Awakening Part II

I think before I move on I should actually define what Spiritual Awakening is. Spiritual Awakening is freedom

– freedom from your mind, specifically. Spiritual Awakening is freedom from all the programming that brought you to where you are today. It questions any and all preconceived ideas of who you are; what you are; when you are; how you are. I dare you to take yourself out of your work, your religion, your social circle, your class, your role in the family, environmental prejudice that you carry with you (at even the most minute levels), take out your money, and see what you have left to define you. Who are you when everything is stripped away? Does that challenge you? Does that make you uncomfortable? Good – You have begun the journey. Once your realize that none of these matter you begin the journey of self creation. You are the one carrying the definition, you are the one holding the idea of who you are, and you are the one who can change that idea whenever you want to. Spiritual Awakening is that insight; Spiritual Awakening is that knowing exalted to a living, practiced state. Spiritual Awakening is awareness at its most purest form. What are the tools? Through the use of intention attention we can become whatever we want to become. But you have to first BELIEVE you can be that which you dream yourself to be.

Spiritual Awakening alters the way you look at the world:

Once your eyes are open the world is not any different, but you are. You understand that we all sit in a web and every thought and action shakes that web. You realize both how important you are and how small you are at the same time. This realization is both humbling and exalting at the same time. You begin to realize how wonderfully complex and beautiful humanity is. And how much pain humanity is in as well. This pain exists independent of wealth, status, or color. You begin to be more sensitive to the deep thirst that this world craves, this salvation that people are looking for, and you feel compassion – You feel love. It is not a trope when people say that the key to this salvation really does live within, and it only takes desire to open your eyes. What stops us? People are in love with their pain. They are addicted to it. They define themselves by it. They even measure others by how more/less (depending on the level of addiction they have to it) pain they are in then the other guy. There are so many examples of how people use their wealth, looks, status, or a myriad of other tools to manipulate, obfuscate the truth, deceive… but in the end who wins? No one and it just becomes a cycle of abuse that spins over and over again. Spiritual Awakening is walking away from that twisted, bazaar hamster wheel and choosing a course that honors your true self in every decision you make; when you no longer honor your pain anymore your world changes. When you begin to honor your true self your world changes fast.