Spiritual awakening is anything but easy. Despite the beautiful images of saints and sages symbolizing peace, the path to this inner dimension can prove incredibly challenging.

Waking up from the mental program can demonstrate how emotions and feelings dictate our lives. Without even knowing it, humanity is wired to feel an array of emotions, both positive and negative, which can easily distract you.

Witnessing someone break down, throw a fit, scream at the top of their lungs, express the most outrageous statements, or appear violent, full of rage, and seething with a desire to attack makes it very easy to despise them, doesn’t it?

There are so many spiritual teachers it’s hard to know who is coming from a place of genuine love, and who is simply looking for profit selling you another course, seminar, or book. Hawkins radiates truth by speaking from his own personal experiences and the suffering he endured in his own life, as well as the transformations, and moments of extraordinary expansive love.

Defining the form versus the content, one of the fundamental teachings within A Course in Miracles, can make all the difference when you are applying these practices to your actual life. It’s one thing to think about your spirituality, what you believe to be true, yet it’s quite another to practice it in your interactions with everyone around you.

When you are thinking and believing the ego’s dream, it is very easy to have impressions of others that may or may not be true. This is why people can catch you by surprise. Let’s take a deeper look at why the ego creates dysfunctional relationships and how you can shift into compassionate communication.

Human Design is a complex system and roadmap for how you operate in the world, which is filled with both conscious and unconscious aspects within your specific design.

It’s difficult not to take things personally, isn’t it? After all, you spend your life relating to your special identity as a separate self. Everything you experience is reflected back into the personal identification with the “I.”

In order to allow life to unfold naturally, to live more peacefully and joyfully, you must learn to move into your higher mind, or your spiritual mind.

The mind is a complicated apparatus. It seems full of layers, hidden complex information as well as what is consciously known. The mind resembles a complicated, never-ending file cabinet drawer full of individual folders.

When a shaman is called or chosen by the spiritual world, the person will often be hit with a dramatic illness. This can be a difficult physical illness, a mental illness, or both. It can be so bad it brings them to a literal physical death.

Do you find yourself afraid of what’s to come? If things don’t go your way, are you terrified of the unknown outcome? Is your mind running around in circles panicked about not knowing what the future will bring? If you answered yes to any or all of these, you are not alone!