Local changes you are witnessing.

[Aaron]

Aaron, are you saying that walking the steps of light will take a degree of will to push? I wouldn't want to push so hard that I end up in an uncomfortable reality. But I do want to give Creator everything when I do walk the steps.

I guess with a 3D mind I can't understand how to walk the steps of light.

From what I've gathered based on intuition and experience, (I could be discerning the completely wrong thing, a different event entirely) an entity moves closer and closer to the creator after death until they hit a snag or a bump that causes them to not want to proceed anymore. Everything that has been experienced in life is utilized in that moment of proceeding towards the light. If their experience has been one of love, one of incorporating love and experiencing and expressing love, they won't find themselves shocked or startled when they encounter the love of the creator as they walk the steps. They will instead recognize it as themselves, due to the experience they've had of it in life, and proceed. You are partly responsible for providing them the experience of the love of the creator during life, so that it became familiar to them and a part of their very being. (I'm not trying to dictate what you are responsible for with this statement - I'm only speaking in the present tense in a situation where you have already performed the action of giving love to others.)

"Them" in this case is meaning souls that have not experienced the density of love yet.

I don't think you have to worry about ending up in an uncomfortable reality... Remember that your higher self oversees the process, as well as guardians from the octave above. From my experience with psychedelic drugs, no force of will is required to push yourself along. It's effortless/automatic - you glide, or rather, are pulled forwards by the creator's will to experience merging with you again.