Written by Royce Morales, Transformational Facilitator, Teacher, Podcast Host, Speaker, Author, Columnist
Royce Morales is a renowned trailblazer and creator of an innovative, spiritually-based approach to inner transformation. Her program, Perfect Life Awakening, emerged from a lifetime of frustration searching for inner work that worked. She discovered that by revealing specific subconscious origins of self-sabotage and removing its persistent influence, life can shift.
Have you heard of the Hundredth Monkey Theory? It sounds esoteric or maybe a bit wacky, but it’s pretty simple. It’s based on a true story that turned into a metaphor, expressing how everything connects on an energetic level.
It goes like this: On a deserted island, one monkey spontaneously decided to go to the river and wash its food before eating it. Suddenly, the entire monkey population on a neighboring island started washing their food, and all were without access to texting!
The profound message is this: When one gets it, others do; when you shift, others do; when enough of us evolve, we all evolve.
As you may have noticed, humanity as a species could sure use some evolution. However, it will take more than one of us monkeys shifting to bring an end to systemic, fear-based consciousness to change from believing that war, violence, and destruction solve anything to realize that the ego is not who we are to understand that money and possessions are not the source of happiness; to experience that love is what we are here to be and express.
Like putting a bandage on a gaping wound, we’ve been trying to fix the planet’s problems from our current level of consciousness for millennia. Instead, there needs to be a radical transformation into a completely different kind of human, a shift from seeing things through the lens of our fear-based perception to a place of wise, evolved, higher consciousness.
Having worked for over four decades helping people do just that by neutralizing the origins of subconscious triggering programming, it’s no easy task. The primitive survival instinct we’ve been functioning from since hiding out in caves is still in charge, feeling quite comfortable being in charge. This part of us instantly reacts with anger and violence when afraid, believing there’s no other choice. We justify reactiveness, admire, praise and reward it with medals since we believe that’s how things have to be.
They don’t.
What is fear-based consciousness?
Fear-based consciousness is our primitive nature, our survival-based awareness that drives much of our behavior. It clings to what appears to be security and safety. It needs to know what’s going to happen next and have a sense of certainty about the challenges and changes life presents. It needs recognition and status, trying (futilely) to feel happiness from external places.
We arrive in bodies with fear-based consciousness firmly embedded in our hard drives. “Survive no matter what” is our motto. We become amnesiac about our recent sojourn from a spiritual existence and believe these bodies are who we really are. We must do anything and everything to make sure we stay, so start seeing the world through fear-colored glasses.
As we grow up, we learn ways to cover up and never admit our fears. We take on various acts to appear brave, terrified that someone will discover how frightened we truly are. We may even think there’s something wrong with us, believing we are the only ones who are afraid.
Here’s the catch: Whether we know it consciously or not, we want to evolve past fear. We know deeply that we are not just these bodies. We have flashes of remembering why we are truly here.
Roadblocks
On some level, we know that we chose to be here during these challenging times to finally get beyond that primitive consciousness. We want to reawaken who we really are; we want to be that Higher Consciousness, love-based being we vaguely remember being.
We know our task, our true purpose, is to be one of those evolved Monkeys.
However, there are significant roadblocks to getting there, mainly due to our resistance to this evolutionary process. We’re worried about what it means to release that rigid definition of self. We want to feel empowered but equally concerned about transforming our entire definition of existence, clueless as to what the world would look like if we all moved to that place. Would we be holding “love-ins” and sitting around singing kumbaya?
Part of us knows that staying rooted in primitive programming isn’t working. We know it will never allow us to create the world we are here to create. But it looks a heck of a lot easier not to be that love-based Hundredth Monkey, even though it’s not.
How do we get there?
Here are handy suggestions to fast-forward into hundredth monkey-ville
1. Do the work
The most crucial aspect to help this planetary process is doing the inner work of self-evolution. Face the ways you’re still participating in what’s causing the world’s problems. Look within to see how your own behavior and thoughts are being driven by the same fear-based impulses at the root of human cruelty, conquest, and oppression. How are you living from the same sense of scarcity, fear and selfishness that drives people to oppress and harm others? Are you living in fear of not having enough? It may be in subtle ways, not as dramatic as what gets covered in news reports, but it is part of your consciousness.
2. How do you react under pressure?
Do you regress to that lower level, do things you ordinarily would never do, and react by trying to harm and destroy? Know that every time a button is pushed, and you choose to look within to see that a fear was triggered, you are busting that primitive part of you. You are making an evolved, mindful choice to choose love rather than fear.
3. How are you motivated by fear?
To get past reactiveness, you must have an inner relationship where you’re not motivated by fear. I’m not talking about healthy fear, like running away from a charging tiger. I mean never falling prey to irrational or subconscious fear, which takes some deep digging to discover. An easy way to achieve that is to observe your negative, judgmental thoughts and words, they are triggers from the past coming forward. Don’t buy them as truth!
4. It’s all mirrors
The ultimate goal of these first three suggestions is to help you see that when you are triggered, there is always a mirror of something about yourself to see. So, when you notice yourself judging someone, stop and ask yourself, “Am I judging myself in the same or similar way?” When you notice yourself feeling angry at someone, stop and ask yourself, “Am I angry at myself in the same or similar way?” When you notice yourself upset by what someone did, thinking, “I could never do what they did,” ask yourself, “How did I do that in some way and have not forgiven myself?” Admitting mirrors is challenging, but it is the most powerful way to shift from fear to love. Remember: Mirrors never lie.
The goal is to see that the entire human condition exists in you; you’re not separate from those you’ve judged as bad, those who appear to be causing all the problems. Know that you are part of the human condition dynamic as an unevolved human who reacts to things in ways that are irrational, inappropriate, unhelpful, and anti-evolutionary.
It’s up to you to consciously open up to the awakened, deeper dimension of yourself and let go of the parts that are no longer who you really are. Be motivated by a completely different set of motivations. That will allow a new momentum to begin. Doing so creates a ripple of change in the world. And with enough ripples come waves.
Evolution starts with us. When enough of us monkeys know that war never has and never will solve anything, there will be an end to war. When enough of us decide it’s not acceptable to destroy the environment, the planet will flourish again. When enough of us don’t support the power-grabbing of the world’s tyrants, they will lose their authority.
Know that each individual shifting their consciousness will bring an end to the ignorance that fear keeps us in. Then, we can join hands and sing kumbaya.
Be the Hundredth Monkey that you already are.
Royce Morales, Transformational Facilitator, Teacher, Podcast Host, Speaker, Author, Columnist
Royce Morales is a renowned trailblazer and creator of an innovative, spiritually-based approach to inner transformation. Her program, Perfect Life Awakening, emerged from a lifetime of frustration searching for inner work that worked. She discovered that by revealing specific subconscious origins of self-sabotage and removing its persistent influence, life can shift.
She developed a clearing technique that releases programmed, false beliefs from this as well as previous lives. Negative patterns and hidden fears resolve so paralyzing issues lose their impact. This exclusive, time-tested work takes students from triggered to empowered, uncovering their authentic, purpose-driven life.
PLA also provides applicable tools to navigate daily life – ways to rapidly shift from anger to calm, fear to acceptance, judgement to connection. The work emphasizes awareness of, trusting and following one’s innate intuitive wisdom, then taking bold, inspired, real-world action.
The Perfect Life Awakening courses take place remotely and are presented in small groups to provide individual attention. Royce offers private inner discovery sessions to facilitate deeper work, utilizing her proprietary spiritual clearing technique called Spiritual Cognition Integration.
Royce is the author of three books about her teachings: Want – True Love, Past Lives and Other Complications; Know: A Spiritual Wake-up Call and Back: Rebirth After Stroke, all available on Amazon.
Go to Royce’s YouTube channel where she shares enlightening information about her teachings. She posts weekly blogs and writes articles for several other publications.
