“You have to lose your human mind to gain your spiritual senses.” This quote, unlike any other, resonates the most with me when I think about understanding spiritualism. It means that spiritualism is so vast that our minds cannot comprehend it and that one’s mind would become exhausted from processing all the information. Hence, to protect itself, it locks itself. To unlock our minds we need to give up things that keep us connected to reality.
Our reality comes in many forms: materialistic needs, sheltered lives, careers, and everything that we deem is real. It is hard to give up these pleasures, but for the mind, it is important to give them up. Once the mind is awakened, all the boundaries of reality are shattered and we see the world as it truly is. The mind’s eye goes by many names: the third eye or the inner eye. This eye can unlock our ability to witness everything. The importance of the third eye is depicted as a form of enlightenment that one attains to shatter all illusions, often seen as reality. I will not pretend to know what happens if one opens the third eye, because I do not know. However, I will share the brief periods of how one feels intrinsic enlightenment. In other words, intrinsic enlightenment means a moment of clarity. In this post, we will discuss how to practice loving ourselves, how to overcome emotional strife, and lastly, how to enter intrinsic enlightenment and theoretically prolong those moments.
Let’s start by defining spiritualism Spiritualism through my lens is an ocean that is so vast that it cannot end. While religion is a river that connects to the ocean. I know this is an abstract definition, but I feel that this definition is sufficient for one to understand the direction that this post is going to take.
Loving ourselves is important; without self-love, there can be no understanding of self. Self-love comes in many forms; it can be seen as you exercising or buying yourself gifts. I believe the best form of self-love is to listen to yourself and trust your intuition. Because that is the core part of one’s higher self and protects them from all outside energies, no one knows you as you know yourself. When in the period of self-love you can show and be open to learning and unlearning things to live a happier life. These can be examples of habits, addictions, activities, places and people. Self-love is knowing one’s worth and not settling for less without feeling egocentric, setting boundaries and not feeling guilty, and showing our authentic selves without feeling ashamed of our journey. Self-love is the first step. Without self-love, we are a shell that is contained with fear, insecurities, anger, pain, guilt, shame and self-delusion. All of this will result in one seeking to keep oneself busy so one does not need to concentrate on what needs to be worked on to heal.
On your self-love journey you will experience emotional strife, this is, unfortunately, a part of having a human experience. One suffers in many ways, some at the hands of others and some due to their doings. We must remember that we have chosen to come back and witness, through this vessel, the experience of all emotions and experiences of adventure, and each person that has caused some sort of emotional trigger is a test of your soul’s evolution. Being a human and experiencing both highs and lows gives one a euphoric moment. Such emotions lead to self-enlightenment and awareness of what kind of person one is. This planet is not for the faint-hearted, remember that to grow and learn we must experience situations and gather the knowledge to find solutions. This is where we start to walk the road of self-mastery. Being able to identify what is causing a trigger inside of us and then having the courage to address it so that it is no more a trigger, but a part of self-awareness and taking the correct action to heal that trigger. We can keep ourselves in a mindless torture state by not accepting situations, not taking the correct steps towards action, not changing or challenging ourselves, and not empowering ourselves to get over that hurdle and become better, not bitter, stronger, not sadder, fiercer, not weaker. Every action has a counter-reaction and it is up to you which action you decide to take while going through emotional strife. Either lay down and give up or get up and give it another go with what you have learnt this far regardless of where you may be in their journey. I always say “When things get tough, slow down, and don’t give up.”
The final topic is how to reach intrinsic enlightenment, otherwise known as, ‘moments of clarity.’ Those moments will help one to see the world more clearly than they used to. They come about when you are present and see the world and its beauty. Being present and seeing the people lead their day-to-day lives is when your mind becomes clearer. I read somewhere about what one must do to clean their mind up, which often gets muddled without our awareness until the gnawing feeling in the back of one’s mind suggests that something is missing. Once you have attained intrinsic enlightenment, do not get fixated on that feeling, because it shows you what you need to become whole as an individual. To prolong the length one must meditate for at least more than ten minutes every day.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Frank Herbert
As we reach the end of this post I want to leave by saying that do not worry about things you cannot control the emotions we feel at that moment, the best advice I can give you is to let them flow. If it is the sadness you feel, cry till you can’t cry anymore, or laugh till your face hurts, or if you feel anger, then go work out or meditate on those thoughts till they become powerless. Those emotions are so powerful that they can affect you in ways that you cannot imagine. Look straight at yourself in the mirror by validating yourself by saying, “I am on a journey of my mastery which I will feel and validate because I am only human!”
Remember you all are doing the best you can with the resources you have and self-validation will be your best friend in some cases.
We can be so hard on ourselves and often find ourselves in harsh mental blocks, where we just can’t seem to piece the puzzle together and this is perfectly normal because just as the saying goes “After the storm comes the sunshine again”.Meaning that you were going through a moment of lessons and purging of the old beliefs to create new healthier ones, this is known as epiphanies, revelations, realization or intrinsic enlightenment.
We all have these moments it’s just a case of wanting to truly acknowledge them and work with what you have found to create a space for healing and intentional action toward a higher level of awareness, no one has it all figured out that is the reason you will always hear “trust the process” because the unknown is exactly what it is, unknown. It means you have room to create just as you would begin to paint on a blank canvas, it’s your time to be free in what you desire to bring into your life through the power of your imagination.
Moments of clarity will come to you when you learn what is needed, this can be anything from learning to become more compassionate with yourself, forgiving another person, trusting yourself and your intuition or simply understanding that you are and have always been enough.
Give yourself time to figure things out, you are dealing with a lot of heavy emotions and working through a lot of generational energy to transmute.
Nothing lasts forever, not even those moments of chaos.
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