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TRANSFORMATIVE TOPICS FOR YOUR UNIQUE SPIRITUAL PATH
Caring What Other People Think: Does it Prevent You From Being You?
Do you care what other people think of you? Do you make decisions based on what others think you should be doing? Or do you do them because it is what you want to do? Are you afraid people won’t like you if you act a certain way? Are you denying who you are because of how you think other people will respond to you? All of these questions get you thinking about how you make decisions in life and if you are living as your most authentic self, or putting on a face to make other people happy yet you are miserable inside?
Stuck in the Clutter? Shift the Energy in Your Space
Are you someone who makes piles around your house? Do you let those piles build up until you have no idea how to start cleaning it up? Or are you a perfectionist with a spotless space one day and the next day a bomb goes off and organization goes out the window? If you find yourself getting caught in your own clutter either chronically or from time to time, the space you are living in can affect how you feel, how you operate, and how functional you are in your own environment.
Is It Personal or Is It Projection?
The world is a stage. And we are the actors. Just like Shakespeare expressed through his plays all of us are dressed up as what we believe ourselves to be and we participate in the world, interacting with others, exchanging glances, verbal exchanges, moments of laughter, moments of sorrow, times of incredible struggle, and all the while we rarely pick up on the fact that we are acting. We are so involved in ourselves, with who think we are in this world that we lose sight of the broader view. It’s like we cannot even see beyond what is right in front of our faces. Do you ever stop and pull back from the micromanagement of life and tap into the larger essence that surrounds us?
What Does Spirituality Mean Anyway?
Have you seen or been around people claiming a spiritual hierarchy or superiority? Do you get caught up in those preaching they are more enlightened than you are, therefore you should listen to them. What does it mean when someone says, “I’m so spiritual?” When people get involved in any type of spiritual practice, a spiritual movement, or join a large group of like-minded thinkers, there are always those that seem to boast about their spiritual experiences, insights, and evolution which ultimately leads them to claim their spiritual elitism.
Healing Crisis: A Wake-Up Call for the Body, Mind, or Both?
It’s alarming when the body starts sending us signals that something is not right. No matter what unusual, painful, uncomfortable, or even silent symptoms you may experience, it sends an immediate message of fear deep within us. This can send the mind into an equally disturbing panic, and in many cases, the mental stress can be worse than the physical. Whether your body is suddenly presenting you with alarming symptoms, or if you have been interested in food and diet,
“Let Food Be Thy Medicine, Medicine Be Thy Food” -Hippocrates
The great Hippocrates said, “Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food,” or so they say. Whether Hippocrates said this or not, it certainly seems simple enough. Hippocrates’ life dates back to somewhere around 460-370 BC, and is often termed the “Father of Medicine.” He brought forth a new idea at the time that suggested health had more to do with the environment and the physiology of the body, than the previous belief in supernatural causes.
The Body: Transforming Diet and Health
As much as our minds can expand and often feel disconnected from the body, we cannot deny that we are living in a world of cause and effect. No matter how spiritually connected we feel, or the inner peace we may have discovered, the body will still be at the mercy of the dual world. We already know the body is temporary, it is not who we are, but it is our tool while we live in the world.
Clarifying the Stages: A Moment to Reflect
After describing the various stages of transformation and what can happen to you when you being to wake up, let’s take a moment and go over some of the key concepts previously discussed. We began looking at purification, opening the door of the mind, and beginning to view life with the observer. From there we transitioned into merging, isolation, contemplation, and the dark night of the soul, fear and darkness, letting go, and finally reemerging back into life.
Reemergence: Coming Full Circle After A Shift in Consciousness
During any kind of shift in awareness, there comes a time when you feel the waters calm a bit. What may have felt like a lifetime of tsunamis and category-five hurricane encounters has washed you ashore brand new. This newness inside of you may take some getting used to depending on the perceptual shift you have experienced.
Letting Go: Easier Said Than Done
“Just LET IT GO!” Isn’t that what we all hear? Come on, just let go of it already! Well, if it were that easy, we’d all be doing it, wouldn’t we? As much as we may desire to let go of something in our life, something that is keeping us from moving on or seeing clearly, we seem to repeat the same patterns over and over again without even realizing it. The real question becomes, why are we not allowing ourselves the ability to see? Why are we keeping what is clearly not working alive and well in our life? Even if we are able to see what is happening and the creatures of habit that we are, why can’t we let it go?
Fear: A Relevant Part of the Process
One of the most repeated phrases you will hear in the world of self-discovery is “Don’t Go to Fear, Only Go to Love.” That sounds lovely, doesn’t it? If only it were that simple. Fear is often misunderstood and preached by many teachers to avoid it, to not look at it, and to only be the LOVE you are. Well, what does that even mean? How do we know the LOVE we are? What relevance, if any, does fear have in our lives? It seems most of us are lost on an unknown path just trying to figure it out.
The Victim: Prisoner of Your Own Mind
Name a time in your life when something went terribly wrong. At this moment it was not your fault, you were simply the victim of the accident, the abuse, or the circumstance of an event that was completely out of your hands. This happens all the time. In the world of duality, there is the victimizer, and the victim, the attacker, and the attacked, the threatener, and the threatened. Unfortunately, this world is set up that way. There will always be the opposite experience on the other side of the coin.
Shifting From Thinking To “Feeling”
For some people, awakening goes beyond the mental shift in consciousness and enters the physical realm. You may begin to feel different types of energy enter your physical body and energy system. Instead of thinking your way through life, which is where most of us are, you begin to open up to “feeling” your way through life, and we are not talking about feeling emotional either.
What Happens To Relationships When You Are Not The Same?
Every human being, no matter if you are going through a spiritual transformation or not, will have relationships in some capacity while living here in this world. Even if you are a hermit, you are in a relationship with yourself, so it is something that all of us have the pleasure of experiencing. Now, as much as we would love to have pleasurable relationships, the dual world presents us with all possibilities, yes? If we are in a relationship long enough, friction will develop and the relationship goes from pleasant to temporarily, or permanently, painful.
The Dark Night Of The Soul or The Dark Night Of The Mind?
No one wants to suffer. No one wants to go to the depths of hell. I think it’s safe to say that none of us as children thought about how wonderful it would be to lose control of our lives and have no idea what was happening to us? As the child, we are the dreamer, the imagination is dominant, we fantasize how we want our lives to be. We are the creator of our future selves, and as children, some of us access this aspect of the mind much more than others. To be clear, this is the mind exploring in creation.
Anger and Resistance To What Is
Most of our lives seem to be overrun by human emotion. We have a FEELING about anything and everything, yes? It doesn’t matter what life experience is happening right in front of us, we will have some sort of emotional reaction purge to the surface for everyone else around us to see. These spontaneous episodes seem to be ruling our lives, especially when awareness is not present yet. Without awareness, we might as well be lost in a sea of one powerful surge of emotion after another, much like life-threatening waves abrasively crashing onto the shore.
Isolation Equals Contemplation
Awakening can bring you to the beautiful insightful moments, moments and opportunities of growth that lead to a positive direction in your life, to a deeper more meaningful purpose. To the contrary, you might come to a point along your path where the entire process is just too much! You now find yourself in the deepest and darkest of places and you are not getting any relief from anything you have tried. All the band-aid fixes are merely temporary solutions for a much more permanent call to action.
Kundalini: Ancient Knowledge or Myth?
Have you ever started feeling unusual sensations, unlike anything you’ve ever felt before, and you had no idea what it was? Can you feel things moving in and out of your physical body or space and it is leaving you feeling very uncomfortable? Are you beginning to notice a pattern? Or, are you frightened by what seems to be out of your control?
Merging With the Observer
Of all the topics within spiritual transformation, this one may prove to be the most difficult to explain, let alone experience. Up until now we have discussed much about viewing life with the observer, that larger awareness that is part of our higher selves. While viewing life in this way, it appears there are two subjects perceiving, you and this larger awareness, both peering out into the world around us.
Meet the Observer
Have you ever stepped outside of your thinker and watched your mind operate? Has it changed how you see yourself and the world around you? Or, is this an entirely new concept to you? If you are versed in watching your thoughts, or it’s never even occurred to you before, becoming the OBSERVER is an extraordinarily helpful tool on your path to waking up.