When You’re Going Through Hell, How Do You Find Heaven?

5 master keys for stabilization and uplift

When someone asks how you’re doing, most of us say “Fine.” Or “Good.” Or we give some clever line that sounds upbeat and emotionally regulated. Meanwhile, inside we may be thinking, Is it just me, or is reality glitching?

If we’re really honest, many of us don’t feel fine. In fact, we may sometimes feel run over.

There are destabilizations on many fronts. A hard to believe fascist takeover of the United States is underway. Economic uncertainty. Cultural polarization. Leaders behaving in ways that would have seemed like satire not long ago. At times it feels as if we accidentally stepped into a dystopian cable TV series, except there’s no pause button and no guarantee of a clean season finale.

And that’s just the external layer.

Internally, many people are noticing strange energy symptoms, exhaustion that makes no sense, mood swings, old fears resurfacing, major ups and down in our moods. A sense that the familiar ground is less solid than it used to be. The rug hasn’t just been tugged. It’s been yanked.

External upheaval is never only external. It mirrors something moving through collective consciousness, and that means it’s moving through us as well. In the long run, this shift may be profoundly positive. Why? Read on to see my take. Yet in the short run, it can feel like hell.

So how do you move from hell into heaven without pretending everything is fine?

It comes down to identity.

The Cream Pie Room

Imagine walking through a room where machines are flinging cream pies at face level in every direction. If you stride through upright and indignant, you’re going to get hit repeatedly and come out looking like a dairy-based cautionary tale.

But if you lower your profile, stay aware, and move intelligently, you can pass through without getting plastered.

The world right now is like that room.

If your identity is rooted primarily in your conditioned self — your reactive mind, your narratives, your fear structures — you will keep getting hit by outrage cycles, destabilizing news, and the endless stream of digital provocation designed to keep you emotionally inflamed.

If your identity shifts into your deeper Self — what I call your Avatar Self, the you that existed before conditioning — the same world feels very different. From that place, this becomes one of the most extraordinary times to be alive.

Yes, there is chaos. Yes, these shifts often make our bodies and minds feel imbalanced. But there is also an unprecedented rise in consciousness. The two are happening simultaneously. What looks like collapse is often the breakdown of distortions that can no longer sustain themselves.

Transformation is rarely tidy. It doesn’t come with soft lighting and spa music. It comes with friction, exposure, and the uncomfortable release of what has been suppressed.

Heaven Is Not the Absence of Chaos

Heaven is not the absence of turbulence. It is the realization that you are not defined by it.

When you stabilize in your deeper identity, fear loosens its grip. Reactivity decreases. You stop feeding every outrage cycle that crosses your screen. Your nervous system becomes more coherent. You begin to see opportunities for contribution rather than only threats.

You may even notice something surprising: even in the middle of all this, consciousness is rising. Conversations that once felt impossible are happening openly. Old systems are being exposed. Hidden distortions are surfacing.

The chaos is not necessarily proof that we are doomed. It may be evidence that something long buried is coming to light.

You don’t need to defeat the chaos. You need to relocate your identity.

I’ve been practicing this every day. Not perfectly. I still get hit with the occasional cream pie. But the difference between hell and heaven, I’ve found, is less about what’s happening out there and more about where I’m standing inside myself.

Below, I’ll share five practical ways to make that shift — not by denial, but by stabilizing who you truly are.

And I’d love your participation. Which ones resonate? Which are you already practicing? What would you add?

Stabilization & Upleveling Tip #1: Get out in nature, often. We forget how un-natural and ungrounding civilization can be. From the demands to multi-task to electro-magnetic fields to digital devices. Get outdoors. Find a place near you that is not man-made that nurtures you. Nature is my wonder drug!

Stabilization & Upleveling Tip #2: Take great care of your body. That’s right – working out, walking, hiking, yoga, stretching, Qigong, deep breathing, plenty of pure water, good food, cut down drains like artificial foods, sugar, stimulants, etc.

Stabilization & Upleveling Tip #3: Come into inner silence regularly. By simply following your breath for 5 – 30 minutes, you slow down the noise of your conditioned mind and marinate in what is Real. The pause periods between your inbreath and outbreath, and between your outbreath and inbreath are the most deepening. You are literally stepping out of time when in relaxed focus into those pauses. It may take some time to calm your nervous system, but well worth it. Perfection not needed – just steady practice.

Stabilization & Upleveling Tip #4: Minimize intake of toxic influences. I do check on the news each day by reading apps, but avoid TV news like the plague. These are designed to lower your vibration and keep you caught up in narratives. We all need to find our own balance between staying informed and staying sane.

Stabilization & Upleveling Tip #5: Maximize intake of uplifting energies and experiences. Spend time with other awakening Avatars. Listen to uplifting messages, and bring through your own to help uplift others. Read or listen to books that inspire and inform outside of the matrix.

I’ll share more of these tips in other posts. You already know all this stuff, I’m reminding you.

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