading on Indigo Children/Adults. If it is in fact a real phenomenon, I have no doubt that I am an Indigo. The reason why I bring this up is because I read one of the characteristics of Indigo people is food allergies. Could I just be an extreme case?

Also, I am a natural born Empath, but I don't know if that could contribute to my situation.

Has anyone here ever dealt with a situation similar to mine? If so, how did you overcome it? Thanks everyone,

-Brian

[VoodooChile]

Nobody has any thoughts at all?

[freddy]

Hi It sound as if you had a bad few years. My advise would be to read the book the power of now. it might help you to over come any problem that you feel you cannot. also read up on any special diets food that may help you.
Peace to you. Freddy

[cdn2wheeler]

If you've read Jack Canfield's The Success Principles, he goes into this in great detail. He writes:

... as soon as you set a goal, three things are going to emerge that stop most people - but not you... These three obstacles to success are consideration, fears and roadblocks.

In fact, they're supposed to appear. If they don't, it means you haven't set a goal that's big enough to stretch you and grow you. It means there's no real potential for self-development.

pg. 57-58, 59

Now, I don't know about the whole thing about spirit guides setting up roadblocks. I'm much more inclined to believe that we do it to ourselves without any supernatural help.

[JSB]

Hi Brian,

I am sorry about your health difficulties. I have had health issues as well, though not so serious as what you've described.

I recommend Spring Forest Qigong to help with both health and emotional issues because I've found it helpful.

I sound a bit like a broken record (and when's the last time someone heard one of those) because my answer to almost everything is: "try qigong and see if it helps."

[VoodooChile]

Thanks for the replies so far. It's interesting because it seems that according to Jack Canfield, roadblocks are a sign that you are on the right path because you set a worthy goal. But in direct contrast, the roadblocks that Erin talked about in her blog are set by our spirit guides to show us that we need to go in a different direction. I'm not really sure at this point which way to take it. I feel like my experiences in these past few years have given me the desire to help people who deal with chronic illness, regardless to whether I ever get better or not. I'm just not sure how.
But thanks for all the recommendations. Erin, if you read this I'd love your input!

-Brian

[cdn2wheeler]

Originally Posted by VoodooChile

Thanks for the replies so far. It's interesting because it seems that according to Jack Canfield, roadblocks are a sign that you are on the right path because you set a worthy goal. But in direct contrast, the roadblocks that Erin talked about in her blog are set by our spirit guides to show us that we need to go in a different direction.

I don't have any insights into the whole "spirit guide" thing, but in my personal view, I'm much more inclined to believe in what we do to ourselves than what some spirits - if they exist - might do.

After all, I KNOW I exist. Can't really say the same about spirit guides.

[VoodooChile]

I just think that the spirit guide issue is also important because it is what I believe and what Erin had written about in her blog. Which is also why I posted the topic in the psychic and paranormal forum. I understand how we as humans can manifest all sorts of things, but I also think that there are many things that are out of our control.

[Mags]

Hi VoodooChile

I was just rereading parts of my journal, and came across this entry, which I'd forgotten about. It was part of a longer session where I was doing automatic writing to connect to my spirit guides. Anyway, let me throw it into the mix... [The italics is me, and the rest the guides' response]

But what about when you guys block me heading down the wrong path?
No, again. We do not block you. We are always trying to give you guidance, but we do not block you. Essentially it is you blocking yourself, because your higher self knows that it is the wrong path and so it creates obstacles in that path.

[cdn2wheeler]

It seems, at least to me, that the whole idea of being blocked by spirit guides is extraordinarily disempowering. If one believes that spirit guides are making an effort to block you in attaining something, does that mean that everytime we encounter some sort of difficulty we should just throw up our hands and walk away from trying to achieve our goal?

Sorry, but I don't buy it. That seems a lot like simply abdicating responsibility for one's life.

[Mags]

Originally Posted by cdn2wheeler

It seems, at least to me, that the whole idea of being blocked by spirit guides is extraordinarily disempowering. If one believes that spirit guides are making an effort to block you in attaining something, does that mean that everytime we encounter some sort of difficulty we should just throw up our hands and walk away from trying to achieve our goal?

Sorry, but I don't buy it. That seems a lot like simply abdicating responsibility for one's life.

Here's more of the text from the session snippet that I posted earlier. It was towards the end of the session and I was getting quite tired, but essentially what was coming through is that we can create whatever we want (experiences/things) and that our spirit guides don't stop us. They guide, but don't block in the sense of "wouldn't you rather take nice path A" rather than "don't go down path B". As you wrote in an earlier post, our higher self (the true core part of us) knows that path B is not truly in alignment with our life purpose and so tries to block us - kind of like self-sabotage (in a standard psychological sense, where people sabotage themselves when they don't really want to do something but haven't acknowledged it). But, despite all that, we can bypass the higher self and create whatever we want - the thing is that what we create when we're not on our true path will end up being less fulfilling than what we create when we are in alignment with our purpose. Then everything goes really smoothly! I'm not sure if I've explained this well enough? I'm still trying to understand it myself - I see I never got back to the topic with my guides after giving up after the extract below (I wrote "I'm going to take a break, my brain is tired!" after the session Maybe I'll need to explore this more as well!

Anyway, here's the full extract...

But what about my purpose or path. Don’t you guys/God block things from coming to me if they are not in line with my path. So maybe, you block wealth (as in humungous wealth!) because that isn’t in line with my path and just let me have what is necessary for me to survive?
No, no, no, no! We do not block anything. That would be interfering with your free will. You can create anything you want. Have any experience you want. The relationship between the two is as follows: the more aligned you are with the Source, with the Divine, the types of things and experiences that you want to create will change. You have different wants when it comes to creations than someone else who is on a different path. At the moment, you want to create money, lots of money. We don’t block this. You can create it. Once you have it, you may decide to create something different, but you can still create it. At the moment, it is part of your path, in the sense that it is an important lesson for you – note, not a lesson we have chosen for you, but a lesson that you choose to create to help yourself break free of current limiting beliefs and which will help you in the future to break free of other limiting beliefs that may come up, or not to have any limiting beliefs at all. You are learning how to become a creator of your own experience. You are right – money is measurable, so it is easy for you to see just how well you are doing with this lesson. We are not blocking it. You can have it.
But what about when you guys block me heading down the wrong path?
No, again. We do not block you. We are always trying to give you guidance, but we do not block you. Essentially it is you blocking yourself, because you know, your higher self knows that it is the wrong path and so it creates obstacles in that path.
But what if my higher self is creating obstacles with money?
No, see it all has to do with beliefs. Your ego currently has beliefs about money and these are blocking it, not allowing it. Your higher self knows that you can create anything you want, regardless of what it is. That no creation is better or worse than another.
So why can’t a person create experiences different to those that the higher self wants?
The higher self and the divine path is paramount. The person can create different experiences, and does, but they do not find them fulfilling.

[Erin Pavlina]

Guides and higher selves do not make decisions for us. They do not prevent you from taking a certain action. But if what you're doing is not in alignment with your purpose then they will try to get your attention so that you head a different way. When you are in alignment with your purpose you will find life to flow very easily and when you are going against your purpose you will find yourself having frustrating experiences.

It's like the fly trying to get out of the closed window. It thinks it should be able to just sail through but time and again it rams itself uselessly against a closed window. If it could learn to discern an open window from a closed window it could save itself a lot of time and a monster headache

[VoodooChile]

What Erin just said is exactly what I was talking about. In no way is that abdicating responsibility for one's own life. Plus, I never said that I was being blocked from taking a particular action. I'm just saying that it seems that my health issues are a hint that I'm not in alignment with my purpose. Or, on the flip side, maybe I'm supposed to go through this in order to advance my purpose. I don't know. I'm at a loss for what to do. But I don't think that they would completely diminish our free will and block us from doing something. I just think that they can throw obstacles in our way to nudge us in the right direction. And in that sense, I was wondering if anyone else has experienced that type of situation.

-Brian