WALNUT relates to the Soul quality of New Beginnings and Unaffectedness.

People who grasp change as an entrance into new opportunities, new successes, new discoveries, and new growth are in the positive Walnut state. Gliding with their Personal Spirit along the path indicated by their Spiritual Guidance, they remain focused on their Mission and headed in the direction that will be most constructive of the options available.

Distraction is the greatest weakness of persons in, and wishing to remain in, a positive Walnut state. These distractions will attract and waste their energies and sabotage their choices. Health, happiness, contentment, influence, income, respect, and justice may each or together await their arrival. Hesitation and delay may result in its loss. Here are some of the common forms of distraction and how to best cope with them:

1. Patterns of Fear:
   A decision awaits of which one or more of our Identity factors has concern that not enough is known yet to address and avoid the problems which can arise.

   On the basis of doubt, ignorance, and rationalization --- there will never be a time at which enough is known to avoid all possibilities of failure or error, UNTIL, it has passed and failed (for the lack of one's participation), or, has been withdrawn (lost to others), or, has become redundant (no longer relevant through other changes). IF you are aware that this IS reality, you have a simple choice: follow Spiritual Guidance, or, lose.
   
   
   

2. Patterns of Social Power:
   A decision awaits on whether you will remain part of a social group which you have enjoyed participating in during the past, yet have recently taken a position of discrimination which you feel and know is injustice and elitist. If you speak out, you may be abandoned, criticised, rejected.

   When taking an unpopular position, ensure that you confirm with Spiritual Guidance that such a position is relevant and justified and not an emotional reaction constructed on your own prejudice, pride, and ignorance. If the adversary position is justified, your associates will respect your alert to their error, or, they will reject your views and yourself as an extension of their insecurities.

   You AND they will benefit from your stand, or, you will only LOSE by your staying and concealing your truth and beliefs. At worst, they will tolerate your presence and gossip behind you. Better to make the simple choice: follow Spiritual Guidance, or Lose.
   
   
   

3. Patterns of Energy Sharing:
   You are happy, carefree, healthy, and sharing your energies with those around you when one of those present or a new arrival expresses disharmony. They express anger, defensiveness, frustration, rage, hatred, disgust, ridicule, jealousy, envy, or some other form of disrespect towards you directly, or indirectly, or, against those you care about. You are comfortable in your positive state and resist shielding yourself from others.

   If you take too long to shield yourself from the negative energies of others their energies will cancel your positives and begin drawing you deeper and deeper into the negative. Negative energies are like quicksand which sucks in and smoothers into concealment anything which usually touches it. The wise person who has stumbled into quicksand will quickly roll unto the surface of the pond and roll their way along the surface and off it. Trying to swim in it or fight it, or push oneself up with one's feet -- will be sure to trap them deeper, until they are over their head.

   Knowing when it is best to shield your energies requires awareness, presence, humility, self-directedness, and above all -- feedback from one's Higher Self of the relevant Spiritual Guidance. The simple choice: Maintain close contact with Spiritual Guidance and focus on it rather than on others or yourself.
   
   
   

4. Patterns of Role Participation:
   At different times in our lives, our physical, financial, age, emotional, and intellectual abilities make it best for us to surrender our current roles and responsibilities and adopt new ones which we are better suited to and can be proficient at. We have enjoyed these roles and/or have felt important and valued by our ability to look after ourselves and contribute to others.

   If we are too slow in exchanging the role we can no longer perform for the one which we and others can appreciate us for, we will bring unnecessary hardship on both ourselves and those we know or care most about us. We will become more co-dependent, disappointing, frustrating, and undependable to those we still encourage to respect us. Yet to give way too soon may be to withhold from ourselves and others benefits we could afford them.

   The only sure timing available to us is that which we ask for and hear of from Spiritual Guidance through our Personal Spirit. No amount of feedback from others will suffice for each will have their own preference which depends more upon their appreciation of our skills and their fear of our demands than of the true nature of our abilities. Many people have a span of inattention, forgiveness, or patience by which they will put up with our decline before feeling imposed upon or disgraced by. By the Grace of God can we preserve both our respect and the respect of others.
   
   
   

5. Patterns of Co-dependency:
   It does happen that we may be so fortunate as to have the close company of another person for an extended period of time. In such situations, and within many modern mass cultures, it often arises that we vest a great amount of our identity in how the other person interacts with us, how they receive from us and take from us. We gain a comfort in knowing what to expect and replacing what might better be questions with assumptions. We may reach a harmony, real or false, which would take much time and effort to refound with another. If the perception of joy and pain has been considerable, the unconscious chasm between stranger and intimate may seem unfathomable.

   Facing an inevitable and necessary separation, out of business absence, illness time in a hospital, schooling at a university, an inability to understand and respect each other and provide a positive environment -- we may with our Reptilian Structure and either our personal values (Ego) or our social standards (SuperEgo) find fantasies to deny the realities and insist to ourselves that we may still be able to control and force and love the outcome into the shape we desire. If we are the only participants making a sincere effort in such a direction, we will never earn the openness, freedom, and trust which such a harmony displays.

   Knowing when and how to leave can be critical to the health of a relationship. Staying too long can encourage abusive behaviors to continue, co-dependent possessiveness to imprison, unexpressed grief to drain one of vitality, and to imply to those near us that we distrust them, or, ourselves. Over-extended departures will make the pain deeper and more severe. An inability to demonstrate one's independence will encourage one to be afraid of change and resigned to failure and doom. How can you be contributing to the vitality of another person if you have only your own dumbed out, over-aggressive, or never changing presence to share with them? If you are boring to yourself, you likely are to them also.

   Leaving, and letting others to leave, gracefully, is a most important art which Spiritual Guidance can assist you with. If you are aware of the importance of such times, you can freely ask Spiritual Guidance when the time has arrived to best leave. If you leave at such a time -- you may be welcomed back, you will be respectfully remembered, negative emotions which have arisen may not become destructive, the freedom of the other person and their spirit may be respected and love be returned to you from their thankful spirit. Where a very special bond exists, we may discern this with a form of 6th sense. For most of us most of the time, only Spiritual Guidance can preserve us from the errors and mistakes so easy for us to fall prey to.
   
   
   

6. Patterns of Risk:
   A decision can be made yet actions and directions are indicated which we know will be difficult for us and the failure of which may influence others we care about in ways which we would rather not impact upon them. There is the excuse that they will benefit if we stay and that they will be harmed by our departure or change. We fear their lack of acceptance and acknowledgement. We fear their blatant show of disrespect for us. We may allow ourselves to feel important on the basis of how much we have done for others and how they are, or should be, weak and co-dependent on us.

   We may have realized these weaknesses that we have encouraged and have attempted to lessen them to benefit all with greater self-respect and sharing. Yet, we cannot change what we have been part of if the others involved choose to remain slow, lazy, unrespecting, and uninvolved. We may also have realized the benefits of our own lack of direction and selfishness and wish to linger longer for the benefits we glean by deceiving and manipulating those near to us through toxic shame use, imposition, or force. We hold ourselves and others back from our and their Missions with these wasteful distractions or irresponsibility.

   There is no true risk in finding out the truth.
   The only risk that comes from the truth is having to face the errors and failures of one's past and accept responsibility for the pain and hardship we have needlessly caused to others. We cannot take those back. We will continue to repeat them until we acknowledge them to ourselves and others and say: ENOUGH! The truth provides us with the benefit of learning and improving, of understanding and having compassion for others. Only Spiritual Guidance can quickly and simply indicate if THIS risk is worthy of YOUR involvement. A step in a better direction may save our life, or, take it. Hesitation will decide for us.