Awakening what is

So I began to examine why was I feeling guilty for something that should be helping me. Why am I flawed and they are not and they all feel good. So many questions. I understand I was living in some sort of spiritual ego and not truly dealing with guilty feelings resulting from childhood traumas. That the reason I began going to these sessions disappeared.

It sounds clearly evident from your description, Debs, that you were in a cult. Otherwise, consuming flesh of any kind — from any creature with a heart and born from a mother will simply be unacceptable. Thanks for your reply Scott! I did try and go back and delete it. I suppose all religious groups and spiritual groups are cults. We tend to think of cults in a very, ominous way think Jonestown. But these cases are the extreme. Most cults are mostly benign and ideological in nature.

By some definitions, any religious congregation qualifies as a cult. We most often find our way into cults because we have projected our inner authority outside of ourselves.

And this occurs because something went wrong during childhood. But if you understood what I saying, you probably would have a different one. There are destructive cults and benign cults and all manner of degrees in between. A group of like-minded individuals who share similar values and interests gathering together. Wow this article was informative. We all live our lives mainly by scripts and repeating patterns that is, we are mostly asleep most of the time.

As you develop greater awareness, you begin to witness your patterns and then slowly move beyond them. Psychoactive substances can alter your state of consciousness enough to see yourself more clearly. I agree that we are running on scripts! Identifying and writing our own script was the answer for me. Andrea, speaking up for yourself means naming your personal values, eg, honesty, telling the truth, acting with integrity, etc, whatever is right for you.

That gives you a framework for living your life. The other absolute for living with yourself is having internal boundaries. Research internal boundaries. Understanding and setting Internal is the key to feeling secure in and trusting yourself. This article has been a bit of an awakening and clarified some of my confusion around seeking enlightenment. When young I was desperate to have a one moment awakening, like Moses and the burning bush. I saw a wonderfully professional therapist for 3 years, who worked with parts therapy, which worked for me.

Now that I understand my internal drivers, I can focus better on spiritual development. It still feels like a challenge though! Thanks for this article. I love that I know am doing my best, most of the time, being kind in the lapses and still moving forward.

My one wish for humanity is that all education establishments operate in a secular environment. It is a daily practice for everyone. Thanks for a great article with so much info i can work with and test out.

May I ask, why are there so so many traps? It immediately feels daunting to the point of it is too hard, so dont bother. Then i remember eckart tolle telling me I would have those same doubting thoughts and they are lies, narratives my ego tells me.

Your article points to a long road as I see now I am at the very very begining! I am 57 yo! Where to start? There are a number of different ways I can answer your question, Maggie. And the answers can take many volumes to thoroughly explain. Most so-called leaders including heads of churches, businesses, families, etc in society have serious developmental issues.

And we subconsciously learn by observing the behaviors of those we perceive to be authorities. So how could our ride be smooth and easy? There are so many traps because the traps are part of the status quo — part of the convention. Individuation is the process of breaking free from the convention the essential movement toward yourself.

It brings up fear and loneliness and uncertainty. And to avoid these uncomfortable feelings, most people subconsciously bind themselves to the ill manners of a sick society. But be careful with your languaging. A healthy ego is your ally. Many individuals in spiritual circles misunderstand this.

An unhealthy ego certainly works against us, but a healthy one will enable the original spirit to work through us. What if I am now spiritually awake and everyone around me now thinks i need to see a psychiatrist? From J. Hey scott! Love your work! I have one question about the spiritual teachers. I agree with what you write here and also in another guides That we tend to cast upon them an aura of divinity and some of our disowned qualities.

By the way, in my opinion, lot of the times it depends on us. Sometimes it depends on us whether to simply listen and bask in their words teacher words rather to also apply them in our daily life.

I am listening to David hawkins work for example and one thing is just listening in awe what he says another is letting go of fear in our daily situations for example. This message in fact is about him. I found that there are lot of books about him written by Scott Jeffrey and I was wondering if that author was you. If that is the case I am surprised to see that in your site and guides there is no reference about his work despite you wrote many books about him.

Maybe you changed your opinion about is work? Consequently I would like to know if you think that such authors ekart tolle as well guides you also through a pychological and not only spiritual development. In my opinion, as implicitly stated above, yes, since if you try to implement their teachings in your daily life and not just consider them as sacred words you are very likely to find challenges Jesus and buddas teaching as well I think.

What is your opinion about this Scott? Thank you Scott in advance and blessing from Italy. Again I think your work is awesome! Yes, I was the author of those works. I was the editor of several quote books on Hawkins published by Hay House. It was in the course of doing research for his biography that I began to find a tremendous amount of inconsistencies in things he stated and what the evidence clearly showed.

From my perspective, what got Dr. I also wrote a follow-up book that documented all of my findings while researching his biography. We are autonomous, self-directed beings. Hey Scott what you mean by here ungrounded? Loosing touch with reality? Lack of practical evidence? Or connecting to earth grounding like walking barefoot on sand grass etc…or loosing touch with their true essence? But is it true? I certainly can. But it is also true that many most? And this dissociation causes all kinds of problems.

The transpersonal psychology community began making this distinction back in the s. But the same thing holds true today. Covered everything one wanted to know about this. I appreciate your time. Thanks for sharing. Hey Scott? How someone know what is truth? Main stream spirituality more into making money?

NB: English is not my first language? I will share a few perspectives on these topics. Yes, much of these topics lead to a form of spiritual bypass. And in that way, they are ungrounded. And when you are ungrounded, you get easily blown in the wind of spiritual rhetoric, mind control programs, and other hidden, manipulative agendas. You asked how to get into deep spirituality. My response would be: go into the darkness — the exact opposite direction that the New Age and spiritual communities are moving in.

Actually, Shiva, my sense is that moving in the direction of our darkness is quite intuitive. The higher part of us Self naturally leads us in this direction so that we can return to wholeness. This is one of the functions of our dreams.

You can look up the German scientist Harald Kautz Villa. I am in uttter awe right now. You have described my path exactly since Ive been trying to understand what has been happening to me and now all signs point to a new stage of development. So much gratitude. And found something else. Sure thing. These are very common patterns. But for context, over 35, people have read this guide in the last 30 days. You nailed it. I have been through it all and am preparing classes to help others. Your page popped up and so much of what you say is in my material.

Awakening is not for everyone but, when we decide to move towards self mastery, we are taking a big step. For me, the whole thing was definitely triggered by the opening of the heart. Yes, Claire, the move towards self-mastery is a shift inward toward ourselves. So this is definitely a positive transition in moving closer to our Self. Wow this article helped ALOT. I do wished i had someone to talk to though because of my unique experience with voices guiding me.

Some of these voices may serve you for a time, but they can also deceive you. So caution and discernment are important. And it is accessible to everyone. Instruction comes from within.

The problem here is language and perception. Two people looking at the same thing and each seeing something different. Perhaps some shadow work is required? My statement above about the tendency toward ego inflation in terms related to enlightenment is accurate. Also, no one said that someone can do anything for you. I love how you mentioned qigong. After doing a few qigong sessions I noticed an aversion to chicken and beef.

I ate fish until I had an aversion for that as well. Qui gong is really amazing work. Qigong and the internal arts are wonderful practices. Reforging our connection to our instincts and our bodies is something that can benefit anyone. And I know many seasoned qigong practitioners and almost all of them eat meat.

Hi, thanks for this. Ive been on a journey of self discovery that is becoming an everyday realization of so many things. I recently lost my beloved dog of 15 years. What does that have to do with the ego? As Alan Watts once said, if you ever saw the entire truth all at once, you would go running mad, screaming through the streets. If you think about it, perhaps on some level they know or sense this and it is why they avoid the truth. In essence, death of the ego and physical death are perceived as the same, which makes sense as upon physical death, it is the ego or temporal sense of self that dies while the Spirit or eternal self remains.

The ego is constricted while the Spirit is completely dilated, wide open. Yet, while in the body, we must operate from within an ego. Ideally, we want to achieve balance between the two extremes. One is like a microscope; the other, a telescope. It is the combination of opposites, like yin and yang. Not debatable by words. IMO that? So, YES, I thought the same thing.

Since thoughts are visitors… I asked that visitor to leave. Part truth, part nonsense, and a lot of compartmentalization, which tends to happen when we absorb information from various sources which is filtered through the ego. No one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself. Until you transcend the words, you are stuck within their limitations.

This guide is designed to provide a deeper understanding of human psychology and behavior. Fred, if one day you decide to get to know your shadow, you can use your last comment as a starting point. The first compartment we build is words and language.

The second compartment is concepts and ideas. Ego-bound: To get to know your ego, examine your behavior carefully. You elected to scan this lengthy article and then troll through hundreds of comments before adding about a dozen comments of your own. Are those the actions of a wise or enlightened individual?

Or is it clearly the behavior of someone who is ego-bound and out to prove something? Robotic: We are all possessed by a series of archetypes throughout our lives.

These archetypes represent set patterns of behavior, which do lead us to be robotic. Do you think because your use of allegories and metaphors that you read in some other spiritual text makes you less robotic?

The guru archetype represents a common form of inflation that can be difficult to unravel. But behind it is generally a deep feeling of insecurity. And as such, you will not come to know yourself. You really know nothing about me. The map is not the territory. And not the other way around.

Perhaps you see the contradiction? You say I know nothing about you I never claimed to. Yet, what gives you the idea you know anything about me? All I can surmise about you is by observing your behavior. You took the time to read or scan this article and then trolled through the comment section posting over a dozen times now. So why the compulsion to pontificate? But please go play the guru somewhere else.

Note: this comment and my other comment above are for other readers of this website who are interested in self-leadership. I have a personal question: during this summer especially during this quarantine time , I did a lot of inner work, I got lots of insights.

One of those was this random thought that this body was not mine, the name, the skin colors, the people who I called parents, the selfie picture of that girl on FB, etc. And at that time, the feeling was so real that I questioned many things in life, started realizing the shallow and superficial part of everything around, and felt very lonely, discontent, and meaningless. This is actually quite common.

The conditioning of the conscious personality is very strong since we reinforce it with our thoughts, identifications, attitudes, and behaviors each day. And when this occurs, much of the everyday conditioning begins to fall away. But then, the conscious personality starts to reassert itself — a kind of clinging to the known. Get back here. The real you is closer to what the Taoists call the Original Spirit or what depth psychology simply calls the Self.

You can augment this process by applying different centering principles as well. See this guide:. Thank you Scott? I actually read all those you sent a few weeks ago and been applying those in dailies without even realize those practices been becoming habits. Will keep you updated? Could you tell me if it normal have no concertration and drifting of when i communicate.

Some days it so bad it worries me. Certain people i do it more with. Im having constant prob with my computor etc. Its taking me to sites that i wouldnt have gone to. Turning off when im using it. I have alot of the above signs but then i think this is too good to be true as i have been on no path and lost for most of my life. I was really believing that i had a ghost hiding things on me. Any guidance you could pass on to me would be so gratefully recieved.

Thanyou sharon dodd. Many people struggle with a lack of concentration for various reasons. There are external factors like nutrition and internal factors like psychological issues. Brain fog is quite common nowadays. I have heard accounts of people influencing their technology. And I have noticed that my emotional state appeared to influence them on numerous occasions. Despite our mainstream perception, things like ghosts and entities do have a psychic reality to them.

Vigorous body movement and energetic practices may be supportive for you. It involves energy entering my mind, monks holding a kings chair in my yard, symbols suddenly appearing on my forehead, feeling of absolute utopia, mind seeing the earth as it really is, me shaving my head, seeing the monks disappear right before my eyes, clicking sound I could turn on and off, neighbors witnessing some of the events, feeling of being enlightened, has changed me completely….

This is a really informative and helpful article. A good length explaining everything clearly, but not excessively. The links are good for more in depth information if you want it. This material needs to be taught in schools everywhere. To hardwire our youth while they are more vertically aligned than horizontally?? From your experience, do you know what faith is? Or hope? Are these things illusory?

I was just curious about your opinions on them. Both terms seem to be coming from a place of lack. But life can be challenging for all of us, I can see how potent these concepts can become. I really appreciate the article, definitely gave me a different perspective. As in most cases, the context in which a word is used is important. Hope and faith are used by those in positions of power to control the masses.

Hope is looking outward for assistance. Hope and belief are tools of control. Hope strips you of your innate power and natural abilities. Hope and faith put us in a trance state, creating passivity and helplessness. While hope places our energy outside of us, heart constellates our energy within us.

It strengthens our resolve and helps us access the Spirit within us. The innate power of our energy and Spirit may be limitless. Yet, this system we find ourselves in seems engineered to cut us off from our hearts. Nevertheless, our internal energy holds great, untapped power. Very informative thank you I recently woke up to a full effect enlightenment that lasted 2 wks. My spiritual awakening started 3yrs ago.

It has been a very interesting experience. The ego has been a huge factor in this process. I do not relate or connect with the ego. Materialism is no longer a gauge of my success. I do feel I suffer from ego deflation. Accessed 12 Nov. Britannica English: Translation of awakening for Arabic Speakers. Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! Log in Sign Up. Save Word. Definition of awakening. First Known Use of awakening , in the meaning defined at sense 2a.

The dark awakening really hit home, I was unable to swallow for 8 months. Constant pain doctor appointment after doctor appointment. My body has been in pain for 2 years now I still struggle to swallow but I have moments when I just know.

Post a Comment. What Is a Spiritual Awakening? Sign up for free below: Sign up for the Wake Up Call Newsletter If you are starting on the spiritual path or feel like you have gotten a little lost, my ebook may be able to help guide you:. The awakened state embraces all experiences and states of awareness. However, there are some common trends in awakening. For some people, spiritual awakening is a sudden, penetrating moment where something is seen and realized.

Sometimes, a spiritual awakening is a profound moment of clarity about something or some aspect of one's self. Sometimes, a spiritual awakening is a kind of collapse where someone finally lets go of something, and the truth is revealed. People experience spiritual awakenings in many, many ways. However, the arising of truth within you definitively stays. Your life is the altered by the awakened energy. This energy takes over, and for a time, a person feels rather out of control and even lost.

But the person has been found, and the question now is: do you embrace the awakening or do you resist? Choosing the Conscious Spiritual Path Reality Versus Illusion From the perspective of the mind, a spiritual awakening offers you a clearer understanding of what is real versus what is illusory. You perceive many of the things that are made up, and when you get right down to it, just about everything in society is made up.

The initial awakening may not be earth-shattering for everyone. The basics of life also become very simple as the focus organically moves towards things like unconditional love, truth, and integrity to others. But in awakening, it also means giving up and letting go of tons of false beliefs and illusions about who you thought you are and what you thought life should be. This is how the mind often views a spiritual awakening. Remember that awakening will affect everything--your heart, body, and subtle energy.

Be aware that intellectually understanding a spiritual realization during awakening is just the beginning of embodying it. Truly a spiritual awakening is an amazing moment, and as I've mentioned, it comes in all shades and shapes for everyone. I had one friend who says that she went around for a couple of weeks just saying, "I get it. Yet another friend had a powerful experience where he simply asked, "Who am I?

From that awakened moment, the truth erupted and began to re-shape his life. However, this sense of "getting it" is only the beginning.

Many of the experiences that people call a spiritual awakening are like someone's first glass of water after living, dehydrated in the desert. It seems like the best thing ever! That "taste of divine water" may get experienced as: Deep peacefulness, Bliss, A profound sense of oneness and lost of separation that feels amazing, Life going into high definition all around them, Tremendous inner quiet, and other experiences But it's only the first glass of water.

It may not even be the best kind of water. After the desert, any water is better than no water! There is a real trap in how people can cling to their experience of that first taste of water rather than to become a sincere seeker of the vast endless clean-water ocean of the Divine that awaits them. Many people have profound spiritual openings and glimpses of awakening , which are wonderful.

But in an opening or glimpse, the window opens, and then it shuts. When it shuts, a person can go back to the way they were acting before.

This happens all the time after people have gone to spiritual retreats or spent time with spiritual teachers. But in awakening, the divine energy is now in motion. Your perspective, emotions, and physical sensations all move and align seemingly on their own. The lights in the house are all on. Sure you can close your eyes, but you know the truth. There can be a feeling that there is no going back. All other spiritual awakening signs that you hear about can arise from awakening if the above ones are present.

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