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!

Awakening is the complete transformation and realization that you are not what you thought you were. The identification with a personal self is how we operate in the world of separation, however, is it truly who we are?

Have you heard of this term? Spiritual Bypassing. Whether you’ve heard of it or not, the concept is simple enough to understand, and chances are you’ve fallen prey to it yourself, or know other people who have.

Many things in life can trigger a spiritual awakening experience. The loss of a loved one, a traumatic occurrence, a sudden diagnosis of an illness, a desire to know truth, kundalini awakening, shamanic initiation, a transcendental experience, a psychic opening, a psychotic break, psychological disturbance, and any other life circumstances that can transform your perception of reality.

Fear. The fundamental thing we all face at some point. For me personally, I had a run in with fear that quite literally shook me to the core of who I thought myself to be. This up close, and very personal relationship I developed, lasted much longer than I like to admit, however, it eventually taught me something that nothing else could.

Have you spent time in your life seeking the deeper meaning of this world? Do you yearn for a connection to something greater than the surface level interactions? Do you find spiritual teachings you resonate with, groups you feel drawn to, and then you don’t?