We spend most of our lives running away from uncomfortable feelings.
Yet the suffering is not from the feelings themselves, but from the resistance to them.
When you are ready to truly feel what you’ve been avoiding, it can open the door to new insights and peace.
If you’re on the path of waking up, learning how to process feelings and emotions fully is essential, if you want to move from intellectual to embodied awakening.
[Read more…]I never set out to wake up. I wanted to reduce suffering.
I was curious about what was going on.
Doing this, I was thrown into a dark night of the soul, which lasted many years.
That experience culminated in a spiritual awakening. If you’re interested in my whole story, read this article.
Before you continue, remember that each path to awakening is unique. There is no one path. In this article, I am simply sharing what happened.
So above all, trust your own experience, and follow your intuition.
[Read more…]If you’ve been hanging around in awakening circles, you might’ve heard the term direct experience or actual experience thrown around.
Direct experience points to what is experienced in this moment.
Not in thought. Not in the future or in the past. Right here, right now.
Direct experience is simply:
Then there’s thought, which is often an obstacle when inquiring into the sense of self, separate self or ego.
[Read more…]The word awakening can conjure up all sorts of expectations.
It’s easy to forget that these expectations are mere images, information that has been taken in and are now taken as real.
If you pay attention, you will discover that each expectation you have is directly tied to what you perceive to be lacking in this moment.
Many expectations are invisible. You’re not even aware of them.
[Read more…]From an early age, I had an interest in the existential.
Who am I?
Why am I who I am?
What is the purpose of life?
Even though I had a good upbringing, I tended toward anxiety, fear, and hopelessness. And this is what eventually led to seeking the end of suffering, or at least a way to reduce the anguish within.
This article is an overview of my journey through suffering into spiritual awakening. I am by no means free from suffering, but I can say that a large chunk of it is gone.
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